Even though I have quite the visual vocabulary in my mind I'm always looking for inspiration
on how to draw things differently or just expand my visual vocabulary even further.
Hi I'm Ashton and today I want to share with you my top 5 favorite websites to check out when I'm
looking for doodly inspiration. If you want to stick around to the end I'm also going to share
with you on how to get your own free guide on learning how to sketchnote. Just a note before
we get started Pinterest is not number one through five. I don't have Pinterest on my list at all. I
think it's a pretty common place that people go to to get inspiration so I didn't want to waste
any time on that one today but if you're not familiar with Pinterest I would certainly go
and check it out. It's has quite, I don't know how to describe it, it's just a lot and it's big
and you'll understand when you get there if you've never checked it out before. Okay so starting with
number one, this also might be a popular one for people I'm not quite sure but one of my favorite
places I go to quite a lot is Google images. So when you go to Google and you scroll over
to the images tab and you type in your word there you will see only images from that word. So if we
just go ahead here and type in bear and hit enter you'll see lots of different pictures of bears but
what's different here though too in terms of you building your visual vocabulary is you're getting
a lot of realistic images and that's not quite what we're looking for so what you want to do
is you want to Google bear doodle or bear sketch or bear drawing or bear line drawing,
just play around with different words there to see all the different types of graphics that
come up when you're searching it with those words attached to it. I think one of my favorite ones is
bear doodle for sure and you can see that it just populates those types of drawings so that you can
kind of see the different ones that you like that you can pull some inspiration from.
Okay so number 2 is pretty fun as well it's also kind of connected to doodle and it's Quick Draw.
Now I don't know much about the project to be honest with you but it was a project
a few years ago where you could submit your quick drawings of all of these different images
and you can see in it some are very very quick and sketch-like and some are a little bit more
refined I guess we could say. So it's just another one to kind of pull from so you can see a lot of
different ways that people draw different things so it's another fun one to check out for sure.
Okay so this next one I'm kind of cheating a little bit because it's not necessarily drawing
but I want to share with you one of my favorite lettering or on my font sites I guess I should
say. I like looking at fonts to get inspiration for different lettering especially if I'm doing
a title at the top of the page so I'll look at different fonts to get inspiration on how to
draw different letters so because we can't forget that lettering is drawing as well right
so if you're looking for different ways to write a title or just do a different lettering style
certainly go and check out basically any font site but I do like Dafont is a nice one for sure.
Okay so number 4 is the Envato I don't know if I'm saying that right but envato.com
graphics icons website so if you see here it's more iconography rather than drawings
but you can get a lot of inspiration from those types of icons for sure so another really fun
great one to sort of play around with, I probably haven't played with this one as much as I could
but it's certainly a bit of a hidden gem for sure for you to check out. Okay so saving my
best for last or my favorite one I guess for last. So my favorite one is the Noun Project
so similar to the Envato one it is mostly icons, there are some in there that have more
of a drawing style to it or like a hand-drawn style to it but I really love this one so much
because they're very simple and easy icons that you can pull inspiration from. Oftentimes when
I'm pulling inspiration from any of these types of websites I'm making it my own for sure but
it's nice to be able to have like those simple style of drawings which is why I love the Noun
Project so much because you can pull just like the basic shapes of something to help you get started.
So those are my 5 favorite websites to go check out for doodly inspiration.
I'd love to hear if there's any websites that you love to check out for inspiration as well you can
certainly comment below. I'd love to to hear them and maybe we could do a part 2 of this video.
And as promised I want to share with you a little sketchnote guide if you go to sketchnote101.com
you can download your own free copy on how to get started with sketchnoting which is super fun
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