Everyone can Doodle and usually does.
I hope to encourage you to turn your doodles into creative and interesting pieces of art. Learn to use doodling as a way of decorating whatever art or craft you enjoy, and find out how doodling can relax and focus your mind.
Here are more patterns. All very similar in look, but constructed differently.
Flames Distructions
Ripples Distructions
Flame Tree Distructions
I hope you find these patterns useful. I enjoyed using them. They tend to have a striking effect, so they will be the main feature if you use them. Definitely not a background pattern.
I have been involved in a Trading Card Swap on Facebook. We had to draw up 24 Trading Cards. For those people like me who had never had anything to do with Trading Cards before, a Trading Card is a doodle of 2.5 x 3.5 inches, which is approximately 7 x 9 cm.
There were 25 people involved and we were sent their names and addresses so we could send each person on the list 1 card that we had designed.
I am just about to send out the 24 Cards that I did.
While doing these cards I came up with a lot more new doodle patterns. I intend to post a couple of cards at a time for you along with distructions of the new patterns I used.
Last fortnight I introduced a new way to draw simple Celtic Outlines ready to doodle. This next outline is a variation of the same construction.
Below is the finished design.
My patterns I have used here are:
Hilly - 2 variations
Sunrise - 2 variations
The other pattern I have used here is in the center. I have used this pattern for a long time in many variations and I know I found it on the internet. I am unsure of its name, but if someone can let me know in the comments I will give credit where it is due, as this has been a very useful pattern for me.
Celtic Challenge 23 A
Copy the outline below and decorate it.
Celtic Challenge 23 B
Using the destructions below, draw you own celtic outline. It can be the same as mine or a variation.
Celtic Challenge 23 Drawing Distructions
1. Draw the whole design in pencil first.
2. Draw a square, but extend each side of the square a little at each corner.
3. Draw whatever shaped line your like coming from one of the extensions to the next extension on the same side.
4. Draw continuous parallel line beside both continuous lines in this diagram.
5. Now in ink mark where you want the intersections to cross. Remember to alternate over and under.
6. You are not ready to ink in the rest of the design and rub out the pencil guide lines. My finished outline is in section 23A above.
Hope you have all been well and the weather has not been too hard on you. I have been watching the floods in Queensland, the bush fires in southern and western Australia and the blizzards in America and some people are having a pretty tough time. The pot holes from the snow in the Ukraine are pretty scary too Colleen.
I just pray that you are all safe.
I have been experimenting with new and easier ways to draw simple Celtic Designs and have come up with some interesting ideas.
My patterns I have used to decorate this design are:
Domes - 4 Variations
Half Flower - variation
Full Flower - variation
Spiral Foliage - a new pattern
Celtic Challenge 22 A.
1. Copy the outline below and decorate.
2. If you want to, try using the same doodle pattern a number of times, trying to come up with a few different decorative variation for that same doodle pattern.
eg. My finished Celtic Heart Flower uses my design 'Domes' with four different variations to decorate the outline as you can see in the finished design above.
Celtic Heart Flower
Celtic Challenge 22 B.
1. Using the distructions below, draw the design above or come up with your own variation and decorate.
2. As I stated above, try using the same doodle pattern, to decorate, by using different variations of the same pattern.
eg. My finished Celtic Heart Flower uses my design 'Domes' with four different variations to decorate the outline.
2. Draw a square but extend each side of the square a little at each corner.
3. Draw your heart shape coming from one line of the corner and ending on the other line of the same corner. Repeat this step on each corner of the square.
4. You do not have to draw a heart shape like I did. You can draw any shape you wish.
5. Draw a continuous parallel line beside the line in this diagram.
6. Now in ink mark out where you want the intersections to cross. Remember to alternate under and over.
7. Draw the remainder of the design in ink and rub out any pencil lines that you can see. The finished outline is above in section 22 A.
Hi all, I hope you have had a good couple of weeks.
I have decided to introduce some new ways to challenge you this week.
Celtic Challenge 21 A.
Copy the outline below onto some interesting paper or card. Not just plain white or cream, but something with a pattern. Hand made papers are very interesting or if you have some decorative papers, that you use for card making, scrapbooking or journalling. Then decorate your celtic pattern taking into consideration the patterned paper you have copied it onto.
I have left a large open centre this time, giving you plenty of room for an interesting decoration.
This outline would make a good frame I think.
Celtic Challenge 21 B
Use the distructions below to draw your celtic outline. Once you have finished, scan it onto your computer and print it onto a patterned piece of card or paper as I have instructed above. Then decorate your outline, taking into consideration the patterns on the paper.
Here are your distructions:
A. Draw the whole design in pencil first. Draw 6 intersecting lines, equally spaced apart. Alternating short and long lines.
B. Draw a line curving from the top of the short lines to part the way down the longer line beside and back to the top of the next short line. Continue all the way around to make a continuous curved line.
C. Draw a second line starting from the top of the longer line and curving part the way down the next shorter line and then back to the top of the next longer line. Continue all the way around to form a second continuous line.
D. Draw a second parallel line just inside the first continuous line.
E. Draw a second parallel line just inside the second continuous line drawn.
F. Your celtic frame is complete. Rub out the guide lines and the sections of the continuous lines that would go under. Make sure the weave in a continuous over and under pattern, all the way around. Then to finish, go over the lines that are left in ink.
This is how I decorated this pattern.
The paper I used had a faint all over shell pattern. I am not completely happy with this one. I may do a second and post it later in the week.
The main patterns I have used are:
Hilly
Paprus - a new design
You can find the distructions for Hilly on my Border and Edges Pattern Page.
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