Doodling for stress relief? Here are some tips 🫣✌🏻

I LOVE DOODLING as you can tell from my pictures 😩 There’s just something about drawing that makes me feel so at ease!!!

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Doodling is great for stress relief. I’ve always been doodling on my textbooks, exam papers (yes my teachers were not happy…) 🥹 — it kept me sane.

The repetition and rhythmic motions of sketching can activate the relaxation response as a way to counter the body's fight-or-flight intuition!!! So if you’re a lil’ batshit crazy like me…doodling helps a lot… 🤪

I like drawing a bit on my iPad before I sleep as an alternative to scrolling my phone. It helps me calm down before I sleep 😴

You don’t need to be good at drawing to start and I hope you give it a go! You also don’t need to have Procreate — you can even do it on your Notes app ✍️

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1️⃣ Master basic shapes

Everything starts with basic shapes, so I would say you can try to see how things come together this way. Circles, squares, triangles — try to break objects down and see how you can build it up with shapes.

This is key and it helps me visualise my doodles coming together and gives me a base to work off.

2️⃣ Blobs are great

While mastering the basic shapes is important, I love using organic shapes like blobs and clouds in my drawings. It requires less creative insight lol and you can just draw whatever you feel like and roll with it.

Add some faces to make it cute 🤩

3️⃣ Resize for clearer lines

While doodles are supposed to look a little messy, sometimes I want to go for a more defined drawing. Resizing the doodle helps to make it look sharper and the lines clearer, giving it a whole different vibe.

When not-so-clean lines are shrunk, you can’t really see the imperfections too!

4️⃣ Use what you have!

Take elements from your photo or whatever you’re working off and incorporate your doodles into them.

One of my favourite ways to spice up my skincare photos is drawing faces onto textures or little creatures using a few lines!

5️⃣ Simple elements can add some fun into negative space

A few simple elements can change up the look of your entire picture. Some of my favourites to use are stars, sparkles, and exclamation lines.

You can find more on that in this post 😙🙌

6️⃣ Experiment with different styles

While my trademark on Instagram and Lemon8 is the 6B pencil sketches, one of my favourite styles is actually using a fine pen and having lots of different lines.

Experiment with different styles to see what works for you and you can incorporate it into your works.

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The best thing about doodling is that there are no rules! You can feel free to draw what you want and it’ll be exclusive to you! ☺️

Hope this was helpful and give it a try! You’ll be amazed at home stress-relieving doodling can be and how much release it gives + SPICE UP THOSE COVER PICS!!!

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