Hey guys! Today I'm gonna be showing you seven different drawings that you can
make when you're bored! Weird video, I know right?! So before you go ragging on
me for making a video of drawings you can make when you're bored, I just wanted
to let you know that this has been one of my most requested videos. So a lot of
you fishes in the sea must be wanting this! Alrighty,
these are going to be fairly simple drawings, so no matter where you are on
your artistic journey, you can do these! The first one is to Google optical
illusions, and try to draw one. I think this is a really good exercise to study
perspective, because first of all, just looking at them and understanding them
is one thing... but trying to replicate it and drawing it is a very challenging
thing for both your mind and for hand-eye coordination! Just studying
shadows.. and kind of going against your intuition, because this really
tripped me up for a little bit. But man, it was like a really good drawing
exercise so I definitely recommend looking up optical illusions and trying
to draw them! This one is just a square bent in a bunch of different ways...
but what way is coming at you and what way is going away?!
YO! What what what?! Yeah, it gets crazy, and believe it or not... this was one of the
simpler optical illusions! They get really hard. There's a lot of really
detailed ones, but I just wanted to keep it simple because... you know... you're bored
right?! You don't want to spend too much time. Alright, if you want to feel really,
really good about yourself... I'm gonna let you in a little secret: say you're
craving a food like me... if you know me, I really love food. I love eating.
I love munching on stuff. Oreos are absolute weakness... but say you're craving
of food and it's like 3:00 in the morning...
or you just ate... you know you shouldn't eat... just draw the food you're craving!
Yeah, crazy right?! You can draw your food instead of eating it, and you might feel
great about yourself because it's pretty much a challenge! IF, by the end of the
drawing, you still have not caved and eaten that food... boom! COOM! It's like a
double victory, because first of all... you finished the drawing! Second of all...
you did not give in to temptation! Girl! You did not eat that piece of toast! And
let me tell you what... it was 3:00 in the morning, and I painted this piece of
toast, and I did not give in! And if you even want to know why I was up until 3:00
a.m. - I found a cool show on Netflix, so you know... had to binge! But you could also
look at this differently, and this could be torture. For instance, had I painted a
doughnut that would be torture because I would be staring at something far more
delicious looking. And yeah... I would probably give in... and maybe want to
go drive to Dunkin Donuts really late at night and get me a doughnut with
sprinkles! Oh oh my goodness! That's the question of
the day! What is your favorite kind of doughnut?! Do you like the cream-filled
kinds, or do they make you feel like you're suffocating? Because I really
can't do the cream in the middle... but I know a lot of people love those!
Raise your hand... who here still loves sprinkles on their doughnuts?! Yeah, let me
know! Ooh, or if you go to an ice cream shop... do you still request sprinkles?!
I'm 26 and I still do! Is that acceptable? Socially acceptable? Anyway, this is my
piece of toast! And if you do not know what to draw, and you feel a little
stumped, I strongly suggest drawing different foods that you either like a
lot, or that you're craving! Or you could draw food you hate and not give in to
temptation! Winner! When I'm bored, sometimes I like to pick a facial
feature and draw it over and over again, but in different ways. That way I learn
to have variation with my portraits. So right now, I am picking eyebrows and I'm
just drawing super arched eyebrows, straight eyebrows, curved eyebrows, soft
arches, super tweezed eyebrows... all sorts of different brows! That helps me to
not draw the same face all the time. I have a fear of same face syndrome with
drawing, so I really like to do stuff like this. Especially with mouths and
noses. That's super helpful for me, because I find that it is super easy to
stick to the same mouth and nose since those two facial features are the most
intimidating to me, so I gravitate toward what is more comfortable. But eyebrows
are also the comfort draw kind of thing for me, so that is why I chose the brows
for this drawing! After that, I decided to label each type, which you
will see in a second. So tell me which facial feature do you struggle with the
most! For me, it is lips and noses, as I said.
But if you struggle with anything, I suggest doing this! It is really helpful,
guys. Seriously!
Oh no! Oh no! This video just got wild! This got intimidating! She
busted out a ruler! I don't do that when I'm bored! No, no, no! All right, I'm joking!
You do not have to use a ruler for this, but you can see that I used a roll of
washi tape to trace a bunch of circles in a straight line! What am I doing?! I'm
drawing the phases of the Moon! I am super intrigued by the moon lately,
and I actually had never memorized the phases of the Moon... so I decided to do
this exercise when I was bored! It was really fun, because I think it helped
me appreciate the moon more, and the different phases...
but I also had to learn all the names, and I pulled up a web page and I got to
learn some stuff... and it was just really fun all around! I think recording my
observations in my sketchbook just helps make that experience a little more
special, because I can look back on this and remember the night of fun I had when
I drew a bunch of stuff while being bored! And I learned about the moon! So
yeah, if you're into the moon and you just like outer space...
I would suggest doing this! It's really easy! You don't have to put a lot of
detail into it. So if you are a beginner, or if you're
more advanced... this is a really simple exercise! And if you worry about being
able to draw a perfect circle, you can trace the cap on a water bottle, a
quarter, or any sort of round object in your house will work! It makes it ten
times easier! I put all the names below, and voila! We have the moon
phases! The fifth thing you can do when you are bored is probably one of my
favorites! I like to do this when I'm winding down after a long day, because
it's super stress relieving. You literally just move your hands all
around the page and do these curly Q squiggly kind of scribbles. I know
this probably seems really stupid... like why would you waste a page doing THAT?!
But sometimes when you're stressed, you kind of just want a way to cope with it.
Or when you're bored, you just kind of want to move around so you don't get
tired and then fall asleep and waste your time... So what you do is... it's kind of
like a cool game, actually. You just keep doing these scribbles, and filling in the
blank-ish areas until everything gets more and more detailed with all your
little scribbles. There's tons and tons of loops and curly Q's. You can even use
more than one color if you want to! I personally
like the contrast between the page and one color, but every now and then I do
spice it up! I'm just using this pink gel pen... adding all these scribbles... and
by the end, I kid you not, I feel ten times bette all the time! It is a
wonderful exercise! So if you don't know what to draw, or you just want to fill a
page in your sketchbook... add some color to it!
Maybe you're bored, you're tired, you're waiting on your doctor's appointment at
the doctor's office... do one of these! It's really nice, and it's always great for
anxiety. Sometimes you can even challenge yourself to not lift your hand during
the entire thing! But that can get crazy, because this took me like 40 minutes (LOL).
Anyway, this is what it looks like up close! Let me know if you've ever
done this before, or if you plan to try it! This is seriously one of my favorite
exercises! The sixth thing you can do when you are bored is to practice hand-
lettering. Hand-lettering is super trend these days. A lot of people do it.
Especially if you do bullet journaling, or you make home decor stuff
and you want to hang it on your walls! They make great gifts too! For me, I feel like
it's more pertinent to my sketchbook. So what I like to do is choose a
motivational quote that I really like, or just a funny saying... something!
And I practice my hand lettering... I have probably said this a couple other videos,
but I like to make fonts. I'm not like amazing at it or anything, but I have a
couple on the interwebs that I have sold before, so that's kind of fun and cool! So
I like to make sure I practice hand lettering from time to time, even though
I design most of mine digitally. Anyway, the quote that I chose says,
"being a kind is cool," because on my channel, and just in life in general
I am very anti-bullying. I want to make sure that every
human in this world feels loved, and I just want to encourage kindness toward
everybody. So yeah, I wrote this in my sketchbook because I saw this quote
recently, and I really really loved it! Now I'm just adding fun little
details with some marker. This is really nice, because it's not incredibly time-
consuming, and you can add as much or as little detail as you want! You can add some
flourishes and color at the end... it's all up to you, really!
The seventh and final drawing idea that you can do when you're bored is to take
some characters that you really like from a movie, a book.. whatever you want...
and cartoonify it/them! Unless it's from a cartoon movie or an animated movie... then
you can just change the style to whatever you want! But the point of this
exercise is to play with styles! So what I did is I took Harry, Ron, and Hermione
from Harry Potter, of course! My babies. They're little first years right now (in my drawing), and I
cartoonified them. I made them really short and stumpy with giant eyes,
and really cute little squished faces! I thought this was so fun to play
with style. I pretty much only did outlines, because I wanted to keep it
simple. I mean, you can color stuff in if you want, but you don't really have to!
Because, again, you're bored... these are kind of more on the end of "doodles."
You're not supposed to take ~tons~ of time... so yeah, I decided to omit coloring in
the robes and stuff, because I didn't want them to completely blend together.
I had fun cartoonifying these characters. The cool thing about that
and messing with style is you can kind of temporarily throw Anatomy out the
window, and just see what you make! You don't even need a reference!
That's another way to challenge yourself with this, by the way! Take away
your references and WHEW! Things get crazy! Anyway I really enjoyed this
exercise, and I think about once a year I draw Harry, Ron, and Hermione together.
It's become a tradition for me. I don't know why... and it's always some sort of
cartoon, haha. Anyway, I hope you liked these suggestions! Let me know if you plan on
trying any below! Or if you've already done some of these let me know! Alrighty, I
will see you guys in another video! Thanks so much for watching, and have a
wonderful day! Bye everybody!