Cute doodles are one of the best ways to personalise a bullet journal spread to make it your own. With this bumper list of inspiration and more than 100 step by step bujo doodle tutorials, you can truly get creative and bring your planner pages to life – absolutely free!
Why You Should Fill Your Bullet Journal With Cute Doodles
If you have a journal then filling it with cute and easy doodles is well worth spending a little time on – but not only because it is a great way to personalise your bullet journal with beautiful design elements. Here are some of the benefits of doodling and why it’s something to invest some time in:
- Anyone can do it! You don’t need the talent or drawing skills of famous artists to dabble in doodling and get something out of it.
- Doodling is a fantastic creative outlet!
- With a little guidance (like the below tutorials), doodling is accessible to even the most novice artist – and it’s quick and easy to improve!
- The easiest doodles are sometimes even the most effective and make a huge impact visually!
- It’s a great form of mindfulness for daily life. We know adult colouring is having a moment, and here’s why (hint: it has positive effects for your mental health)!
- It’s another dimension to your journal, to help hold your interest.
- And, of course, it will make your journal pretty.
What Are Journal Doodles?
Journal doodles are all the artistic borders and cute little illustrations you find filling the empty spaces within a bullet journal weekly spread or for decorating a monthly cover page.
Doodling is a great mindfulness exercise and be used to promote relaxation and wellbeing.
Doodles are intended to be simple drawings that are quick and easy things to create – and there are lots of little tips that can help streamline the process and make them fast and super effective!
And you don’t need an ‘art journal’ to get into doodling either.
Cute doodling is brilliant for anyone just starting out with an interest in drawing, or for those who enjoy creating quick, pretty pictures to personalise their journal with their favorite things and make it truly unique and fabulous!
It’s also a great mindfulness exercise and can be used to promote relaxation and wellbeing.
The Best Doodle Pens and Doodle Supplies
Before you start personalising your own journal with fancy washi tapes, cute illustrations and borders, you need to gather some art and doodle supplies, and I’m going to walk you through some of the best things to get you started.
You can of course start with just a basic pencil, but if you choose to make this a new hobby, you may want to invest in a few different materials to help you create different colors and effects.
These are some of the best journaling pens and doodling pencils I recommend from my own favorite bullet journal supplies to help make your drawings as easy and beautiful as possible…
1. Fine Tip Drawing Pens
These high quality pens are ideal for doodling as they offer a variety of different sizes of nibs and colours. The thinnest of the black pens is 0.25mm – perfect for drawing intricate details and a great way to achieve very precise thin lines. They’re also waterproof and fade-resistant and possibly the best pens around for doodling.
Micron black fine tip pens
Micron coloured fine tip pens
2. Metallic Pens and Glitter Pens
These are fab if you’re looking for an easy way to add bold metallic or sparkly colour to your illustrations.
Available in a medium nib (2.5mm) in a range or metallic colours, or fine (1.5mm) for sparkling colours, the ink of these pens can smudge when wet, so you need to take extra care when drawing with these. However the results look awesome!
Uni Posca medium metallic pens
Posca fine sparkling pens
3. Tombow Dual Brush Pens
These are gorgeous pastel colours, but they have other options available too. They’re ideal for blending to create watercolour style illustrations, with the fine tip perfect for detail, and the brush tip useful for thick lines and colouring larger areas.
Tombow pastel dual brush pens
4. Colouring Pencils
If you’re looking for a superior set of pencils which offer vivid pigment and blend well, you won’t beat these professional artist’s pencils.
Faber Castell Artists’ Colouring Pencils
5. White Paint Pen
A white paint pen is a great idea when you become invested in journaling – when you start to get a little bit more serious about doodling, you’ll definitely want to invest in a white pen.
An empty space should be inviting.
Firstly, because doodling white on black is so bold and beautiful! And secondly because it can help you to achieve highlight effects in your drawings (and fonts).
Posca White Paint Marker
Once you have your materials ready, all that remains is to open your notebook or journal and get creative! Of course it’s not always quite that simple:
An empty white (or black!) space can be daunting; instead it should be inviting. That’s where this post comes in.
Great Inspiration For Cute Bullet Journal Doodles!
Seeing all the beautiful bullet journal headers, weekly spreads, and doodle designs on social media such as Instagram can be both inspiring, and…perhaps a little overwhelming.
But really all that’s needed is a tiny bit of direction and technical know-how, and you’ll easily be able to replicate your favourites, and have so much fun in the process!
The best way is to choose some cute doodle ideas you love, find a simple tutorial (I more than likely have you covered below!) and then take a leap of faith and just practice doodling. You can even have a practice doodle page in your journal if you want to build up your confidence before committing to regular journal pages.
Included in this post are an enormous variety of creative ideas, incorporating both complex and simple doodles to take your journal to the next level. So, whether you prefer to stick to a theme in your journal, or change things up according to the season, there’s sure to be a range of ideas to suit your personal tastes.
Themes and Seasonal Doodle Prompts
More than 100 different bullet journal doodle ideas and tutorials to help you create intricate borders and cute drawings.
You’ll find at least one bullet journal doodle (and in most cases lots!) for the following themes of cute things:
- Cute easy doodle ideas for dividers
- Easy doodles of floral borders
- Simple doodling of stationery
- Cute doodles of flora
- Simple doodles of weather
- Easy doodle drawings of cute animals
- Cute doodles of mythical creatures
- Travel and lifestyle inspired cute doodles
- Seasonal inspired easy doodling
- Cute doodles of food
- Celestial inspired simple doodles
100+ Cute and Easy Doodle Ideas For Your Bullet Journal
Are you ready to get inspired and learn how to look like a pro when it comes to the bullet journal element of creativity and artistic flair?
Here are more than 100 different ways to bring your bullet journal spreads and monthly cover pages to life. You’ll find a selection of step instructions and easy tutorials to help you create intricate borders and cute drawings.
Bullet Journal Border Designs and Abstract Doodles
Cute Doodles of Floral Frames and Botanical Page Dividers For Your Bullet Journal
Why not try a gorgeous floral frame using divider ideas from below?
Cute Easy Doodles For Your Bullet Journal
All of these step doodle tutorials are entirely possible for everyone to reproduce in their journal – they’re simple but effective, and the easy step by step directions make them so simple to copy, for budding artists and hobbyists alike.
If you’ve read my post about bujo fonts, you’ll know that I also encourage children to try their hand if it’s something that interests them – and these cute and fun doodles are perfect for motivating them!
Stationery Bujo Simple Doodling
Step Guides For Floral Doodles For Your Bullet Journal
Why not try a step by step guide from below to recreate gorgeous bullet journal flower doodles?
Cute Flower Doodles
How to draw cute rosebud doodles:
How to draw rose doodles:
How to draw a simple doodle of a tulip:
How to draw sunflower doodles:
How to draw poppy doodles:
How to draw a peony:
How to draw a dandelion:
How to draw lavender doodles:
Cute and Easy Doodles of Trees
How to draw a palm tree doodle:
How to draw a Christmas tree doodle:
Easy Doodles of Leaves
How to draw a four leaf clover doodle:
How to draw fall doodles and autumn leaf doodles:
How to draw a tropical leaf doodle:
Easy Tutorial For Cacti Doodles
Simple Doodles of Cute Toadstools
Easy Weather Doodles
Why not try a simple bullet journal doodle inspired by the weather?
How to draw sun doodles:
So effective in bright yellow!
How to draw cloud doodles:
How to Draw Cute Animal Doodles
How to draw bug doodles:
How to draw a cute easy doodle of a lady bug:
How to draw a simple doodle of a rabbit:
How to draw a cat doodle:
How to draw dog doodles:
Cute and Easy Doodle Examples of Zoo Animals
How to draw a giraffe doodle:
How to draw an elephant doodle:
How to draw a monkey doodle:
Cute Simple Doodles of Birds
How to draw a robin doodle:
How to draw butterfly doodles:
How to draw an owl doodle:
Simple Doodling of Feathers
Cute Easy Doodles of Sea Creatures
How to draw jellyfish doodles:
How to draw seal doodles:
How to draw a seahorse doodle:
How to draw a dolphin doodle:
How to draw a whale doodle:
How to draw starfish doodles:
How to draw shell doodles:
Easy Bujo Doodles of Mythical and Magical Creatures
How to draw unicorn doodles:
How to draw dragon doodles:
How to draw fairy doodles:
How to draw mermaid doodles:
Lifestyle and Travel Inspired Cute Doodles For Your Bullet Journal
How to draw travel doodles:
How to draw holiday / vacation doodles:
How to paint a watercolour sunglasses doodle:
How to draw a camera doodle:
How to draw a suitcase doodle:
How to draw a globe doodle:
How to draw hot air balloons:
How to paint a watercolour cocktail doodle:
Cute Seasonsal Bujo Doodles
How to draw Easter doodles in simple steps:
How to draw Halloween doodles:
How to draw awesome doodles for your Christmas themed spreads:
Easy Food Doodles For Your Bullet Journal Notebook
How to draw fruit doodles:
How to paint a watercolour avocado:
How to draw a cupcake doodle:
How to draw ice cream doodles:
How to draw fast food:
Cutest Doodles of Drinks For Your Bujo
How to draw tea and coffee doodles:
Simple Celestial Bullet Journal Doodles
Sunset Doodles
Moon Doodles
Galaxy Doodles
There you have it – more than 100 different step tutorial ideas to help you develop your own doodle style and get you doodling like a pro. A fantastic way to fully customise your own journals and really make them a thing of beauty!