Elisa Ang

What a great “let’s give this a try” expression on young Charlie’s face. I’ve really enjoyed your sketches for Inktober, thank you for letting us come along on this journey with you.

Love this!!! I really like the perspective you use its really cool and adds an awesome dimension!!!

Wonderful perspective and a fun sketch and painting!!!

You are the master of perspective and a composition that leads the eye from the front to the back of your painting. It almost feels like being on a roller coaster – you just shoot from the top to the bottom!

Boys with sling shots make me nervous. I imagine dead birds in their wake. I was glad you were shooting cans. A much better target!

My cleaning girl was here today, and my neighbor brought dinnet, so I painted practice fence posts today. I finally nailed the gray. Next up, weeds. Lol

Great slingshot post Charlie. I remember making slingshots from tree branches and something stretchy but I don’t remember what we did with them. I would have been trying to keep up with the boys as I didn’t like playing with dolls. Brief glimpses of small town memories. Likely I’m just too tired tonight. I am just getting back from a solo round trip to see mom. 4 hours to Maine, 4 hour visit and 4 hours home. I got to see the last of the foliage and snow on the distance peck of Mount Washington. Pretty day for a ride even if it started and ended in the dark.

What? No reference photos at all? Awesome work, Charlie! I love the expression on your face showing that you were aiming at something. I have terrible aim with things flying through the air, but as you said, I don’t care to be good at those things. I’ll take felt and a glue gun any day!! I’ve enjoyed seeing the double versions of your Doodlewashes every day this month, too! 😍

Great article and drawing, Charlie! I had a slingshot (of sorts) when I was about 10, made of a strong part of a branch in the shape of a ‘Y.’ I remember trying to hit a spider on a web, though fortunately for the spider my aim wasn’t the best. I completely missed it but managed to break one the neighbour’s small textured louvre windows… Oops! Went straight into our house to advise Mum what had happened, saying ‘Mum, I think I’m in trouble…’ Had to go around to apologise to the neighbour and offer to pay for the window. Needless to say, that was the end of the slingshot…

This reminds me of my dad who used to get rabbits using a catapult. Great picture.

Great job without using a reference and great message on the magic of doing what we love.

Ahhh, you discovered what I discovered a few months ago. If I make up my own sketches, there isn’t anything to compare it to. It was like a weight was lifted off my pencil. Very good on your perspective of your young self!

Ha, the look on your face. I think I’d be the same! Thankfully, I don’t remember anybody owning one of these growing up. With my handy co-ordination skills, I feel like it’d be more likely to come back and hit me than the target.

Your sloth is adorable. You know the prehistoric sloth was about the size of an elephant. They’ve slimmed down a bit, but the fact that they still exist is proof that doing their own thing has worked and worked well.

Great sloth, Charlie!!

I love your little sloth Charlie! Thanks for bringing us all together for this wonderful journey!

A baby sloth! Who would have “thunk” it? Such an ugly animal made into a lovable little beauty! And, me too…I’m a slowpoke and I basically do everything whenever the spirit moves me. I’m hoping your great watercolors etc. will move me to get back into painting. I’ve been more into writing for the past few years but your lovely works are motivating me to “move” again. Thanks for the inspiration.

So cute!!!! And here is to being unique in the world!!! I think it is fun to find our own way creatively. If it interests me I just jump into it and see what happens.

Adorable sloth – a favorite animal of mine!

I learned today that the pangolin is the only mammal in the world with scales. I would argue that the armidillo has a form of scales, but evidently, I’d be wrong. Hmm.

I love your sloth! Sloths are a difficult creature to paint/draw because if they aren’t done right their faces look flat and one dimensional. But, you nailed this in every way capturing the cuteness and cuddly looks of our sloth friends! I relate to your words too and feel like the sloth is my spirit animal.

Adorable sloth – and one in motion! Of course, you will take the path least taken, Charlie. It’s fantastic!! I was fortunate to see sloths in their natural habitat last May in Panama – you have captured the image of one I saw perfectly!

Love your little sloth, what great nails he has.

Thanks so much, Gaina! 😃💕 I’ll have look her up. And yes, it’s a wonderful time indeed when we finally feel comfortable with our own uniqueness!

Awesome!! Thanks for the clarification, Gaina! 🙂

Thanks so much, Kerfe! 😃💕

Ha! I love your inner geek! As a retired librarian, I can relate to the need to look stuff up! 😁😁

Oh Charlie, what fantastic ornaments! I agree that it is very special to make art friends from around the world! Sharing this daily process of DOodling has become a treasured part of my day.

Wonderful glass ornaments!! Love this world wide community and find inspiration seeing everyone’s art each day.

It is amazing how taking a slightly different approach can change your result, and yet your style still comes out making it uniquely yours! I love your glass ornaments!

You know, my wife is from Chile and in the Xtreme south of Chile you can find the King Pinguins. They are simply beautiful. So, I like your concept of setting the pinguin face to face with the polar bear, representing the two extremes of our Planet… Is funny but the most southern part of Chile is known as “Tierra de Fuego” which means Land of Fire… And is the last corner of Earth because next stop is Antarctic…

Both of these are so gorgeous!!! i am very happy to know you too Charlie and all of this lovely community. It is a true blessing to connect to others artistically. Seeing everyone creating from their hearts and supporting each other is pretty wonderful.

Sending love and warm wishes right back to you! I wish I owned those ornaments, and I think you did a great job drawing and painting them.

I never would have given it a thought that glass would be harder to draw than paint. But it makes sense, because glass is nothing and watercolor, being transparent, is nothing too. But ink is something. At least I assume yours is not transparent. Ink does metal well though.

Great picture. I love all the reflections.

Happy Holidays to you too! I’ve enjoyed your black and white sketches this month! It is another form of inspiration put into my brain. These are wonderful with their depth and all!

This is so special! I love that you didn’t intend to create friends in globes a globe apart, but there they are. And of course, the connection that for all of the challenges of the internet in our lives, it does bring us together with people on completely different ice floes that we’d never have met otherwise. The ink drawing is amazing, as are you for continuing to bring us together and inspire us, Charlie!

These ornaments connect the opposite ends of the earth, both of which are under threat by the warming of the earth. I would love to see someone who could make and market them! Maybe Nat Geo or the Sierra Club. Or one of your Doodle Club members! It would be the culmination of the sharing among all of us, you and your readers. Thanks for the inspiration you send out every day!

Great work Charlie, I love your little friends

Thanks! 😃💕 Happy you enjoyed this!

Thanks so much, Rhoda! 😃💕 Glad you enjoy my ink drawings!

Thanks, Sharon! 😃💕 Glad you liked this! Yeah, I was surprised by what came out this time as well! Happy you’re enjoying this style, I love drawing so this is extra fun! And yes to everyone being as welcoming. 😉

Aww thanks, Jill! 😃💕 Appreciate it! It’s way easier when watercolor does the heavy lifting. Drawing glass is challenging… glad you liked both!