beasts and turtles (a doodle post)

Thanks for your comments and tweets about my last post. I'm feeling a lot better but this week has worn me down a little bit and I am super glad it's Friday. We have fun low-key plans for the weekend and it's always easier when Mike is home to help, too. 

So. On to the doodles! 

I love drawing these pages. I think it's my current favorite form of relaxation. 

Every so often I get an urge to teach myself to draw something new, usually an animal. This past week at David's zoo storytime, we got to meet a turtle, so now I've got turtles on the brain. 

I realized I've never really drawn reptiles before. It's hard to draw something when you don't know it's anatomy that well. Even if I'm just doodling, I still like to understand the basic structure of an animal before I simplify it, you know?

So I spend time on flickr and google images looking at turtles and drawing them over and over. They're still not perfect but it's always nice to learn something new. 

Comments

[Dlmburton]

you will never be sorry you learned how to draw a turtle!

[emily (justem)]

You amaze me. I try to draw marine life for a song I teach the 1st graders at school and my dolphins end up looking like giant prophylactics with eyes. It's problematic...though only to the adults in the room. ;)

[Tammy]

the art of practice, so many forget that if we want to draw turtles, we have to draw a lot of turtles (something i've never drawn).