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How to Doodle an Ant

Step 1

drawing an ant

To doodle an ant, begin by drawing an oval in the middle of your page. Notice, however, how the oval sticks out a little on the left in a v-shape. This will become your ant’s head.

Step 2

draw an ant

To doodle the middle section of your ant’s body, draw an elongated arc shape that connects to the head. Notice the angle of this shape and how it connects to the ant’s head.

Step 3

doodling an ant

For the back section of the ant’s body, draw another elongated arc shape. This arc shape doesn’t have to be perfect. You can look at the example and draw something similar or a little different. No fixed rules here.

Step 4

doodle an ant

To doodle your ant’s legs, fangs, and tentacles. Use straight lines and ovals for this purpose. An ant’s fangs aren’t really called fangs. they are rather called mandibles (lower jaw) and maxillae (upper jaw).

Step 5

how to doodle an ant

To finish things off, let’s add some small details to the rear of our ant by drawing some lines. This gives our ant a few more features. Then color your ant in using your imagination. Ants, of course, come in many different colors. Therefore, feel free to experiment a little. 🙂

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How to Doodle an Ambulance

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle an Ambulance

Step 1

drawing an ambulance

To doodle an ambulance, begin by drawing two small circles on your page. Next, draw a larger circle on the outside of each of the smaller circles. These circles will become the wheels of your ambulance.

Step 2

draw an ambulance

To doodle the exterior body of your ambulance, use straight and slightly curved lines. Notice the angle and length of the lines within the example. Also, notice how the lines don’t cross over the wheels of our ambulance.

Step 3

doodling an ambulance

Use straight lines to doodle the window of your ambulance. Then doodle a cross on the body of your ambulance. Notice the size of the cross. You can, of course, make it larger or smaller within your doodle.

Step 4

doodle an ambulance

Use straight and curved lines to draw the siren of your ambulance. Doodle this siren on top of the roof of your ambulance. Then draw a very small rectangle right under the window. This becomes your door handle.

Step 5

how to doodle an ambulance

Add the finishing touches to your ambulance doodle by adding some detail to the window and siren. Then finish things off by giving your ambulance some color.

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How to Doodle an Alien

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle an Alien

Step 1

drawing an alien

There are many ways we could doodle an alien. Let’s take a look at one example. To begin with, doodle two arc shapes. Notice where these arc shapes connect. This will become your alien’s head.

Step 2

draw an alien

To doodle the alien’s body, use a couple of short straight lines for the neck, and then an oval shape for the body. The size of the body can, of course, vary. You can play around with this and change it up if you like. 🙂

Step 3

doodling an alien

To doodle the alien’s arms and legs, use several arc shapes and curved lines. Notice how the hands are by the alien’s side. We don’t show the fingers. Instead, we are doodling his arms as though they’re hidden behind his back.

Step 4

doodle an alien

Use arc shapes, squiggly lines, and ovals to draw the facial features and antennae of your alien. Again, here you can use your imagination. Feel free to copy the example above or experiment with your own variations of this doodle. Aliens can come in all shapes and sizes. 🙂

Step 5

How to doodle an alien

Add the finishing touches to your alien doodle by giving it some color. Again, nobody really knows what color aliens are. Therefore, feel free to experiment with your colors. You can, also, if you wish give your alien more personality by doodling a tie, shoes and other clothing.

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How to Doodle an Alarm

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle an Alarm

Step 1

drawing an alarm

To doodle an alarm, begin by drawing a small oval in the middle of your page. Now, around this oval shape, draw another larger oval shape as shown within the example.

Step 2

draw an alarm

Next, draw a rectangle underneath the large oval shape you drew in step 1. Notice the positioning and size of this rectangle.

Step 3

doodling an alarm

In the first couple of steps, we drew the main components of our alarm doodle. Now, let’s draw the arm of our alarm. This is the moving component of our alarm that rings the bell. Use elongated curved lines to draw this arm.

Step 4

doodle an alarm

To show that our alarm doodle is ringing, use four curved lines above the alarm. This is a simple and effective way to show that something is vibrating. Notice the positioning of these curved lines above the alarm.

Step 5

how to doodle an alarm

Add the finishing touches to your alarm doodle by giving it some needed color. Firehouse alarms are often red. This is why I have made the example here red as well. But feel free to change up the colors if you wish.

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How to Doodle Reading a Book

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Reading a Book

Step 1

drawing reading a book

How to create a simple doodle that represents the idea of reading a book? Begin by drawing a vertical line in the middle of your page. Draw four additional lines extending from the vertical line at a 45-degree angle. Notice the length of angles of the lines. These lines will become the back of our book.

Step 2

draw reading a book

To draw the pages of your book, use two straight lines and a couple of small squiggly lines. Notice again, the angle of the lines when compared to the lines you drew in step 1.

Step 3

doodling reading a book

Let’s now doodle the person reading the book. Begin by drawing the person’s hands. Notice the placement of the hands. Also, notice that our doodle person only has three fingers. And this is fine because when it comes to doodling, it’s all about simplification. Don’t forget to also doodle the head. Use a half oval shape for this purpose.

Step 4

doodle reading a book

Let’s now draw some facial features on our doodle person. Use curved lines, oval shapes, and small circles. Also, use curved lines for the hair and ears. Then finish things off using straight lines for the book. Notice how the outer edges of the book are drawn behind the fingers.

Step 5

how to doodle reading a book

Add the finishing touches to your doodle by adding a few more details, a name for the book, and don’t forget to give your doodle a splash of color. 🙂

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How to Doodle a Presentation

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle a Presentation

Step 1

drawing a presentation

How would you draw a presentation? Is there an easy way to represent this? Well, there might be. Let’s begin by doodling the easel. Use straight lines to draw a rectangle in the middle of your page. Then doodle the legs using three additional straight lines.

Step 2

draw a presentation

To draw the person presenting, doodle an oval shape that will represent the head of our presenter. Then for the body, doodle a couple of slightly curved lines. Then join them together using a straight line.

Step 3

doodling a presentation

To doodle the arms and legs, use a combination of straight and curved lines. Notice the angles of these lines and the positioning of the hands and feet. This is, of course, just one example of the positioning. Feel free to experiment with this.

Step 4

doodle a presentation

Use several additional straight lines for the legs of our easel and for the presentation wand. Notice the simplicity of our drawing. Doodling isn’t about having artistic skills, but rather about getting our message across in the simplest way possible.

Step 5

how to doodle a presentation

Finish off your presentation doodle by giving your presenter and the easel some color. Feel free to mix and match these colors. Feel free to also give you presenter shoes, a face, hair, and maybe even a tie. Use your imagination. 🙂

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How to Doodle a Briefcase

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle a Briefcase

Step 1

drawing a briefcase

To doodle a briefcase, begin by drawing a deep arc shape in the middle of your page. Notice the angle of the arc shape within the example.

Step 2

draw a briefcase

Now, doodle another arc shape toward the right the mirrors the arc shape you drew in step 1. Notice, how this second arc shape isn’t fully drawn. Only about half the shape has been doodled in the example. Notice also how the angles of the second arc shape mirror the angles of the first arc shape.

Step 3

doodling a briefcase

Let’s now connect the two arc shapes with a couple of straight and curved lines. Notice in the example where the connections between the arc shapes are done. There is one on top, one on the bottom, and a curved line is used in the middle.

Step 4

doodle a briefcase

Use a combination of straight lines and v-shaped lines to give your briefcase doodle a few more details. Notice again the angles of the lines and where they are positioned within our drawing.

Step 5

how to doodle a briefcase

Add the finishing touches to your briefcase doodle by adding a few additional lines to give our briefcase some texture. Then finish off by giving your briefcase some color. Feel free to be a little creative with your use of color. 🙂

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How to Doodle Brainstorming

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Brainstorming

Step 1

drawing brainstorming

To doodle the concept of brainstorming, we will need to get a little creative and think outside the box. To begin with, doodle a cloud shape in the middle of your page. Then draw a squiggly line moving from the left to the middle of the cloud shape. See example. This cloud shape will become the brain of your brainstorming doodle.

Step 2

draw brainstorming

Draw an oval shape right beneath your cloud shape. Then to the left, draw lightning using v-shaped lines. Pay particular attention to the angles of the v-shaped lines. These v-shaped lines will become the storm of your brainstorming doodle.

Step 3

doodling brainstorming

On top of your cloud shape, draw a large and deep arc shape. Then connect this arc shape to the cloud shape you drew in step 1 with two straight lines. This shape you just drew will represent the concept of an idea.

Step 4

doodle brainstorming

Let’s now add a few more details to your brainstorming doodle. Within the top part of your doodle, let’s make it look like a lightbulb. Use curved lines here, and also curved lines on the cloud shape which represents the brain.

Step 5

how to doodle brainstorming

Add the finishing touches to your brainstorming doodle by adding some v-shapes around your lightbulb. Then finish things off by giving your brainstorming doodle some color.

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How to Doodle a School

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle a school

Step 1

drawing a school

To doodle a school, begin by drawing a pillar in the middle of your page. A pillar is a rectangular shape with a triangular tip on the top.

Step 2

draw a school

Next, draw a rectangle behind this pillar. You, of course, don’t need to draw the full rectangle, but rather split it up into two pieces. Draw one half of this rectangle on the left side of the pillar and the other half on the right side of the pillar.

Step 3

doodling a school

Let’s now doodle the windows and doors of our school. To do this, use rectangles, straight lines, and arc shapes. Notice the spacing between the windows and the positioning of the door within our doodle example.

Step 4

doodle a school

To doodle the roof of our school, use straight lines. Pay particular attention to the length of the lines and how they wrap around the rectangles and pillar you drew in earlier steps.

Step 5

how to doodle a school

Add the finishing touches to your school doodle by adding a flag, a bell, a school sight, some reflection off the windows, and, of course, some color to your building. Feel free to use your creativity when it comes to the colors.

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How to Doodle a Backpack

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle a Backpack

Step 1

drawing a backpack

To doodle a backpack, begin by drawing three arc shapes. You will notice in the example that the two arc shapes on the left and right curve to the middle on the bottom. This will become the topside of our backpack.

Step 2

draw a backpack

Let’s now doodle the bottom part of our backpack where we will be storing all our stuff. 😉 To doodle this, use a long curved line. Notice in the example how the line curves out, then in, and then out again.

Step 3

doodling a backpack

Now doodle another curved line that connects the top and bottom parts of your backpack.

Step 4

doodle a backpack

To doodle the straps of your backpack, use two additional curved lines. Notice how even and consistent the spacing is between these two lines.

Step 5

how to doodle a backpack

Add the finishing touches to your backpack by drawing a pocket and a clip to hold the opening of the backpack down. Then finish off by giving your backpack some color.

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