This project started in the autumn of 2020, at the time when all grown up tortoises start getting ready to hibernate and young ones are still wandering awake. Young tortoises don't go to sleep for the winter months and continue foraging in a state resembling that of sleepwalking. I started drawing my four young tortoises from life and after trying to find any research papers on tortoise sleep to no satisfactory result, my think-drawing took off. Think-drawing is a mode of dra