Hello everyone ..I am Kim and most of you already know me .. I am going to host this weeks challenge to help Venus out as she is very busy with home life we all know how that is lol .

The idea of this challenge is to pick a picture and draw it ..

Its very simple any medium is welcome all I ask is that you have fun with it and I hope you enjoy the images I have chosen.

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Great pictures, Kim -- no excuses for me this week!

Love the images you have picked.

dors

Thanks I hope you can join in

Great Challenge pics, Kim!! Thank you again for helping me out. I really appreciate it.

So that most of you know I am doing some major home repairs and we are trying to get it done as soon as possible and I hope to be back in full swing of my responsibilities here on Drawspace by next week if all goes well.

Kim!!! Great pics! Here is my contribution....I am a little lazy.....clumzy me fell in to a ditch today...very sore...and still tired!!! The drawing is horrible I know...but what can I say!!! Thanks for the challenge...one question...did you take the pics yourself???

Morgan...a.k.a. ID

Very nice picture of the tacks hun .
No one of Venus's friends or family took them and gave us the ok to use them

Nice pictures Kim....

Another quick drawing......thanks for the challenge.

Brian.

Great pictures!
Thank you Venus and Kim for making sure the challenge went on.

No problem paulette .

Brian how cute lol .. nice job on the flower and branch

Brian, that is beautiful..

me too, im joining this week, thanks kim love the pics!!
Lori

I have done tacks befor but they are alot of fun to do .

wow awesome kim-here is the first drawing i did. i might try it in color,
Lori

Hey hey - my first Drawspace challenge drawing!
push pins are tough!

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Welcome to the challenge aib.. Your push pins are great!! Mine looked like thumb tacks.

Every one is doing so well. I need to get something posted.

Thank you, Cyn! This is a great site.

I gave the eye a try.
I wanted to see how graphite worked with film. So I did an ATC sized eye on film.
Not real crazy about it. Although I don't think I was working as fine and light as I could have.
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oh paulette i love it--i think it looks so great!!! now when you say you worked on film what do you mean by film and where can i get that-any art supply store? wow i think it really looks good and realistic.
great job!!
Lori

Well, I think I have given up on this eye. They are a lot harder than they look. Kudos to you Paulette.

Lori your eye look great .. I might try that one next

Aib Love your tacks .. they look so real the angle is just perfect .. well done

Paulette looks like a black and white photo .. nice job

eyes are very hard and yes Paulette did a very nice job .. but yours also look fine .. you have the glossy look down pretty well

Cyn, paulette , and Lori .....I really love the eye's .....fantastic! drawings....Aib and Kim.... great tacks....you are a real pro Kim


My try at the eye.....I found this extremely challenging....once again I rush too much and I am very tired from being in a first-aid/CPR class for the past two days.


Brian.

thanks brian and your eye looks great, i think i am going to attempt in color pencils too. everyone is doing a great job. kim you make the tacks look so easy in color pencil, that is very deceiving though. i no it isnt easy!
Lori

Great eye Brian.. Love the Snoop of course. Charlie Brown must be saying "Here's lookin' at you kid"

Brian, too cute! Sweet job on the flower too!
Lori and Cyn you both did a great job on those fins(?) around the iris. I wonder, did you start there and work out. I ended there and found that I had petered out and didn't get them very well. It is amazing how much detail there is in an eye, at first look it seems so simple.
Everybody did well with the tacks also. Them and the eyes seem to be popular.

I ended at the fins. By then I didn't want anything else to do with the eye. I should have made it smaller. It's about 5x7. It scares me every time I look in my sketch pad. I think smaller would have been easier. Live and learn.

Oh definitely smaller, I was amazed at how much there was to cover on the 3.5x2.5.

Brian a job well done ! ....love the snoopy in the eye lol

Here is my dandelion. It is done on a medium dark green strathmore but it scanned like it was black.
Oh well.. On to the next project.

...UHG .....Cyn......you just gave Charlie a new name....Bogart Brown.....Beautiful dandelions...

Bogart Brown Brian, you are so funny.

Here is my flower. I don't do flowers.

very nice Cyn .. I thought I did not do flowers until I did the watercolor class .. your flower is very nice

Thanks Kim, honey. You're the ARTIST!!
As soon as I get the time, I am going to study Jeanettes colored pencil lessons.

Here are my pins.

Cyn your pins turned out very nice .. matter of fact i dont think people relize just how hard they are to draw .. because they look like two simple objects .. but the round edges and the angle of the pins makes it harder then it looks and you my dear ...pulled it off nice

Hello to all the participants of this week's challenge and thanks for hosting Kim. The quality of the pictures is great. Good job.

I tried the eye because it was isolated and made for a good study. Actually I thought it looked kind of strange seeing it so close. The shadows and reflections are somewhat surprising.

I used a 6B, an F and a 4H lead for the drawing on a piece of A4 160 gms inkjet printer paper. It took about 4 hours to get this result.
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Hi, sutch good eyes here... and flowers too, and RJ Blanchette thas is just gorgeous .
well i decided to try the eye too, and here it is... i find it a bit hard and as usually the result is never good enough for me, but isn't bad too... i think..

Is it better to be late than not at all. sorry but I have been so busy lately.

here is the eye

Great eye, Doreen!

Thank you Ernest.
I keep practicing... I missed a couple of the challenges, I will catch up

The challenges are great for practicing.

Dor that eye is absolutely georgous!! Great job.

Thank you Venus..

Great to see you back.