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