I Love Doodling by Diane Bleck: Book Overview
I Love Doodling with Diane Bleck is a step-by-step drawing book for people who want a practical visual vocabulary for notes, journals, presentations, and informal sketches. It is closer to a workbook of repeatable icons than to a traditional coloring book.
What you learn
The lessons begin with basic shapes and combine them into small drawings. That structure is useful for beginners who freeze in front of a blank page: instead of inventing a complete illustration, you practice a limited set of lines, shapes, and symbols and then reuse them in different contexts.
- Simple icons for visual notes and bullet journals.
- Shape-based drawing sequences rather than finished pages to color.
- Practice material that can support flip charts, infographics, or personal notebooks.
- A large icon library for readers who prefer copying a clear example before improvising.
Who it suits—and who may want something else
Choose this book if your goal is to draw recognizable objects quickly or make handwritten notes more visual. If you primarily want detailed line art that is ready for colored pencils or markers, a conventional adult coloring book will require less setup. Readers seeking realistic figure drawing or perspective instruction will also need a more specialized art book.
A simple way to use it
- Practice one icon family in pencil without worrying about perfect lines.
- Repeat the same icon at three sizes to make it easier to use in notes.
- Choose a limited palette of two or three colors for headings and emphasis.
- Build a small reference page of the icons you use most often.
For adding color after the drawing stage, start with our colored-pencil guide or use the exercises in the adult coloring techniques guide.
This is a source-based overview, not a hands-on review. Source checked August 2026: Diane Bleck’s Doodle Institute materials.
Evidence note: creator and format information was checked against Diane Bleck’s official Doodle Institute materials on August 24, 2026.
