Doodle Directory Giveaway

I am so excited to share this with you.  I haven’t worked on my doodle directory in a few years. Recently I finished another 60 doodle images that make the 6th set in my doodle directory series. I've done a few simple drawings in this set which I haven't included in previous sets.



I’ll show you a little behind the scenes drawing as these doodles came together.



If you’ve been following my Instagram account then you’ve probably seen these before.



But it’s fun to revisit them here.



I find that as I’m working on my bigger projects like my Ballerina and Diver and since I can’t (or won’t) lug these drawings to work or on vacation. That doodling in my small moleskine, keeps me sane and happy.  My hand still gets line practice and my head stays in the game with colors and shapes.  And as far as my drawing goes…..doodling has definitely helped…..hands down



I am influenced by so many artists out there.  And half of them probably don’t even claim the label “Artist”.



I’ve seen a ton of wonderful doodle work on Instagram, by fellow doodlers, illustrators, painters, watercolorists, art journallers, and zentangle people. 



So much inspiration!!  Instagram has a whole community of artsy-doodley interactive and like minded folks.



Artists are a sensitive lot….but we have to get over that and show our work.  I’m not one for “closet artistry”.   It’s amazing the motivation and suggestions that people give from blog post feedback and instagram sharing. 



I’ve worked more in photoshop on this last set.  I wanted the colors more consistent.



Photo-editing is a must if you want to put these kind of things up for sale.



Now, back to the GIVEAWAY!  Just a couple of things to qualify.

• Please follow my Instagram account …. Eden921
• You must comment on the Giveaway Post over there
• Contest Closes Feb 28 midnight
• I’ll post the winner on March 1 (on Instagram)

That’s it.  Pretty easy.  And just because I can….I’d like to offer a discount in my etsy shop for the full set as well.

That’s 60 4x6 prints with 6 doodle squares on each print.  An amazing 360 separate doodles.
Just use code DOODLEFUN for a 30% discount.



Prints come as above.  As 4x6 pictures.
Enjoy your doodling and Good Luck!!

I <3 Moleskines!

Yes, It’s true….love these little books!  So uniform, so predictable, many paper choices and that little black band secures the contents so well.  Perfect!  Excellent!  Wonderful!

This post is going to have lots-of-pictures, be forewarned.  I thought I’d show the scratch-pages, the drawings that I either gave up on, or tried something new with, the practice pages if you will.  Some are kind of funny, some boring, some sloppy.  But they’re practice pages and they worked for me at the time. 


*trying an alphabet stencil out.


*colored pencils at work here, I found I like the markers or the watercolor pencils much better.

 
*trying to see if those watercolor pencils can make a tye-dye look.


*this is my kind of VIBRANT


*just a quote I came across while trolling some blogs.


*practicing stencil writing and watercolors on same page. Markers used here too.


*Another quote I like.

 
*just a bunch of stencil play


 
*playing with color

 
*This was a fun one.


*Used those dip inks here.  The paint used for the flowers is iridescent, but hard to tell in this shot.


*I think my goal was to fill the entire page with color


*the word prompt was Endeavor and I didn’t like how this turned out, so I never posted it to the NaNoJouMo group.


*I’m working on a logo.  You may see more on this.

Are you still here?  My goodness, Thank You for sticking around so long.  Hope you found this entertaining to look thru my old moleskines and see the things I was testing out.   We all have to have our play pages!  Funny how I wouldn’t dare post the pics right when I drew them, but now that I have a little distance from them I don’t cringe so much. Hahaha