Welcome to this weeks challenge I am Kim and I will be your host ...I hope the images that I have provided will be of some challenge .

All levels of drawing are encouraged to participate!

The goal of this thread is to enable and encourage individuals to practice their drawing skills, learn new techniques and have fun! If you just want to sketch that’s fine. If you want to create a complex, detailed drawing, that’s great too. You will get out of this what you want. The references used are from my own personal reference library of images that I have photographed and I release them here as not under copyright, meaning you can use them as you wish for drawing.

You will be challenged by some aspect of all references most likely as you all will have different strengths and weaknesses in your ability to translate the images to paper.

Reminder:

This is a DRAWING challenge. Therefore please confine your artistic endeavours to some form of drawing: graphite, coloured pencil, pen and ink or charcoal.

If you would like assistance or advice, please ask for it and I will be more than willing to try to guide you.

I have offered a few reference images to choose from. The images are also provided in greyscale. Seeing the images in black and white gives a better sense of basic values.

The images were taken by my husband

the pin is my mothers I used it for reflection .

My cousin at a graduation the glasses pose a challenge with the reflection.

A nephew playing his music .

Flower from the Town garden .

Pizza my husband baked

A fly on our bush .

The last is a moth on our shed can you see the half face ...we noticed it when we blew it up ..very cool .

Cool photos Kim! I'm going to give at least one a try - but the pizza made me hungry! I need to go call Dominos.

Haven't eaten anything substantial since thursday! Even I want the pizza, and I can't eat cheese!

Some fantastic photos KIM.

Thanks guys .. I am just trying to use photos he has taken when we bike ride or outback on the deck ...I hope it is a good selection . did you notice or see the face in the moth ? its amazing

Wow! First challenge - which picture to chose (these all are too good)?

Can I have vegetarian pizza?

about an hour..mechanical pencils..thank you Kim for the pictures!

Very nice Kat!

Kat very nice ..he will love that .

Yes the pizza is good .. I do not care much for meat so he makes a very good veggie pizza with thousand island sause .. its amazing .
I cant cook to save a life .

thank you Kim and sipsik..porportions are a bit off..but over all it came together nicely

WOW Kat .. this is AWESOME !!!

those are great, i love the pendant..very pretty

Kim .. the pendant reminds me of the Bubble thread you posted not long ago.. will have to give that one a try.. love the selections !!

THE FLY !!!

carol, that is the most beautiful fly i have ever seen, Bravo!

I loved the colors .. I can see you doing this one in your Hydrus Watercolors.. !!

I agree with Kay. Just brilliant! I started the fly as a pencil sketch, but I couldn't resist putting some colour on there!. I need to build up a few layers to get some depth, but I don't think it'll come out as good as yours! Well done Carol.

This is just marvellous!

Really great pictures Kim!
Thank you for hosting!

No Problem Paulette .

Carol .. my husband just loves that fly .. he was very proud of his picture and just loves your drawing of it ...very very impressive hun .

Tell him Thank you for me.. Those sort of captures with a camera are not easy to get.. Patience must have been taxed to say the least.. I loved the colors he brought into it as well..
Here's the Pin..
Now this one was not easy.. or else I tried to make it harder than it should have been..

Thanks Steve .. wicked Fly wasn't it ..

How do you do that? This is awesome too!

I drew a rough sketch of the pin .. then rather than see it as a pin I just added the colors I saw..

I am not fond of flies..but yours is awesome..very colorful.. Carol..the facets in the pin are stunning!

Thanks Kat .. it's beginning to grow on me now that I have got away from that pin for a while.. Guess my eyes were going Jake trying to see the mix of color ..
I hate flies too!! .. Pesky little critters .. but this one had STYLE..Kim's hubby did a great job with that photo ! He needs to enter it in a photo contest.. It would win flyswatters down..

Thank you carol ..he has a nikon and loves his camera ...its the size of the palm of my hand and he carries it everywhere in a case on his belt.

Hun the pin is amazing !!! I cant hardlyt believe how beautifuly you captured it right on . wow

Started as a pencil sketch, but just couldn't resist applying some colour! Not as vivid as Carols attempt, but I'm pretty pleased! Lovely photo Kim.

another lovely..(eww) fly Steve..its amazing how the beauty in nature can be brought out by artists like yourself and Carol..

Your Fly is very good Steve .. Why wouldn't it be .. It's your style I see.. I know I started out with mine in Inktense pencils and it just did nothing for me .. So the comfortable watercolors were applied over them.. Maybe that's why it came out so dark..
Hope you are feeling better today and you and Penny will have a great outing ..

Hard to believe something that small can produce such fine detailed photo's ..

Carol, your fly and the pin are amazing. I would love to be able to do the pin, but am not sure how I would start. Instead of that, I just drew the boy on cartridge paper 8 x 11" with various graphites.

Yes. It is pretty spooky! Also, if you look toward the back of the wing, you can clearly see what appears to be Elvis shaking hands with Mervyn Peake, author of the Gormanghast trilogy.




Just kidding!

Steve just exactly what "kind" of meds are you taking? I really don't need mine for depression after reading these forums.

Brilliant! You are so good at these.

Just lovely !!.. I am blown away by yours and Kats .. excellent likeness..
I was going to do this one but I do so many portraits that the Fly and Pendent were nice for a switch !!

Mum very nice pencil portrait ..he is sure to really enjoy seeing these.

Steve ..wow very nice ,,,and I do see elvis !!!

The King is everywhere!

carol that pin is also beautiful..you have so got it going on..

here is my attempt, I doodled it on a piece of really velvety feeling scrap about 4 inches square..

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Here is mine.

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that is a beautiful portrait.. sisik

I knew you could get this down .. Velvety paper? Did the Hyrdus soak in ? .. I am surprised you found time with all that perspective going on .. I gave up on it .. Drawing buildings and of course Flowers are not something that excites my Challenge buttons.. You however .. Have them perfect.. Especially Flowers !!

Excellent !!.. These portraits are Awesome !!

sisik very nice portrait ..I love that you added the guitar .

Kay I am getting the pin bug now I wanna try it .. you did such a nice job .

great job sipsik!

Itried to draw the pin, but found it rather difficult. I used graphite, then inktense pencils on cartridge paper, about 7"square.

very very pretty norma

Norma .. I think it is rather good myself see that is the key to placing pictures with such a intense challenege you may have never tried to do so much reflection and really look at it you should be proud of yourself because it is a difficult choice and you did well .

Decided to finish my drawing properly, but I'm not sure does it look better now.

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This is a fantastic effort sipsik! Glad you finished the guitar, I can see he is playing an Am chord now.