Doodle Day: Animals with a Twist - July 14-20

Doodle Day is a daily drawing challenge and we just finished our 3rd week of Animals With a Twist. This supportive community of doodlers now has over 500 participants from around the world! We have ages 4 to 84 and everyone from teachers, parents, children, friends, friends of friends, writers, and artists of all skill levels. Hanging out with other doodlers is one of my favorite things to do so scroll down and check out my doodles for the week. Then, pick up a pencil and try creating some animals doodles for yourself.

To see my Animal Doodles from Week 1, click HERE.
To see my Animal Doodles from Week 2, click HERE.

Here are my doodles for Week3 :

PARROT

 

 

This one wasn't for a prompt. Just felt like my life was balancing act and had to doodle it.

 

 

CHIMPANZEE

ELEPHANT

 

GIRAFFE

ANY AQUARIUM CREATURE

I chose to do SEA OTTERS.

 

KANGAROO

I had a lot of fun doodling the first KANGAROO scene so I did a couple more pages in my sketchbook.

KANGAROO DISCOVERY

 

KANGAROO LEAFROG!

 

LEMUR - I chose to doodle RING TAILED LEMUR

 

If you like to doodle and want to start participating in Doodle Day, join our Facebook Group page to become part of the doodling community!

 

If you still aren't sure if Doodle Day is for you - check out this video!

 

Come back to my blog next weekend to check out another week of ANIMALS WITH A TWIST.

 

If you want to see more of my doodles and illustrations, check out my ONLINE PORTFOLIO.

You can also find me on TWITTER @AlisonHertz, GOOGLE+, PINTEREST, and FACEBOOK.

 

If Doodle Day looks like something you would enjoy participating in, CLICK HERE to go to the Facebook group where I post the prompts and more than 300 doodlers share their doodles.

 

Post a comment or suggest a Doodle theme (just keep it family friendly). : )

 

Have fun!

Happy Anniversary Doodle Day!

Woo hoo! Today is May 1st and that means that the Doodle Day drawing challenge has been going on every day for an entire year. We (my then 5 year old and I) started the Doodle Day challenge last year as a 1 month event called Doodle Day May in which Erin and I would create a doodle each day based on the same drawing prompt. I had already been doodling every day since October of 2012 (Thank you, Debbie Ohi and Linda Sylvestri for inspiring those 2012 daily doodles) and Erin was already carrying her pink sketchbook to preschool every day to use during nap time so drawing together seemed natural.

We started with Erin and I and 60 other people from around the world who wanted to join us and now, a year later, we have 275 doodlers in the Facebook Group and a few hundred others who email me directly to let me know how their doodling is going. We have had whole classes of preschoolers doodling. We have had a third grade class use doodling as their daily starter. We have teachers, children, artists, parents, friends, and friends of friends. We have everyone from doodlers who told me that they can't draw a straight line with a ruler to professional illustrators.

The amazing thing about this community is that everyone is soo supportive of each others drawings. The comments are about what people like about drawing and suggestions for making the doodles better. We also post about contests, art blogs, Pinterest boards for inspiration, drawing classes, drawing videos, drawing tutorials, programs, products, media, and books about drawing.

Happy Anniversary Doodle Day and thank you to all of the doodling participants

in the Doodle Day challenge.

The first Doodle Day logo

Doodle Notan

 

The Doodle Day Logo

 

 

 

If you want to join the Doodle Day drawing challenge, click HERE to join the Facebook Group.

 

I hope you will continue to doodle with me!

-Alison