I absolutely loved this book! It was so clever. When I had a very stressed day I sat down and started looking at it, and I have to say, my stress melted away. I would buy another book like this as I think it is amazing!

The Art of Doodle Words - Turn Your Everyday Doodles into Cute Hand Lettering! by Sarah Alberto is full of inspiration. Ms. Alberto carefully lays out more than a dozen types of lettering. Each style has the full alphabet listed so you can practice whatever you like. The second half of the book is full of ‘doodle words’. These words are playful and combine drawing, lettering and coloring. Tons of ideas to mix and match. Extremely fun and creative. This would be a great book if you want to begin Journaling which is all the rage. Well done!

I would like to thank Sarah Alberto, Quarto Publishing Group – Race Point Publishing and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Sometimes I get impatient with authors who tell this neat story about how they just sort of followed their passion and ended up writing a book. Most of the time, the story is pretentious and feels embellished and often just fake. Not so with Sarah Alberto and her story about how her Doodle Words came to be. Alberto comes across as genuine and likable - someone who you’d like to meet for coffee and chat about all sorts of things. Plus, she has written a one of the best books I’ve seen that deals with fancy writing.

Fancy writing is everywhere these days. There are classes, books, youtube videos, pinterest boards, etc. devoted to swirly, cool looking handwriting. Alberto eschews the usual stroke by stroke instruction and gives clear examples of how to blend handlettering with doodling, all while emphasizing the need for flexibility and creativity by the doodler. She takes you through her creative process, but keeps things open enough for the reader to try their own thing.

This will be popular with the DIY arts & crafts crowd, for sure.

I absolutely love this book. I am just starting my art journey and this book has been a massive help. Super easy to follow and very detailed. My sketchbook looks fab thanks to this.

The Art of Doodle Words by Sarah Alberto
Turn Your Everyday Doodles into Cute Hand Lettering!

What a fun book! I remember my father hand lettering a sign for an event at school and wondering how he was able to make the sign so beautiful. His time as a printer may have helped because he had seen so many fonts and was conversant with them. This book reminded me of my father and of taking printing and of signs I have hand lettered in the past.

I can see giving this book as a gift to my granddaughters or perhaps my sister who is an artist. It has new ideas and creative ones to use to make a word or a sign just that little bit more special by turning that word into a picture that illustrates the word. What do I mean? A rose can have a rose drawn as the ‘o’ in the word or hats can be used to illustrate each letter in the word or…well…you might want to pick up the book to see what I am talking about because…you might get an idea you will want to try next time you write down a word ;)

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto-Race Point Publishing for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

This book provides step by step illustrations on how to take a word from simple printed letters to a fun work of art.

​I loved this book! It shows the way to create words that show what they mean in their letters. The break down is such that even a person with absolutely no drawing experience can follow the instructions. The doodles are cute, fun, and colorful. I can’t explain who much this book excited me to try my hand at creative doodling.



I received an eBook copy from NetGalley for an honest review.

This book is so inspiring. Many uses other than just drawing. This would be great inspiration for making your own embroidery patterns. I highly recommend this book for inspiration purposes. Not sure if an artist would care for it but I can see myself doodling page 66 since my name is on that page. Thanks so much for the free download and thanks to the author and publisher for letting me have this copy!

The first section of the book made me a bit nervous. It appeared to be all inspiration and no tips, which is fine, but wasn’t what I was looking for. Luckily the rest of the book made me much happier. There are many step-by-step projects to inspire you. Some involve using a small accent to incorporate the word you’re using into the doodle (example turning the letter R in MERMAID into a mermaid’s tail). Or perhaps you want to write the word CAT using an actual cat doodle. For Burger the word BURGER is placed between to burger buns. Etc.

This is a good place to start if you want to letter things but don’t feel quite sure about how to go about it and/or don’t want to focus on fancier illustrated quotes.

This is such a cute and fun book! I love handlettering, especially if it's combined with doodling. The author gives great examples and a good explanation. Just leafing through the pages makes you want to start straight away.

What a wonderful resource for children and almost anyone who enjoys the creative use of lettering! Teachers, artists, and almost anyone would enjoy exploring and expanding upon the clever design in this book. If you want to know how to incorporate many styles of lettering into your art, this is the book for you.

Absolutely love what this book brings to the world of doodling. Lots of projects to do and create. Simply brilliant. Even my 7yr old loves it.

Full of great ideas, the examples are nicely done and steps a laid out in easy to follow. I found it very easy to follow along, reading in digital form its not as easy to trace the examples but it give the ideas and where to start with. It's a great book for jumping off point to put your own twists on alphabetically images. Great lettering for flyers, signs whatever needs that personal touch!

A very cute and through book. Good step by step drawings, allowing everyone to take part in the drawing. It even have space for you to try the doodles your self. I am really happy with this book.

The Art of Doodle Words has many different types of lettering ideas to get you started. From simple to unique the lettering in here will either show you how to create the same styles or give you a push so you can come up with your own.

The Art of Doodle Words is a cute read. It's nicely presented, with some lovely illustrations. It certainly offers plenty of inspiration. I might have liked a little more technical substance, but maybe that's not right for this style of book. As someone who is obsessed with realism and perfection in art, I am keen to expand my horizons and attempt something more freestyle, and this book has definitely given me a nudge to try to bring a little more doodle to my day. I would recommend The Art of Doodle Words for those looking to try their hand at something artsy for the first time, and also for bullet journal fans looking for ways to spice up their spreads.

What a great step-by-step tool to help doodlers or wanna-be doodlers take it to the next level. Lots of fun, simple ideas that can lead to more creative doodling art. I can't wait to get my hands on a print copy and buy several more for some of my friends!

I craft but don't really draw. This looked cute and something that could help me start drawing at least cute words for my crafts.
It is clear I have no talent. But I enjoyed trying and some actually looked like they were supposed to.\The majority of the instructions were clear but when they weren't it was frustrating (draw a fox? you just walked me through a cat; why not the fox?)
Overall, the full-color doodles inspired me to get creative.

The Art of Doodle Words is a short work and instruction book about turning words into art. I really love the idea of integrating words and doodles, however I did feel that there was a bit of a disconnect between the two. The first portion is a variety of different alphabet fonts. I loved seeing all the differences and I'm sure if I sat down and tried that each would come in time, however, particularly for this part, I felt like there could have been so much more instruction on actually building these different fonts. So, for a beginner, I believe that this book is a little out of reach. Following the font section, the rest of the book is comprised of words turned into doodles, such as flamingos being used to spell out Flamingos. Again, I felt the instructions and actually conceptualizing these doodles would have been more beneficial, as well as some practice space. Overally, I think the concept is good and it definitely keeps your mind going and turning towards new things, but I did find it a bit lacking.
3*
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review.

This book is great there are a ton of examples on how to change up your lettering. This is a must for everyone's reference shelf whether you are a beginner or advanced in lettering you will love this book and keep going back to it for ideas and inspiration.

I have to admit I’m a doodler, but my doodles are all just scribbles and lines! This book teaches you how to make your doodles more impressive by adding sketches and lines and turning words into cute little pictures! The book is full of examples and instructions on how to turn random words into a doodled picture relevant to that word – for example the word “Grow” ends up with each letter ‘growing’ out of a flower pot! The page gives you good clear instructions and there’s a space at the bottom of the page to have a practice and try yourself.

The book does look great, although personally I wouldn’t class it as doodling! I’m not very good at drawing and some of the ‘doodle’s’ do look like you need to be fairly good at it! But on the whole it is a fun book to give a try and would certainly make diaries, journals and general doodles look much more exciting than the scribbles that I currently do!