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:

CHINA

 

SOUTH AFRICA

HONDURAS

 

LITHUANIA

 

AUSTRALIA

TAHITI

 

ANCIENT EGYPT

ITALY

 

IRELAND

 

JAMAICA

 



ISRAEL

 

Come back soon for to see more of my Daily Doodles...

 

Leave a comment if you have ideas for more family friendly doodle themes or prompts!

May 12-31, 2014 Doodle Day Summary

With school ending and summer starting, May has been a super busy month! The theme in Doodle Day has been NATURE and the doodles have been fantastic! Our online doodle community is up to 302 members from around the world. It is soo fun to wake up and check the posts to see what has been shared from the other side of the world overnight.

Here are my doodles from May 12 to May 31st:

DOGWOOD

PRECIPICE

ROCK

 

FOREST

 

DESERT

 

DAISY

 

I heard birds chirping outside my window and imagined what they could look like.

 

CAMELLIA

 

EUCALYPTUS (made me think of Koala)

 

 

APPLE (reminded me of when Mitzy would jump to get apples)

WEEPING WILLOW

 

PEACH

 

 

 ROSEMARY

 

LEMON

 

 

PICKLE

MUSHROOM

TROPICAL

ARCTIC

I also painting a couple of canvases in the last few days but I'll create a separate post to show those. 

 

 

Our theme for June is WORLD CULTURES so join or stay tuned for doodles representing something from 30 different countries. If you are not a member of Doodle Day but you are interested in joining, click HERE to join the Facebook Group. Whether you are an artist using doodles as a warm up or think you can't draw a straight line with a ruler (but would like to try), this group is for you.

 

May 1-11, 2014 Doodle Day Summary

May is not only the 1 year anniversary celebration of Doodle Day but this month's theme is NATURE! After spending months creating characters and settings it is nice to get back to the simplicity of looking at a leaf or a flower or a nest.

Here are my doodles for the first 11 days of May:

MAY 1ST DOODLE DAY ANNIVERSARY

HAPPY 1 YEAR BIRTHDAY DOODLE DAY

 

BIRCH

CALLA LILLY

 

CINCO DE MAYO

NEST

OAK

ROSE

 

BIRDS OF PARADISE 

JACK IN THE PULPIT

 

CAVE OR CAVERN

 

Come back next weekend to see this week's doodles!

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

 

Have fun!

 

 

Doodle Day Giveaway Winners!

I'm soo excited to announce the official winners of the Doodle Day Giveaway Winners! Without further delay, please congratulate:

Doodle Day Button:

Dani Duck!

Yvonne Mes!

Louann Brown!

 

Doodle Day Mug:

Jerry Bennett!

 

and the Grand Prize of a Doodle Day t-shirt goes to:

Mary Flynn!

Congratulations to all of you and thank you to everyone else who entered and shared Doodle Day with the world.

Winners, please email me your mailing address at Alison@AlisonHertz.com. Mary, please let me know what size t-shirt to send.

If anyone would like to order Doodle Day SWAG on their own, click here: Doodle Day Store.

Coming soon - New Banner Designs - I will ask Doodlers if I can use one of his or her doodles for our group banner and change the design ever few weeks. You are also welcome to create doodles specifically for the Doodle Day Banner.

We are just starting out with Nature Month today. Now, I'm off to doodle some Lilies.

Keep Doodling!
-Alison

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

Doodle Day: April 2014 Week 4 and a CONTEST

We just finished up the 4th week of April doodles. We started off with heading back to the basics for some practice with hands in various positions. You can see the Hand summary post HERE. Then we spent three weeks working with one character for a week at a time. You can see my summary posts for those first two characters HERE and HERE. For this week's character consistency theme in Doodle Day, I wanted to work with a dog. Since I have a model in my studio everyday, I used my own dog, Oscar, as my character.

A variety of poses.

This is a few different breeds - just playing with angle.

Searching (and finding)

 

This is a short story of Oscar getting a haircut.

 

 

and now for the CONTEST!

 

Doodle Day officially began on May 1st, 2013 so we approaching our 1 year Anniversary Celebration!!! Thank you to all of the doodlers out there who have been doodling along with me. I'm sure that your drawing skills have improved, your stress level has decreased, and your creativity is flowing. To say thank you to the Doodle Day participants, I have a contest posted below. The more entries, the more chances to win* Doodle Day stuff from the Doodle Day store.

Click HERE to go directly to the Doodle Day store.

 

Let's spread the word about Doodle Day!

*you must be a member of the Doodle Day group on Facebook to win so if you are not Doodling with us, join our community and begin! JOIN HERE

 

 

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