Doodling Ideas For Journal – Cute, Trendy & Creative!

According to a source, “Extrapolating the statistics there could be up to 1 billion people worldwide that keep diaries regularly.”

Writing a journal helps you cope with the stress and anxiety you feel and pour your thoughts to understand your emotions. It helps you improve your mental health and is also a great way to keep a record of the memories and feelings you felt at the different stages of your life.

Doodling in journals is a fun way to keep it interesting and helps you get rid of the stress and anxiousness you feel. What better way than to draw something beautiful and abstract and at the same time feel better and lighter?

Doodling isn’t just a form of art, it also helps you improve your motor skills, brings out your hidden creative side, and enhances your concentrating skills. We, at StyleFundas, have come up with some amazing doodling ideas for your journal or diary with various designs and styles to try on. Check them out below:

Types of doodling

Zentangle

Zentangle is a way for you to create an unintentional masterpiece whilst potentially calming your mind, reducing your stress levels, and helping you to develop mindfulness. Here, you draw repetitive abstract patterns usually with a black marker on white paper. Check a few ideas below:

Zen Doodling

A Zen Doodle uses small drawings or doodles that are surrounded by repetitive patterns that bring the doodles together. When drawing them you are creating a work of art along with mood, focus, and a state of mind. Check a few ideas below:

Sten Doodling

This doodling art uses stencils to create an image outline, patterns within the design, and even the individual doodle patterns! For artists who use stencils, this form of doodle will offer a sense of relief and give you some peace of mind. Check a few ideas below:

Mandalas

Conventionally, Mandalas were used in meditation and spreading spiritualism. But today, they are used in the doodling art form as a means of promoting mindfulness and relaxation. You can use a variety of different colors in this art and each signifies a different trait. Below are the traits and some ideas to draw this doodle:

a) Red- Strength, Passion
b) Pink- Feminism, Love
c) Orange- Creativity, Transformation
d) Yellow- Happiness, Laughter
e) Green- Caring, Undying Love for Nature
f) Blue- Inner Peace, Meditation
g) Purple- Things associated with Spirituality

Doodle Art

This art mainly consists of simple drawings which are abstract drawn with simple lines known as ‘scribble’ or sometimes have a concrete representational meaning behind them. Check a few ideas below:

History About Doodling

One of the oldest abstract markings ever found has been discovered in Indonesia. The zigzag marking carved by our earliest ancestors is said to be over 500,000 years old according to archaeologists. The scribble on a shell is the first evidence that man ever drew, pathing the way for epoch tales and triumphs to be detailed in drawings in caves across the globe.

According to Wikipedia, “Mathematician Stanislaw Ulam developed the Ulam spiral for visualization of prime numbers while doodling during a boring presentation at a mathematics conference.” And that is how the art of doodling was invented.

Hope this was helpful. And to all the art lovers out there, try these doodle arts and share your experience with us doing it in the comment section below. So, when in any mood, you can always hang onto art to make you feel happy and calm.