Presents techniques, ideas, and exercises for original doodles made with materials such as paint, markers, and gel pens. Seventeen contributors share inventive prompts to jumpstart and expand your inspiration for drawing abstract designs and doodles.

"A fearless guide to awakening your mind using simple visual language What do Einstein, Edison, Richard Feynman, Henry Ford, and JFK have in common? Like virtually all heavy-hitting thinkers, they looked beyond just words and numbers to get intellectual and creative insights. They actively applied a deceptively simple tool to think both smarter and faster: the doodle. And so can the rest of us-zero artistic talent required. Visual thinking expert...

Shares instructions for and examples of the meditative drawing style.

"Penny and her friends find an old map that takes them on a search through their town for hidden treasure"--

"Drew never meant for this to happen. She didn't mean for her doodle Mike to steal the centuries-old hat. She also didn't mean for another doodle, Levi, to steal the centuries-old baby (when he was supposed to be returning the coveted hat!). And she definitely didn't mean to send the Art Institute of Chicago into a downward spiral of art-on-art combat. She just wanted to fix a simple mistake! Now everything's gone wrong, and it's mayhem at the museum....