DOODLE DAY MAY - Day 8

Welcome to DOODLE DAY MAY - Day 8! If you have been a part of this challenge from the beginning, you have been creating a doodle each day for over a week! Fantastic. This group is so creative. The doodles getting posted on the Facebook group page are truly fabulous. Doodling is a great way to relieve stress. Don't worry too much about your finished drawing, just put your pencil to the paper and see where it goes. I would say to close your eyes, but that would be pushing it.

I grew up in the woodsy suburb of Chicago, Riverwoods, Illinois, and feel calm and safe amidst the quiet of the trees. In honor of the "safe" feeling of this group of doodlers,...

Today's doodle prompt is TREE.

When drawing a tree, think about:
the trunk
the leaves
the size
the color
how twisty it is
how narrow or wide the branches are
the overall shape of the tree
Are there any animals living in it or on it?
Is there fruit or flowers growing on it?
What season is it? Have the leaves fallen off or changed color?

Here are some trees for reference:

 

Have fun!

DOODLE DAY MAY - Day 7

Welcome to Doodle Day May - Day 7. Our 7th day of doodling fun! Artists, writers, parents, teachers, children, and friends are hearing about our doodles and want to join in the fun so we are getting new doodlers joining the challenge each and every day! Yay!

A dedicated doodler in our Facebook group lost her dog during this challenge and posted a beautiful doggy doodle. I am soo sorry for her loss. I have dogs and have lost dogs and I feel her pain.

Doodle Day May - Day 7 drawing prompt is DOG.

Draw one dog.

There are soo many different breeds - you can draw a small dog, a big dog, a skinny dog, a fat dog, a hairy dog, a short-haired dog.

Think about the snout - long like a Golden or short like a Pug.
Think about the ears - floppy or perky, big or small
Think about the tail - long or short - hairy or shaved
Think about the feet - puppies have big feet if they are going to grow to be big dogs
Are you drawing a puppy or an adult dog?
Is your dog wearing clothes?
Should the dog be standing, sitting, running, jumping, sleeping, asking for a belly rub?

Don't stress about this one - your dog does not have to look real - it is a doodle. Create your own breed. Mix features of two breeds together. Create any type of dog you want.

Here is my dog, Oscar and my doodle for today (I made him extra fat in my doodle):

Here are some dogs for reference:

DOODLE DAY MAY - Day 6

This is day 6 of the Doodle Day May challenge in which I have challenged artists, writers, parents, teachers, children of all ages, friends and friends of friends to create a doodle each day this month. Doodles can take 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes or even up to an hour. If you are spending an hour or more, it is no longer a doodle, it's a masterpiece and it means you are trying too hard or thinking too much. If you want to spend the time to make portfolio quality illustrations - don't let me stop you. I just want to let the casual doodlers who are absentmindedly scribbling daisies and curly-qs down the sides of their pages during meetings or classes that they belong here. Put your pencil to the paper and just see where your arm goes. Turn on music and let the doodle come out.

The doodlers in this challenge are doing a fantastic job. They are posting doodles each day on the Facebook Group page for DOODLE DAY MAY and I am truly impressed. I know that our lives are busy and I think it is great that these 50+ people have made it a choice to take a few minutes out of each day to jot down a doodle - from the prompts that I post or a story idea or just something they need to get onto the page.

Now to explain a little about today's doodle prompt...

I have always been someone who "wears many hats." I am not just referring to the baseball hat collection that I have had since college but also to the fact that I have been a Toy Designer, Circus Performer, Mom, Teacher, Writer, Illustrator, Architect, City Planner, and Summer Camp Director, ... to name a few.

Today's drawing prompt is to draw a HAT.

Any hat - can be a baseball hat, cowboy hat, top hat, derby, birthday hat, visor, sailor cap, captain's hat, Kentucky Derby hat, fine ladies hat, etc... You can design your own hat - anything. Draw something zany or cute, fun, fancy, silly, crazy. Any hat - whether it exists in the real world or just in your creative mind.

Enjoy.

Here are some hats for reference:

 

DOODLE DAY MAY - Day 5

Welcome to the Doodle Day May challenge - Day 5. Happy Cinco de Mayo. Today is a Sunday and outside it is pouring rain. I am ready for summer - ready for warm weather, birds chirping, and beautiful flowers blooming.

Today's doodle prompt is to draw a flower.

You can go outside, look up flowers on Google images, create one from your imagination - anything. Doodle. You can draw a single flower or a bouquet. It can be in a vase, on a table, in the ground, in a hand, or just on the page with no reference to where it is, etc... anywhere. Color or black and white. Any flower, any kind, any creation, any style.

Things to think about when drawing a flower:

Petals - round, pointy, narrow, wide, many or few
Pistol - (the thingy sticking out of the center) long, short, big, small
Stem - long, short, thick, thin, thorns?, leaves?
Etc...

Here is my example - I really love drawing Zentangles so I drew a Zen flower.

 

Have fun!