Elena: Excellent idea, Elena! I’ve done as you suggest. Thanks
Tam: Very beautiful, Tam. I’m happy that you are happy! Hihi!!!
Kay: Your drawings are always full of charm! I love the delicate way you express the lighting !

An

Beautiful shoe-shop!
You all have done beutiful works. It' s been very amusing!

Great idea NVA! I've always liked Van Gogh's shoes and I sure like a lot everyone's drawings here.
Here's a couple of sketches of my favorite shoes:

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Thanks, Ofir! Very good drawings! These shoes are excellent for Mexico, no ? It must be hot there.
(I like your avatar! )

thank you guys so much

mr. orfir it is great to see you and your wonderful artwork..

i have grown so much girls since joining drawspace..it really amazes me when i look at my finished work at how very far i have come and how much i have absorbed just being surrounded by all of you wonderful ppl here at drawspace

hugs to all
Kay

wow, we have two boys taking part in the fun!

My God! I didn't realize we are in a horrible minority! Only two ? Can we survive ?
Anyway, here is a couple of boy shoes, taken from the cellar. Just drawn today (pencil).

Thank you Elena, Kay and An.
An those are awesome cellar shoes.

Dear An, only now seeing your profile i realized that you are a boy. Than there are three of you. Wayne, Mr. Ofir and you. Sorry i had all the time the feeling that you are a lady.

Eh, Elena, So you have not read my introduction to this Challenge ? (DRAWING SHOES!) ?
Your comment gives a doubt. I must see a doctor to be sure!

WEll, I read it now ...again. I missed exactly those two lines in which you told your story.Sorry about that, An.I must see a doctor, too, I am getting old

some of my shoes:
I thought this is the place to post them even if they are great for weekly challenges.
But you can draw if you fel like although i recommend doing it from life and from your own stock.
I used to take a 5(35), the a 6(36) then a 7(37) now i am currently taking 8 (38) especialy in my travel shoes or on an airplaine when feet swollen a lot.

Thanks, Elena for the series of interesting photos. The lightings are quite appropriate for drawing exercices. I've drawn two pairs of lady shoes found in the cellar these days, I'll take the photos and post themsoon.

elena, i love the last pair in the upper row
and the first pair in the lower row..

Thank you Kay. In fact you can tell a lot about people(men and women) by seeing their shoes, not only the condition but also and mostl important the taste and the choice of their shoes. When shoes were mostly of leather(in my 20s,30s) i just loved buying the best quality because they last longer.Romania had a tradition of making quality shoes and still today the famous Swiss shoewmaker Bally manufactures their shoes in Romania. Cheap labor costs. They even had a shop in the old communist days with shoes refused by Bally and from there i used to shop for elegant shoes.The Romanian factory and trade mark was called Guban and they made the best leather shoes in Cluj Napoca with special shops in Bucharest. Where are those days? I so much miss Romanian shoes and textiles .

Here are my sandals bought in Marseille in 2001. They still look good because i don't wear them much. Another secret for the long life of shoes is to have many pairs and rotate them.

1/2 hours, charcoal on sketch pad, 9x11 in, from real life.
BTW, I just love my new charcoal pencils.

well done Elena.

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Un beso grande, Clara.

those are indeed very very nicely done..and i now love my charcoal too..you are a natural with it too and are doing some really great art work..

Clara those lil digital shoes are just darling

CLARA: I can stop these shoes, to put them in my collection! By the way, how to draw... running shoes? Huhu!!!
ELENA: A master piece, you draw so superbly, I'm troubled!

To continue your comment, Elena :

If any of you goes to Paris or to big towns, be careful with shoes. When someone in the metro or bus looks around and observe discretely the shoes of other people, this is a sign. The pickpockets believe that good and expensive shoes means a lot of money in your pocket!

Yes, An.Good shoes It usually means a lot of money. All my husband's shoes are from Bally, I just buy what is confortable now. Those days of elegant shoes are over for me.

thanks for the praise, i just love your topic.

Another pair of old shoes (pencil, B3)

(surely not expensive , Elena!)

An, this last pair of sandals is your best drawing of shoes so far, they have such personality that if they could talk they surely could tell the story of their life. All your drawings of shoes have volume which makes a drawing good and but this one has character.Bravos!

Thank you, Elena! In fact these 2 last pairs have been drawn after I joined the Drawing Space. I think I draw now much more carefully than before.
In Europe, there is since one year or two, a movement to praise works on paper, that were, up to recently, considered as minor art.

An, you can't imagine what miracles this site can work. I feel so good and busy here on drawspace with supportive, nice people and great emulation spirit. You will become addicted if you are not already just by visiting the gallery.I started in march this year, and never stopped since, even from my vacation sending comments.it's a great place to be, drawspace!

Yes, I've noted that you are very active in this forum and also in the Drawing Space. I unfortunately can't do so, because of time problem.
Here is another pair of shoes. With a special angle of view to insist on the effect of perspective. Only for fun. I hope the shoes will not fall down.
I think it's time for me to introduce another topic.

great drawing, An; they look exactly like my brown shoes.

Hay, I still have a pair of shoes !
Now I have to save time to participate to the other threads!

excellent, An.You really walk a lot

Hey girls and guys, if you keep puting all your shoes in this forum, youu will have nothing left to wear great drawing all of you

NVA, this is the best place to be if you want to learn or just do ART!!!

Clara prezada, I put only what i don't wear and from those only some. You ain't see my shoe rack it's a bazaar of all kinds of shoes; the msot beautiful I had to throw away they were Italian and if you know how Italians are they make belle cose but don't last long: so I wore them in the wrong place in Athens going up to the Acropolis and came down with holes in my Roman sandals. The cobbler says "buy another pair, it will cost you less than I would charge for the repair". So they went to the trash bin, of course. It was a sad day as i love Italian footwear.So what i have left Italian leather is my hand bag. maybe we can open another topic on hand bags I believe they are cool to draw too.

I can imagine your despair

I wanted to draw some more shoes too, but like Kay I want to draw everything and can't find the time I don't know how you do it Elena, and I thought I was a very energic person

Handbags would be cool too, like shoes, I don't have many , but I do have one I made myself it would be interesting to draw it
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Voila ma piece de resistance, "On the beach" from shot taken 3 years ago with my then almost new espadrilles.
2HB on sketch pad 9 x 11 in; 40 minutes

I wish i had done a better job with the light on one of them but i ran out of patience.

so these are my shoes...i have such wonderful memories wearing them, and now i will always have this drawing to remember them )

Hi, ladies, I have prepared some cups of tea, do you like Chinese green tea, very good for health ?

By the way, what you think about a challenge on teaset ? Not only we have to draw pot and cups, there is also a problem of composition. In fact, we have to draw a still-life on the theme of teaset ! This will take a lot of time, however !

Elena: Your “On the beach” is so lovely!
Lovemyboobug: Welcome! Tender and beautiful drawing ! You should however give us a bigger picture, a size of about 500 pixels in each dim would be fine! Regards,

An

Great idea, An! I have some awesome cups and teapot with peacock motif, all Chinese and some tea tins also Chinese with real chinese black tea and green.Let's throw a tea party !

Hi An,
I have been lurking watching all of the lovely shoe drawings, but when you said "tea" I definitely perked my ears up! I love tea, never drink anything but tea, and especially love Chinese green teas and oolongs. For breakfast I drink black tea, but I drink tea all day long.
As for the challenge, I have several teapots, and several tea cups, not tea sets per se. This sounds like a challenge I could sink my teeth into. I am eagerly awaiting the drawings posted of teasets.
Trish

I am still drawn to draw shoes.
"Opera night" - my own composition from real life, 30 minutes, charcoal pencils and oil pastel on sketch pad 9 x 11 in.

I've collected all your contributions in this Gallery. Open day and night, 7 days a week.
Entrée libre!

merci, cher ami.
Moi je suis, En attendant...le the'. en Blanc de Chine.

In the previous (n-2) post, I have exposed all your contributions to this challenge.
It was a real pleasure to play this game with you!
THANKS !!!!

Here's my WIP

mum & dad bought me some new DMs for Christmas last year and this is the photo I sent to them to show how I christened them

Wonderful, Vicki. I am glad this thread remains active. Keep posting your drawings.It's such a nice topic!

Vicky, At this stage, the drawing is already very nice. And original.
Of course, you'll continue, but this stage shows already your talent, and delicatesse!
Vicky!

(what is DM ?)

Again just want to say what an enjoyable thread this has been.
So much participation and everyone stuck to a theme but all work is unique.
I finished up my "Baby Shoes" but unfortunately think that I fell into the overworking error.

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What medium is it Tammy? Sorry if you already said it I forgot.

Acrylic paints on panel board (cheaper than canvas )

OK.I know about panels I have some myself for oil pastels and yesterday I bought some canvas paper.
Now if you want C&C I can say that the painting can be considered from two points of view, illustration and fine art. If is illustration then it's fine the way it is. But if is meant to be fine art you need stronger definition of light and shade. I don't know of course your reference picture or if it is from real life.anyway for painting you need light and shade.I hope you don't mind me saying this and maybe can serve you in the future as an element to take into account.But my guess is that is excellent on a wall in a nursery(baby's room). practically all my oil pastels that i worked since April are for children's rooms or dining rooms. And I guess is a good beginning. One cannot expect after a few months to be able to create gallery pieces.

Well I'm not sure if I am going to bin it or gift it....
I appreciate your comments...where would I put in more shade?
I struggled with how dark to make the shadows under the shoes and around the blocks.
I really don't know what I am doing with these paints.
I used shoes and blocks that I had from when my kids were babies for reference.

tammy I don't know how you did it. Usually painters who use a model have them sitted at the same hour in the same place for the same light if is done from real life. So You must have had some light source at the time of the initial arrangement of blocks and shoes. That light source reflects on the objects in "waves" of color. So to represent voulme both in shoes and blocks you create that shape with different intensities of the colors. So you observe from the real life objects in your case how colors fade or increase in intensity on the object with the reflection of light.
I hope I made myself clear.
That's why people usually draw from reference because they have a constant image in which light and shadow are present in the same spot.You don't invent it, you just observe it and render in paint. First you do a sketch of your painting and capture these elements. Then proceed to paint.But I don't know how you did it.

Sorry if I was not clear Elena.
I used items that I had and took a photo then printed it then sketched and painted from that reference.
I now understand what you mean, and from the reference I do have more light and shadow - I just don't know how to create it with the medium I am using. Do you know what I mean?
Thanks for your time Elena.