36 Doodle and sketch styles
Pencil, ink, marker and line-art styles, from loose notebook doodles to careful technical drawing. The largest category in the library, and the quickest way to make an image feel hand-made.
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Simple Hand-Drawn Doodle
Minimal 2D hand-drawn doodle: simplified, rounded shapes, light and gentle lines, very low detail and a naive, playful charm.
Café Pen Sketch
Light on-location pen sketch: quick, airy ink lines with loose, elongated figures and buildings, touched with transparent watercolour washes that do not fill every shape.
Colored Pencil Diary
Colored-pencil diary drawing: soft pencil outlines and light, layered colored-pencil shading with visible strokes and the tooth of the paper showing through.
Notebook Doodle
Notebook doodle look: small, simple figures and cute icons drawn with a fine pen, decorated with little hand-drawn arrows, stars, sticker shapes and tape-like strips.
Creamy Pastel Doodle
Creamy pastel doodle: a cream-white ground with soft pink, butter yellow and mint green, drawn with rounded, smooth brown or charcoal lines of even weight.
Watercolor Life Notes
Delicate illustration in fine black pen lines with soft, loose watercolour washes dropped in here and there.
Soft Lifestyle Doodle
Soft lifestyle doodle: thin, gentle lines, cream and soft pastel colours, and young, relaxed figures in everyday moments.
One-Line Figures
One-line drawing: each figure is a single continuous line with almost no structure, drawn in a modern, minimal and fashionable way.
Ink + Spot Color
Black ink drawing as the main structure, with one single flat spot colour for emphasis.
Black Line, Red Accent
Editorial illustration in fine black lines on white, with a single red accent used sparingly to draw the eye.
Visual Pun Editorial
Minimal conceptual editorial illustration built on one visual idea: everyday objects reinterpreted, two meanings sharing a single shape.
Deadpan Doodle
Loose, slightly wobbly black ink lines on a plain white ground, with only a few small spots of flat colour.
Continuous-Line Concept
Witty conceptual line drawing made almost entirely from one unbroken pen line that wanders, loops and turns into figures, objects and the space around them.
Tiny Figures, Big City
Gentle urban humour drawn in extremely fine, slightly shaky pen lines: tiny people placed inside a vast street, park, rooftop or interior that fills the picture.
Soft Relationship Line Art
Minimal editorial line drawing about people and their relationships: figures reduced to clean contour lines, simple eyes and mouths and a few key shapes, often touching, leaning or reaching toward each other.
Flat Lifestyle Illustration
Relaxed everyday-life illustration with soft, slightly fluffy hand-drawn lines and flat fills of muted, earthy pastel colour.
Quiet Low-Saturation Editorial
Calm, flat editorial illustration with soft, low-saturation colour in sage, sand, dusty blue and pale pink.
Minimal Fashion Line
Minimal fashion line drawing: crisp, even black lines on a large white ground, no shading and no fill.
Cool Black & White Figure
Cool, minimal black-and-white figure drawing: clean outlines, solid black areas for hair or clothing, and expressionless faces built from tiny dots and lines.
Fashion Diary Sketch
Modern lifestyle diary sketch: confident, slightly uneven pen lines with visible pressure, sleek flat silhouettes for clothing, and relaxed figures with natural, casual poses.
Minimal Daily Line
Minimal everyday line drawing: thin, even lines, very simplified faces, and clothing defined by clean silhouettes, with only a few key shapes for recognisability.
Alcohol Marker Pastel
Smooth alcohol-marker illustration: overlapping translucent marker layers that build soft candy colours of pink, mint, lilac and peach, with visible stroke direction on bright white paper.
Loose Ink Sketch
Fast, improvised ink drawing: unstable pen pressure, broken and overlapping lines, quick gestures caught in a few strokes.
Crayon Editorial
Grown-up editorial illustration drawn in thick, waxy crayon: chunky grainy strokes, colour that runs over the lines and bold childlike shapes.
Dry-Brush Editorial
Mature editorial illustration in dry-brush strokes: broken, scratchy paint marks dragged across rough paper so the grain shows through.
Indie Zine Drawing
Rough indie-zine drawing done with a felt-tip pen: deliberately unprofessional lines, crooked shapes and hand-scrawled details.
Naive Folk Cartoon
Naive folk cartoon with wonky perspective, odd proportions and direct, unblended colour blocks.
Charmingly Clumsy
Charmingly clumsy drawing that looks "badly drawn but great": rough proportions, uneven lines, strange faces and colours slapped on with confidence.
Deliberately Bad Doodle
Intentionally clumsy doodle with thick, wobbly black marker lines, lopsided proportions and childish shapes, drawn with total confidence.
Stick Figure Cartoon
True stick-figure cartoon: a small round head about a quarter of the body height, and neck, torso, arms and legs each drawn as a single thin black line, bending sharply at shoulders, elbows and knees.
Victorian Gothic Crosshatch
Black-and-white pen drawing with dense, patient crosshatching and fine parallel lines, like an old engraved book plate.
Modern Ink-Brush Cartoon
Contemporary ink-brush cartoon: quick, loose brush strokes of uneven thickness, with dry and wet ink, broken strokes and open outlines.
Mid-Century Ink Mascot
Mid-century editorial ink drawing: black-and-white lines, tall slender bodies in grown-up clothes, small heads, deadpan faces and dry wit.
Graphite Pencil Realism
Realistic graphite pencil drawing: careful tonal shading from soft greys to deep blacks, fine directional hatching, smudged blending and crisp highlights picked out with an eraser.
Charcoal Drawing
Expressive charcoal drawing on textured paper: bold, smudgy strokes, rich velvety blacks, soft blended mid-tones and lifted highlights.
Coloring Page
Clean coloring-book page: crisp, closed black outlines of even weight on pure white, with no colour, no grey and no shading at all.