Digital Doodle Club – Beginner Digital Drawing Lessons in Adobe Fresco

Digital Doodle Club Lessons

Learn the basics of digital drawing with simple, beginner-friendly tutorials in Adobe Fresco. The Digital Doodle Club gives you straightforward lessons on tools, layers, colour, and creating small characters and shapes. Subscribe to get updates sent to your inbox.

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5 Minute Puppy

This tutorial is all about simplifying an animal down to the bare minimum while still keeping it recognizable. Using Adobe Fresco, we create a super simple puppy design with bold colours, textured layers and a quick little tail wag animation.

by Rhys — May 25, 2026 adobe fresco animation tool fill tool onion skin tool pose tool

Kaleidoscope

This tutorial is all about experimenting with the symmetry tool to create weird repeating doodles, monster patterns, skull shapes, snakes and animated designs. It’s one of those tools that starts simple and then completely pulls you into a rabbit hole of ideas.

by Rhys — May 19, 2026 adobe fresco beginner digital art symmetry tools

Lesson 10: Mega Brain

We are going to build on the "Basic Brain" we drew in Tutorial 9, grouping layers, adding another eyestalk using the duplicate & transform tools then animate frame by frame, loop or Boomerang the animation run. We are going to use the liquify tool, selections & layer masks.

by Rhys — Apr 06, 2026 animation frame by frame layer masks pose tool

Lesson 9: Basic Brain

We are going to use the colour picker to paint with mixed colours and create a quick Brain, but then we are going to get weird. We are going to use Layer masks & the multi colour picker.

by Rhys — Mar 25, 2026 adding power lines colour picker layer masks locking transparency smudge tool

Lesson 8: Animating a Monster in a Washing Machine

In this Digital Doodle Club lesson we build a weird little animated scene using Adobe Fresco. The idea is simple: a monster spinning around inside a washing machine with socks, bubbles and bits of laundry tumbling around. It might sound ridiculous, but it’s actually a great way to learn a bunch o...

by Rhys — Mar 10, 2026 adobe fresco animation beginner digital art character drawing digital drawing techniques

Lesson 7: Easy Fresco Animation (Pose + Frames)

In this tutorial, I take the character from the previous video and turn it into a simple animation using Fresco’s Pose Tool, path animation, and frame-by-frame techniques. You’ll see how to: Fake movement quickly with the Pose Tool Use paths for gentle swaying and hovering Build frame-by-fr...

by Rhys — Feb 16, 2026 adobe fresco digital character animation frame by frame animation fresco animation fresco pose tool liquify tool simple animation workflow transform tools in fresco vector vs pixel layers

Lesson 6: Fresco Pose Tool + Transform Tools

In this session I draw a simple wonky character and walk through how I use Fresco’s Pose Tool, Transform options, and Liquify tools to tweak, reshape, and experiment after the drawing is done. This is about flexibility, speed, and not starting from scratch every time.The same setup will be used i...

by Rhys — Feb 02, 2026 adobe fresco fresco liquify fresco pose tool fresco transform tools pixel layers in fresco vector drawing in fresco

Lesson 5: Animating Details & Adding Effects

In this one I’m taking the finished drawing from the last lesson and giving it some proper movement. We’ll add a wobbling bow tie, animated eyebrows, a bit of line boil, and even try some smoke or fire effects on top. If you’ve been following along and there’s anything you want me to look at next...

by Rhys — Nov 19, 2025 animation bow tie effects fresco layers line boil

Lesson 4: Editing a Real Drawing in Fresco

In this one, I’m doing something I do a lot: taking a photo of a real drawing and playing with it in Fresco. It’s a really easy way to test ideas, change colours, fix mistakes, add shading, and generally mess about without ruining the original piece. I’ll show you how to bring in the photo, work ...

by Rhys — Nov 19, 2025 cutting in fresco layers photo import posca shading smudge tool

Lesson 3: Adding Line Boil & Eye Movement

In this lesson I’m giving the octopus a bit more life. We’ll add a wobbly “line boil” around the outline, and then make his eyes move so he looks like he’s tracking the fish. It’s all really simple once you see it done, and it makes the drawing feel a lot more alive. You’ll also see how to use ex...

by Rhys — Nov 19, 2025 animation eyes fresco layers line boil octopus

Lesson 2: Playing With Animation in Fresco

In this one I’m taking the octopus a step further and showing you how quick and easy it is to animate things in Fresco. We’ll draw a simple fish, tidy it up, add some colour, and then make it move using the animation tools. It looks like a lot written out, but honestly it’s just easier to watch i...

by Rhys — Nov 19, 2025 animation fish frame by frame fresco layers octopus vector brush

Lesson 1: Getting Started in Adobe Fresco

This first lesson shows you how to open Fresco, set up a canvas, use the pencil tools, and start sketching with simple scribble lines. It’s a relaxed walkthrough to help you see how everything works before we get into the proper drawing. Watch the video, follow along, and try things out on your o...

by Rhys — Nov 19, 2025 fill tool fresco layers octopus pencil scribble vector brush

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Digital Doodle Club Lessons

Learn the basics of digital drawing with simple, beginner-friendly tutorials in Adobe Fresco. The Digital Doodle Club gives you straightforward lessons on tools, layers, colour, and creating small characters and shapes. Subscribe to get updates sent to your inbox.

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