Intuitive Line Drawing: Invite Creative Flow with the Doodle Mindset

In this class, with Skillshare teacher Joe Smigielski, we’ll explore line drawing and intuitive doodling techniques that invite creative flow.  Joe takes a mindfulness approach to line art and mark making.

Hello and welcome to class!

In over twenty five years as an artist, I have found that creativity flows best when overthinking is minimized.  Together we’ll explore a doodling technique that helps quiet the mind, one that’s helped me continuously evolve as an intuitive artist.

• How drawing speed, or line velocity, impacts line quality;
• How adjusting line velocity helps synchronize the hand and brain;
• How this synchronicity can quiet overthinking;
• How to discover the line velocity that fits your style and approach;
• How to maintain control over your drawing at optimal velocity, by breaking your drawing down in to it’s individual strokes;
• Exercises that use drawing speed to spark spontaneity, intuition and creative flow, and;
• The before and after impact this intuitive approach can have on your creative practice overall.

This class is an analog class, so you will need…

• Your favorite pen or pencil,
• Drawing Paper (any paper will do!)
• A drawing you've created  to apply the techniques you'll learn in class.

After earning my degree in Art education from Wayne State University in Michigan, I spent several years in the classroom teaching art education. In 2000, I left to become a full time artist and have been happily creating work ever since. In addition to line art, I am also an accomplished oil and acrylic painter, as well as a digital artist, who has sold my work online, in art festivals, as well as brick and mortar stores and galleries across the United States. My work has been featured both in print and on television.

This is the first in a series of line drawing classes I'll be teaching here on Skillshare. Be sure to hit follow on my profile so you’re always notified whenever I post a new class.

Are you ready to quiet your mind and let your creative voice do the talking? Then come join me in class.  Let's get started!

Music Credit: "Circle of Life" by Letra on artlist.io (license on file)

• Welcome to Class!
• What You Will Need for Class
• Class Project
• What is the Doodle Mindset?
• Doodle Writing Meditative Exercise
• Making Marks with Speed
• Harnessing Your Range of Speed
• Trusting the Hand: Drawing Forms
• Trusting the Hand: Drawing Scenes
• Spontaneous Design
• Intuitive Drawing
• Final Thoughts