32 Friends Doodle Ideas of Shared Headphones, Lily Pad Buddies and Pinky Promises

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A good friends doodle needs nothing more than a fineliner and a few minutes, and that is exactly why it is so satisfying to fill a page with them. Each little scene below is built from a handful of rounded shapes, so you are never fighting with proportion or perspective, just two characters leaning on each other in some small way.

Scroll through and pick whichever pair makes you smile first. You will find blobs sharing headphones, frogs squeezed onto one lily pad, and friends on a pinky promise close enough to finish before your tea goes cold.

Start with the easiest pair on this list: two soft, rounded blobs sitting shoulder to shoulder, each wearing one earcup of a single pair of wired headphones. Draw the blobs first as two overlapping ovals with flat bottoms so they sit steady on the page, then add a simple curved line for the headphone band arching over both heads.

Keep the faces to two dots and a small curved mouth each, nothing more. The cord between the earcups is where beginners tend to stiffen up, so let your hand relax and draw it as one loose, wavy line rather than a straight ruled one.

Color the headband and cord in lavender marker, then add a mint green dot on each cheek for a bit of warmth. If wired headphones feel fiddly to draw, swap them for one shared pair of earbuds with a short cord looping between the two blobs instead.

Finish by giving each blob a slightly different head tilt so they read as two individuals enjoying the same song, not a mirrored copy.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Soft Pink

Move from blobs to frogs with a scene that is just as forgiving: two round frogs squeezed onto a lily pad only big enough for one. Draw the lily pad first as a single flat circle with a notch cut out of one edge, then stack the two frog bodies on top so they overlap slightly and look cozy rather than crowded.

Compare the frogs as you draw them: make the pad roughly twice the width of one frog, so when both frogs sit on it they genuinely look squeezed rather than floating on empty space. That size check is the easiest way to keep this one from looking awkward.

Fineliner outlines the frogs and pad, mint green fills the frogs, and a thin lavender ring under the pad suggests the pond water. If your frogs keep coming out too long and thin, round the belly out more before you add the legs.

One tiny ripple line beside the pad finishes the scene without adding extra work.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Leaf Green

Give your pair a tiny setting with a bear and a bird sharing a picnic on a checkered blanket. Draw the blanket first as a simple rectangle laid at a slight angle, then sketch a quick crisscross of lines inside it for the checker pattern before either character goes on top.

Place the bear sitting cross legged on one side and the small bird perched on the other, with one shared plate or basket drawn between them so the eye has a clear center to land on. Keeping the bird noticeably smaller than the bear is what sells the friendship, so do not be tempted to even out their sizes.

Fineliner handles the blanket grid and both characters, mint green fills alternating checker squares, and lavender shades the bear’s belly or the bird’s wing. If the crisscross pattern feels fussy, draw only three or four lines each way instead of a full grid.

Add one small berry or seed on the plate as the shared snack and the scene feels complete.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Warm Brown

Bring in a human pair with two friends walking side by side under one shared umbrella. Draw the umbrella dome first as a simple curved triangle shape, centered above where both heads will go, then add the two bodies underneath leaning slightly toward each other and toward the handle.

Eye level sits low here, close to the ground, so draw both friends from roughly knee height up with simple leg lines heading off the bottom of the page. That low angle is what makes the umbrella feel like it is really overhead rather than floating beside them.

Fineliner draws both figures and the umbrella ribs, lavender fills the umbrella canopy, and mint green adds a scarf or boots on one friend for contrast. If drawing two full figures feels like a lot for one sitting, crop the scene at the waist and let the umbrella do most of the work.

A few short diagonal lines beside the umbrella suggest light rain without needing a whole sky.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Charcoal

For more figure pairs like this one, the friends drawing ideas page has further poses worth trying.

Bring the texture of fur into play with a cat and dog sitting back to back, each pretending not to notice the other. Draw both animals as simple rounded sitting shapes first, spines touching down the middle of the page, then turn each head to face outward in opposite directions.

For the fur edges, switch to short flicking strokes with your fineliner instead of one solid outline, especially along the dog’s chest and the cat’s tail. That broken, flicked line is what reads as soft fur rather than a hard rubber toy, and it is far easier than trying to shade fur with crosshatching.

Mint green colors the cat and lavender colors the dog so they stay visually separate even while touching. If flicked fur strokes feel shaky at first, practice a row of them on scrap paper before committing to the final drawing.

Give each animal a slightly huffy expression, a closed eye or a tilted chin, and the joke reads instantly.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

Keep the pace gentle with two snails racing, where the faster one has stopped to wait for its friend. Draw the spiral shells first, since getting the swirl right matters more here than the bodies: start each spiral from the center and curl outward in one continuous stroke rather than lifting your pen partway.

Place the lead snail a little ahead and turned back over its shoulder, body curved into a clear waiting pose, while the second snail trails behind mid-stride. A short dotted line behind each snail suggests the slow trail they leave, which does double duty as a way to show distance between them.

Fineliner handles the shells and bodies, lavender fills one shell and mint green the other so you can tell the pair apart at a glance. If the spiral shell comes out lopsided, just go around it twice, the slight wobble reads as charm rather than a mistake.

One small finish line flag ahead of them finishes the joke without extra fuss.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Soft Grey

Flip the usual chase with a mouse and cat sitting together, each nibbling their own side of one wedge of cheese. Draw the cheese wedge first as a simple triangle with a few random round holes punched into it, then set the mouse on one point and the cat on the other, both leaning in toward the middle.

Keep the size difference clear and deliberate: the cat should stand roughly twice the mouse’s height even while seated, which is what makes the shared snack feel like a genuine truce rather than two same sized characters. Measure by eye against the cheese wedge to keep that ratio steady.

Fineliner outlines everyone, mint green fills the cheese, and lavender adds a bow or collar on the cat for a soft touch. If the cheese holes start looking too even, scatter them in different sizes instead of a neat row.

Give both animals closed, content eyes so the scene reads as friendly rather than tense.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

Zoom into a close up moment with two girls holding out their wrists to show off matching friendship bracelets. Draw the two forearms and hands first, angled toward each other so the wrists nearly touch in the center of the page, then wrap a simple braided or beaded band around each one.

For the braid pattern, draw a row of short diagonal lines instead of trying to weave individual threads, which reads as braiding at a glance without slowing you down. Repeat the exact same pattern and colors on both wrists so they clearly match.

Fineliner draws the hands and braid lines, lavender and mint green alternate along the band in small sections. If hands feel tricky to draw, simplify them to soft mitten shapes with just a thumb separated out, the bracelets will still carry the idea.

Add one tiny bead charm hanging from each band for a nice finishing detail.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Soft Pink

Turn two kitchen objects into a couple with a salt shaker and a pepper shaker holding hands. Draw both shakers as simple cylinders with rounded tops first, keeping them the same height and shape so only their color tells them apart, then add two small stick arms meeting between them in a held hand.

This is a good one for practicing edges with a kneaded eraser: lay down a light fineliner sketch of the holes on top first, then lift a few dots with the eraser if the pattern looks too dense, which keeps the dotted cap looking airy rather than solid black.

Leave the salt shaker white or pale mint green, fill the pepper shaker in a deep lavender shade, and dot small holes across both caps with fineliner. If drawing tiny dots evenly feels tedious, use a fine marker tip to stamp them instead of drawing each one by hand.

Give them simple dot eyes just above the join line so they read as a couple rather than plain containers.

You Will Need

• kneaded eraser

Palette: Mint Green,Deep Lavender,White

Settle into a quieter scene with two kittens curled up together on one sunny windowsill. Draw the windowsill first as a simple horizontal strip with a window frame rising behind it, then tuck both kittens into one patch of light, bodies overlapping into a soft shared shape rather than two separate circles.

Think about where the light source sits before you add any shading: if the sun comes from the upper right, keep that whole side of both kittens paler and leave the mint green or lavender fill a touch lighter there, saving the deeper tone for the shadowed side. That single choice makes the sunny spot believable.

Fineliner draws the windowsill and both kittens, mint green fills one kitten and lavender the other so they stay distinct even curled together. If drawing the window frame feels fiddly, a plain rectangle outline is enough, the kittens are the real subject.

Close both sets of eyes for a sleepy, contented finish.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Pale Yellow

Add a bit of action with a puppy proudly showing a confused kitten how to fetch a stick. Draw the puppy first mid bound, front paws forward and a stick held in its mouth, then place the kitten sitting off to the side with a puzzled tilt of the head and empty paws.

Give the puppy a dynamic crouch, one back leg bent and one stretched, which reads as motion even in a still drawing, while the kitten stays in a calm, upright sitting shape for contrast. That difference in posture tells the whole joke without any extra text.

Fineliner draws both animals and the stick, mint green fills the puppy, and lavender fills the kitten. If the running pose feels hard to get right, simplify it to the puppy standing proudly with the stick instead of mid leap, the humor still lands.

A tiny question mark floating near the kitten’s head finishes the expression nicely.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Warm Brown

Play with scale properly in this one, a giraffe bending its long neck all the way down to whisper something to a tiny mouse. Draw the mouse first, small and simple at the bottom of the page, then build the giraffe’s body up and away from it so the neck has somewhere long to travel before curving back down to meet the mouse’s ear.

Measure the giraffe’s neck against the mouse as you draw: it should look at least ten mouse heights tall before it even starts to bend, which is what sells the joke of two very different sized friends leaning in close. Sketch the curve lightly first so you can adjust the bend before committing in fineliner.

Mint green fills the giraffe with small lavender spots scattered across its neck and body, and the mouse stays a soft grey. If the giraffe’s spots feel like too much detail, keep them to six or seven loose rounded shapes rather than covering the whole body.

Curl the giraffe’s mouth into a gentle smile and the whisper reads instantly.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

Bring in a burst of real emotion with two girls laughing so hard they cry, standing shoulder to shoulder. Draw both heads first, tilted back slightly and leaning into each other at the top, then build simple bodies down from there so the whole pose feels like it is caught mid laugh rather than posed still.

The quick version of this doodle takes about ten minutes: two heads, closed laughing eyes, open mouths, and a couple of tear drop marks below each eye. Given forty minutes, add shoulders thrown back, hands clutching stomachs, and a few extra motion lines around both heads to really sell the energy.

Fineliner carries the whole scene, with a light mint green blush on both cheeks and a few lavender tear drops for color. If drawing open laughing mouths feels awkward, a simple wide oval with a curved line inside reads perfectly well.

Add one small sound effect mark, like a scribbled burst, just above their heads for extra energy.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Pink

Follow the laughter with two friends on a swing set, caught swinging perfectly in sync. Draw the swing set frame first as a simple upside down U shape, then hang two seats from it at the same height, each with a figure leaning back at the same angle so the sync reads clearly.

Keep both figures at an identical backward lean and leg position, since that exact mirroring is what makes the drawing say “in sync” rather than just “two people on swings.” Even a small difference in angle between them will break the effect, so check both before inking.

Fineliner draws the frame, chains, and both figures, mint green fills one friend’s outfit and lavender the other. If chains feel tedious to draw link by link, a pair of simple straight or slightly curved double lines reads just as well from a distance.

A few curved motion lines trailing behind both seats finish the sense of movement.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Charcoal

Return to small creatures with a beetle giving a snail a piggyback ride. Draw the beetle first as a rounded oval body with simple bent legs planted firmly, then perch the snail’s shell and body on top of the beetle’s back, curled forward slightly as if holding on.

For the texture of the beetle’s shell, try a dry brush style effect with your fineliner: drag the pen lightly and quickly across the shell surface so the line breaks up into a slightly scratchy texture rather than one smooth stroke, which reads as a hard shiny shell. Save the smooth solid lines for the snail’s soft body.

Mint green fills the beetle’s shell and lavender fills the snail’s shell so the piggyback pair stays easy to read. If the broken dry brush line feels tricky to control, a few short parallel scratch marks added over a solid outline gives nearly the same effect.

Give the snail a relaxed smile and the beetle a determined little frown for a nice contrast.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

Give two desserts a bit of personality with ice cream cones clinking together like a toast. Draw both cones first as simple triangles, then build a scoop or two on top of each, angled slightly inward so the scoops appear to touch at the moment of the clink.

If you have a small round object on hand, trace it lightly to get perfectly matched scoop curves on both cones before inking over the top freehand, which keeps the pair looking like they belong together rather than mismatched sizes. No tracing tool works just as well with a careful freehand circle.

Mint green fills one cone’s scoop and lavender the other, with a simple waffle pattern of crossed lines on both cones in fineliner. If the waffle pattern feels like too much detail, a few diagonal lines in one direction alone still reads as a cone texture.

Add a couple of small motion lines where the scoops touch to suggest the clink itself.

You Will Need

• small round object to trace, optional

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Warm Brown

Bring in some fluffy texture with a sheep and a llama standing side by side, comparing their curly hair. Draw both bodies as simple rounded shapes first, then cover the sheep’s body in small tight scribbled loops and the llama’s neck in slightly longer, looser scribbled loops so the two textures read as different kinds of fluff.

Keep the scribble loops loose and overlapping rather than neat and evenly spaced, since tight control here tends to flatten the fluffy effect you are after. Let a few loops stray outside the body outline on purpose for a softer silhouette.

Mint green fills the sheep’s fluffy coat and lavender fills the llama’s neck fluff, with plain fineliner for the legs and faces of both. If scribbled loops feel slow, swap them for a row of small connected bumps along the outline instead, which reads as fluff with far fewer pen strokes.

Give both animals a proud little head tilt as if sizing each other up.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

Slow the pace again with a parrot and a cat napping side by side on one round cushion. Draw the cushion first as a simple circle or soft square with a tufted button mark in the center, then tuck the cat into a curled sleeping loaf shape and perch the parrot just beside it with its head tucked under one wing.

Place the eye level low and close, as if you are looking at the cushion from just above it, which keeps both animals reading as cozy and close rather than floating separately on the page. That tight framing is what makes a shared nap spot feel believable.

Mint green fills the parrot and lavender fills the cat, with the cushion left mostly white with a thin fineliner outline. If a tufted button feels fussy to draw, a simple small circle in the center of the cushion reads just as well.

Closed eyes on both animals finish the sleepy mood.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

Zoom in tight for one of the most direct images on this list, two hands close together making a pinky promise. Draw one hand first as a simple soft mitten shape with the little finger separated and hooked out, then mirror a second hand from the opposite side so the two pinky fingers link in the middle of the page.

This close up framing means hand proportion matters more than usual, so compare the length of the hooked pinky to the width of the palm before inking, it should be roughly a third of the palm’s width, which keeps the hook looking natural rather than oddly long.

Fineliner carries both hands, with a thin lavender bracelet on one wrist and a mint green one on the other for a bit of color without complicating the hands themselves. If hands still feel tricky, simplify the fingers to soft rounded shapes rather than defined knuckles.

A tiny heart or star drawn between the linked pinkies finishes the moment.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Soft Pink

Pair up two breakfast favorites with a donut and a coffee cup walking arm in arm. Draw the coffee cup first as a simple cylinder with a handle, then set the donut beside it as a circle with a bite taken out of one edge, and link the two together with simple stick arms meeting between them.

Give both characters the exact same leg length and stride position so they look like they are mid step together rather than standing still, which is the small trick that turns two static objects into a walking pair. Angle both sets of legs the same way to keep that reading clear.

Lavender fills the coffee cup and mint green fills a simple glaze drizzle across the donut, with fineliner handling the outlines and the bite mark detail. If drawing the drizzle feels fiddly, a few short wavy lines across the top are enough.

Give both faces a cheerful closed eye smile for a bright finish.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Warm Brown

Slow right down with two sloths hanging from the same branch, holding hands between them. Draw the branch first as one simple horizontal line across the page, then hang both sloths from it with long curved arms, bodies dangling at slightly different heights so they do not look perfectly stacked.

Vary the pose once this basic version works: next time, try the sloths facing each other instead of both facing out, or have one sloth upside down and the other right side up for a more playful version of the same idea. Small changes like this keep a favorite subject fresh across several doodles.

Mint green fills one sloth and lavender fills the other, with simple curved claw marks in fineliner where each hand grips the branch. If the long dangling arms feel awkward to draw, shorten them slightly and let the bodies hang a little closer to the branch instead.

Give both sloths the same sleepy half closed eyes for a calm, matching mood.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Warm Brown

Bring in some gentle scale play with a whale nudging a tiny sailboat forward with its nose. Draw the whale’s body first, large and curved across most of the page, then add the small sailboat just ahead of its snout, no bigger than one of the whale’s eyes, to really sell the size gap.

Measure the sailboat against the whale’s eye as you place it: if the boat looks much bigger than that single eye, shrink it down, since keeping it genuinely tiny is what makes the gentle push read as a kind gesture rather than two same sized objects bumping into each other.

Mint green fills the whale’s body with a lighter mint belly, and lavender fills the sailboat’s single triangle sail. If the whale’s curved body feels hard to get smooth in one line, sketch it lightly in pencil first and trace over the best curve in fineliner.

A few small wavy water lines beneath both finish the scene without much extra work.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

For more ocean pairings in this style, the goldfish drawing ideas cover several other water friends worth trying next.

Add some real motion with two friends sharing one bicycle, one pedaling at the front and one perched on the handlebars. Draw the bicycle frame and both wheels first as simple circles connected by straight lines, then seat the pedaling friend properly on the seat and perch the second friend sitting sideways on the handlebars in front.

Eye level sits slightly low and to the side here, as if watching the bike pass by, which lets both wheels show as full circles rather than flattened ellipses and keeps the whole scene feeling like it is rolling forward rather than standing still.

Fineliner carries the bicycle frame and both figures, mint green fills one friend’s outfit and lavender the other, with a few curved motion lines trailing behind the back wheel. If two full figures feel like too much for one sitting, simplify both to simple rounded bodies with stick limbs rather than detailed clothing.

Give the friend on the handlebars arms stretched wide for a sense of fun.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Charcoal

Return to a small and simple scene with two hamsters each gripping one end of a single sunflower seed in a friendly tug. Draw the seed first as a small elongated oval in the center of the page, then build each hamster’s round body leaning away from it slightly, as if mid tug but still smiling.

Keep both hamster bodies the same plump rounded shape and roughly the same size, since this scene works best when it reads as an even, friendly contest rather than one hamster clearly winning. Puffed out cheeks on both sides help sell the effort.

Mint green fills one hamster and lavender the other, with the sunflower seed left a plain warm brown in fineliner and marker. If round hamster bodies feel tricky to balance, start with a simple circle for the body and add the head, ears, and paws afterward.

Small motion lines on either side of the seed suggest the gentle back and forth tug.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Warm Brown

Shift the mood slightly with a squirrel carefully setting aside one acorn for its sleeping friend. Draw the awake squirrel first, sitting upright with an acorn held carefully in both paws, then tuck a second, sleeping squirrel curled up nearby with its tail wrapped over itself like a blanket.

Keep the sleeping squirrel’s shape rounder and more compact than the sitting one, almost a solid curled oval, which contrasts nicely against the upright squirrel’s more open pose and makes the quiet gesture read clearly even without any added text.

Mint green fills the awake squirrel and lavender fills the sleeping one, with the acorn kept a simple warm brown. If a curled sleeping pose feels hard to draw, simplify it to one large rounded shape with just the tail and a small peaceful face showing.

A single small heart floating above the acorn finishes the gesture sweetly.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Warm Brown

Capture a candid moment with two friends squishing their cheeks together for a film camera selfie. Draw both heads overlapping slightly at the cheek first, tilted toward a simple rectangular camera held up in front of them, then build the rest of each face around that central point of contact.

The quick ten minute version keeps things to two heads, the camera, and simple expressions. Given forty minutes, add raised hands making a peace sign, a wrist strap dangling from the camera, and a couple of small sparkle marks around the flash for extra charm.

Mint green shades one friend’s hair or hood and lavender the other’s, with the camera body left mostly white with fineliner detailing. If overlapping heads feel tricky to place, draw one head fully first, then build the second head starting from the point where the cheeks touch.

Wide open happy eyes on both faces sell the spontaneous feel of the shot.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Charcoal

Settle back into a calm, round scene with two goldfish sharing one bowl, blowing bubbles at each other. Draw the bowl first as a simple circle with a slightly curved rim line near the top for water level, then place both goldfish inside facing one another, each with a small bubble drifting from its mouth toward the middle.

Keep both fish the same simple teardrop body shape so they read as a pair rather than two unrelated species, and let their tails curve in opposite directions so the composition feels balanced rather than lopsided inside the round bowl.

Mint green fills one goldfish and lavender fills the other, with the water line left a pale untouched strip near the top of the bowl. If circular bubbles feel fiddly to keep round, trace a small coin or bottle cap lightly for a cleaner shape.

A scattering of tiny dot bubbles rising between them finishes the underwater feel.

You Will Need

• small round object to trace for bubbles, optional

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Pale Blue

Pair this one with the ideas on the goldfish drawing page if you want a whole page of fishbowl friends.

Return to a close up with two girls holding up matching half heart pendants that fit together as one whole shape. Draw one pendant first as a heart shape split jaggedly down the middle, then draw the second pendant as the mirrored other half, held in a separate hand nearby so the two pieces almost touch.

Draw the hands holding each pendant string between finger and thumb, raised to roughly chin height on each side of the page, which keeps the pendants as the clear focal point rather than getting lost below the hands.

Lavender fills one half heart and mint green fills the other, with the hands and chains left in plain fineliner. If drawing two separate hands feels like too much, crop the scene tighter to just the two pendant halves nearly touching, with the hands only hinted at by two small wrist edges.

A thin jagged line down the center of each half pendant shows exactly how they would click together.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Soft Pink

Keep things small and sweet with a strawberry and a blueberry sitting together on one spoon. Draw the spoon first as a simple oval bowl with a short handle trailing off one side, then nestle the strawberry and blueberry side by side inside the oval, slightly overlapping so they look balanced rather than rolling apart.

Give the strawberry small seed dots scattered across its surface and a simple leafy cap, while the blueberry stays a plain smooth round shape, which keeps the two textures distinct even though they sit right next to each other on the same small spoon.

Mint green fills the strawberry’s leafy cap and lavender fills the blueberry, with the strawberry body left a warm red tone and the spoon kept plain silver grey in fineliner. If seed dots feel tedious, scatter just six or seven rather than covering the whole berry.

Simple closed happy eyes on both berries finish the pairing with warmth.

Palette: Lavender,Mint Green,Soft Grey

Build a gentle height difference into this scene with a big dog lying still while a tiny kitten naps curled up on its back. Draw the dog’s body first, long and low to the ground with its head resting flat on its paws, then add the much smaller kitten curled into a tight loaf shape right on top of the dog’s shoulder blades.

Compare the kitten’s curled size against the dog’s head as you place it, the kitten should look no bigger than the dog’s own head, which is the measuring trick that keeps this gentle size gap looking right rather than accidentally drawing two similarly sized animals.

Mint green fills the dog’s body and lavender fills the curled kitten, with soft flicked fur lines along the dog’s back and tail in fineliner. If the long dog body feels hard to get right, shorten it slightly and keep the pose simple, lying flat with legs tucked under.

Closed eyes on both animals keep the whole scene calm and still.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Grey

Close the plant side of this list with two potted plants leaning gently toward each other as if sharing a quiet conversation. Draw both pots first as simple trapezoid shapes sitting a short distance apart, then build each plant’s stems and leaves curving inward from their pots until the leaves nearly meet in the middle.

Vary this one next time by trying different plant types in each pot, a tall snake plant leaning toward a round leafed pothos, or two small cactus pots tilted toward one another, since the leaning gesture works with almost any plant shape once you have this basic version down.

Mint green fills one plant’s leaves and lavender fills the other’s pot, keeping the color swap between plant and pot so neither side repeats the same two colors exactly. If curved leaning stems feel difficult, straighten them slightly and rely on the leaf tips touching to carry the leaning idea instead.

A single small heart drawn where the leaf tips meet finishes the quiet moment.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Warm Brown

Finish the set with two worms sharing one apple, a head poking out from each side. Draw the apple first as a simple rounded shape with a small stem and one curled leaf, then poke one worm’s head through a hole on the left side and the second worm’s head through a hole on the right, so both face outward toward opposite edges of the page.

Give each worm a simple curved body line visible through the apple’s near side, as if tunneling toward each other from opposite ends, which adds a small sense of story without needing any extra detail beyond the two heads and a bit of visible tunnel line.

Mint green fills one worm and lavender the other, with the apple left a warm red or soft pink in marker and fineliner carrying the outline and hole edges. If drawing a tunnel line through the apple feels confusing, leave it out entirely, the two heads poking out already tell the story.

Give both worms a wide, happy smile and the whole page ends on a cheerful note.

Palette: Mint Green,Lavender,Soft Pink

What to Do Next

Pick whichever pair caught your eye first and start there on a plain or dot grid page, fineliner in hand. One finished doodle tends to lead straight into the next, so keep your mint green and lavender markers close and let the page fill up on its own.

Frequently Asked Questions

What pens work best for a friends doodle like these?

A black fineliner in a fine tip, around 0.3 to 0.5 millimeters, gives the cleanest outlines for these scenes. Add mint green and lavender dual tip markers for the accent colors shown throughout this list.

How do I keep two characters looking like a matched pair?

Keep their basic body shape and size the same and change only the color or a small detail like a bow or collar. Mismatched outlines read as unrelated characters, even when the colors match.

What if I only have one marker color on hand?

Use that single color for one character and leave the other plain fineliner with no fill. The contrast between filled and outlined still reads clearly as two distinct friends.

How small can these doodles be and still work?

Most of these scenes work well at two to three inches across, which suits a notebook margin or a small sketchbook page. Keep details to the minimum described in each idea at that size.

Do I need to sketch in pencil first?

Pencil first helps with trickier poses like the bicycle pair or the giraffe’s long neck, where proportion matters. Simpler pairs, like the two blobs or the two ice cream cones, can usually go straight to fineliner.