In a personal diary, you can not only make notes, but also draw cute pictures. With pictures, the pages of the notebook will look beautiful and original. The subject and style of drawing can be different. For inspiration, you can read several step-by-step instructions, which describe variations of easy-to-do pictures.
What can you draw in LD
The placement of drawings in a personal diary depends on their size. Small pictures can be inserted between lines or into the text. For example, you can replace a word or express feelings with a drawn emoji, just like when writing a text message on your phone.
Medium-sized pictures and various patterns look good in the margins of a notebook or in the corners of pages. They complement the text in meaning or simply decorate the inscriptions so that they are pleasant to look at.
Large pictures are often drawn on page spreads that divide the diary into sections. For example, before the section "wishes and dreams" you can draw a picture of a girl sitting on a windowsill and looking into the distance.
The subject of the pictures often depends on the contents of the diary and the personal preferences of its owner. You can draw pictures illustrating the events described on the page, as well as express emotions through the drawing, describe dreams or fantasies.
Some images can be created for aesthetics. These can be patterns, lines or geometric shapes. In general, such images do not carry much meaning.
Psychologists note that the style of drawing and the subject of the pictures directly depend on the temperament of the person keeping the diary. The table provides examples of different personality types, as well as the types of drawings that such people prefer to use to decorate their notes.
| Temperament type | Subject of the drawings |
| Sanguine | Sports equipment; people involved in sports; city attractions; transport. |
| Melancholic | Floral patterns; characters with sad faces; cute animals; romantic pictures. |
| Phlegmatic person | Space; futuristic drawings; food; mythological creatures. |
| Choleric | Skulls; skeletons; monsters; futurism and mythological creatures drawn in a more aggressive style. |
The color scheme of the drawings may also depend on the temperament of the diary owner. For example, romantic and sensitive teenage girls often use pink and purple shades, sociable and cheerful girls draw colorful pictures, and introverted people often create drawings in black and white.
There are exceptions when the pages of a notebook may contain different pictures, without a specific style.
Easy, cute and beautiful drawing ideas for your personal diary
Cute drawings for LD differ from others in their simplicity of execution. People and other living creatures are depicted without observing anatomical proportions and small details. A minimal set of tools is used for work. Usually these are erasers, simple pencils, felt-tip pens and colored pencils.
Further in the article you can look at several instructions, where different variations of cute drawings for a personal diary are described step by step.
Cute animals
Drawings of cute animals can be used to express emotions or simply to decorate LD pages. The most popular drawing option is a pyramid of plump animals. These can be hares, puppies or kittens. Animals with round bodies lie on top of each other, forming a pyramid.
How to draw a pyramid of 3 chubby rabbits:
- Using a simple pencil, draw 3 ovals “lying” on top of each other. They should be the same size.
- To make the picture look funny, the animals should look in different directions. The bottom hare will be turned with its back. It needs to be drawn with a round tail, extended hind legs in the form of ovals, as well as 1 front leg and 1 bent ear. In the front, draw half an eye, in the form of a black dot.
- The hare in the center of the pyramid will look to the right. It needs to have short hanging paws, protruding ears, a tail and a muzzle. The eyes should be black and small. Draw a nose in the form of a dot and a mouth from 2 short lines in the form of arcs.
- The muzzle of the topmost hare will be on the left side. It will be looking down. Like the other animals, you need to draw paws, tail, ears and design the muzzle.
- Use an eraser to erase any extra strokes.
- Using a pink pencil or felt-tip pen, you need to draw a blush on each bunny in anime style.
Trace the outline of the picture with a black marker. If desired, you can shade the background with a colored pencil of any color.
Another common design is a flying kitten leaving a rainbow trail behind it.
How to draw a picture like this:
- Draw the cat's body in the form of a square with rounded corners.
- Choose the direction in which the kitten will fly. Draw small triangular ears in the front.
- At the back, draw a raised tail in the shape of an elongated oval.
- Draw 4 short legs.
- Design the muzzle: depict the eyes and nose as dots, draw the mouth in the shape of the letter “L”.
- Draw 3 short whiskers on each side of the muzzle.
- Behind the cat, you need to draw 2 parallel lines. Their length depends on how big the rainbow trail will be. The lines do not have to be perfectly straight, they can be drawn wavy.
- Next, you need to divide the “trace” into 7 equal parts, using parallel lines.
- Draw a cloud at the end of the rainbow.
- Use an eraser to erase any extra strokes.
- Color the cat gray. Use a black marker to outline its contour and highlight the details of the muzzle.
- Color the rainbow.
- Trace the outline of the cloud at the end of the rainbow trail with a blue marker or pencil.
The flying cat can be drawn at the top of the page before you start writing, or vice versa, you can place it below the inscriptions.
Funny monsters
Monsters are not always scary beasts. They can be cute. In a personal diary, on one of the pages, you can depict a small monster in a fly costume, standing on a fly agaric. This is a funny and original picture.
How to draw:
- First, you need to draw the mushroom cap. Draw the top in the form of an arc. Draw a horizontal wavy line at the bottom, connecting the ends of the arc to each other.
- Draw a small indentation on the side, as if someone had bitten the mushroom.
- Finish drawing the stem with a “skirt”, typical for poisonous mushrooms.
- Finish drawing the lower part of the cap. Use thin stripes to depict the mushroom plates on it.
- Above the mushroom, draw a large, round head of the monster. Below, draw a disproportionately small, oval-shaped body.
- Add short arms and legs.
- Draw another circle inside the base of the head. This will be the monster's face.
- Now you need to design the costume. On top, on the head, draw 2 large semicircles. Shade them with lines, like the eyes of a fly.
- Between these eyes draw a vertical line, from the crown to the edge of the "hood". Depict the seams with short transverse lines.
- The same “seam” needs to be drawn in the middle of the stomach.
- Draw 2 small wings on the back and mark the veins on them.
- On the hood, on the right, draw a small square patch. Decorate its edges with drawn seams.
- On the top of the head, depict 2 antennae with balls at the ends.
- Draw 2 large round eyes on the face. Draw 2 oval highlights inside the eyes.
- Draw the mouth as a wavy line. Draw triangular teeth below.
- Draw spots in the form of circles on the mushroom.
- Paint the monster costume and the balls on the mustache blue.
- Paint the eyes on the hood light green.
- Shade the monster's face in beige and its eyes in dark green.
- Paint the wings blue.
- Paint the mushroom cap red.
Trace the outline of the picture with a black marker. Use an orange marker to draw freckles on the monster's face.
Another version of the drawing with the image of a funny mummy with wings.
Procedure:
- Draw a large oval-shaped head. Draw a pear-shaped body below.
- Add thin arms and legs with square fingers. Each limb has 3 fingers.
- On the face, depict 2 large, round eyes with large pupils. In each eye, depict 1 round glare.
- Finish drawing the mouth in the shape of a heart. No sharp corners. Finish drawing 2 sharp protruding teeth.
- Depict bandages wrapping the mummy's body in the neck and hip area.
- The arms and legs should also be wrapped in bandages. On one of the limbs, you can depict a hanging end of the bandage.
- On the back, draw 2 small wings, shaped like bat wings.
- On the body and face of the mummy, depict deep wrinkles, as well as small and round growths.
- Color the exposed areas of the body with an ochre pencil.
- Paint the pupils and the inside of the mouth black.
- Paint the wings brown.
Trace the outline of the picture with a black marker.
Sport
On the theme of sports, you can draw minimalistic pictures with images of sports equipment or clothing.
How to draw a barbell:
- Draw 2 parallel lines.
- You need to draw weights on each side. Since the barbell is shown from the front in this picture, they need to be drawn as narrow rectangles. First, draw 2 tall rectangles on each side.
- Then draw 1 rectangle of a smaller size. They need to be placed in the center, relative to the previous figures. There should be approximately the same distance from the top and bottom.
- By analogy, add another 1 small rectangle on each side.
- Paint the barbell dark grey, as well as the largest and smallest weight plates.
- Paint the middle of the pancakes light grey.
Use a black marker to outline the drawing. Use short vertical strokes to mark the shadow on the rod.
How to draw a sneaker (side view):
- Draw the shape of a sneaker.
- Draw a horizontal line at the bottom to indicate the sole.
- Shade the sole with short vertical lines.
- Draw holes for the laces, laces and a protruding tongue.
- Draw a loop in the heel area to help you put on the sneaker without using a shoehorn.
- On top, using smooth lines, draw fabric inserts that are made on shoes so that the hard edges do not rub the foot.
- In the center of the drawing, you can depict a brand icon or some kind of pattern.
Color the picture in any colors.
Food
Cute drawings for personalized personalization with food images can decorate a page where recipes or a list of favorite dishes will be written down. The most popular version of a drawing on this topic is a slice of pizza.
How to draw:
- Draw a large check mark. Connect its open ends with an arched line.
- Inside, closer to the rounded edge, draw another arc. It will depict the baked edge of the pizza.
- The triangle needs to be filled with small drawings of tomato slices. Draw triangular pieces of filling and mushroom halves.
- Draw a stretchy melted cheese at the tip of the pizza, as if the piece had just been taken out of the box.
- Paint the pizza and cheese yellow. The baked edge can be painted orange.
- Paint the tomatoes red.
- Paint the mushrooms brown and the triangles pink, as if they were sliced sausage.
It is better to outline such a drawing with a black gel pen. A felt-tip pen will leave too thick lines.
Another popular style of food drawings is vegetables or fruits with eyes. These pictures look cute and unusual, and they can also be used as emoji.
How to draw a "proud" avocado:
- Draw half an avocado with a pit. The narrow top is the head of the animated fruit.
- Draw a wide-brimmed hat on the head.
- Where the top begins to widen, draw a snood scarf.
- Draw a proud avocado face: covering the eyes, mouth with slightly downturned corners and raised, arched eyebrows.
- Add thin legs and arms with splayed fingers.
- Paint the avocado light green and the pit brown.
- Trace the outline of the fruit using a dark green marker.
The remaining parts of the drawing can be colored in any colors.
Romantic pictures
Cute drawings for LD in a romantic style can decorate pages with love secrets or poems about love. The simplest version of the drawing is kissing people.
How to draw:
- Draw 2 round heads located close to each other.
- Draw an oval body for a male character and a triangular body for a female character. The wide edge of the figure will be the hem of the dress.
- Finish drawing thin arms in the form of lines. Let the little people hold hands.
- Draw 2 straight legs for the boy, and 1 straight leg for the girl, with the other leg bent at the knee.
- Draw a bow on the girl's head.
- Draw the eyes of the little people closed, in the form of inverted arcs. Draw eyelashes on the girl.
- Draw a large heart above the little people.
Color the bodies of the little people, the heart and the bow on the girl’s head in any colors you like.
You can depict 2 men without gender characteristics. One of them will be sad, holding a broken heart in his hands, and the other will be holding out his whole heart to his friend.
How to draw:
- Draw 2 people with round heads and square bodies.
- Draw them with elongated thin arms and straight legs.
- For the sad little man, draw eyes like dots looking down, as well as small eyebrows like a house, and a mouth in the form of an arc.
- Draw half a heart in each hand.
- Draw a cheerful face for the other person: raised eyebrows, a smiling mouth and eyes looking straight ahead. Draw a whole heart in the hands.
- On the chests of both little people, draw indentations in the shape of hearts.
Color the hearts red and the notches black.
Floral patterns
You can decorate the margins of your notebook with a pattern of smiling flowers holding hands.
How to draw:
- Turn the diary over so that the margin line becomes horizontal.
- Along this line, draw flowers with round centers and 5 petals.
- Paint the cores yellow and the petals pink or any other color.
- Draw funny emoticons in each circle.
Draw the flowers' hands in the form of arched lines, as if they were all holding onto each other.
You can decorate the corner of the page with a pattern with ornate lines.
How to draw:
- Draw 3 flowers. The largest one should be in the center, and 2 small ones – above and below.
- Connect the flowers with ornate stems.
- Draw some leaves and some unopened buds.
- Draw veins on the petals and leaves.
- Draw spirals in the centers of the flowers.
Color the picture in any colors.
Cartoon images of people
Cute drawings for personal use with images of people can decorate pages with descriptions of your own character or stories about the past day.
How to draw a girl:
- Draw a round head.
- Draw a disproportionately small oval-shaped body.
- Add arms and legs. Erase extra lines with an eraser.
- Draw elements of clothing, such as a crop top and shorts with voluminous pockets.
- Draw sneakers and high socks on the feet.
- Mark the navel with a dot.
- Design your hair. You can draw a side fringe and loose hair. Divide your hair into wide strands.
- Draw large round eyes with large pupils.
- Draw highlights in each eye.
- Draw the nose in the form of a check mark. Finish drawing plump lips and thin, arched eyebrows.
- Draw on lush eyelashes.
Color the picture in any colors.
How to draw a boy:
- Draw a round head.
- Add a disproportionately small, square-shaped torso, as well as short legs and arms.
- Draw the elements of clothing: jacket, tie, belt and trousers.
- Draw pointed shoes on the feet.
- Design your hair. The hair on the crown and in the bangs area can be depicted as a zigzag line.
- Draw large round eyes and pupils. Finish drawing highlights.
- Draw the nose in the form of a check mark, and mark the mouth with a short line slanted to the left.
- Draw small, house-shaped eyebrows.
Color the picture in any colors.
Pictures for page spreads
Large drawings can be drawn on 2 pages at once. This is how people usually design transitions from one section of the diary to another.
How can you design the page spread before the “dreams and desires” section:
- Below, schematically depict the city. Houses can be drawn as rectangles of different heights. Inside these figures, mark the windows with small squares.
- Draw a large whale “swimming” across the sky above the houses.
- Draw several clouds around the whale, as well as flying birds.
- Paint the whale blue and the sky pink. Paint the houses black and the light in the windows yellow.
Trace the outline of the drawing with a black marker.
A version of a drawing in a space style, for decorating a section of a diary where the plots of interesting dreams will be recorded.
How to draw:
- In the lower right corner, depict a small part of the planet in the form of an arc.
- In the remaining space, depict 3 other round planets of different sizes.
- Finish drawing the stars, as well as some satellites and a flying saucer.
- On the largest planet, on the right, draw a cat with its back turned. As if it is looking into the cosmic distance.
- Draw small craters and uneven terrain around the cat.
- Paint the background dark blue.
- Make the stars yellow.
The remaining parts of the drawing can be painted in any colors, but it is better to choose shades that will not blend in with the general background.
The following colors will work:
- pink;
- orange;
- pistachio;
- light gray;
- ocher;
- blue.
The planets can be made multi-colored, and Saturn's rings can be depicted around them. You can also add a few white dots using a corrector. They will imitate small stars.
Drawing cute and funny pictures for LD can lift your mood even on the worst day. Each drawing can reflect the feelings and inner world of the diary owner if he or she chooses the right color scheme and theme of the picture.
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