DOODLE DAY JULY - DAY 27

Welcome to Day 27 of the Doodle Day drawing challenge. Our group of participants is growing every day and it is exciting to see the doodles on our Facebook Group page.

I am heading out in a couple of minutes to take my 12 year old dog, Mitzy, to the Veterinarian for some surgery. I held her close and barely slept last night. I am worried about how the procedure will go today. I know that every day that I have with her is a special gift and I just fear that she doesn't have many days left.

Today's doodle prompt is about the feeling that I had today: ANXIETY.

Noun A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. Desire to do something, typically accompanied by unease.

Synonyms worry - concern - care - uneasiness - trouble - disquiet

You can doodle the word or the feeling or anything that makes one anxious. You can doodle a zig-zagging scribble that represents the crazy feelings of anxiety. You can create a font that shows anxiety. Doodle something or someone who is feeling anxiety, fear, nervous, worried.

I am not posting pics for this one since it is soo open ended. Think of the word, something pops in your mind, doodle. If you can't come up with anything - you are over thinking it. Just put your pencil to the page and see where it takes you.

Good luck.

DOODLE DAY JULY - DAY 26

 

Welcome to Day 26 of the Doodle Day July drawing challenge! With several new participants joining us, I'm excited to see how many people have jumped into the freedom of doodling. Yesterday's wish doodles were very interesting to see - thank you Alayne, for posting that prompt. Since we have recently doodled box, monkey, puppy, totem, and wish - I propose we step back a bit and take a breather from the concrete doodles.

Today's doodle prompt is WIGGLY.

Doodle something wiggly or fill a space with wiggly lines or create a Zentangle of a wiggly pattern or create a Notan using wiggly spaces, or design a wiggly font. If you are new to Zentangling or Notans, we did those prompts earlier so check out the examples below to see some really fun doodles.

Wiggly Zentangle

Wiggly Notan

Wiggly Font

By definition, wiggly means:
1. To move back and forth with quick irregular motions.
2. To move or proceed with a twisting or turning motion.
3. To insinuate or extricate oneself by sly or subtle means.

Today's prompt will loosen up those doodle muscles. Go ahead and start drawing a wiggly line and see what it turns into or just keep wiggling that line around the page. Here are some wiggly doodles to get you going:

 

 

 

Have fun!

DOODLE DAY JULY - DAY 25

Welcome to Day 25 of the Doodle Day July drawing challenge! Are you doodling? Yesterday's totem poles were fantastic! If you haven't checked them out, go to the Facebook Group Page to see the doodles. There are over 1000 of them!

If you are new to the group (10 new members yesterday!), below is the list of prompts we have doodled this month so far. You are welcome to doodle any prompt on any day or even go back to Doodle Day May to grab some inspiration from that month full of prompts and tips. Remember, you never have to use a prompt at all - they are there for inspiration. There are those who wake up ready to cover pages and pages of a sketchbook with doodles (me) and there are those who look at a blank page and feel anxiety. The prompts are to give you a little push. If the prompt is puppy and you woke up feeling like doodling cupcakes - go for it!

Definition of a doodle (for this challenge): Your doodle each day can take you 2 minutes (or less) or up to an hour or more. Honestly, though, if you are spending more than an hour on a doodle, you are trying too hard and worrying too much. That is a drawing, an illustration, a masterpiece - this challenge is simply asking for a doodle. The participants in this challenge are artists, writers, teachers, parents, children ages 4+, friends, and friends of friends. You don't have to be a professional artist or an elementary school student to enjoy a doodle. This exercise in creative expression is for everyone.

Grab a pencil, pen, colored pencil, crayon, marker, chalk, craypas, pen, or even a bottle of chocolate syrup and start doodling! If you don't have a sketchbook or a computer program with a tablet, use a notebook, post-it note, scrap paper, the back of your child's homework from last week, copy paper, pancake, or whatever you can get your hands on. Put your pencil to the page and see where it takes you.

(If you are joining us late in the game, don't feel like you have to do a massive catch up - just start today. This is a stress free challenge meant simply to inspire creativity.)
DAY 1 - DOODLE the word "DOODLE"
DAY 2 - SKYLINE
DAY 3 - MANDALA
DAY 4 - SPARKLE
DAY 5 - SWING
DAY 6 - SAD
DAY 7 - STORM
DAY 8 - NOTAN
DAY 9 - DUCKLING
DAY 10 - PICNIC
DAY 11 - CRUSTACEAN
DAY 12 - ROBOT
DAY 13 - CAR
DAY 14 - CLOUD
DAY 15 - DANCE
DAY 16 - WORDLES
DAY 17 - ROCK
DAY 18 - BOOK
DAY 19 - KITE
DAY 20 - HAIR
DAY 21 - BOX
DAY 22 - MONKEY
DAY 23 - PUPPY
DAY 24 - TOTEM POLE

Today's doodle prompt has been posted by our own talented doodler, Alayne Kay Christian. This one is very open. I'll let you read her description and see her examples to understand.

 

CLICK HERE TO GO TO ALAYNE'S BLOG FOR TODAY'S DOODLE PROMPT

Have fun!

 



DOODLE DAY JULY - DAY 24

Welcome to Day 24 of the Doodle Day July drawing challenge! One week to go but I hope you all check back in with our Facebook Group - it is such a great community of artists, writers, parents, teachers, children, ... You are all soo inspiring that I have filled another sketchbook half-way already and this is my 3rd sketchbook since May 1st.

Yesterday's prompt was puppy and the doodles were adorable. Thank you to those who attempted a puppy doodle.

Check out all the subjects we have doodled this month below. There are over a 1000 doodles on the Facebook Group page!

DAY 1 - DOODLE the word "DOODLE"
DAY 2  - SKYLINE
DAY 3 - MANDALA
DAY 4 - SPARKLE
DAY 5 - SWING
DAY 6 - SAD
DAY 7 - STORM
DAY 8 - NOTAN
DAY 9 - DUCKLING
DAY 10 - PICNIC
DAY 11 - CRUSTACEAN
DAY 12 - ROBOT
DAY 13 - CAR
DAY 14 - CLOUD
DAY 15 - DANCE
 DAY 16 - WORDLES
DAY 17 - ROCK
DAY 18 - BOOK
DAY 19 - KITE
DAY 20 - HAIR
DAY 21 - BOX
DAY 22 - MONKEY
DAY 23 - PUPPY

Today's prompt has been posted by Jennifer Young. This prompt is sure to bring some interesting doodles so check it out below:

 

CLICK HERE TO GO SEE TODAY'S PROMPT ON JENNIFER'S BLOG

 

Have fun!

DOODLE DAY JULY - DAY 23

Welcome to Day 23 of the Doodle Day July drawing challenge! Have you been doodling every day this month? Great! If you haven't, just take a minute or two and whip one up. We're not asking for portfolio quality, just a quick doodle to get what's in your head to the page.

For today's prompt - PUPPY

I don't want you to spend your time trying to draw a dog that looks totally realistic. A Doodle is a Loose drawing. Don't overthink it.

Use some light circles or ovals to create a head and body and then add your legs, facial features, tail, etc... I'm going to doodle puppies with super exaggerated features. They won't look like real dogs and that's okay. They will be dog-ish.

This prompt is specifically puppy, not dog so remember that just like human babies, puppies have big heads. Puppies also have big eyes, short legs and big feet.

There are many different breeds of dogs, too - you can make up your own or make a puppy of a breed you like. I like furry dogs, so you can remember what you learned doing the hair prompt on day 20 and apply that for a puppy.

Here are some HOW-TO pics and adorable puppies for reference:

 

 

Have fun!

DOODLE DAY JULY - DAY 22

Welcome to Day 22 of the Doodle Day July drawing challenge! I've been having a lot of fun posting prompts and doodling the first thing that pops into my mind when I look at each prompt. I hope you're having fun with this, too. Yesterday, was "box" and we saw everything from gifts to kangaroos. I like to go back and forth between prompts that inspire more angular designs and prompts that inspire more curvy lines.

Today's prompt is MONKEY.

This does not mean you have to doodle a monkey. What does the word make you think of? Personally, I call my kids my little monkey's so I think of them first, then a stack of bananas. I also think of trees and swinging.

TIPS:
If you do doodle a monkey, think of gesture. Draw a shape for the head and then just a faint line to show the position of the body. Once you are happy with that, add in the legs, hands, and face details.

There is a great video I found on gesture for figure drawing - the example he uses is a bean. *Warning, there is nudity in the video because it is about simplifying figure drawing.* You may be wondering, What?? Watch a bean drawing video and then doodle a monkey? Yes. I use gestural lines when I am drawing anything living - including trees and plants, animals, children, ... I'm not posting the video (because my kids use my computer and there is nudity in figure drawing) so go to www.YouTube.com and look up ProkoTV. He has several fantastic videos on gesture drawing.

Here are some monkeys for reference:

 

Have fun!

DOODLE DAY JULY - DAY 21

Welcome to Day 21 of the Doodle Day July drawing challenge! I hope you're have a great time doodling. This is a stress free doodle zone so if you're looking for a high pressure drawing challenge, this is not the place for you. Yesterday, Kathryn Ault Noble posted our prompt and HAIR was very interesting. Her post included a video tutorial so if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out.

Here's the summary of posts again so if you have missed any, you are always welcome to doodle something inspired by another day's prompt -

DAY 1 - DOODLE the word "DOODLE"
DAY 2  - SKYLINE
DAY 3 - MANDALA
DAY 4 - SPARKLE
DAY 5 - SWING
DAY 6 - SAD
DAY 7 - STORM
DAY 8 - NOTAN
DAY 9 - DUCKLING
DAY 10 - PICNIC
DAY 11 - CRUSTACEAN
DAY 12 - ROBOT
DAY 13 - CAR
DAY 14 - CLOUD
DAY 15 - DANCE
DAY 16 - WORDLES
DAY 17 - ROCK
DAY 18 - BOOK
DAY 19 - KITE
DAY 20 - HAIR

Today's prompt is more general - more open.

BOX

Draw a box.

It can be open, closed, stacked, wrapped, flat, 3-dimensional, ...

A box means something special to me. A gift, a storage place for special things, a place for memories, a place to toss things you no longer need, a favorite food might be packaged or stored in a box. A box is a golden place for imagination. A box can become anything - a car, a restaurant, a fort, a boat, a cage, a truck, a lemonade stand...

I have been working on an animation for a few months and it centers around a box. One box that I believe we all have. I will post it to the group when it is done (sorry, that will not be today).

If you don't know how to draw a cube in 3D, here is a tutorial by Mark Kistler:


Your box does NOT have to be 3 dimensional or in perspective. Straight on is fine.

That said, ...
I have a degree in City Planning so drafting comes easy for me and may be more challenging for other doodlers so here is a reference photo for 1 point perspective and a photo for 2 point perspective.

Tip: Draw a horizon line, decide one or two points and then when drawing your box, the lines that would be parallel to the floor angle toward the point or points. I used 1 point perspective on the skyline prompt.

Here are some reference photos of other boxes:

There is a wonderful picture book called NOT A BOX written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis that shows some of the things that a child believes his box has become.

If this prompt doesn't inspire you - go ahead and think outside the box. : )