Doodling can be very therapeutic and relaxing. Why? Because it can help get you out of your thoughts and into the present moment. It also sparks creativity while being super accessible – you don’t need to be an artist or have any drawing skills to doodle. Let’s take a look at flower doodles. In this article, I’ll show you 10 beautiful yet simple types of flower to doodles to draw, what they are, and some helpful benefits of doodling flowers.

Let’s get into it!

What Are Flower Doodles?

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Flower doodles are simple little drawings of flowers most often created with pen or ink but you can use any material you like. The point is to keep them quick and simple.

A good starting point is anything less than 10-15 minutes.

Another tip is that flower doodles are mostly uncolored. This is due to their nature of being quick little drawings and sketches, rather than finished pieces.

But, you can always color them in if you’d like!

Now let’s take a look at some different flower doodles!

10 Beautiful Yet Simple Types of Flower Doodles (To Draw)

Materials: A black pen – preferably a 0.5 fine liner pen/marker or a (medium) ballpoint pen and something to draw on.

For these pen flower doodles, I used a 0.5mm black Staedtler Pigment Liner pen (Amazon) on a regular sheet of copy/printer paper (8.5 x11 inches).

1. Orchid

Time: 7 Minutes

These flowers have colorful blooms with more rounded petals. This particular doodle shows a type of orchid that blooms vertically on the stem. You can see the difference in flower size from big to small, the more you travel up the stem.

Honestly, they kind of remind of the Demogorgons from Stranger Things (warning: they’re kinda scary) from their petal shape and bloom.

Tips for Doodling Orchids

• Draw the stems curved to give it gesture and weight – it’s more believable
• Focus on making the petals rounded or fat – a defining feature of orchids
• Make the leaves kinda thick and draw them at the bottom of the stem
• Draw the flower/blooms, bigger at the bottom, then make them smaller the more you travel up the stem
• Doodle in flower buds at the tip of the stem and around it

2. Carnation

Time: 7 Minutes

Carnations are beautiful flowers with a rounded silhouette / shape and have their petals folded in towards the center.

Honestly, this is one of the hardest flower doodles to draw with pen (at least for me) because there’s just so much detail going on. What I did to make this drawing simpler to still have that flower doodle aesthetic, is to simplify the petals by drawing folds in the center, then drawing the outer petals in flimsy, bent squares.

Tips for Doodling Carnations

• In the center of the carnation, draw folds using wavy lines or you can just use lines of wavy scribbles
• Doodle in the outer leaves using semi-jaggedy, floppy squares and draw them around the flower’s center
• Make the stem a little long, but thin
• Keep the stem’s leaves small and draw them using triangle shapes

3. Tulip

Time: 5 Minutes

*For a full tutorial on how to draw a tulip, click here.

Tips for Doodling Tulips

• Doodle the stem using a thin curved line(s)
• Make the bud a U-shape and draw the petals inside
• Draw wide, rounded petals
• Make the petals’ ends pointed
• Sketch long leaves that connect with each other, at the stem’s bottom

If you want to try your hand at making some gorgeous succulent doodles, check out How to Draw Pretty Succulent Doodles Easy for Beginners !

4. Lilac

Time: 5 Minutes

Tips for Doodling Lilac Flowers

• Keep the flowers bunched up – You don’t have to draw each individual flower
• Try to make the main lilac shape like a stretched triangle, with more petals and flowers at the bottom an less on top
• Individual Lilac flowers/blossoms have 4 rounded petals
• The stems are thin with 2-4 wider leaves growing from the side

5. Snapdragon

Time: 5 Minutes

Snapdragons plants kind of look like flower ‘weeds’ because of their long, thin shape.

They’re made of bunches of petals, decreasing in size from the bottom, up.

They can seem intimidating to doodle but the image below shows otherwise. Just focus on layering the flowers on top of each other.

You can doodle snapdragons by using a pen or make a silhouette (like the drawing on the left) by using a thick marker and “implying detail” in the shapes of petals.

Tips for Doodling Snapdragon Plants

• Make the stem curved, long, and thin
• Draw the snapdragon petals round and short then stack the blooms on top of each other, making them smaller the higher up the stem you draw
• Make the leaves fuller and bigger at the stem’s bottom end
• You can even draw a thin vine around the lower stem with smaller leaves and petals

6. Rose

Time: 5-7 Minutes

Roses are extremely popular, gorgeous to look at, and come in a wide variety of colors. Plus, they smell amazing!

Here are a few examples of rose flower doodles to draw with pen.

Roses are typically harder to draw because the bulbs of petals are very detailed. But it’s important to think in very simple shapes to really capture their overall shape and feeling.

For a tutorial on how to draw a rose doodle, tutorial on How to Draw Easy Pen Flower Doodles for Beginners.

Tips for Doodling Roses

• Rose petals bloom in a circle, so you can simplify that by just drawing a spiral in the center without having to sketch each individual petal
• You can draw other petals in rounded shapes around the spiral to give your rose doodle more volume
• You can draw the leaves halfway up the stem
• Make the leaves a bit more round and full – this really unifies your rose doodle and makes it look more like believable

7. Iris

Time: 5-7 Minutes

Iris’ are spring flowers that come in a variety of colors but are usually known for being blue or purple with thin and leafy petals that fan out. One of the few flowers that are naturally blue!

Her’s a pic of some Iris spring flower doodles.

Tips for Doodling an Iris

• Draw the 3-4 outer iris petals thin and flappy / curvy
• Make the 3-4 inner petals smaller and in the center of the iris
• Draw large stem leaves on the bottom end
  • You can draw some little leaves / buds coming form the middle of the stem
• Add detail to the outer petals with a single curved line in the middle of each petal
  • This really makes your doodle look like an Iris!

8. Daffodil

Time: 5 Minutes

Daffodils are bright yellow flowers that also bloom in the spring.

They are a very unique and recognizable type of flower due to their elongated, cylindrical centers that are sticking out.

The pic below shows different flower doodles of daffodils : 2 from the side / 3/4 view and an up-close drawing of a simple daffodil petal, which you can reference when you’re drawing.

Tips for Doodling a Daffodil

• Make the daffodil’s center, a cylinder
  • You can draw little triangle shapes around the outer edge for the fronds
• Doodle the larger petals around the center and make 5-6, fanning them out
• Keep the stems long and draw the leaves at the bottom
  • Draw 2 long leaves

9. Aster

Time: 5 Minutes

The aster looks kind of like a daisy but they come in variety of bright and vibrant colors including pinks, yellows, and whites.

What makes asters unique are their cylindrical receptacles in the center and multiple flower can bloom from one stem. Their petals are also elongated ovals. Keep this in mind when drawing them, it’ll make doodling the petals a lot easier.

Tips for Doodling an Aster

• Make the receptacle (center of the flower) a short cylinder
  • You can draw lines around it to imitate the pollen nodes/anthers
• Make the petals fan out around the receptacle
  • Draw them as elongated or stretched out ovals
• You can draw multiple aster flowers from a single stem
  • Just make the lower part of the stem thicker
• Draw smaller leaves from the stem by the flowers, and bigger leaves towards the bottom

10. Buttercup

Time: 5 Minutes

Buttercups are cute yellow flower that bloom during the spring.

Their petals are more round and squared, rather than thin and long petals.

In addition, their petals form the shape of little cup, sticking up and surrounding the flower’s center/receptacle.

The flower shape really does remind me of a Reese’s peanut butter cup!

Here are some buttercup flower doodles to draw with pen.

Tips for Doodling a Buttercup

• Make the flower shape a rounded cylinder
• Draw the petals as round squares and make them stand up
  • Doodle 5 of them
• Draw a stem and sketch the leaves at the bottom
  • Make the leaves bigger at the bottom

11. Daisy

Time: 5 Minutes

Who doesn’t love a daisy?

Daisies are extremely popular. They have many white oval-shape petals with a a bright yellow receptacle – perfect for spring!

You often see these pretty flowers in the hands of main characters in movies, picking off their petals and wondering if their crush loves them back or not.

Below I’ve made a simple daisy doodle with pen.

Tips for Making a Daisy Doodle

• You don’t need to draw all the petals – that’s too many & time-consuming!
  • Instead, draw 5-7 large petals and make them fatter ovals
• You can make the receptacle bigger or smaller – it’s up to you
• You can draw the stem as a single curved line with your pen
• Make the stem leaves halfway and towards the bottom of the stem
  • You can draw them using smaller ovals

Benefits of Simple Flower Doodles

It may sound a bit silly, but doodling flowers provides a number of calming mental benefits that may be worth your time. Here’s a quick list of them:

• They are quick, allowing you to fit some creativity into your schedule
• Allows you to focus on the present moment
• Can help get you out of your head, away from negative thoughts
• They can be used to practice your drawing skills, especially with pen or ink
• Doodling simple flowers helps you understand how to simplify complicated objects into easy-to-draw shapes while creating something visually beautiful and relaxing
• It’s a productive, easy, and fun way to unleash your creativity

What to Use Your flower Doodles for

Aren’t flowers just pretty to look at? And they’re so calming too!

Whether big or small, simple or detailed, you can use the different types of flower doodles you draw for things like personal motivation, wall art, drawing inspiration, or even as gifts for someone close to you.

Don’t just leave them in your sketchbook or stored away, display them!

I’ve used Moleskin sketchbooks and one big thing I love about them is they have perforated pages that you can cleanly rip out and display your awesome art.

Here are some ideas and uses to get the most mileage out of your flower doodles:

• You can write some text or a motivational/self care phrase on the page along with your doodle and turn your floral drawings into a motivational poster
• Frame them and display them as wall art
• Sketch them on Postcard-sized paper and send them to a friend or loved one
• Doodle different types of simple flowers in your sketchbook to create a doodle flower reference sheet – so you can refer back to whenever you want to sketch a particular flower
• Spice up your notebook or journal with some cute flower doodles
• Draw them on a daily planner
• Scan them and print them out at a larger size for more wall art

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Which types of flower doodles would you like to try first?

Let me know in the your thoughts in the comments below and see you in the next post!