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Basic Hand lettering Doodles
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Feb 21, 2025
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hi everyone anat Kesler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you a really neat way to make
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handwritten
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letters uh Doodles and
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such so I'm starting with a white page
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and I'm simply creating a frame this is
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just a simple doodling frame with curved
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lines not something really complicated
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just take your pen your black pen your
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permanent black pen and just doodle
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around the
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page you can do this for your art
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Journal you can practice this technique
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for cards scrapbooking pages Bible
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journaling just a planner whatever you
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like you can even uh make a really
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nice creation and frame it on the wall
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with a beautiful quote so I'm just going
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around the frame going over some lines
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coloring some of the parts you can see
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how it looks here adding a some
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lines
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camera is a little bit shaky today I'm
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sorry then I'm going to take a brush
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with some watercolor paper to create my
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background I want to do the lettering on
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a background on a colorful background
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and I want to do
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it instead of coloring the page after I
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do the lettering I want to first start
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with making the background so I also
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Spritz the paper a little bit bit
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because I am using watercolors so I want
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my watercolors to flow really
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smoothly and I'm just mixing some of the
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colors directly on my
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page blues and greens and
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such I like this color
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combination okay so once that's
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completely dry we can go ahead and I can
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show you the trick for making the
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letters so when we make handwritten
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letters we want them to have a dimension
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or some kind of uh
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addition so they will look really nice
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so what I've done is I've taken two
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pencils aligned them together so
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there'll be the exact same length and
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then tie them with some masking tape
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so what will basically happen is when I
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write I'll have two lines instead of one
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because I'm using two pencils so this is
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a really neat neat trick to make a 3D
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letter like this it might take a little
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bit of practice so you just might want
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to do that just on a piece of scrap
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paper just to see how you work with this
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technique and
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I'm going to try different angles
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different designs of
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letter so the top one was large
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letters and then handwritten
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letters so you have caps and you have
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you can just play with it and
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see where the lines take you but you can
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see that you have two lines for each
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letter and that is really cool so now
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what I'm going to do is take a black
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permanent marker and go over the
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lines and then I'll have instant 3D
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letters without trying to calculate
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where the lines should
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go sometimes it's really difficult to
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know the angles of these things if you
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want to add more Dimension to your
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letters and by using those two pencils
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trick it solves your problem so then you
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can have really cool handwritten
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letters and then I'm just going to color
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in between those lines that I did with a
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pencil I think it looks really really
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cool and if you have places like on the
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E that are not clear then just go back
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to the angles on the other letters and
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then complete the
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line of course the um it's really hard
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to do with smaller letters because the
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space between the two pencils actually
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dictates how large your letter will be
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if you try to do to write small letters
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with that it will not work so well
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but after you master the idea behind it
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you can just use one pencil and then
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create the the second line
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yourself this is just a trick to start
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and
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practice so you'll get the angles
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right now that I have my letters written
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I just want to start embellishing them a
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little
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bit and this is where the doodling comes
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in so you can doodle with a black pen
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add another line add some swirls some
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letters uh not letters I'm sorry some uh
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swirls
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Doodles dots curved lines
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Etc that come out of the letters or
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surround
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them so I'm making little hearts here on
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the word lav inside the O A little swirl
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and you can just use your imagination
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to add details to each of the letters
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and that will liven up the entire
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thing so I'm adding some embellishments
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little drawings little Doodles of
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embellishments to the letters
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themselves
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it adds texture it adds
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interest and again if you're not
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comfortable doing it directly with a pen
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you can go ahead and do that with a
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pencil and then if you don't like it
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just erase it and start over and then
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after you're happy go over everything
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that you added with your pen and work
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with different sizes of
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tips you can work with smaller or larger
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tips and that will give you different
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line thicknesses you can make them bold
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Bolder or less bold and then that will
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also add to the interest that you add
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around each of the
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letters so now I'm just adding some
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Swirls and then introduce a new color so
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I like to work with
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white and then the white dots lines and
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other details can go on the black and
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that will look really
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pretty so again adding some lines some
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arches some
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dots some sections that are colored you
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can simply add whatever details that you
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want on each of the letters
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so I'm adding little hearts on the
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letter itself opposite the black little
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hearts these ones are
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white adding swirls on the
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letter
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itself of course you don't have to work
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with white you can use other colors if
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you
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want it's up to you what color scheme
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you want
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to to
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do just add some
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lines that enriches each of the letters
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and that the lettering becomes the art
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as
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well okay so I'm just going to add a few
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more details and then I think think I
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want to add a little bit more color to
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the background so remember we used a
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permanent pen all the pens that we used
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here need to be permanent because you
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can always add things later if your pens
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are permanent for example I want to add
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a little bit of color with some more
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watercolors and if my pens were not
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permanent everything would smear
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completely but since they're permanent
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I'm not afraid to add add a little bit
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more color
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here so I'm just going to add some
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purples I think
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they again you can add any type of
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embellishments that you want at this
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point you can add stickers you can add
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stenciling stamping again use permanent
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inks or permanent markers or whatever
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material you use try to make it
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permanent you can also do this with
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acrylic paint if you
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want I'm just coloring between the
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letters and adding a little bit more
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color that will really blend
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with the blues and the greens that are
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already there and watercolor really
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Blends well
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so of course the watercolor is not
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permanent so it reacts with the previous
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layer of watercolors that is there and
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that's why I can add it later and it
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will blend really
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pretty when it's
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dry I think it looks really cool and of
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course you can use whatever text you
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want for
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your project it can be a quote it can be
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lyrics it can be a verse from the Bible
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it can be whatever you
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want to add or or even just to
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practice so please don't forget to
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like this
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one I really like doodling so for me
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doodling letters is part of the doodling
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process and this is just a way to teach
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you how to add your handwriting to your
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projects whether they'll be ar journal
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pages
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cards
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planner mixed media projects
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scrapbooking pages anything so I'm also
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adding a little bit of paint to the
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doodling in the
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frame just to tie everything
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together and I think it looks really
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really pretty I'm turning the page
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because I have a tendency to smear
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everything so it just want to make sure
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that I don't do this this don't do it
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this
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time make sure that I work outside of
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the frame and not on the
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frame let's add a little bit of color
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here as
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well and I
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think I can almost call it
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finished so I really hope you like this
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tutorial and that you give this
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technique a chance this trick with the
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two pencils is really fun and
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easy just try it so thank you very much
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for joining me and I will see you next
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time
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