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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

A Month of Insects in Doodle Day

August was A-Z INSECTS in Doodle Day so I've put together my entire alphabet along with the random doodles to fill the last days of the month...

A is for Acrobat Ants

B is for dancing Bees

C is for a Cricket band

D is for Dragonfly (don't actually look like this)

E is for Elephant Beetle (actual bug but I made one cuter)

F is for Firefly

G is for Greenfly

H is for Heliconius Charithonia Butterfly

I is for Insects (I couldn't find any that I wanted so I made some up)

J is for Japanese Beetle

K is for Killer Bee

L is for Leafhoppers

N is for Nut Weevil Beetle

O is for Orange Sulfer Butterfly

P is for Praying Mantis

Q is for Queen Butterfly

R is for Robber Fly

S is for Slug (not an insect) and Stick Bug

T is for Termite

U is for Underwing

V is for Velvet Ant

W is for Wheel Bug (actual bug - just uglier than this)

X is for Xerces Butterfly

Y is for Yellow Tail Moth

Z is for Zebra Swallowtail

and the random doodles that filled the rest of my month...

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 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!

Sunday, July 20, 2014

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!

Monday, June 16, 2014

Doodle Day June 1-15 Sumary

The theme this month is MULTICULTURAL. Art directors have asked that illustrators include characters from an assortment of cultures in our portfolios and editors are looking for characters and stories that embrace diversity. Each day this month, our doodle prompt is a country. We can doodle a flag, a character dressed in clothing commonly worn there, something from this country in history, food eaten there, something from this country in the future, plants, animals, landscape from a region of this country, a building or monument in this country, a character doing something that is a popular activity in this country, etc... I posted on the Doodle Day group page asking that doodlers please, "be culturally aware. Do not jump to a stereotypical image. Do not use personal bias to doodle something inappropriate. Do not insult others who may be from that country. Understand that we have 300 + doodlers in the Doodle Day community from all around the world. Sensitivity is important."

We are in the middle of June and summer is already flying by. My children are out of school which translates to lots of time at the pool, teaching them to ride bikes, working in the garden, and doing bunches of other fun summer activities with them. What it also means is less time for me to doodle, draw, illustrate, create, and write, but that's okay. That said, even though I've had less time to work on doodles, portfolio pieces and other submission quality work, I have been busy on a fairly new artistic adventure that I'll post about another day.

Without further spillage of all that is on my mind, here are my MULTICULTURAL doodles so far this month: