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I love adding sweet little details to my bullet journals, and Im always looking for different fun themes.
Today, youll find cute and funsucculent and cactus doodle ideasfor bullet journals!
All fun, relatively straightforward, and look great on the pages of any bullet journal.
They are easily scaleable depending on where you want to add your greenery.
If you need any step-by-step tutorials, check outmy YouTube videoof the same name.
All are listed directly below this introduction.
Now, lets get to drawing!
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I like using these cute accents on tracking or warmer month calendar pages.
Tall Flowering Cacti
Tall flowering cacti are some of the coolest types of cacti, in my opinion.
Make the flowers all the same color, or pick a few popping colorful hues.
Bulbous Flowering Cacti
These cacti remind me of pumpkins and are a great addition to any summer pages.
They look just darling in the corners of my bullet journals pages.
If youre feeling a little extraadd some cute facial characteristics.
It makes it more fun and prepares you for the real thing!
Step-by-step Succulent
This succulent snake plant is an easy and zen way to eliminate your worries.
Play around with the color to make your snake plant all the more exciting.
This page here offers a few of the simplest options in varying waysoptions for any artist practicing.
Prickly Pear Cactus Step-by-step
Prickly pear cacti are some of my other favorites.
So very easy to drawthe most time-consuming part of this plant is the detailing of the spikes.
Pick and choose pots and plants to use in your own pages to accent your details perfectly.
Add different designs, colors, or even shapes to personalize it even more.
The coffee mug holder is one of my personal favorites.
It just makes it feel all the more cozy.
Its a series of building blocks that all get connected to create a more complex picture.
Add flowers, a little critter, or the sun above for a cuter final result.
You might also enjoy these othercute doodles for your journal!
Heres a simple but effective oneadding a cloche to the scene.
I think a beautiful idea for a print or card on some pretty card stock.
This doodle idea looks great at any size, also.
Great for a title page in a bullet journal, emotional, social, or physical recording pages.
One of the easiest shapes to accomplisheven the detailing lines to fill in arent too bad to complete.
Feel free to add more arms or make the cactus taller to make the plant more complex.
These otherflower doodle ideaswould look perfect in your journal!
Add small flowers or vines to make the image more complex and interesting.
The cactus garden also makes for a great print or card for a friend or family member.
Keep the image black and white or liven it with vibrant colors.
Cactus Step-by-step
Remember the pumpkin-looking cacti?
Heres a fun variation on the bulbous ones from earlier on in the blog post.
These are so fun to create because they are another option that is entirely buildable in any way imaginable.
Cactus In A Bowl
A variation on a great holder for a succulent or cactus are these fishbowl-looking containers.
Size the fishbowl up if youd like to add more plants into the space.
Cactus Doodle #3
I am sharing some color-specific and flower variations on some of the basics shared above.
Breaking down and knowing the basics of the basics is important to be able to build skills and abilities.
Really any shade could do for a cactus.
Cactus Doodle #4
This doodle idea is for those who love any drawing ideas cutesiness.
These cacti specifically pack that extra sweet punch with the warm colors and the flower accents on the plants.
By doing this, it ensures the cuteness factor tenfold.
Id suggest trying it the opposite way, but I think it wouldnt yield the same results.
Cactus Doodle #5
This doodle takes a closer look and examines the bigger elements on a smaller scale.
Its a great way to get a form down before expanding the size of your subject.
That way, you’re free to try these multiple times over before expanding.
Short Flowering Cactus
Heres a bit of an oddball cactus to practice as a stand-alone plant.
Play around with the size of the plant as well as the flowering bulb on top.
They are known to all be a little different.
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Change the plant or pot naturally and play around with color, too.
A nice vining succulent, or even a cactus, could work well hereany simple plant will do.
Simple Cactus
Again, another classic cactus perspective for this post is a great addition.
Bulb Cactus
Last but not least, a closer, more detailed look at the bulbous cacti.
This image gives a more detailed and realistic viewpoint of the classic globe-like cacti.
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