Zen Doodling

by David Williams

Overview

Doodling isn't necessarily a mindless pursuit. There's hidden discipline, order, and joy behind artful scribbles. Idiot's Guides: Zen Doodling gives readers beautiful, full-color instruction and all they need to start using ordered, repeated "tangle" designs that are great creative expressions and works of art unto themselves. The book includes step-by-step instructions for drawing more than 20 doodle forms and patterns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615647576
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	05/05/2015
Series:	Idiot's Guides
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Williams knew he wanted to be an artist at the young age of 11, when he first exhibited his drawings and paintings at an outdoor art fair. Four years later he held his first gallery show. A graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, Williams instructs drawing at Ivy Tech Community College. In addition, he leads watercolor and oil painting classes at his studio. He is the author of Idiot's Guides: Drawing and Idiot's Guides: Zen Doodling.

Table of Contents

1 Getting Started 3

Doodling and Art 4

Helpful Tools and Materials 6

Basic Method 8

Keeping a Sketchbook 10

2 Design 13

First Strokes 14

Doodle Anatomy 16

Creating Unity 18

Emphases 20

Balance 22

3 Creativity 25

Getting Ideas 26

Finding Ideas in Nature 28

Turning Ideas Into Dooms 30

Combining Two Patterns 32

4 Grids 35

Creating a Dotted Grid 36

Creating Distortion with a Grid 38

Creating a Doodle with a Grid 40

5 Knots and Braids 45

Overlap and Shading 46

Celtic Knot 48

Long Celtic Knot 52

Braid 54

6 Spirals 57

FERN 58

Sassy 60

Twirl 61

Tuba 62

Curled 64

Frond Forest 66

Quartet 68

7 Weaves 71

Simple Weave 72

Stepped Weave 74

Weave of Strands 76

Box Weave 78

Doodle with a Weave 80

8 Bauds and Stripes 85

Even-Width Band 86

Beaded Band 88

Band Doodle 90

Alternating Stripes 94

Stripes Doodle 96

9 Waves 101

Japanese Wave 102

Capped Wave 104

Uneven Wave 106

Wave Doodle 108

10 Tone and Color 113

Value and Contrast 114

Basic Color Theory 116

Working with Complementary Colors 118

Shading with Color 120

Creating a Gradation 122

11 Assembling Patterns into Shapes 127

Fitting Shapes 128

Stars 132

Paisley 136

Forest 140

Mandala 144

Boxes 148

Loops 152

Frame 156

Flowers 160

Bird 164

Celtic Everlasting Knot 168

Illuminated Letter 172

Tiling 176

Doodle with Saved White Space 180

Doodle Surrounding a Word 184

Doodle with Markers 188

Doodle with Colored Pencils 192

Doodle with Spot Color 196

12 Doodle Swatches 201

Curvaceous 202

Honeycomb 203

Petaldot 204

Beanpole 205

Lattice 206

Pyramid 207

Starspice 208

Laced Up 209

13 Inspiration Gallery 211

Fantasia 212

Chaos 213

Flotsam 214

Caterpillar Garden 215

Index 216