How to Doodle Beginner Course

Learn How To Doodle And Think Visually

Created by: Adam Sicinski
Professional Doodler

What Will I Learn?

• Day 1 - Introduction to the visual alphabet and the 12 basic shapes we will use for doodling.
• Day 2 - Simple doodling skills using the visual alphabet and reverse engineering techniques.
• Day 3 - Using the visual alphabet examples. How to doodle simple things around your home.
• Day 4 - More examples of how to quickly use the visual alphabet to doodle all sorts of fun stuff.
• Day 5 - Your first doodling creative challenge: Turning combinations of shapes into pictures.
• Day 6 - Using the visual alphabet examples. How to doodle simple things around your home.
• Day 7 - Using the visual alphabet to doodle cute animal faces with surprisingly little efforts
• Day 8 - Working with frameworks to help you doodle everything more effectively and quickly.
• Day 9 - The importance of developing an ever-expanding visual vocabulary of your doodles.
• Day 10 - Practical ways to doodle stick, box, blob, star, and triangle people in a very simple way
• Day 11 - Doodling active people walking, running, jumping, resting, falling, sitting, crouching and more.
• Day 12 - More doodles of active people crawling, splatting, spinning, thinking and more.
• Day 13 - Testing your skills with doodling active people dancing, swimming, stretching and more.
• Day 14 - Learning how to doodle human facial expressions using the facial expression matrix.
• Day 15 - Turning random squiggles into faces just like Mr. Squiggle did it back in the 1980’s.
• Day 16 - Doodling a variety of human facial features including the eyes, mouth, nose and hair.
• Day 17 - Doodling more involving and complex human emotions and facial features just for fun.
• Day 18 - Doodling human heads of all shapes and sizes, then giving them life through expression.
• Day 19 - It’s all in the nose. Working with the nose to direct your character’s focus and attention.
• Day 20 - Doodling faces on random inanimate objects to help give them character and life.
• Day 21 - Doodling human hands and feet. Moving from simple to complex representations.
• Day 22 - Doodling scary monsters with no rules or boundaries. Let your imagination run free.
• Day 23 - Understanding the rules of how to show movement and direction within your doodles.
• Day 24 - Step by step instructions on how to doodle three common three dimensional shapes.
• Day 25 - Understanding the rules of how to show depth and distance within your doodles.
• Day 26 - Understanding the rules of how to use three kinds of perspectives within your doodles
• Day 27 - Learning how to doodle metaphors and play with abstract words in creative ways.
• Day 28 - Using your imagination and your doodling skills to turn abstract words into doodles.
• Day 29 - Doodling is all about ideas and not artwork. Try your hand at the doggy doodle activity.
• Day 30 - Explorations into standard forms of notetaking versus visual note-taking practices.
• Day 31 - Using fonts, titles and word pictures to express your ideas visually.
• Day 32 - Using diagrams and doodles to express your ideas visually.
• Day 33 - Using handwriting and captions to express your ideas visually.
• Day 34 - Using dividers and separators to express your ideas visually.
• Day 35 - Using arrows and connectors to express your ideas visually.
• Day 36 - Using bullets and icons to express your ideas visually.
• Day 37 - Using frames and bubbles to express your ideas visually.
• Day 38 - Presenting the IQ Doodle cheat sheet and a couple of activities to test your doodle skills.
• Day 39 - The various ways to structure your IQ Doodles and a couple of examples for inspiration.
• Day 40 - Tips and guidelines for capturing notes visually and final thoughts moving forward.

Requirements

• No Artistic Skills Required. Doodling isn’t about art. It’s rather about getting your ideas across visually in the most effective and straightforward way possible.
• A notebook and pen!
• An open mind for learning.
• A commitment to apply the material.
• There's nothing to buy or pay for - everything is included for free!

Target audience

• This course is for anyone who would like to learn how to doodle for work, pleasure, or for educational purposes. It’s for beginner doodlers who don’t believe they can draw. And it’s also for those who have some experience doodling by would like to improve their doodling technique. So whether you’re a coach, an educator, a trainer, a student, or you simply would like to learn more about doodling, then this course is for you.