Cute doodles but I found myself wanting more... Overall, a good book! Thank you NetGalley for a copy in exchange for an honest review.

A very fun book to exercise your artist side. Even if you don't think you have one! Especially helpful for stress relief!

'The Art of Doodle Words: Turn Your Everyday Doodles in Cute Hand Lettering! by Sarah Alberto is an approachable how to book to teach art.

Starting with some of the tools, then moves into some foundational lettering styles that will be used in the latter half of the book. Part two is the doodle words themselves. Layouts are shown and how the doodles build on the words. Then color is added and the reader is encouraged to take their turn.

Reading this straight through feels a bit repetitive, but that's not really the point of a book like this. The point is to provide instruction and inspiration and this book certainly does that.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Quarto Publishing Group-Race Point Publishing, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

“The art of Doodle Words” is an inventive, amusing look into a playful art style: Sarah Alberto’s “doodle words” are hand-lettered art pieces which incorporate fun pictorial imagery into the construction of a hand-lettered word or phrase. For example, the word “tools” can be spelled out with different types of tools, or a line of cursive may be incorporated into a larger drawing.

The introduction walks the reader through the basics of creating doodle art (including some suggestions for brain-storming and laying out a specific design), while the first part of the book gives numerous examples of different letter form styles: basic handwriting, a few script examples, bubble letters, block letters, and several other styles to give lots of variety and options to the imaginative artist. Different letter styles are offered side-by-side with numerous examples of phrases rendered in that style.

Part Two of “The art of Doodle Words” contains numerous examples of fully doodled words, each example broken down in a step-by-step process so that the artist can follow along and practice creating them. Many of the examples would make good signage for parties or invitations, and fuel the imagination for more. Creative children may enjoy this book especially, as doodle words can work with any skill level and level of creativity; it could also add playfulness to any journaling or scrap-booking practice.

This isn’t a book that teaches fancy hand-lettering or calligraphy, but if you’re drawn to learn Alberto’s playful style of typography, you’ll doubtless find many uses for this technique, and have a lot of fun learning and experimenting along the way. “The art of Doodle Words” doesn’t teach anything besides this very specific style, but the style is one that has an infinite capacity for variety and experimentation — certainly a great tool for any hand-lettering or crafting enthusiast!
by Sarah McMenomy of PaganPages.org
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Easy to follow step by step colorful guide that teaches you how to draw doodle words.

Main sections are Basic techniques, Doodle letters and Doodle words (the core section).

Thank you Sarah Alberto for making my boring meeting notes come alive. I can't say it makes my meetings better, but my doodle game is getting a glow up.

I kept thinking of my fifth grade teacher when I read this. She had the prettiest handwriting and created these cool, hand drawn charts and lists using what I now understand to be doodle words. I thought this was a lot of fun and I can't wait to try out some of the ideas. Recommended to young artists, although adults would find inspiration here also.

The ideas in this book are very creative and fun. You will learn about making doodle words in an artful way. I've always enjoyed doing this, but this books helps turn it up a notch. The ideas here are so cute with great examples with helpful instructions.

I wish I was more gifted in drawing and doodling, so I requested this book and downloaded it to get some help. I have to say, this book is so darn cute and actually really helpful. What I most enjoyed is that this book doesn't make you feel bad for not being the best and has a really laidback approach to instruction. This is definitely a book that I want a hard copy of just to go back through and try to learn more from.

Colorful and fun book. Interesting and entertaining to learn fun ways to doodle. Would recommend for anyone interested in drawing or fun ways to doodle!

Thank netgally, the author for an Advanced Copy of this book. I really enjoyed this book. It's well worth reading

3 stars
I enjoy calligraphy and fonts. The Art of Doodle Words seems to be for a younger audience - basically making letters into the shape of a word - like having the word "Pizza" in a slice shape with some pepperonis on top.

Many clever ideas, including the basics of pens and markers. Younger teens might enjoy using this in their currently trendy journals/ day planners.

Note: I received an Advance Reading Copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review.

Like many I am gripped by the bullet journal craze. I have always had notebooks, I find writing my thoughts down helps me clear my head and organize. I’m inspired by the beautiful spreads people post online. However, I have to admit, I am nowhere near that creative and don’t think I can be.

But, the book The Art of Doodle Words: Turn Your Everyday Doodles into Cute Hand Lettering! by Sarah Alberto turned up on NetGalley and I couldn’t resist. Who knows, maybe even I can do it. After a short introduction about tools, the book slowly starts teaching doodle words. It starts with a few simple alphabets with some examples on how to make variations on these examples. There is also inspiration on how to make gorgeous words with these alphabets. After that Alberto shows lots of examples of doodle words step by step so simple that even I can do it.

This is a fun book that really invites you to get creative yourself. After working through the examples I feel confident in designing some of my own doodles, and I have lots of inspiration for my own nice spreads in my journals.

This is a fun book for kids and teens who'd like to learn how to make doodle word pictures. I was hoping for something more grown up and sophisticated to use to make my own calligraphy artwork (like phrases or lines of poetry written as art) and this is not that kind of book, but it should be great for the younger crowd. There are a few simple fonts given and then the bulk of the book gives instructions on how to make doodle pictures for words like bacon, octopus, flamingo, cat, etc. (making doodles of these things part of the word).

I viewed a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

I stumbled across Sarah on Instagram several years ago and immediately started following her there and on YouTube. She has some videos of doodles with circles that caught the attention of my daughter and I. One was Disney Princesses and the other was Harry Potter characters. We’ve been huge fans ever since.

The Art of Doodle Words is a fantastic book. It’s full of numerous, creative ideas. The instructions are easy to follow and come with a visual as well as a detailed description. The book begins with a sweet intro, then briefly suggests preferred tools and basic techniques. It’s then broken down into two part. Part one is all about the different types of doodle letters. Block, Bubble, Overlapping, Pillar and Serif are just a few that are included. It gives you the full alphabet, then shows some inspiration on how you can use that type of lettering to create words. Part two is all about fun doodle words. Here you will find how to spell the word dog using bones and a paw print or how to include lettering with cute doodles to spell fun sayings. There are several fun tutorials to try out.

I think this would make a fantastic gift for anyone interested in hand lettering or bullet journaling. It’s definitely easy enough for preteens to understand as well!! I will definitely order a copy to add to our drawing tutorials.

Thank you, NetGalley for the preview of this digital ARC.

This book is a beginner doodler's dream come true. I cannot tell you how much I loved it! I wanted to try everything all at once.

This book has really neat ideas on how to make learning the alphabet and learning to spell words fun for kids. For example take the word condiments and draw jars to put the letters in and then color them in. I would use this book to teach my kids the alphabet and all the different ways we can write or draw the letters and words.

The book is split into two parts Doodle Letters and Doodle Words.

The first part looks at different types of handwriting and lettering and the second part is called Doodle Words where specific words are illustrated to look like the subject.

Sarah states in the introduction that she finds calligraphy frustrating because it is a very sophisticated form of writing. She went on to find her own way of less formal lettering and her doodles are so popular she features them on her YouTube channel.
She points out that journal stickers and stamps can be expensive, so this is a great way to make a journal or planner look more attractive, and all you need is a pen!

This would make a great gift for anyone starting out in journaling, bloggers who want to make their own eye-catching graphics or creative people who need a little inspiration.

I picked this up because I thought my daughter and I might like it together. I can't say how I feel about it because I never got a chance! My nine year old immediately grabbed the iPad and started doodling on her own with it. So, that's a rave from me!

The design is clear and uncluttered, and the step-by-step drawings are inviting and not at all intimidating. I'm not much of a doodler, but I hope to try a handful of them this holiday weekend.

There are lots of really cute ideas in this book for turning words into doodles. I also really like the different kind of alphabets that were in the beginning of the book. I think the hardest thing is for someone who is not very artistic to recreate some of these because the directions are not very detailed. For example, for the word books, it just tells you to "turn the rectangles into 3D shapes" but there are no other directions for how to do that or step by step pictures/hints like I've seen in other drawing books.