Doodle all day long! Doodling is the mindless act of putting marks on paper.
Why is doodling so good for you? Doodling helps you relax, it helps you concentrate, listen see things around you.
Doodling is a wonderful way to quiet your mind. While your hand is moving around the paper, your mind is focused on what is going on and you are oblivious to your surrounding. Five minutes of Doodling will relax you!
Doodling is a bit like handwriting and calligraphy: It’s meditative and helps your cognitive function.
Some people can sit quietly for a long time and meditate and other can’t.
There are many ways to quiet your mind. You can do meditative things that don’t rquire you to sit still.
Walking and swimming are meditative activities.
Doodling is an excellent meditative activity that also allows your creativity to come out and play.
Remember those stick figures you drew when you were little?
Use stick figures to tell your story, to describe someone or just for fun. Make them tall, make them small, make them run!
Color the stick figures and they will start to look like figures!
Doodle a few minutes a day and you will see how you will feel a lot more relaxed and who knows! this can be a new hobby!
There are no rules.
Doodling is great because there is no pressure attached to it.
It’s about drawing without thinking.
Draw shapes, lines, x’s, circles. Doodling is a mindless act.
Draw stick figures, funny people, strange trees and don’t worry about what it looks like. Just keep putting marks on the paper.
If you do get into stick-figure drawing it could be a way to express a story.
I have started to draw little stick figures and to color them.
Coloring stick figures just keeps my mind focused for a few more minutes and I love playing with color pencils.
Many people use doodles to remember things.
I have seen people in conferences writing notes and adding a small doodle next to them. Some people only add doodles.
I met an artist that is hired to go to business conferences to doodle while someone is speaking.
Her doodles appear on a large screen up front and they keep people focused on the subject at hand.
Doodling is a creative way of expression.
Doodle every day for a week and see where your lines evolve into all sorts of shapes.
You may find yourself getting interested in drawing!
Or it can just be a way of venting.
Keep a doodle note book with you at all times. I used to carry a 4 x 6 inch notebook for that and now I carry around a larger one because some doodles have evolved into drawings!
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Updated August 2025
A drawing is done with purpose.
A doodle is done without thinking.
Doodles are quick marks.
Doodle can be repetitive shapes.
You just let your hand go wherever it wants. You can doodle with a purpose but it will be with a lighter touch.
You don’t need specific supplies.
Choose what do you like most: Pencils? Pens?
Get a doodle notebook or use lose sheets of paper. I have a notebook that I take with me all the time.
Yes! Doodling is mindfulness, because it’s a meditative activity.
Doodle artist.
Doodler.
An amazing person! 🙂
I consider doodle an art.
Do you remember Keith Haring?
I know many would not consider Keith Haring’s are doodle, but they remind me of doodle.
Doodle are art!
Marguerite Beaty, Blogger, Photographer & Artist
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