My name is Nellie, and I am your draw challenge host this week. I hope you will enjoy the pictures that I am going to put up for you. My stepson, I have tried to draw him before, but failed terribly. A few others, I didn’t want to put too many. It’s my first time, so I hope you all surprise me. You can use any medium, just not painting. I didn’t use any copyrighted materials. My own photo’s. Sorry I have edited the pictures hope it's smaller.

Enjoy

Nellie

This is a nice variation of pictures, Nellie. I'm sure everyone will like them.

nellie thank you--love all the pictures. i think of course the portrait i cant resist but i do want to try that flower too. and thanks for putting them in gray scale too
Lori

These are so great.. I can hardly wait to get home and start drawing. I will just have to make the time no matter how busy I am.

dummy me .. nellie you meant here I love your choice of pictures hun cant wait to get started

Hi all,

Wow great pctures Nellie......hmmm I am no good at portraits so I am taking a look at that fellow on the wall...or rather looks like he is looking at me...lol.....looks like some one has been..


Cyn....nice to see your face.


Night night, Brain.

Nellie...Awesome pictures!! I of course love and am going to do the flower. I am sure everyone will love this challenge!! Can't wait to see how it turns out.

As for everyone else who was interested in drawing Cartoons, I have started a new thread called Imaginations Equal Cartoon Creations..It starts tomorrow and I think I have a pretty good thread going for people wanting to explore that imaginative side. There are sooo many new threads and wonderful threads I might add for exploring our artistic sides, I hope everyone will at least try each one out and give it a try. You never know which one will bring out that masterpiece we are all trying to acheive at some point.

Sorry,No wall hanger,but it's your at no cost! #2 and #5B on typing paper.
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"Draw challenge-Feb 18 to Feb 24," Oh Well!! Any one can be on time or late,but not everyone can be a day early !?!
I guess I need to look at a calendar more often.

Nice Picture, Ted.......on typing paper? Ok...........

Probably the reason the challenge was started early was because she is in a different time zone than the USA. That would be my guess.

Nellie,
Great choices for the challenge. I did however notice there wasn't any of your hubby's favorite subject!!

jonsie

"Nice Picture, Ted.......on typing paper? Ok..........."
I should have said printer paper,,have no typewriters,,didn't use my Bristol paper 'cause I'm cheap!?

Hi Nellie

thank you, nice pictures here is my drawing of the flower.

Rafael

ted and ralfael nice work .. the child turned out very nice .. and of course the flower is beautiful as well .

Kim, Ge, Ge, Ge, gotcha. Ted, thanks it's beautiful. Rafael, I love your flower. Thanks all, I love this. Can't wait to see all. Thanks for participating. I will save mine for last.

My internet connection was off this morning. I was glad I have posted the challenge lastnight, otherwise you all would have missed out on someting nice. I was so disapointed at the internet, I could not wait to see all the replies. I do enjoy this very much.

Rafael great job on this flower. Bravo!

Hi
Kim, Nellie and Mechaver thank for your comments.
Rafael

Raphael - Great drawing. Much better than I did that's for sure.

Nellie - what is this flower? Is a magnolia? It sure is large.

Here's my rendition of it.



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Done on sketch paper with 9b, HB, 2b Cretacolor Monolith Pencils. Graphite. These are great pencils they are really creamy and smooth like prisma color pencils. They are the woodless pencils and have a nice weight/feel to them.

oh my gosh joanie .. awsome work hun .. I love the detail in the folds of the flower ..well done .

Painter that is beautiful..

Rafael Nice sketch, and another great one Ted, I always admire your work.

Nellie , I tried a quick sketch of the fellow on the wall but I think I rushed it too much.....Brain.

Painter and Brian, both of you great job on the drawings!! You both captured great likenesses!!!

I decided to do the flower also, I used prismacolor pencils ( light gray, french gray, beige, yellow, burnt seinna, green, olive green, and white for the flower...flower pot was dark pink, light pink and magenta..background was magenta, raw umber and black) and on canson cool gray colored paper. I really like this paper, great textures for colored pencils and can do alot of layering!!!

Venus your drawing is beautiful.

Painter the detail in the folds of the flower is very well.

Rafael

Thank you, Rafael!!!

Brian very nice .. I was not sure what that thing was lol.
Venus .. of course its beautiful .. you are so good at doing flowers I love it .

Painter beautiful, yes it's a magnolia, my son picked it for me. Brain excellent, love this picture. Thanks all for the participatoin.

Venus love your flower and the colors are great to. Thanks.

very good venus--i always love your flawers
everyone is doing great with the flowers and the portrait so far. i hope to do both also. i havent started yet--been playing with the cartoons.
Lori

WoW! there have already been some excellent drawings here.

Sorry I haven't gotten round to doing anything myself yet but I'm feeling the strain of all the hardwork I put in last week and I'm feeling a little under the weather. My left eye really hurt yesterday though I'm feeling a little better already for the rest I'm taking.

Maybe I'll be able to do something by the end of the week.

I could not wait, here is my version. I used, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B. You can crit me if you want help me with my mistakes. Can't wait to see the others.

Get well soon Rose

myself I do like to critique ....I will be honest and say I love it and i mean it .. lol you have done a beautiful job on him ...your drawing is so soft ..what pencils do you use for the skin ?

Everyone has such beautiful, professional stuff here, but not to let it go to your head, here is my beautiful, cartoony looking animal. At least I tried. I don't think animals are my forte'..

Ah silly me!! I say I won't draw but the call of the pencils is just too much!

Sorry Nellie, my version of your little boy is not a terribly good likeness but personally I'm quite happy with it since it is totally freehand and eyeballed. Usually I use a grid but since this was just an exercise I tried out my hand without any safety net.

So what's the little boy called?

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What Cyn said! - everyone has really done well already!!

Cyn - great job on the wildebeast. I'm not sure if I'll attempt him or not. LOL

Nellie - Just awesome - you are so talented in several mediums too. Your stepson is a little cutie. He'll be a heartbreaker when he grows up. hehehehe

Rose - Fantastic - you just couldn't rest could you? You really got the artbug "bad". Just don't overdue.

Brian - You did good on the beast - even if you don't think so, you could have drawn him as a cartoon.......LOL

Venus - Wonderful flower - that paper really sets it off.

After looking at all the great work you all did, now I know, why I didn't do one,

Nellie, I thought for a minute, you'd reposted the original picture of your step-son!! Dang you're good girl!!

Jonsie

Cyn I give you so much credit for attempting that .. good job hun .
Rose beautiful job as always .

Thanks Venus, Kim , Nellie , and Painter for your kind comments , I admire all you drawings very much. Great challenge Nellie.... Brain

Hi

Nellie, I tried a sketch of the duck but the result does not convince to me.

Rafael

Venus, I think you love to draw flowers, because, your own beauty is somehow relflected in every work you do. May I ask, how did you get the background to look like that? It's so unique! Great job, as usual, course, I bet you get tired of hearing that huh? I am so blessed to be able to view all the artists here, and have the opportunity to ask questions too. Now, if I only had a brain................

Jonsie




Rafael,

I think, you did great to capture a very difficult subject. I looked at it when Nellie first posted, and thought it would be a challenge, but the more I looked, the more challenging it became, till finally, I decided to not accept the challenge, You did good my friend!

Jonsie



Wow Rose !!
I think you should be proud too. Great job!!

Jonsie

Alright Jonsie,
Enough talk, get posting pictures. You can't convince us your not good enough, we know differently. Now get to work.
Paulette

Rafael .. nice job .. it looks just like the duck ..

Whoa, Jonsie...................................Paulette is cracking that whip! She's right, you definitely can do it!

Rafael, I love the pond picture!! You did a great job.

Jonsie as for my backgrounds a use a solid color and then layer with more solid colors. Its actually pretty easy and normally turns out really pretty.

If you guys go look in the New Picture or Pictures thread I added my new butterfly and iris picture.

I saw it and it was breathtaking venus .. you really do a nice job at those flowers and the butterfly is so beautiful .

Thanks Kim. I think I am going to do alot of different flowers and butterfly drawings and hang them in my bedroom.

Thats a great idea ... very colorful also .. when framed I bet they will look awsome .

Thanks all for the lovely pictures, and convincing Jonsie I think he needs that.
Kim I used 2b and some places 4b.
Cyn awesome, very good drawing. It came out very good.
Farfallina his name is Armand. He is very cleaver and cute. Very high IQ, like his father/
Painter he is going to be a hart broker.
Jonsie please.... let’s see a picture.
Thanks Brain.
Rafelmarron, excellent, I love it, looks very real.
Thanks Paulette and Painter for the guidance to Jonsie.

Thanks nellie I am just learning how to use the numbered pencils lol

Hi Nelly: I would like to draw this but at a later time. I also need to get a digital camera or a camera and when I do I will post it. Thanks JanJan

Hi Nelly: I would like to draw this but at a later time. I also need to get a digital camera or a camera and when I do I will post it. Thanks JanJan

My sketch for the animal... Please let me know how it is....

Hi
Vijay, nice job

Rafael

Thanx Rafael!!