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Doodle It All

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This book is incredible!!! I can’t draw. At all. And my doodles normally begin and end with 3D boxes stacked on each other. With this books help I think I’ll be drawing really good looking doodles in no time.
The book begins with practical advice such as how to choose a pen and what pens will work on what surfaces, how to use different colour schemes to change the look of your doodle, even how you colour in a space can change the look or even the characters emotion!
There is a menagerie of animals in a cartoon and more realistic style and hints on how to add interest: hint- llamas with sweaters? Yes please!!
There are also vehicles, buildings, seasonal items, frames and one of my favourites... lettering! I keep a sort of bullet journal but it is very plain and I don’t like my handwriting much so I’m really looking forward to this.
I can’t wait to go through it with my 10 year old and do some doodling together. This book will definitely be on my shopping list for Christmas gifts for the children we know.

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Great book for budding artists of any age who want to warm up their drawing skills. Working through this book and practicing the doodles can consume a 15 minute break or an entire afternoon. It presents a lot of ideas to create individual doodles or collages and collections. Highly recommended for all public libraries, artists, after school programs, summer camps, and senior centers. It is a great way to practice with colored pencils or fine-point markers. The authors provide detailed information about doodling with ballpoint pens.

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An adorable book that demonstrates to the reader how to doodle utilising simple techniques. The instructions are easy to follow and execute and I found myself learning quite a few things. I liked how the book deconstructs the doodling techniques into using simple shapes and lines. There are step-by-step instructions which are helpful for those new to doodling. The doodles are adorable and there is a wide variety of different doodles such as animals, food, numbers and lettering to name a few. I also liked how this book covered art materials.

I recommend this for people who would like to learn or improve their doodling and art techniques.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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This is a really neat book for beginners and pros alike. I like how it touches on the different types of pens you can use to doodle and draw and even breaks down step by step how to draw different animals, people, foods, apparel and more. I like that it discusses different techniques to achieve certain looks as well. I also like how it talks about drawing lines and hits a bit on lettering as well.

It is also helpful that there is an index in the back of the book to reference if you are wanting to look up how to draw a certain thing. This book is a great guide and I am looking forward to trying out a lot of the techniques and and doodles.

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This is a cute, simple, sweet book of doodles. A lot of the doodles in this one remind me of emojis. You don't have to be a great artist to replicate the doodles in this book and if you are already artistically inclined this might be too simplistic for you. This would be good for anyone who just wants to add some easy doodles to their planner or to practice building skills.

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This adorable book teaches you how to doodle almost anything you can think of. The drawings are very cute and basic, so it's not like a professional drawing, but it's what I was looking for. It's great for journals, scrapbooks or just play around with doodles. The book is very colorful and fun!
I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

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Terrific little book with plenty of ideas for doodling. Subjects include people, animals, food, furniture, houses and buildings, International landmarks, flags and more. The artwork has been drawn by multiple artists who all have a kawaii line- drawing style, so there's some variation, but overall it's similar. You can take what you want from. The examples; personally, I'd be more likely to draw pictures of food or a bicycle into a greeting card or letter than I would to drop in an overly cute panda with a branch of bamboo, but that's me. Combining elements and line styles gives you a ton of options for cards, notes, journals or diaries, and plenty of ideas. Cute book.

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A art guide for little children that can be used by adults too. It teaches art to doodle by simple technique. It draws various doodles starting with basic numbers or lines.
It is very interesting to read it and learn.
All instructions are easy enough for kids to follow themselves.
There is everything in these pages. Baby, building, hat, sheep, mouse and many more.
All doodles are colored.
It is a very good book for learning to do doodling.

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The title ‘Doodle it all’ sums up this book perfectly! It doesn’t try too hard to turn the reader into an artistic genius but it does enable an absolute beginner enjoy creating some visually recognisable images!

Great for kids or keen-but-artistically-limited adults alike this book will allow you to make greeting cards or the like without showing yourself up! It features some step by step illustrations to make the art of doodling accessible to all!

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Thank you NetGalley and publishers for an ARC. All opinions are my own.

Doodle It All is true to its title! You will learn how to add sweet doodles to accent notes and letters. I love the introduction that share what type of pens to use. Also there is a reference sheet in the back to help refers search for an item to doodle. I love how simple each step is and how using basic shapes is encouraged.
Highly recommended for young artists and veteran doodlers looking to sharpen their skill a bit.

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The doodles in this one were very easy to follow. I think even my little siblings can draw the pictures included here. It was very fun nonetheless. I’m not an expert in doodling so this one might be for you if you are not so good like me and just want a fun or creative way to pass the time. The only problem with this copy is that most doodles were blurry so I can’t see much.

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I wanted to like this more than I did. Though the step by step instructions and illustrations were helpful, something about the drawings made this feel like a really amateur book. I wish more care had gone into drawing the pictures with pens that would photograph well.

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Doodle It All! By Boutique-Sha is a great book for anyone who wants to learn how to make cute little illustrations

The book starts with the absolute basics, an explanation about different kind of pens, and how to choose the right one for you. It then continues with a list of different types of items you can draw on (from simple paper to every day objects like phone cases!) and instructions on how to color with ballpoint pens.

The next section of the book is dedicated to teaching you how to draw all kinds of things, like different animals, people, foods, etc. This chapter has a special lesson every few pages, where you will learn different things like overlapping illustrations and drawing speech bubbles:

The instructions are all very clear, starting out with a singe shape, adding more and more until you have drawn the complete object. Perfect even if you think you don’t have any drawing skills.

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Basic doodles, easy to follow. Would entertain kids for a few hours. I was able to get a good copy of the doodles with little effort.

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Super cute and easy to follow along. Fun way to pass the time for any one. Thank you netgalley for the advanced copy!

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This was a cute book fun little book. Has almost anything you could think of to doodle. I tried most of the simple geometric based doodles and a few.of the ones that require a little more skill. I wish that some of the more challenging ones had been broken down into better steps but overall this is a good book for kids and adults to hone their doodle skills.

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This book provided exactly what it said it would. The doodle instructions were clear and easy to follow, and it provided a variety of options and ideas. Great for building onto my journaling.
"I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own."

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I received this ebook in exchange for an honest and fair review. I enjoyed the illustrations and feel that it work well as a guided drawing project for young students. Unfortunately it was not formatted to be read as a kindle book.

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I am totally hopeless at drawing, I need all the help I can get and when I saw Doodle It All, I thought I’d give it a try.

The cute cover pulled me in straightaway, now I would say this is not for the experienced artist, definitely the novice which is exactly what I am.

It covered how to draw everything from cats and dogs to cakes and planes and everything in between and it will be perfect if your have a bullet journal, it will give you great ideas for new designs to pop on your pages.

I had great fun testing out my drawing skills with this books and I’m looking forward to playing with it in the future, I think it makes a great book to reference back to.

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I thought this book might give me some tips to advance my skills in drawing and doodling. While it has some ideas, I didn’t find it hugely informative. It’s very very basic. The format doesn’t work well in ebook download and it made it hard to follow. All in all a few useful tips but hard to read.

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