Let's show how creative you are :- Drawing - tortoise

Good day steemians in this wonderful community. I am currently participating in a contest in which I have to draw a tortoise. This contest is particularly hosted and organised by @benton3. And I'm going to be showing you all step by step how I drew the tortoise.

Before I begin I would like to invite @wizzyboy3 , @entity and @goodybest. I really hope they will all participate.

With the hope they'll participate let's proceed. I would like to list out the tools I used in drawing the tortoise.

1. Pencil
2. Eraser
3. Plain paper

Step 1

Firstly I began drawing by starting from it's head. The head is always the first place to begin in a drawing so I did just so. Then I drew it's eyes, nose and mouth. As you can see below 👇

Step 2

After drawing it's head. My next focus was on the structure of the shell so I drew it. And then I drew it's front legs. As you can see below 👇

Step 3

After drawing the structure of the shell I had to make the cracks of the shell . So it appeared like this 👇

Step 4

I shaded the shell so that
it may look more attractive and pleasurable to the eyes.

Facts about tortoise

Tortoise are well known in folktales to be very cunning and wise. Sometimes the tortoise pranks often landed him in trouble. For example the story how the tortoise broke it's shell in that story because of the mischievous pranks by the tortoise he fell from the sky and broke his shell.

The lessons

1. The folks about the tortoise teaches everyone to be honest and fair in our dealings with others. Trying to be cunning will make people believe that you are not trustworthy.

2. The story also teaches us that one can achieve success by doing things slow and steady rather than rushing into many things and acting carelessly.

3. The story of the tortoise also teaches us that for us to acquire something we should do so by working hard to acquire it instead, of being lazy and looking for dishonest ways to collect it.

In conclusion
I would like to thank @benton3 for organising such a creative contest and for allowing me to express myself. I am truly delighted in participating in this contest. I hope you all will get acquainted with my post. I also hope you all learnt a lot of lessons concerning the tortoise. The tortoise is the favourite character of kids in folklores. Thanks to you all and have a wonderful day.