Hi Gwi,

Welcome to drawspace.
Its big fun here and we come from all over the world so don't worry about your language, just keep trying.
Learning a language needs practicing, just as drawing.
May I recommend to you the challenge of the week? Its a good stimulance to keep on drawing.

Creative regards

hi Gwi, welcome to drawspace

Welcome to Drawspace Gwiazda!!

hello
I am also a new,and
I'm glad that I'm part of the empire

Welcome Michael,

I guess most of us are not so wild as you are but I do hope you will enjoy it here.

See you around

Herzlich Willkommen hier bei Drawspace

welcome to drawspace

welcome to drawspace mihael!!

It's great that you found this site and I have to tell you that you will find all of the help that you are looking for and more. You will love the "critique" section, I have gotten so much advice to help me when I don't know which way to go with a drawing that I am working on.
Also..... jump right in and do the weekly challenges, #1 they are fun, #2 you will be forced to draw outside your "safety zone" and #3 you will get to know some great artists and look forward to hearing what everyone has to say about each others work.
Welcome again and have fun!!!!

Wecome, Gwi!

Hello. I stumbled upon this site while making use of the wonderful tool that is google, searching for direction in my drawing. I am little more than an amateur when it comes to art - the last time I took an art class was grade 8, and that was a long time ago. I look forward to going through the lessons here, and hopefully becoming a part of this forum!

hi Redo19

welcome to drawspace

Hi Redo,

Welcome to Drawspace.
There is a reasonable good chance this site will bring you where you are looking for.
There is artists from all kind and graduation to inspire you and make you grow your own way.
Take a look to the challenges, there great for expanding your own quallity's

Hope to see some of your work in your gallery soon.
Creative regards

Hellos I am new here. I found DrawSpace by using StumbleUpon and look forward in improving my drawing skills here. Yays

Hello. I am new to the site, and thought I should introduce myself.

My Name is David. I am a terrible artist. I have come to the conclusion that my art is noticeably less terrible when I actually put a lot of effort into it. That is especially true when I focus small amounts of effort over a long periods of time. The more effort that I put in - the more I get out. Simple, really. And yet for some reason, I always wind up putting it down for long stretches and not putting any effort in. When I get back to it, I am not quite starting from scratch - but close.

I am hoping that participating in this site will serve as a motivation to keep going. From what I have seen from the tutorials, they are top notch. I haven't been going through the forums or exploring other members work yet... but I am looking forward to doing so.

found this site a couple of days ago and have been hooked ever since. I've always wanted to be able to draw and thought that it was beyond me, just a skill i didnt have and couldnt learn very easily. This site has made me realise that i just didnt have the methodology and the guidence that i needed. Thanks so much for stimulating and facilitating this long sought after hobby :-D
Love the site and am hugely grateful for it being here
Kind regards Stefan

Hello. I'm not sure how I found this site, but I've had it bookmarked for sometime with the intent to check it out one day. Apparently, that day is today.

I've been drawing since before I could walk (allegedly, I suspect this claim made by my mother to be a bit suspicious). I started taking classes for promising artists at a local University in grade school, regular art classes through middle and high school, and then studied art and art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. I showed my art publicly for the first time when I was 14. I've designed logos and labels and fliers, mainly for friends' projects. I worked as a volunteer TA in a high school art department for a few years.

Art is a huge part of who I am, but I've hit an unfortunate block. I haven't been able to draw/paint/ect anything that satisfies me for several years. I saw this site and decided it was time to go back to square one and see if I could find the missing piece that's left me in this lurch. As a practicing buddhist, I find it incredibly important to keep a Beginner's Mind and am interested in the fresh and new. A lot of my friends are seasoned illustrators and animators, and they have very little to share because they're so established in their routines. They have their styles down and are a lot less flexible than the students I've worked with.

On the show Six Feet Under, when the character Claire was in art school, the teacher instructed them to break their eye open, to see things differently, and I think that's what I need to do to move forward.

Hi Jessi!

Welcome aboard! I rarely have any time at all to time to peek in on the forum, but today I found your post. First of all, thank you for being here.

I hope you discover some unique approaches to art within my curriculum that bring you back to successes. Also, within this forum, you have an opportunity to learn from the artistic journeys of thousands of other artists. However, keep in mind that the day you are totally happy with your work is the day your inner artistic eye will close.

In addition to the peaceful teachings of all religions, my partner and I also live our lives according to the wisdom and philosophy of Buddhism.

Brenda

Welcome, Jessi! I hope you'll make yourself at home here. There's weekly drawing challenges in the Challenges Forum, There's monthly ATC (art trade cards) exchanges in the General Forum, some very interesting member-made tutorials in the Tutorials section (including one of Marilyn Monroe that I'm following), and an extensive selection of free drawing lesson tutorials that Brenda has supplied us with, to name just a few fun things here.

I've already started reading through your lessons, Brenda, and I have to appreciate your thorough and detailed approach. I had one experience with a life drawing teacher at University that was so frustrating and depressing. We would have a few hours to draw the model using charcoal, and if our lighting or proportions were wrong, he would just wipe the whole page with a chamois and say, "you're not drawing what you see, you're drawing what you think you should see, start over." He gave us nothing to build on other than knowing we were wrong.

I'm also tickled that my first response was from you! Thank you for taking the time to reply, and thank you for offering this opportunity. I feel like art education as a whole is suffering, and the internet is accessible to so many. You're doing a truly great thing here.

Also, it's great to meet other people familiar with Buddhist teachings. The Buddhist community in my area is very limited, so maybe one day, when you have a few spare minutes, we could chat.



Thank you, Mindy! I'm working my way through the site today and am so far really liking what I see. I think a big part of my recent slump has been a lack of motivation, and having something solid like a challenge or a tutorial to sink my teeth into might work. I also know that the longer I go without working, the harder it is for me to get started again, so the wide variety of choices will hopefully keep me busy.

I love that you're working on a Marilyn tutorial! My favorite artist is Andy Warhol, and though he wasn't much on traditional technique or even drawing at all, he chose the image of Marilyn Monroe to illustrate his ideas about the connection between celebrity and mass marketing. Her face is both beautiful and iconic, and I think it makes for wonderful subject matter.

Hi Brenda,

What a wise lesson you teach us here, thank you.
It's good I still have so many wishes and never am satisfied. I did learned however to accept that my hands don't make what I see in my mind. That acceptance opened the road to make new works instead of dabbling around getting no where.

I also want to thank you and your helpers for the opportunities you give us with this site. I'm very great full for that and hope we can meet each other here learning from one another for many years to come.

Creative regards

Also want to welcome last newcomers.

Hi all!

Carnation, I love your quotations. Maybe thats a nice topic in drawspacecafe as well.

David, If that little man here is a drawing of you, you cant be a terrible artist.

Stefan, your still a mystery man. People should not neglect their inner voice. It doesn't matter how you draw, as long as you do it when you feel like it. Each form of art is an important part of our existence.

Jessi, thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
At the moment I'm following a class about art movement. Soon I have to make a choice in what direction to go. I know I can't, don't want to is more the word. I don't want to be like your friends doing their thing because they have to and losing their artistic inner selves. I want to be me.
I want to learn eagerly and expand myself so on one side I want to learn from this school and at the same time I want to lock myself off from it so they can't transform me to some sort of art machine.
The beginners mind and enthusiasm... I think you could have there a clue.

I hope you all will show some of your work in you galleries.

Good luck and creative regards to you all

Hello everyone my name is Crystal, just wanted to introduce my self .

Hiya Crystal welcome to Drawspace

Hello,

I found Drawspace recently whilst looking for drawing exersises or tutorials. I've had a few slightly frustrating moments when something hasn't turned out how I hoped simply because I find so little time to keep at it & stop myself getting rusty! The tutorials here look great, & I'm hoping that along with the forums & challenges they'll encourage me to draw more often.
I quite like the look of the Justice League challenge so might start with that - nothing like what I usually draw (which is probably why it appeals!)

Lovely to see people from so many different places here :-)

Hiya Lona welcome to drawspace the challenges is def a great way to do things your not used to

Welcome to Drawspace!!

Hello all. Just wanted to stop by and post something. I dont know if this is the place for me but thought I would give it a shot. I have always been interested in drawing but am not very good at it. I am better at copying a picture then actually being creative and coming up with one on my own. My main interest is in fantasy settings or anime, hence why I said I didnt know if this was the place for me, hopefully it will be. Anyways hello again

Lol I should've looked more through the sites. I found numerous sections on what I like. I like what I see and hope I can apply what I see. Thx again.

Hello to everyone! I am so excited to have stumbled across this website! You all seem very ......idk the right word. Anyway, I'm Jinx and pleased to be here

Welcome jinx.

Hi Jinx welcome aboard

Welcome Jinks,

Don't hesitate to express yourself creative again.
Joining draw space is a good thing to do.
Good luck and see you in future.

hi i'm newbie here... i'm not very much aware of this forum so i would like you all to help me if i have any doubts...
thank you

Hi Lara,

Welcome to drawspace.
Don't worry, this is a very helpful community so just ask what you want to know and someone will answer you.

I have a tip for you and all other newcomers.
Go to forums, challenges, challenge of the week.
Every week you will find a new challenge to improve your skills no mater what your level is.
I'ts a great topic to learn how to use drawspace and become an active member.

Good luck and see you around

hi i am new here . i am really surprised and confused that this awsome site is really totally free!!!!!!!!! or i am wrong.

Hi Bratz

Welcome to drawspace.
It depends on what you want.
In very short:
You can follow the courses where you pay for.
And/or you can have your own gallery and talk to others for free.
All together we make this an awsome site.

Enjoy your time here and hope to see some work of you soon.

It's a great place Bratz. Welcome,

Hi! I'm new and still exploring the site. The challenges look fun... will try to do some. Hope this site will expand my knowledge of art (only 16, going into 11th grade)

Hi All,
I'm new to this site. My mom just signed me up cuz I love to draw. I'm just a kid, 12 years old and figure I can learn from all of you! What we don't know is if it costs to be part of this site, and if the on-line downloadable lessons cost either? Please let me know asap so I can hand over my allowance if I need to! Thanks, Doctor J.

Hi Doc

welcome to drawspace

it does not cost to take part in this site on the forums there are weekly challenges and monthly trades

if you want to down load the lessons then you can become a premium member , but if you dont want to do this you can just open them up and do them online for free

hope you have a good time

Howdy, folks,

I have been using this wonderful site for a while, but just upgraded my account.
I teach art in a rural high school.
I sampled some lessons from this site last school year and I was blown away by not only the artworks my students created based on these lessons,
but also the students' motivation. They were some of my most beloved lessons last year! So I HAD to upgrade.
Thanks to the creators of this site for making my lessons relevant and motivating!

Hello!

I'm new on drawspace, I stumbled on the site looking for how-to's because I can't for the life of me draw eyes!
I do drawing just for the fun of it and I've mainly made it up as I go along, so in reading a few of the lessons I seem to have picked up one or two bad habits. Everything I've done up to now has been with an HB pencil on laser printer paper, for example. I've been scanning these in recently, so I'll post one or two on here at some point.
The online lessons seem really useful so far, I'm looking forward to putting a bit of time into it and developing; and then I'm off to Uni in October and will probably forget it all!

See you round the site!

Hello there

I'm new to drawspace. I just joined today. I am desiring to improve my drawing. I mostly draw anime type drawings because that's what I liked drawing as a kid, but now I am trying to develop a foundation in realism so that I can draw in other stylized genres without the pictures looking like I tried to make an anime drawing look less anime like.

I've read through some of the exercises on the main page. They look helpful and I'm eager to get started.

Hi, all!

I just joined yesterday. I have been drawing for most of my life, I just haven't improved my skill enough to my true liking yet, which is why I joined this site. I'm working currently on the human body, I really need to perfect my ability to draw people.

I've recently started drawing a lot on my iPod touch, and I am enjoying it a lot. hope to get to know you all soon!

Hiya Jumpy

welcome to Drawspace

Hi I am new to Drawspace and just wanted to give a first greeting to some of my fellow artists. I am still exploring the site at the moment, however, I hope to download some of my drawings and sketches onto the site soon. I look forward to meeting you all!

Signed,
Eager new artist

Hello.

Hey there guys! My name is Shahid, 19 year old psychology student at University of Southampton, England struggling to suppress my craving for art! Joined for the lessons etc. but have noticed the large forum base which i hope i can be a part of

Lovelove

Welcome Shaskha. You should always find time for drawing. This is a great place. Enjoy.

Hello everyone! I'm a newbie here and wanted to stop by and say hi and let you know even though I just found this place, I'm extremely impressed with it, there is soooooo much talent here, I'm almost ashamed to post my drawings, lol. I can't wait to get started on the lessons and start snooping around the boards enjoying all the great talent that is being shared. So, I'd better get started! See ya'll on the boards!
Snowbird