Girl Plus Pen: Doodle, Draw, Color, and Express Your Individual Style

by Stephanie Corfee

In this addition to the Craft It Yourself set, designer and artist Stephanie Corfee will inspire you to create one-of-a-kind doodle drawings that are fresh, fun, and express your unique sense of style.  Doodle everything from simple swirls, swooshes, and scallops to intricate and detailed designs that you can give as gifts or hang on your wall. Work on lettering and word art, plus decorative doodles perfect for prettifying just about anything. Be inspired to use your doodling skills on everything from paper and pebbles to scarves and snapshots.  Packed with step-by-step instructions, artistic prompts, and helpful tips, this book will help any artist's pen move and creativity flow — important steps on the way to discovering your own unique, artistic voice. All you need to start is your creativity . . . plus a pen.

Genres: Nonfiction

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2016

Reviews

[Stephanie (Reading is Better With Cupcakes) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am pretty much in love with Girl Plus Pen. How could I not be? It is beautiful. Just look at that cover! The gorgeousness that you see there continues throughout the book.

It really is an awe inspiring book. It is also a great book for creative inspiration.

Girl Plus Pen shows you a lot of the ins and outs of being creative with the use of simple doodles and drawings. It gives you tips and tricks to help you develop your own style. It has blank spaces for you to practice the techniques it aims to teach you. Though I personally will be using other paper/sketchpads to practice these so that I can do it over and over again. You don't have to do that though. That is just my weird way with books like this.

I also really like the lessons on how to do pretty lettering. I have been working on lettering here and there myself, so I am really looking forward to working on these lessons and ideas!

What's even better is this book gives you ideas on how you can take these doodles and drawings of yours and take them beyond paper!

Girl Plus Pen is marketed towards preteens and teens, but don't let that keep you from getting your hands on this gorgeous book! It is perfect for those outside of the "intended" age bracket as well as for those within it!

This review is based on an ARC copy provided by the publisher through a giveaway I entered and won.

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[Tia Garrigues · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful Book but not great Digitally

This book is meant to be hands on. It is so fun and interesting- all the doodle ideas are well done. But I can't doodle onto the book digitally and I wouldn't want to. Many of the activities are designed to be completed or tried out and that cannot be done this way.

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'M NOT AS ARTISTICALLY INCLINED AS I'D LIKE TO BELIEVE I AM.

I try, but there are millions of people out there that are better at drawing than I am. Still, when I received Girl Plus Pen in the mail, I was beyond excited to play with the book.

I really liked that the book's focus was all about doodling. Sure, some of the author/artist's doodles were better than some of my finished works are, but the over emphasis being on these quick, for fun drawings really kept the whole vibe of the book low pressure.

I could open a page, get in the zone, and let life's pressures pass me by while I was having fun.

During my high school career, I was a professional doodler. (Seriously, you should have seen my notebooks. I kept my favorite designs and saved them in a sketchbook which I still have.) I was in a lot less challenging classes than I should have been in, so I got bored a lot. And I doodled my classes away.

Working on the exercises in Girl Plus Pen was a bit like coming home in that regard. It was all about what random designs and fun patterns I could come up with rather than what proportions and lifelike details I messed up on.

If I had a young child who was interested in for fun drawing, I'd certainly pick up a copy of this book for him/her.