![]() You will be blown away with uncontrolled enthusiasm once you figure out how simple and straightforward this process is. □ Yes, I know it might be hard to believe that it only takes 12 shapes. In fact, after working with these 12 fundamental shapes for several years, I am convinced that I can doodle absolutely anything using only these shapes. But instead of forming words, I rather use them to form pictures and tell stories through my visuals. These 12 shapes are used in a very similar way. Just like we use the letters of the alphabet to create words, and then use those words to form sentences, paragraphs and entire manuscripts. I wasn’t sure, but I definitely wanted to find out. Could developing my drawing skills help advance my career/business? I imagined at the time what opportunities I was potentially missing out on because I didn’t know how to express myself visually on paper. ![]() I had an inability to get my thoughts down on paper in a visual way, which left me feeling awkward and miserable and left my colleagues feeling perplexed and confused. The worst part of all was that it was an absolute mess and nobody fully understood what I was thinking. And so I pivoted and started using circles, squares, blobs and words to represent what I was thinking. I really didn’t like where this was going. But soon enough my rudimentary doodles turned to silly awkward and disjointed shapes. In fact, sadly, I didn’t feel as though I had a single creative bone in my body, let alone my fingers. I do, however, pre-warn my colleagues that I’m no artist. □īut I’m, of course, a risk-taker, and so I dive head first into my drawing. In fact, I think that sadly they might’ve even regressed. It seemed as though my drawing skills had not really progressed very far since kindergarten. But all I had in my arsenal of drawing skills were some not so fancy stick figures with absolutely no personality. Remember you can join along with a pen or pencil and scratch paper.One day in a business meeting someone asked me to draw an example of the idea I had in mind. ☺️ For this video I'm using my Pigma Sensei Pens (my personal favorite right now) and Winsor & Newton Mixed Media 9 x 12 pad. I'd love to see your thumbs up if you would like to share! Tag me on InstagramĪ lot of you are always asking what materials I prefer to use when I create my doodles so I will start listing them with Amazon links. You can read the full blog post here: A Doodle Exercise to Stop Outsourcing Approval Repeat the phrase many times throughout the day. Allow it to help you to remember that: I approve of myself. We invite you to join in and doodle along.Ĭreate your very own Thumbs Up and post it where you'll see it everyday. I kept getting stuck drawing hands and the thumbs up so I asked Ian if he could help.ġ0 hours later we were on a zoom call recording this video so you could follow along.ĭoodle to Connect is about connecting, creating, and sharing together in community. In my heart and mind I clearly saw my doodle girl with her outstretched arm supporting a thumbs up, symbolizing. ![]() I began to sketch, and sketch, and sketch some more. Working with an exercise in Louise Hay's book You Can Heal Your Life, I started to see an image of my doodle girl to fit the affirmation: I believe in myself. My previous two blog posts had me exploring the idea of affirmations and how we can create new neural pathways within our brain by repeating tenderly crafted sayings that fit our soul (affirmations). Other times I will find a word, poem, quote, or in this case an exercise in a book that sparked my interest. Often, for me, the doodle appears first and sometime later the message follows. I often allow inspiration to guide my doodles. Doodle to Connect Episode 1: Featuring guest artist, Ian Phillips (my son □).
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