Hey guys today I'm going to show you various things
that you can draw when you are bored.
Some of these things range from simple doodles
that can just fill a couple minutes of your time.
And others encourage you to push yourself a little more
with some more in-depth drawing projects.
So hopefully no matter
where you are on your art journey,
this gives you ideas and allows you to feel inspired.
That's the goal here.
So the first idea is to find an object in your house
and take pictures of it as well.
Now this seems really weird to do
because the object could just be in front of you.
For instance,
I'm drawing a succulent,
but I have it on my phone screen, too.
Just because I can zoom in like really far,
without getting really close to it
and it helps me get a better understanding of color,
just to have a couple different sources
of the same reference. [Chuckles]
So next I am using colored pencil and I'm sketching it out.
And now this is a project
where you can really push yourself and dive in deeper
because first of all, your reference isn't going anywhere,
especially if it's in your house
or if it's a picture on your phone,
but because I'm using colored pencil,
you're gonna see me layering so many times.
It's ridiculous. [Laughs]
I probably spent maybe three hours
on this little succulent.
So it might seem like a little doodle
and it was,
but because I layered so many times
over and over again, it was so time-consuming.
Now, I like to do more realistic drawings like this
from time to time,
because it helps me brush up on my understanding
of color on my patience with pieces.
Sometimes I do fall into that rut
where I just want to get stuff done
But when I go back to realism,
sometimes I'm just reminded like, hey!
Art takes a long time. Don't rush yourself, dude. So yeah.
You can see here, I'm also using a paint brush
and you might be wondering.
Okay. What are you doing here?
And right now I'm actually using mineral spirits
because it helps you blend out everything.
So there's a couple points throughout my drawing
where I will take these mineral spirits
and blend out my colored pencil
and what this does is it gets rid of all that graininess
and It kind of brightens the image a little bit.
It blends everything together
and it allows me to continue, guess what?
Layering, our best friend [Laughs]
So yeah, if you have like a succulent around your house,
this is a really fun one.
It's a lot of repeating the same thing over and over
and I kind of just kept the background white
because I wanted to focus just on the succulent
and that kind of lended to its own beauty.
Just to stand out on a minimal page
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So for everyone watching this video
who perhaps doesn't enjoy realism
or finds it intimidating, that's okay. I hear you.
I have included things in this video for you as well.
So here's one of them.
Right now I have a tiny sketchbook
and this drawing is excellent for people who have anxiety
or who like to doodle but they don't have a lot of time.
So you've probably seen me do this
in other drawing idea videos
and I think it's worth repeating.
So you're gonna see it again.
So what I'm doing is I'm drawing a basket weave
and you might be thinking,
okay, actually, what? What are you doing?
Yeah, so.
What this does is you're basically filling an entire page
with one pattern.
It's just a repeat thing
and the goal of it isn't necessarily
to look amazing or anything.
It's more so to calm down your anxiety
to take your mind off of things,
and just to let your hands move, you know
and get out some of that anxious energy
without stressing over what your artwork looks like.
So if you look back at my college notes from years ago.
You'll see this stuff all through the margins
and it makes sense.
I had anxiety in college and I still do this now.
Even though I've graduated.
it's just such a calming exercise
and it's worth going back to all the time.
So I hope this helps you.
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Alright if you have made it this far in the video,
first of all, thank you. I applaud you
but second of all you might be thinking.
Okay, I don't actually feel like doing realism,
but I want to do something bigger
than a small ten-minute doodle.
So where does that leave me?
Well, if you're asking yourself that question,
you are in the right place
because this drawing idea is an owl.
And you can use whatever you want to draw this,
but we are not doing realism
and we are not doing a doodle.
We're just doing something in between.
So basically what I am doing here is
I found an image online of an owl
and I decided okay, I'm gonna try to make the colors
as accurate as possible.
So that's what I'm doing.
but the whole time, in mind,
I am thinking to myself,
I will do whatever I want with this background.
Even if it's obnoxious, okay. [Laughs]
Now...
You'll kind of see what happens,
but just a little bit of foreshadowing,
my washi tape was very inspiring to me
and some more information,
I actually designed that washi tape.
So if you want that washi tape,
you can get it at mirabyler.com.
I will link that down below.
But anyway, as far as the drawing it goes,
you can use like colored pencil, crayons, markers,
posca pens, whatever you feel sounds more fun
and you can practice different types of shading.
For instance, right now, I'm doing stippling
but in the lower half of the owl body,
you can see that I kind of like blend wet-on-wet.
So the beautiful thing about these Posca pens,
they sort of take a while to dry.
There's this like little magical window of time
that you can blend.
Okay. It's actually not that long,
so you got to be quick but uh,
you can lay colors like this, okay,
you see me doing that
and I'm gonna go through in a couple seconds
and I'm gonna blend all that out
and it's gonna look really feathery and cool.
So if you want to play with different blending techniques,
you can do that on different areas of your owl.
It's up to you.
I try not to make too many rules with art, you know,
it's all about having fun.
So if you don't feel what I'm feeling
and you're feeling something else, hey!
Go for it. Do you, you know?
So anyway.
I decided, after all of this to do little spots all over the owl.
I don't know, markings, is that what you call it?
And I feel like this really made it pop, you know.
It just added that contrast that I was really hoping for
and I used blue for this
and I think that's what actually...
Made me realize like,
okay this washi tape would really look sweet
in that background. [Chuckles]
And I really like night skies and galaxies sorts of things,
so, we went for it.
I did a little bit of a sunset.
As you can see and it's that pink and purple.
Same as the washi tape. [Laughs]
Now, I think this would also look sweet
with like an abstract background.
So, if you're feeling something else,
maybe you want like some...
I don't know swirls or
like a tie-dye sort of theme back there, whatever.
I think it would look sweet
just because it kind of - I don't know.
I think it would make the owl look more...
Like it's from some different world, you know.
So that's cool.
Anyway, here's your satisfying a tape peeling .
I try to save that part in my videos for you guys
because I know you like it [Laughs]
And this is what it looks like.
Now, I highly recommend keeping
a white border around it if you want to frame it,
but if you don't, hey, do what you want, it's up to you.
As long as you're having fun.
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For the next drawing idea, you're gonna need some tape
. I'm just using washi tape
because that's what I had in here
You can use whatever you have laying around
as long as you can peel it up from paper
when you're done.
You don't want to take the paper with ya.
So I'm not exactly doing a drawing.
I'm gonna write a secret message.
All right, and you'll see, just wait.
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Alright, so I've wrote my message.
Peeled up my tape
and now we're gonna take a colored pencil
and just color lightly over it like this
and slowly, you're gonna see the indentation
from either your secret message or your doodle
appear and it will not be colored on.
Now, you can layer it over this
and make it pop a lot more,
but I just decided to make it somewhat visible,
you know, secret message, look closely,
but yeah, create kindness.
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Alright we're gonna push ourselves again
with more of a realistic drawing,
so you can probably tell,
I'm in more of a colored pencil mood this time around.
I go through phases. [Laughs]
So we're gonna get our mineral spirits,
our pencil sharpener, all those supplies at the ready,
because we're gonna dive into a project
that will probably take three or four hours
and now this one is very similar to the succulent
except this drawing idea is to pick your favorite flower
And the succulent was different because
I said to just grab something in your house,
it didn't necessarily need to be a plant,
but yeah.
This one I found reference photos online at pixabay.com
This is not sponsored, by the way.
This is just - I like to go there to find reference photos
and merge them and get ideas and inspiration.
So if you are an artist and you need royalty-free images,
highly recommend.
Pexels is also pretty good.
So I hope those sources help you.
Anyway, I'm doing lots of layering
and I am trying to get my colors accurate.
That is one of my big motivations
for doing realism right now is to...
uh, you know, brush up on my understanding of color
as I said earlier,
and also, I just um,
I've been really in the mood to just do realism lately.
So if you're not feeling this one,
that's okay. No hate here, only kindness, you know.
But I decided to practice more soft shadows, too,
by doing complementary colors
and uh, yeah.
I chose a black-eyed Susan
just because I feel like yellow flowers are so happy,
you know
and
any time I think of like happiness,
I always just think of like sunflowers
and black-eyed Susans and tulips and stuff, you know,
all those happy flowers.
Anyway,
I'm taking my mineral spirits
to blend out all the graininess and
prep myself for another round of layering.
But anyway, this is what it looked like when it was done,
three or four hours later.
I hope you found it inspiring and
I hope it makes you want to draw.
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Now, since we had to cancel our vacation this summer.
I decided okay, well,
what is a fun doodle that would remind me of vacation?
Oh, ocean waves, let's do that.
So this is similar to the basket weave,
with repeating patterns,
except this one incorporates a little bit more shading
and
eh, you can kind of get creative with it too,
so I'll show you what I'm doing.
I filled the whole page with little ocean waves.
Then I just took a blue colored pencil
and I shaded like the bottom of each wave.
So it kind of looks like they're all
layered on top of each other.
That's all that really went into it,
and it was really stress relieving.
So I hope you enjoy it!
[Giggles]
Right for the next one.
You can take your favorite markers
because we are going to use them.
So let the adventure begin.
We have some art to create.
Now I'm going to draw some blobs on a sketchbook page
and what we're gonna do is just fill the page.
Leave no blank spaces
and whatever shapes you have to create,
That's what you're making,
'cause we got to fill this whole page with all these...
interesting blobs.
So I took a bunch of like pinks
and
some pastel blues greens, you know
and just did what I said. I filled the page
and some of the shapes were...
Completely nonsensical.
Others, I had planned at the beginning, you know,
I got to plan like a couple of them. [Laughs]
and once you kind of get your whole page blocked out,
you don't have anything left to fill.
That's where the fun begins
and we're gonna take a ballpoint pen
and we're gonna outline each shape.
and now this will just create some boldness and contrast
between each color that you put there
and then it's also going to open up some opportunity
to fill each color with a different pattern.
So it's kind of like a game in my head that I play
when I do this like doodle technique, but yeah.
I create different patterns for like different color blocks.
I've done variations of this
in my other drawing idea videos
but it's a fun one to come back to
and it's a really playful drawing to do anyway.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed all of these drawing ideas
for when you're bored.
Let me know if you plan on trying any
or if you want to see more videos like this.
Maybe if I get a lot of feedback,
I can do like things to paint when you're bored.
Let me know.
All righty guys,
Thank you so much for watching and I love you. Bye!