HOW TO: Mirror Doodle!

Here’s one of my favorite surprise DOODLE techniques:


Sometimes when I’m doodling, & I’m looking for new ideas or a little extra surprise

I doodle PART of a shape at the very EDGE of the page…

Then I hold the page up to a small mirror to complete the shape:

(For some reason, this always feels like a moment of discovery.)


It gets interesting when I add some other shapes & details to my half-doodle…

(INSERT YOUR FAVORITE DOODLE STYLES HERE.)

The mirrored results are always surprising & fun to “unfold.”

MORE: How to UNFOLD Your Mirror-Doodle >>


It gets even MORE interesting when I draw 1/4 of a shape in the CORNER of the page;

Now my small mirror can unfold only 1/2 the shape at once…

To complete the unfolding, I hold my page + small mirror together up to a 2nd larger mirror — Revealing a gigantic, unplanned world of doodle-ideas!

Mirror Doodle Gallery:

What will these doodles look like unfolded?

Mirror Doodle in Action:


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Published by Marek

Cartoonist, musician, teacher.

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