Smiles

A friend gave me this lovely toad, whose smile in my garden brightens my everyday. — on Flickr

Daily Note

Every day, a photograph, a poem.

A friend gave me this lovely toad, whose smile in my garden brightens my everyday. It’s hard to see in this picture the smiling toad, but as I looked at it, I realized and remembered how just even a slight curve upwards at the ends of a line create a smile. Have you noticed that too? I think we need more curves upward.

So today I looked for “How to Draw a Smile” and found several resources, including one for drawing cartoon animals here and human expressions here. But I was really looking for the “slight curve at the end,” and I found that in two YouTube Videos:

How to draw a smile– not the slight curve, and only one is needed!

And, how to draw three different smiles, including one laughing– not the one curved end for each:

I was delighted to learn these myself, and hope you enjoy my little journey to a drawn smile that resulted from the smile of my little toad.

And so, a poem.

Poetry

Smiles

Have you ever noticed
the thin line
with just
a slight
curve upwards
at the ends
creates the smile?

Sheri Edwards
06.27.23 179.365.23
Poetry/Photography [See-Frame-Focus]

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And, do you see my simple curve upward on this giraffe?