Hi all ,

This my frist time holding a challenge, I hope you will enjoy it. Draw one or more of the wild cat's in many medium .

Meow, you know this challenge is sooo great!! I love cats the bigger the better. Infact because I literally suck at drawing cats I have been practicing from my 9 year old daughters library book she checked out at school by Lee J. Ames, Draw 50 Cats...So I will try your challenge out if I can find the time this week.

Here is my lion for the challege. He was a bit harder to draw then i thought he would be . This also my frist lion drawing

Venus If don't time this week i can make the challage go for two weeks . I didn't pot into mind how hard drawing the big cats would be.

Meow, Awesome job on the lion!!! Yeah, it does look like a lot of work to do them. Even regular cat poses from a simple "how to" book are a little challenging to get them in the right position and perspective. Its a great challenge though. I saved all of the pictures to try one.

Oooo Meow, great job! The lion looks so dignified.

Drawing the whole lion is too much work for me since I always feel compelled to draw every single fur, heh. So I tried to do a closeup of the head. The proportions are a little off... I just grabbed a watercolor pencil and didn't (couldn't) erase much.
Done in... I think 2 hours:

Beautiful job Muffin..I need to start on mine already!! LOL..been trying to catch up on laundry.

Muffin Top ,

Your lion is beautiful . I love the close up of his face. he looks so proud. shouch good detail on him.

Thanks for the compliments guys! I like to keep my drawings close-up and intimate...
Hope to see more work from others soon...

I'm a little late I guess, but decided to draw the cats anyway. I did this one first. Both drawings have their obvious flaws, but I've been working really hard on getting overall proportions right when drawing freehand, and at least compared to some past drawings, I think I'm starting to improve.

I'm just now noticing that the end of her tail looks alarmingly like a toilet bowl brush! Oops.

For the second one I drew just the head and tried to go with a more minimalist approach. When drawing animals I always feel the need to fill up all the space with something...so it's fur...and the result isn't always happy. So here I tried to pull back. Again a long ways from perfect...the eyes in particular don't seem balanced...but better than I've done in the past.

Dan,
I think you did a great job. Especially doing free hand. Now you will find that your shading and texture are going to bring it to the next level. Your always welcome to go back and do old challenges, whatever inspires you to do art. Once it is posted it comes back to the top and we will see it.
Paulette

all the cats are very well done ... I find animals a challenge but I think I will join in because I need some pratice

Ok here is my Wild Cat .. I liked this pose best cause he was sleeping

Must say this was challenging for me all those freaking SPOTS !! lol

Dan i think the lioness truned out very nice .


kim love him . The colour is so great

i'm glad some more people had time to draw them . love them all , there so well done

Nice job Kim!

Here's my "cheat" entry. I used my graphics tablet this time, and I was drawing directly over the photo. So it's a completely different game from drawing freehand on paper. This is why I love my graphics tablet.

It creates a lovely stunning effect Dan and you can use this one to compare to your freehand drawing to see where you need to make changes.

Hi Dan,
I would say that it shows how well you did by hand. Both make good practice for teaching yourself to "see".
Paulette

Dan ,


I think that graphics tablet ,is good way to get to know the drawing cool idea.