Hello, Everyone!! This is the same thread as before, but the other one was too long, so I decided to close it and start fresh with a new one. The thread is intended for us to show of recently completed work for praises without the critique. I hope to see lots of new and wonderful pictures here like the last thread!!

Venus,
Love the new picture!! Is that your "significant other"? How's the human figure class plans? Love the new picture!! Oh, I already said that,

Jonsie

Jonsie...yeaup thats the hubby. I thought I would show him off for a bit..LOL. Too bad I can't see my new advatar yet.....Thanks by the way.

Friday, I was out on a sales call and stopped at a roadside table for lunch. I saw this and thought it would make a great picture, but I didn't have my sketchpad with me. This morning, I broke out my sketchpad and drew it up.

Blade thats an awesome job for remembering that picture in your head. I do that alot as well see scenes and want to draw them when I dont have my camera but then forget about them. Wish I could remember half of them.

Nice job Blade.
Paulette

Hi Blade,
I like it very much.

Very nice blade, particularly since you did it from memory.

Here is something I started working on last Thursday and finished this afternoon.

Frida Kahlo's self portrait. Prismacolors on Stonehenge paper 9x12


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Wonderful, Rose. You've outdone yourself again. hahaha

Rose, another great one....love the vivid colors and the effect of the color scraping on the leaves on the right. This created a wonderful effect. I think you have captured her beautifully. Great work!

Christine

Blade very nice ...and venus is right to remember the image and draw it later ...thats awsome
Rose again you put out a beautiful piece of art .. love the colors you chose

Rose, beautiful job!! I love it.

Ok here is my watercolor and ink drawing, FINISHED FINALLY!!! LOL I forgot how hard it was to do details in ink and though it isn't my best I definately want to try another one soon. This was my first attempt since I was in 10th grade in High School. So lets just say its been a very long time, but I am happy with it at the moment. Some of the picture was cut out due to my scanner not being big enough for the full picture but mostly on the sides is where it is missing.

Woooooooow Rose,
phantastic job!! I love it. I like it more than the original.

Venus,
I was right - this picture, now finished, is beautiful! I like this combination WC and ink very much.

Thanks Martina and Kim for the compliments on my last picture. I enjoyed doing it so much I decided to try another one this time using even more ink, like the WHOLE background..(think next time I will use a paint brush!!). This one is really multi-media, its a combination of watercolors, ink and colored pencils. I really enjoyed doing it and am quite satisfied with the results, although my scanner isn't big enough to get the full picture and I can't find my charger for my digital camera!! So here is the best I could get of it with the scanner. The picture is a 10 by 13.

Rose you might remember the reference I used for this one. I showed it to you awhile back ago in one of your threads and finally found the time to do it!!

Venus I left a comment on this .. I love the colors and the ink .. I saw it lastnight when you sent it to Van and I could not believe it ... I so love the way you do flowers .

These are some of my daughters work ...she is pretty good I think , I know her art teacher really loves her work she gets A's and I am proud of that .
My daughter is 15

Wow Kim, its true I guess when they say the apple never falls far from the tree. Because I definately see where she inherited her tallent from. Tell her awesome job!!

Awesome, Kim!

She dosent do alot of drawing around the house but when she does I try to encourage her to do more ... she just rolls her eyes ...I dont think she fully understands just how good she can be .

awesome-- like daughter like mother. she is very talented. i hope she sticks with it
Lori

I spent more time on this drawing than I ever have before; about eight hours total, I think. The reference was composed from three separate photos of the children. These are my friend Gregg's kids.

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Ernest that is adorable .. I love it .. you did a great job .. love the smiles

Ernest

Great composition. The kids look great and so happy.
The extra time paid off. You have a superb drawing there. Well worth to be framed. I like it a lot.
Don't show this to your friend if you don't want to see a grown up man cry.

here is a portrait That I did for my cousin ..its of her son on prom night .. it was challenging because of the jaw line . I am giving it as a gift .

I love the reflections on the glasses, and the satin texture of the tie. You are so good with those Prismas!

Hey Kim,

I just had to say that your daughter is very good. I would be proud of her too. Plases tell her she is very good. I just wish I keep up on my art when I was younger. My Mom is where I get my talent. One day she will know how good she is. Daisybug

You have really got the hang of those prisma's Kim, this is another excellent portrait.

Thanks for the comments ....I tell my daughter all the time she is good at what she does .. but drawing is such a part of this house that sometimes i think its not really looked at like it counts .
here is my other daughter kellie ..she is six feet 2 in. and 13 years old lol I know she is tall .. well this is the look I get when I bother her while she is on the phone ...she was suppose to be cleaning her room lol .

Kim, awesome job on Kellie's picture!! I took your advice last night and decided to go and get out of the house and go out with the girls, which turned into a party at another friends house. She had a computer so I saw it last night but couldn't leave you a comment because I couldn't remember my password off hand for drawspace and it wouldn't let me type anything as a guest..LOL.

my daughter was only funning but she did not want to be bothered while talking to her friend lol .

earnest-love portrait of kids. wow
kim really awesome portrait too. wonderful work. here is my latest portrait i finally finished it. comment critiques always welcome
Lori

Great job, Lori!!! I love your indian portraits you do. They are amazing. Where so you get the references from?

Lori I too love your work and I think your indians look awsome ...you are getting so good with the shading ..I like the softness around his eyes ..did you use a blending tool ?

I thought I'd share a drawing with you that was part of an exhibit I was in a few weeks ago. The drawing is called The Artist's Cat and exhibited with the Artists Association's Spring Show. The drawing sold and last week I was informed that the Realist Artist's Association had named it Best of Show. I was unable to attend the award ceremony and will pick up my award this week.

Its good to have affirmation that I'm still going in the right direction.

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Congrats and the cat looks soooo soft and ethereal.Very nice

Beautiful! Congratulations and thanks for sharing your achievement with us.
Paulettte

Jeanette, beautiful drawing. Congradulations on your success.

Jeanette congrats on your award ..how proud you must feel
The cat is very beautiful ..and the eyes are just awsome .

here is a drawing I did today ..it is of nobody ..just out of my head .. normaly I dont like doing that but I was in a strange mood today and felt like testing myself so I drew without a refference photo and this is what I got .. she looks abit Gothic and that was not my intentions at all in the begining lol

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Congrads Jeanette! Money and the adulation of yr peers... doesn't get much better than that. Does yr moggie get royalties for being such a stunning model? :-)

I have never been real good at flowers so I never really cared to do them .. today i found a card and I loved the picture on the fron and tried to draw it . go ahead you can tell me it sucks LOL

Kim, I am sure I speak for alot when I ask, Where does it suck at? The picture is awsome!! Almost looks better than I could do..seriously though, its very good and I knew if you would just practice them they would look as goo as everything else you draw. A+++++++

Here here! Fantastic Kim

thank you .. they were not easy to me to draw .. Venus and J-lynn are the ones i just love their flower drawings .. they have inspired me to try ... I know J has not been around ..I sure do miss viewing her work

Kim,
I am sorry to tell you...........You can no longer say that you can't do flowers! great job!
paulette

jeanette congrates on best in show, i see why too-fantastic work as usual.
venus i am sooo sorry i just read this thread from the beginning-i love the flowers and the fish. i always love your work. the colors are always amazing. you are really great with those flowers. just natural.
kim wow--you are wonderful with flowers too.seems though you are wrong now--that is fantastic. i love the black paper. you really should frame that one.
venus--dont tell--i just get them from the internet--i dont plan on selling or anything like that so.... whatever
thanks so much for the compliments on the portraits. i just had the need to do something meaningful, close to my heart. i dont know why these jump out at me but they did.
Lori

Kim, I think your picture is very pretty. ^__^

I like the "dark" of the picture, which actually makes it a lot brighter in a weird kind of way. It is a very lovely picture.

I just want to reach out and touch the petals and feel their softness.

What did you use? It looks like chalk to me, but of course, I can't ever guess what tools were used from picture to picture.

xP

I used black paper .. and colored pencil ..my prismas ...I have a hard time with chalk .

Thank you for your comments

Hi everyone , I'm new to this website and wanted to show off a couple of my drawings.Keep in mind that I'm still a beginner,but practice makes perfect right?

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I am working on this drawing for a friend and would love to hear any suggestions on improvement, Elizabeth
Sorry guys, I couldn't figure out how to turn them

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