I started doodling one night after a long day working with spreadsheets. Coming out from the doodling, i find myself feeling more relaxed & calm. What magic is that?
Doodling has been perceived as a waste of time, anti-intellectual and counter to serious learning. Contrary to that, doodling has a profound impact on how we process information; it engages all 4 learning modalities (i.e. visual, auditory, reading & writing and kinesthetic) simultaneously! In the 5 minutes TED video by Sunni Brown, she went on to share how "doodling is native to us and we are simply denying ourselves from that instinct (if we resisted ourselves to embrace it)".
The best of all, there is no judgement in doodles - no matter how squiggly they are!
Doodling & drawing are also commonly used in art therapy, this popularised to what Mindful Doodling could be about - to look inwardly on what you are feeling and simply let the drawing pen takeover. Draw yourself calm, is one of such workshops aimed to help you find that stillness & calm, at the end of it, it promises you come out of your thinking-mind and into your being-mind.
For the DIY-me, i followed through the simple drawing techniques by the Mindful Art Studio and started practising line drawing.
I might have caught the line-drawing bug over from @Alicelovesdrawing and @licosmoss, I am so addicted to botanical line drawings these days, yay to some ink doodles to spruce my home office!
On the left, fully inspired by @licosmoss's gingko flower line drawing; do pop over her site to have a look at the intricacies of her work, if you would like to support her work, you can follow her on IG and/or shop from her Etsy store.
On the right, fully inspired by @alicelovesdrawing's monstera leaf drawing. She offers tips for drawing, watercolouring painting & inking, if you would like to support her work, you can follow her on IG and/or shop for a piece of her artwork.
What a nice way to wind down a work day, cheers to the power of doodles! Do share your doodles with me and how doodling makes you feel?
Love to hear!
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