DOODLE DAY!

The History of Doodle Day

Doodle Day began as a one month challenge back in May of 2013 (you can see the original post announcing the challenge HERE). I was creating a daily doodle and my then 4 year old was carrying her little pink sketchbook to pre-k each day so she could sketch during nap time. On April 29th, 2013, Erin told me, on the way to school, that she wanted to start doodling the same thing I was doodling each day and we should call it Doodle Day May. As I she got out of the car, she said, "and you should blog about it and invite our friends."

Well, I loved the idea so I did go home and blog about it and I did invite our friends. The next morning, there were about 60 people who had commented on the blog or expressed interest that they wanted to doodle with Erin and I and now 34 months later, Doodle Day never stopped. Erin and I still doodle every day and the group has grown to more than 600 people! We have a new theme each month and all doodlers are welcome (well, as long as you keep the doodles family friendly and rated G since we have some pretty young artists in this group).

If you'd like to join Doodle Day, the Facebook group can be found HERE. 

Today, we are on day 4 of our February 2016 theme UNLIKELY FRIENDS. The prompts are about creating a quick doodle of pairs of animals that you wouldn't typically see together enjoying each other's company.

Here's a sample of a couple of my doodles this month:

Doodling every day for years has helped me developed my style, play with different media, create characters, and it's just fun. 

If you are a grown up or a child, a parent or single, an artist, teacher, media center specialist, or anybody else who enjoys doodling - consider joining the very supportive online community of Doodle Day. 

-Alison

A Month of HAND LETTERING in Doodle Day

Sorry about the blog hiatus but I've been very busy doodling. : ) Doodle Day is still going strong and we are up to 511 members of the online community. Our theme this month was HAND LETTERING. Personally, I had never sat down and really thought about how to approach hand lettering. Sure, I doodled and played with names and words here and loved doing the Notan designs for Doodle Day last year but I really hadn't worked on composition and how the viewers eye will move around the piece (specifically referring to a lettering piece) until this month. I started a new sketchbook just for Hand Lettering and I'm keeping it positive, motivational, and inspiring. I didn't fill the sketchbook this month but I did average more than one doodle per day and I intend to continue to fill this sketchbook with just hand lettering. Here are my doodles from this month...

If you'd like to join Doodle Day - an online community of doodlers. We have monthly themes and daily doodle prompts. You can post your doodles, get feedback, share your ideas, ask questions, and join a very supportive group. Click on this link to join: DOODLE DAY

My Doodles from July 28th to August 9th

 

Here are the last few days of Animals with a Twist...

 

GUINNEA PIG

 

CHAMELEON

FERRET

ARMADILLO

MOUSE

 

On to August...

August brings a new month of doodles and a new challenging theme. This month in Doodle Day, we are focusing on INSECTS and to make it even more challenging, we are combining it with A to Z so each day the prompt is a letter and each doodler has the freedom of selecting an Insect that starts with that letter. There are soo many fascinating insects out there and a lot of wonderful Entomology sites that even list them for us in alphabetical order so it is just up to us to select which one to doodle. Fun!

A is for Acrobat Ants

B is for Dancing Bees

C is for Crickets

D is for Dragonfly

E is for Elephant Beetle

F is for Firefly

G is for Greenfly

H is for Heliconius Charithonia Butterfly

 

I is for Insects

 

Come back next Sunday to see all of the insect doodles I create this week!

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!