Take some coloured or Kraft paper and cut or rip 2 or three random shapes that will fit on a page of your sketchbook. I love watching the colours flow and mix on paper.If you don’t feel like you can draw or simply want some fun exercises to experiment with here’s a couple of things to try. April says, “I usually start by randomly putting some colours onto the paper. If she’s not sketching and/or painting outside, you’ll find her doodling at home. I find it more relaxing to sketch this way.” “I use the blind contour technique to sketch,” she says, “especially when I’m drawing people. Now, she goes out and sketches regularly with her friends from Urban Sketchers Singapore. She started keeping a sketch journal after she read Danny Gregory’s book The Creative Licence. “I started by drawing everyday objects, simple things like my cup, my plant on my table, my food, etc.”Īpril usually sketches with a fountain pen, and then colors her sketch with watercolor. Click here to check out the latest book she’s illustrated – Excursion to HortPark, a collection of twenty haiku written by Singapore editor and writer Jocelyn Lau. I then draw over the doodlewash, or continue to paint to develop more defined shapes.”Īpril is currently working as an art therapist and is also a freelance illustrator. She says, “I was just playing with colors and shapes and having fun.
For this set of images, April started by randomly putting colors onto the paper, without knowing what she was going to draw or paint at the beginning.
Today’s lovely doodlewashes come from April Yip, originally from Hong Kong, currently based in Singapore ( follow her on Instagram).
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