We all have that one favourite “go to” doodle we love to draw. It’s usually the first thing that flows onto the paper when you first sit down. I love to doodle flowers, and for me it is a simple petal flower, and it shows up all over my page. In this post I’m going to show you an easy trick to mix up that basic doodle flower that will help ignite new creative ideas for your drawings.
That One Doodle Stuck In Your Head
When I pull out my paper, and I’m ready to get down to some doodling, this simple flower is the first one that always shows up. A basic round, teardrop petal flower. Now, I like this flower and I enjoy drawing it very much. But sometimes I want to mix it up!
What Is The Simple Framework You Are Aready Using?
If you take a look at my flower you will notice it will fit nicely into a circle. Of course nothing is perfect in freeform doodling, but generally it is a circle. If you drew a shape around the outside of your favourite doodle flower, what would it look like?
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Let’s Simply Change The Framework Shape
Now that you know what shape you have a tendency towards, what can we do with that? Well, we can change up the shape. So like me if you tend towards a circle, then mix it up and try a square or a triangle. Try drawing the same flower, but now make it fit into a different shape. This is what I call drawing with a framework.
How You Like That Doodle Now?
As you can see in the example below, I have drawn my basic favourite flower but I have changed it’s form to fit inside different shapes. Each flower is drawn with teardrop petals, twelve of them, around a circular centre. The look changes depending on the outer framework shape. Easy right?
Any Idea Will Work Inside A Framework!
I love frameworks, because they help me go from blank page to creative doodling. By using simple shapes as frameworks you can come up with lots of different styles of the same flower. The framework is only a guide and can be freeform or symmetrical.
Now you have the idea, go experiment with it. If you want to learn more and see my step by step method on this technique with lots of creative ideas, check out my full class on this technique Creative Drawing With Simple Shapes below.
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Thanks for joining me and getting creative. ~ Jane ~
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
