Vijay - that is fantastic. You really got the realistic look to the wildebeast. I love the shading on the horns that makes it look that way. Good job on the fur also. Way to go!

Vijay ...you did a awsome job hun .. this looks so very nice ...the hair even shows up great .

Painter- thank you for the comments.. Your flower has come out very well... It looks very real...

Kim- thank you for the comments!!

JanJan, that is fine with me, Vijay, very very very good. You are very talented.

Thank you Nellie for those comments!!

Here is a quick sketch of the big flower. Hope to complete something better by the end of this week challenge.

Nellie, I think the picture is great. Really love it. Clap my hands to the photographer.

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Poldone - good work

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This is my attempt to draw the white flower.

Greetings Uta

Paldon and sunset .. your flower are very nice .....welcome to the forum sunset I dont recall seeing you here before

Wonderful jobs on the flowers, Sunset and Paldon!!! Sunset and Siksnosparnyte, Welcome to Drawspace. Glad to see you enjoying and trying out the Drawing Challenges. Don't be afraid to try the other wonderful drawing threads we have. There is also Portraits 101, Imagination Equals Cartoon Creations, and Go Wild. They all offer wonderful reference photos to get you started and are great fun. Hope to see you around more!!!

Sunset - your flower is very beautiful
Venus - don't worry I will not dissapear i will try to draw something when I have some time and of course I will post my drawings here

P.S. sorry for mistakes... I'm not very good in English

Nellie
What a lovely job. You are some artist.

Farfalina

Great drawing as always. Excellent job.

Sunset and Siksnosparnyte, Welcome to Drawspace. Poldone, love your flower. Sunset very good. Thanks all for the beautiful pictures.

Thanks Mecharver

Thanks everybody for the comments. I love all the works on the flowers. I think it's a good subject to work on.



Special thank to Nellie for calling me the right way: poldone

Here is my Magnolia (?). It is the first flower I have drawn.

All of your drawings are so wonderful that I couldn't help and make a drawing too although at first I thought all of the pictures were too much difficult for me.

But I was astonished - I am able to do more than I know. This is the great worth of these challenges - greenhorns like me get the heart to do it and with every try we get better. This is the best that could happen to me to come to this forum.

Traumsonne
I like your flower.

Yes, definitely this is the added value of this challenges.

1) You see the ref pic
2) you figure out a masterpiece that will be hung in a museum
3) you realise you cannot do a drawing that worth the paper it is on

but if you go on...

4) you start drawing and you feel better
5) the finished work most of the times surprise you
6) you pat yourself on the shoulder and sometimes you show your work to relatives and friends.

Love this site, love the people 'round here.

Traumsonne,
nice flower
what medium did you use?

Here's my drawing of the cute boy
Hope you like it.

Nair

HI,

Here my flower...

Nair wonderful job on the portrait of the boy and Seb...I love your flower, great job!!! Welcome both of you to Drawspace. Glad to see some new faces around.

Paolo,



This is exactly my biggest problem. Paper is sooooo expensive and I mostly think my drawing is not so good to be on such a paper.......
But this problem is becoming smaller and smaller with every day here.

Seb,
the boy is so great. I love the little nose you have drawn. Especially because noses are something I can not draw yet. I try and try but all "my noses" look like a little hill in the face....


Siksnosparnyte,
thank you so much!
For the flower I used a 2B graphit pencil (in USA the grade is 2 I think) and then I used colored pencils (Rembrandt Polycolor) - and made a very very light layer of light ochre at the magnolia. For the background I made two light layers of apple green.
Today I MUST have a little color, our weather is such grey and dusty!

you are all doing such good work .. seems the flower is popular ...I am so bad at flowers .

hi

nair and seb01 nice portrait and nice flower

Rafael




kim I don not believe you are bad drawing flowers, and if you are good where is the challenge.

Poldone, thanks. Traumsonne, very good, Nair, Ilove you version of my sephson. Seb01 very good. Thanks to all, I love it. Enjoy.

nair
I love your portret

seb01
very nice flower

glad to see your pic traum very beautiful .

Thanks for this encouragements.

Hi everyone!

All the entries for this week's challenge are well done. What great talent we have here!

Found some time to do this one.................

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Connie

Connie beautiful flower .

Great flower Connie.

Connie very Nice flower

Rafael

I had a hard time with the flower for one major reason I couldn't make it small enough to fit the screen of my laptop ( I know ....lame lame excuse ) I find that I end up concentrating on smaller details initially rather than doing a basic outline. I habit which I hope to correct.

Hi

artfix2 Your drawing of the flower is very well

Artfix .. your flower is very nice .. that seems to be the choice of image to draw

Hi Everyone!

My submission.
It started off okay but I ended up rushing it, trying to cpmplete it before 24th !!

Cheers!
Dissector


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Dissector - once again you have created a beautiful drawing. I feel like I could reach out and touch the flower. Brilliant!

Connie - You did a very nice job on your flower too.

Artfix - I think you did a very good likeness of the flower.

Thank you Rafaelmarron and Kim very much. I find flowers really tough

Dissector.....wow!

Connie excellent flower, thanks.

Artfix2, very good on the flower. Dissector, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man your good.

Dissector .... What they said lol ... your flower does not looked rushed at all

Dissector - what Paolo said the other day - post something awful man! Everything you touch is pure gold!

Hi everyone

Thanks for your complements.

About posting something awlful... maybe oneday I'll smoke
some of the funny stuff and drink a good botlle of red
then start a drawing and see what I come up with ....

that is if I remember to draw !

Cheers

ok ok, I threw the rock so I have to deal with it.
Choose a post:

1) Dissector, one week will come when I'll be the host. I will have a pic of the sky in the night for reference: pitch black. I know you'll make it brilliant.
Man, I really love your rendering with pencils.

2) Dissector c'mon, keep on posting this garbage. When you learn to draw let us know, ok?

3) hey man, this is a drawing forum. No photographs please.

Dissector ... after you smoke and drink a little you may be surprised what kind of drawing you come up with .

I just want to thank everybody that took part in my draw challenge. Your pictures is beautiful. I love it. Thanks again.

I know I know, I'm late. A new week has begun and a new challenge as well. But, I had this work in progress that I managed to finish tonight. So I post it and, well, nothing. See you in the other challenge.

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Beter late then never. Good.

This is very nice Paolo - well done!! May I ask what paper you use?

Thanks Rose.

I have to say I'm not very happy with this paper. It's too much rough. At least I think it is. I feel comfortable with it when I just quikly sketch something but when it comes to the details, it's a mess.

The label on the final cover says "Sketch spiral A/4 110 gr. 70 pg - by Bluekover.com"

Last night I was drawing and I drop the pencil onto the sketchbook, well you won't believe me, I was not able to find it anymore. I'm sure it's on the very bottom of one of the grooves.

I just love your sense of humour Paolo! Yes, I thought your paper was a little rough which may be good for some things but perhaps not ideal for pencil drawings where you want a certain amount of detail.

Looking around I found this site which may be helpful to you. Unfortunately it doesn't say in the specifications whether the paper is smooth or textured but the first pad on the list looks very interesting. I see that over there you also have Winsor & Newton which is what I use. Recently I have been using a 220gsm smooth surface which is not pure white but it has been giving me excellent results.

Thanks for the link Rose.
I've taken a quick tour on the site and I think I'm going to change my sketchbook. But not now. As humble beginner I know that practice makes more than paper. So first I have to finish this one, then another one I bought a couple of weeks ago (that seems to have smoother surface) and finally I'll break in an fine art shop and collect some good stuff.

See you on the other challenge: I'd like to try the trumphet. I don't know why but I feel like I'd be better at playing it than drawing it.