Since we're in the middle of the spring I thought anyone would enjoy some "fresh" photos with vivid colors, sun light and happiness

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.

There is no ruling on what size your final drawing or sketch should be. Smaller, sketchbook sizes will provide a smaller file size which is easier for loading onto the thread.

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

This challenge will last for one week. At that time, all challenge drawings should be submitted to this thread.

I have offered 3-5 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.

I have kept the images to simple shapes that still provide challenges. Block out your basic shapes first then work the details into them, rechecking proportion and measurement against other reference points in your drawing.

If you have an interest in hosting a challenge, please see the list in the pinned area of general discussions.

These are the photos:

Great pictures Hellen!

really wonderful picture choices...i think i will try them all

thank you .. i did my best



wow, drawing 'em ALL is a big challenge, I wish you good luck

if i think better, since i've got enough time this week, i might try to do that too

Those drawings make me happy, thank you;)

I'll post a try later...

It's not pretty but it is some sketching by eye for today.
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it's nice 'cause it still looks like a bird

i'm working on this one too

pencil..

all of these pictures are great for a challenge..

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Iata laleaua mea! Here is my tulip in CP.

glass with cola

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I couldn't believe that my pictures were so .. catchy ... I'm glad they are



foarte frumoasa lalea (nu stiam ca esti din Ro.. si inca ceva, si eu tot Elena M sunt ) ce marca de culori ai folosit?



very good job on both pictures

Hristos a inviat!Elena am niste culori pentru scolari vechi de 15 ani, sunt foarte uscate si de aceea prefer oil pastels si crayons, dar am incercat cu ele asa *** sunt.

My Cp pencils are 15 years old and dry and i prefer crayons and oil pastels instead. yet the challenge was in CP.

Adevarat a inviat!

Intrebam pentru ca am vazut ca ai la location Southern California si stiu ca acolo in america sunt marci bune de creioane si alte ustensile de colorat.

mi-ar placea sa mai vorbim, dar nu pe un site englezesc

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here is my lil rupsy

cute cat...

pencil

Great photos Hellen!
Paulette: I agree with Hellen, and I think sketches can be pretty too.
Elena: I like how you draw flowers, yo make it look easy.
Kay: Wow, it's only sunday and you already made three greatl drawings, keep'em coming!

Here's my Rupsy:
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I'm sure Rupsy would be really happy to see these beautiful portraits of her
Great job, Kay and Ofir!

Hola, don Ofir, tu gata tambien parece un juego pero yo no me atrevo.

Decided to play around today with pastel pencils so did a little with the flower on brown paper.

This one didn't scan as well as I wanted. I'll post two of them from different scans.
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So here is the final one - time to move on to something new!
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good one for figure drawing practice

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Very accurate drawing oliverandjazz, I especially like the folds in the jeans. Think I?ll be giving this one a try

[Hi Hellen
Thanks for lovely photos. The jumping girl really made me feel good - she looks so happy and carefree. I hope I've managed to catch her feelings.

Bottles; glass and metal. This is something I really like drawing. I'm posting two copies - one I scanned in color, the other black and white. I think the color scans sometimes look better even though, of course, it is all done in #2 Pencil.

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Great drawings, everyone

I really love your drawings, bkluver, especially the tulip

ollieowl, welcome to drawspace nice drawing

mumwond and kay, you did a wonderful job on Alexandra (that's her name, i forgot to mention) .. ain't she skinny?

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Venus asked if my tulip was oil pastel - it is Stabilo CarbOthello chalk pastel pencils. BUT, I decided to give the oils a try. I have actually done very little with them before. Hope no one minds that I pulled up an older Challenge picture that I really liked and thoroughly enjoyed myself with oil pastels!! Can you tell?
Thanks for reminding me, Venus, to challenge myself even more.

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hellenFG - Where is Brasov? Also, very good choice of pics for this week.

John

Thank you

Brasov is one of the biggest and most beautiful cities in Romania (eastern Europe)

If you want to know more, than click here


PS: it's hellenFq

thank you guys for the positive reinforcement..much appreciated

hugs

Kay

I finally finished the 'birdie'

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Very nice, HellenFq! Wonderful work on the cord, especially!

Here's my attempt at the tulip in coloured pencil. Found it quite difficult! I find it easier with graphite, but would like to be able to use these too.

yes she is skinny...lol...when i was her age i looked just like that (wink wink)..she is beautiful and looks like lots of fun..please print out my drawing of her and give it to her

you did a good job on that tulip

it's good to use CP if they are good and you want to improve



when the challenge ends i will show her all the drawings .. she likes drawing too ^^

had a go

limited time spent on it, won't finish it but at least joined in - hurray

Nice job everyone.

This was certainly more difficult drawing than some, as I'm sure those of you who tried it will agree. It was fun, though. I guess I always think any drawing is fun! [attachmentid=10107]

well done rupsy looks great in your drawing




i agree, it was both difficult and fun.. nice birdie

this drawing was done before discovering drawspace

i drew it by looking at the objects, not from a reference photo, i took the picture (that is posted in the weekly challenge) after drawing them

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mine seems a little sketchy if compared with bkluver's drawing

I don't know if I'm going to have time, but I want to try the glass. These are all fantastic references!

Tony

wow everyone is doing sooo awesome..and these are such great pictures, excellent choices..it is soo great to be surrounded by so many awesome artist .

I am working on your council building. I am having a great time because I haven't really ever drawn a building before, it's a good challenge. I will try to get some more done so I can post at least an 'in progress' photo this week.

Hellen, Thank you for this challenge your pics are realy nice and fresh.

Everyone has done such a great job, lovely drawings guys!!! love them all.

This was a real challenge to me because I never was good at drawing glass, so I tried the perfume bottles, I think my proportions didn't come out right but my goal was to try making it look like glass!!Have to practise more of these.

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don't worry, you still got 4 days left i would really want to see how that would come up since nobody tried drawing it




i think it's great .. at least it's better than mine you handled the glass and the reflections pretty well

'Sharpie' felt tip pen, Sanford(Koor-N-Noor type) 5mm pen

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John

wow john that is really nice..you were the only one brave enough at this moment to do the building..great job too

Brave is doing the cord on that video cam...the only way I could do it is trace it !(so I didn't do it)

John

great job on that

i wish to try that 2 .. when i have time .. anyway, i think the photo isn't too good because i walking by and just thought that it would be interesting to put this in the drawing challenge, but those who i was with were like: what the #&?! are you doing? u act like a tourist

aw and drawing the cord on the web cam is not hard .. it's just boring

John, even though you traced it you still had to add the lights and darks yourself. I think it looks great

Lance, no I didn't trace the bldg...it's freehand, I said that if I were to try the video cam, I would have to trace the cord.
Thanks for your comment, I enjoy pen and ink.
John

Fun with the glass.

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Wow!1
You got some really beautiful glass!!!