With a focus on improving your observation skills, you first sketch Tuttle's proportions within a simple grid, then outline him with nice neat lines and finally add shading.

Preview lesson I08 - Tuttle Turtle

The grid idea works for me, there seems to be less mistakes with proportions.

the grid is a great resource. make sure your pencils stay sharp or your shading puddles. it was a great beginning and came out fantastic.

It came out great! The grid was really helpful to see how long the curves and lines should be.

I loved this lesson and I agree with others - grid is really helpful
My picture came out like this

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Very good lesson the grid works really well

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Great Lesson!

Fun lesson !!!!

Thought it was going to be difficult to draw this turtle but it turned out good.

Hi, very nice post. I have been wonder'n bout this issue,so thanks for posting

Im jumping ahead in lessons here... I got my prismacolor set today, so i just HAD to do something that i could add colors too :-D

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back to squirkling.

OMY GOSH I JUST TRIED THIS AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED! USUALLY WHENEVER I TRY ND DRAW SOMETHING IT TURNS OUT 2 BE CRAP! I LUHV HOW IT TURNED OUT AND NOW I AM ABOUT TO COLOR IT

It was really cool thank you for the lesson

I love the grids, I think that's a great feature of the tutorial

I tried to draw, just looking the ready one and got one like this - Click to view attachment

Grid works for me too. Thanks Brenda.

But please could somebody tells me why my picture looks so unnatural?

Thx

My turtle came out sort of angry looking! It's so cool.

i really like your tuttle and the way u drew it:) good job

this is my turtle:)