Here are ideas of summertime! I have hopefully selected photos and ideas that can be worked in any medium. Have fun!

Happy Summer!

DK

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Lovely pictures DKelly! A lot of different things to choose from. Now, what to draw, what to draw...

Great pictures!

Beautiful pictures....Great variety!

hey... i will draw probably the first one

I thought I would try the Light house....Great challenge...I enjoyed it.

Thanks all! I just came in to check if they were ok, or if anything else was desired. I want to try those blue berries in color pencils!


Brian David! Great job! That is a lighthouse in Maine called Cape Neddick "Nubble" Light. People from all over the globe come to visit it each year to get a photo. Thanks for drawing it!

Brian nice job ! I have search and search I do not see one of your cute characters in the drawing lol

Hey thanks Kim and thanks Dkelly it is beautiful... I really like your pictures and glad to see you host.

Okay Kim...I hear the light house is haunted with friendly ghosts....

LOL Brian ...very nice

great pictuers Dkelly,

I have tryed your butterfly , I'm not quit happy with it the black has got all over it.
I done it with soft pastels and pastels penciles. Took about 2 1/2 hours. On 9/12 inch paper
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Omgosh Brian you are too funny lol ...nice job
meow Very delicate

I wanted to do the blueberries but they were a pretty hard challenge .

Very nice Miranda

I'm thinking about attempting those blueberries Kim ...they look really difficult !!

Yours look good ...and full of antioxidants

Meow2000- Great job on the butterfly! I have never gotten the gist of pastels so I am in complete admiration! I also love the cat in your avatar. Is there a place I can see it bigger as I am trying to learn to draw Calico & Torti cats.

Kim1963- I love that you took a vignette of the blueberries and made it work! What is your medium? I love the background paper, it works so well!

I haven't figured out which one I will do, but the blueberries and the plover bird is calling to me.

Good Job!!

DKelly

Tim they were hard lol ...thats why I only did a few ... but they were fun .
I used prisma colored pencil ...with a manila paper.

thanks all for the nice things you said

brian david love the casper in your drawing it's funny

kim1963 your color work is always so beautiful


dkelly there is bigger pictuer of cat in my gallery here on drawing space , you also if find the cat in last weeks drawing challenge . and in the member's gallery .

Hi everyone, this is something I think I would have never tried to draw, so I tried to draw it. I think it looks ruff, but better than I thought it would. Thanks for the challenge.

That is gorgeous!!! Great pencil work!

Thank you.

pencilnhand that's just... awesome...

This is my weekly challenge butterfly.
Lily

Great pictures and great drawings. Just wait til my stitches come out of my hand. Then I will catch up.
Actually, you guys are doing so good the stitches give me an excuse not to draw, because they are in my left hand and I am right handed.
I can't hold my paper or concentrate yet..

Great job everyone. And Brian, I am so proud of you for doing the light house. That's a great job and I love the Casper..

Kim you are the Queen of Color pencils....love your drawing.

Great sketch Pencil in hand and Lily...what a beautiful drawing of the butterfly....I think it's a great one.


For my friend Cyn

Thanks honey bun..ch... I am so glad to see you! Hope you pick up your pencils soon and get well...I miss you...and your talents..

Brian.

Wow thats so good I love it so much!!! oh...and welcome!!! GOD BLESS 0:)

Yes Cyn .. we miss seeing your work hun ... I hope the hand is feeling better soon .
Stiches are a pain I had them in my right hand ..I have little movment in my thumb do to a injury .

Wow, Everyone has done a fantastic job so far with the reference photos and their drawings!! I have tried to do the beach boardwalk and the light house and lets say they are proving to be most challenging!! I refuse to give up and even if I have to redo them over and over again one of them will be my challenge, even if it takes me into next week when I am hosting my weekly challenge..LOL. Great job again to those who have succeeded.

Your brave Katie........I am very new to painting....Great job! and nice drawing. Your picture file is a little too big....I can help you with that if you like.

Thank you!! and yes please with the file, how can i change it??

Hi Katie....I have made them smaller for you....I use a free program from Google called Picasa for my pictures....they will automatically re size them for you....or try to adjust your scanner settings...I use a smaller DPI...Hope I helped...Brian




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Thank you, i think i will download that programme

GREAT WORK ALL!

Venus, I am so glad you decided to do the board walk! I was hoping someone would be brave enough to go for it!! I love the perspective challenge! I can't wait to see it!!

I have to settle in and draw! It's been hectic on my job, so hopefully tomorrow afternoon I can put in some time!!!

DKelly

Thanks DKelly for taking the time to run this challenge.

I think the challenge is great and hope to be doing more. I haven't done any challenges in the past because I thought it would be too time consuming so I decided to limit the work time to 5 hours.

For exercises like this I use a brand of paper called "REY text and graphics". It is an A4 160 gram card with a satin finish. It's just a high end inkjet printer paper but gives a good result. I get 500 sheets for about 10 dollars and the 160 gr can take a beating. For the keepers I use Canson 250 gr. smooth Bristol.

To get this one done it took me around 4 hours. I use the 2mm Caran d'Ache clutch pencils. I used 4B, 2B, B, F and 4H leads for this drawing.

Bob



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Hi Bob

I admire your drawing very much...I think it's outstanding and I find that very interesting the paper you use...Thanks for sharing that, I am sure many of us can learn from you...I hope you will take part in more challenges..I look forward to seeing more of your drawings.

Brian

Really great job, Bob, and thanks for joining in! I haven't been joining in many challenges lately for the same reason -- I just don't have enough drawing time available. I need to learn to do rougher, faster drawings.

It's funny -- learning to draw well involved learning to take my time, to have patience to spend hours on a drawing. Now I need to learn to go quickly again, when the need arises.

Brian,

Thank you for your feedback. In regards to the paper, I tested it with a Rhino head study. This was a good study because there was a complete range of tones. It will even take charcoal. The only thing I found a bit difficult with this paper was pulling up the graphite once layered (blue tac). Other than that it allowed plenty of tooth for some deep darks. I'll upload it to my gallery so you can have a look. Again, I wouldn't use this paper for the keepers. I'm not even sure if it is acid free paper. This paper probably won't stand the test of time.



Hello Ernest,

Thank you for your remarks. I wasn't sure that I could produce a decent drawing in less than 5 hours. Usually this is just enough time to do a decent composition! What I did was cheat on the detail in the body and background. Rather than hatching I blended the first layers and tried to leave just enough tooth to throw some hatching on top of the blending. I spent more than an hour on the head to try to get just enough detail to cover the lack of quality in the body.

You may also have noticed that I only drew in key areas of the ground cover to give the illusion.


It's all smoke and mirrors you know.

These are great challenges are great practice and I will try to get into a routine to do at least 2 per month.

Hi Bob,

thanks for your reply I find that interesting....the paper very well may be acid free, I believe most high grade ink jet photo copy paper is...Funny I used to always use regular ink jet copy paper to do many of my first drawings...I like the nice white back round and the tones I can achieve. I also like how it scans...but as you say...may not be good for keepers...most experienced artists have told me to keep away from it. Though I am very interested in trying the paper you have used....I admire your drawings very much and glad to hear you will be taking part in future draw challenges....pleasure to meet you.

Brian.

Bob,

that is fantastic! That bird is called a plover, and it lives on the seashore. They are endangered, but there is a huge rehabilitation for them on an island near my town.

I want to try to draw him this weekend.

I have been to Switzerland. I really enjoyed it!

Welcome to Draw Space!

DKelly

My attempt at the blueberries

Thanks for the welcome and your remark D.

I'll let you in on a little secret. I've been in Switzerland for 16 years, but I'm originally from Leicester MA and I spent my childhood summers in Biddeford Pool Maine. I don't remember this bird, but it reminded me of a bird we called a sand pipper.

it's not perfect but I was n a hurry! it's just simple lines not much detail!!! 7/21/07

WELL, HERE IS A LATE ONE FOR U. SORRY I'VE BEEN BUSY.
I MADE A FEW CHANGES TO IT. HOPE IT'S OK.

Great job!
It is always okay to add a drawing.