Doodle Day May Challenge!

A friend of mine, Alison K. Hertz, is hosting a challenge for the month of May called Doodle Day May. The challenge is to draw a doodle every day from May 1st through May 31st. Okay, she's an illustrator, so her doodles are probably going to be massively better than my own, but this should be fun anyway. My kids are going to join in and will be sharing their doodles on their own blogs.

Gabriella's blog is Gabriella's Art.

Isabella's blog is Isabella's Imagination.

Connor's blog is Spirit of Imagination.

Cameron's blog is Cameron's Creations.

The kids have been busy creating art, videos and stories often, but it has been over a year since I have helped them add anything to their blogs. And Gabby's blog, which used to be Gabby's Art, got deleted by Blogger for unexplained reasons, so all of the comments she had received on her many posts disappeared. I am trying to rebuild her blog as Gabriella's Art now, but it is slow going, and it's difficult to remember everything that she had posted on it previously. So this challenge will help me get back to helping my children keep their blogs up to date as well as get me to start practicing drawing again.

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New Year's Mermaid Moon

Happy New Year! I hope 2011 will be a great year for everyone!

I was going to draw a little new year baby sleeping on a crescent moon, but my lack of drawing ability got in the way. I couldn't draw a baby that looked even slightly baby-like. So instead, I drew a mermaid on the moon, and here she is, complete with eraser marks.



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Drawing - Fifth Attempt - Mermaid

Today, I tried to draw a simple cartoon-style mermaid. I used a book on how to draw mermaids and fairies. I still didn't quite get it right. This was my first try at it. I actually tried again with a second mermaid, but it was worse than the first one!

I have trouble gettng the hands right. Also, I couldn't find any pencils, so I was using a ballpoint pen, so I wasn't able to erase any mistakes. I also made her too big on the page and had to have part of the picture go off the page.



Here is where to buy the book I used (mine was an earlier edition though):

In the US:


In the UK: