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Creative Doodling & Beyond (2011)

by Stephanie Corfee(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1600582478 (ISBN13: 9781600582479)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Walter Foster Publishing

review 1: Quite inspiring with TONS of snazzy ideas! Not only prompts of what to draw but also fun suggestions of where to apply your artwork and even how to use your personal flair to make your own decorating tools. The text is concise & doesn't try to sell you on any specific brand of supplies (the way Zentangle books do). Makes you wanna grab a drawing utensil & start doodling right there on the included blank pages!
review 2: Even with many pages left blank for practicing, this is still a pretty good sized book with lots of material. There is a lot more here than in the thin little zentangle books. (The zentangle books are good, just a little thin for the price.)It is a really beautiful book. It is fun to look through.I like having the blank practice space in the ... morebook. I enjoy going through the book practicing all the doodles, it is very relaxing. I find myself more likely to practice as opposed to other books I have where I have to get out a separate piece of paper to doodle with. Once I have practiced the doodles, I find myself incorporating many of the elements into my own doodles. Since using the book, I find myself doing many new designs in doodling and not just things in the book. It is like the doodles in the book are sparking off new doodle ideas in my head.I enjoy the author’s style of doodling. It is very loose and casual and freeform. It feels more spontaneous than the zentangles style of doodling. With a few exceptions, such as the portrait doodles, I did not feel that I needed to work on my artistic skills before I could do them.I did not care for the projects. Most of them seemed to be geared toward a parent with young children. I was a bit puzzled that the purse project called for doodling on paper, scanning your doodle, printing it out on an iron on sheet, ironing it on the project and then coloring in with fabric markers. It seemed needlessly complex. Why not just doodle directly on the project with fabric markers?I was disappointed that doodling on abstract painting was only presented as an idea and not done out in detail. This is the techniques used to create the amazing cover of the book. I would like to try it, but I do not have enough information. Will any type of pen work over any type of paint? Do you put a fixative on it in between the paint and the pen? I suppose I could experiment, but canvas is significantly more than paper. I do not want to waste a bunch of canvas finding the right combination.Even though I did not care for the projects, I felt there is still enough in the book I liked to make me happy with my purchace. less

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