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Doodle Bufonidae


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Page Summary

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class
sketchbook
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type
mixed-media
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status
active

05-05-2026 at 12:22 pm

Summary: This page is the main workbook page for my doodle book “Doodle Bufonidae.” Here, you’ll find ideas, thoughts, and experiences as I work through this project. I talk more about this inception of this project in my Doodle Anura blog post.

Image by Jürgen from Pixabay. I edited it in GIMP to be a little longer.

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🏜️ journal mascot · family bufonidae
Western Toad
Anaxyrus boreas, "northern" + "dull brown"
🏔️ native to the west ✧ dry skin and warty 🐛 eats beetles and ants
⛰️ animal notes
Dorsal stripe that’s white or cream. Has parotoid glands (oval, widely separated). No cranial crests. Breeds March thru July in mountains, as early as January at lower elevations. Lays up to 17,000 eggs in strings. Hibernates over winter. Can survive in 40% seawater. Lives 10+ years in wild.
I used to see these frogs a lot as a kid and I think they’re a good local mascot for my doodle book.

Doodle Toad


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Purpose

This sketchbook is a celebration of my abstract and doodle art, which is the foundation of my entire art practice. When I doubted my realism, I had my doodles, and now that I have advanced my realism skills, I can advance my doodles.

Structure

Sketchbook Goals

Sketchbook Rules

List Of Stuff I Like Drawing or Using

(Also a list of art block breakers!)

Subject Description
Ink Dropper I like using the ink dropper to draw and splatter. Makes interesting shapes.
Stratified Layering A very nice technique to sooth the mind.
Doodle Pattern Library Ideas for when I need them of my doodles.
Bricks I like drawing bricks. And stone. And plants to juxtapose it.
Patterns Just fun to have patterns. Visually nice.
Zentangling A classic.
Plants and Flowers Some of my favorite stuff to draw.
Abstract Realism I like scribbing random lines using pens and markers (and the ink droppers) on the page and then finding realistic images within the scribbles.
Contrast Love having contrast in color, shape, size, everything.
Meditative Practices I like relaxing to things like maing repetative marks or patterns on a page. Like the same shape over and over, or in using colored pencils to make gradients, or using acrylic markers to make cool swooping shapes.

Index of Art

This is a way for me to list out all the pages I’ve completed in a table of contents while also counting the amount of supplies I’ve used.

✵ Stats ✵

Page Name Material Count

Creative Workbook


Ideas

Strikethrough indicates idea is officially planned as a spread.

  • Torn pages.
  • Yin Yang related
  • The original flower doodles “Flower Power”
  • Stratified layering in colored pencil (but like the phoenix)
  • Gellyroll (06) doodles
  • A maze
  • That alien looking design
  • Actual Zentangle piece
  • Using the dropper as the only source of drawing
  • Using my glass dip pen to do my confetti doodles
  • Lungs that are doodled on one side and mystic and colorful
  • Something like this with paint randomly done in abstract flowers and reverse color them.
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Description

Size: Letter (8.5 x 11)
Started: 04/22/26
Finished: In-Progress

A book of doodles and abstract art, experiments and fun.

Process Notes

Progress Notes

Completion Notes

Pages & Planning

Table of Contents

# Title Description & Planning Inspo
Bee Plus
Glitch in the System
Watch
Focus Fleshy, alien-esque wall of undulating folds. Dozens of eyes with various pupils (human, cat, lizard) looking in different directions. Bright saturated colors.
Diatomaceous Earth A mix of organic and geometric shapes filled with designs and patterns. The shapes are about the same size and about the same line weight to have a uniform look while still feeling like a large mix of confetti. The “confetti doodles.”
Chromatic Glass 0.6in art tape on page to make random shapes. I used about 9 strips of tape. I sketched out the shapes made. I repeated this process with a second layer of tape in a different pattern. End result looks like shattered glass.
Who Stratified Layering technique that curves into a spiral, reflected on both sides. Raccoon
Spires
Acid Trip
XXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX
NEW IDEA: ADHD is the chaos and I have to work between the ADHD lines in order to function, like if anxiety is molten lava in the cracks of my brain, then productivity and executive function are the ordered patterns in the cracks of chaotic ones!
Fractured Ink stems with fine liner leaves and foilage and stuff.
Abstract leaves in acrylic marker. Possibly with flowers.
Unfocus Soft crayon gradients blended seamlessly across both pages. Soft shapes and colors.
Bendable Twisted ribbons starting lower left moving to upper right. Various sizes, colors, directions, intertwining. White background.
Wired String doodles and geometric doodles combined to look like a big knot of cables held in place and surrounded by strands of doodles.
Doodlemorph Gradient from organic/floral doodles (lower left) to geometric/angular doodles (upper right). Seamless transition with hybrid forms in middle. Black fineliner only.
Cracked Thick cracked cobblestone lines in India ink. Cracks inlaid with gold and red ink/acrylic markers. Blank "rock" spaces filled with confetti doodles.
Old Growth My old “flower power” doodles but with the skills I have now. Possibly using my glass dip pen specifically.
Mandala A fine liner mandala.
Tetris Blocks of acrylic marker with patterns or something like that. Maybe buildings. Doodle Town
Tangled Classic, old school zentangling patterns.
Faceted Geometric India ink lines shaped like cracked glass filled with patterns done in acrylic pens.
Undone Black gesso painted over whole spread. White gel pen for bottom left corner and as it goes up towards the upper right corner, the doodles transform from gel pen to dip pen to dropper, creating an effect of the doodles coming undone.
No Exaggeration Brown eyes (my eyes) in the center with a perspective tunnel of boxes all painted with different things (mostly patterns).
Candy Wrapper Confetti Doodle Confetti but all shapes are candy-related (wrappers, gumdrops, lollipop swirls, chocolate squares). Bright colors either colored in or the doodles themselves.
Asthma The two pages of the spread are each a lung (left page = left lung). Trachea in the middle and realistic. One side is confetti doodles, other side is some sort of colorful chaos.
Grounded Realistic tree trunk and branches above soil line. Below soil, roots transition from realistic to confetti doodles.
Explosive Splattered and gestural black acrylic ink with contrasting color and white. Paint some gold stuff on it.
Multiple, black acrylic ink lines from each edge creating distorted checkerboard. Don’t know what else to do with this.
Black gesso on left, of page white gesso on right. Gellyroll pens of the same colors on both sides making circles with swirls in them cover the page like the very first types of doodles I used to do. Don’t know what colors.
An entire pattern made of metallic doodles (acrylic marker). Don’t know what pattern.
The supplies drawn on the front page but now empty and used.
Geological cross-section with horizontal layers in different media and patterns. Irregular like real rock strata. Each layer represents a different "part" of self. Black and white doodles and patterns at the bottom, color slowly added by top.
A disorienting maze. Outlined in fineliner, colored with colored pencil and/or acrylic markers. The maze has the follow properties:
• Paths that change size from broad to narrow, or random curves.
• Random traps
• “Some of the arrows lie”