Welcome to the third Drawing Challenge. This week Dragonshade was scheduled to host this challenge but I haven't heard from him and he hasn't responded to a PM or email, so I'll step in and provide some references to get the ball moving on things. Dragonshade, if you come in, just let me know and you can put your references in or reschedule for another time.

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 for individuals in Drawspace to use for artistic and educational purposes..

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 two weeks. At that time, all challenge drawings should be submitted to this thread.

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nice pictures jeanette ...gives a good range thank you

Great variety. Now the challenge is "which one do I try first"? I love them all, and they will all be new and a challenge for me.

here is my first drawing ...very cool bowl ...

Kim,
eggcellent colours, I can't beleive you did that already. You did a beautiful job.
Paulette

thank you paulette ....I always try to do them all .. and I am also working on the weekly drawings .. and Jeanette has like 25 of them .. just items from around the house so I try to keep busy with drawing ....here are my grapes

Wow, you're speeding ahead Kim! Excellent drawings. You've caught the reflections in the bowl well and the loose sketchy feel of the grapes is wonderful. Its one of my favourite bowls. I have this thing about bowls and always seem to buy interesting ones when I see them.

wow love the references
kim you did an awesome job, and with color, love it!!
Lori

Beautiful sketches Kim, and like your refrence picks Jeanette.....I think I may try that old shack, since most days I feel old and rustic.

Brian, you silly man.. You may be a little rustic but never old.

Although right now I can relate to your statement..

Thank you for the compliments I forgot to put CW meaning go ahead tell me the things I could do better I like knowing the things I could change to make my art better .. thats how i learned so much already from this site . so go ahead and hit me hard lol .
Jeanette I do love bowls and ones that are different ..I do not own alot of them .. but I do admire a nice bowl .

i might be brave and try the house. warning--i am not good with houses and such.
Lori

Lori I dont do plants or flowers or houses ..lol just give it a try i am sure you will be pleased with your outcome.

Ok I know this is totally off topic but OMG Kim your new advatar looks awesome!!!! You are sooo pretty. (This was the first forum I stopped at so I had to say it in here...) Ohhh and great job on your pictures. They look really good.

Jeanette for some reason when I went to go save the colored version of the reference pictures and I opened them in my photo enhancer program they came out as thumbnails. I usually go there to check them and resize them and then put them in my kodak program so I can take them to the drug store and print them to draw from and when I went to do it today they came out all fuzzy and distorted because it stretched them too big. I have never had a problem with any of the reference photo's and printing them until these. I tried to copy them on my printer from gray scale (we still have no colored ink) but its almost out of ink too.. So is there anyway you can maybe send them to my email or something so I can save them and print them or whatever needs to be done? I wanted to do them in colored pencils in my class tomorrow.
Thanks!!!

Your sweet venus thank you .

No problem Venus, PM me your email address and I'll send them to you. Do you want the colour or greyscale or both?

Had to try the kitty cat! Mostly 2B regular pencil on some very old sketch paper.



C&C welcome!

J

Your eggs are super, Kim & I agree with Venus about the avatar - of course, Venus is no slouch in the looks department either. Sheesh! you all have looks and can draw! Sometimes life just isn't fair! lol

I think your all beautiful...........J-lynn I love your puddy cat ....

I had a cat that looked just like this, so I had to start with it.

I had a lot of fun with this one, I took a lot of pictures while drawing and turned them into a slide show. Its amazing to watch your drawing come to life.

I'm going to go for the shack next since I have never drawn a house before...

andros i like your picture, looks great
j-lynn like your too. you guys did a great job with that.
here is my first one, the bowl and eggs wasnt as easy as it looked. suggestions, and critiques always welcome
Lori

J your kitty is well done i cant critique it because I know its hard to draw animals .. I think you did a great job.
Andros your kitty too is awsome .
Lori I love your eggs trust me I know how hard those were .. the bowl was tricky .

My start and first try at this one. I admire everyone's work.

Nice Job brian... the house is well done .

J-Lynn, the cat is lovely. You've caught that soft furry look perfectly. It reminds me of a drawing of an 18th century cat, just can't pinpoint the artist right now. I love it.

Andros, beautiful cat. The colours are just right and you've captured the eyes so well. He does have that cranky look lol He's a stray that adopted me just a few weeks ago, called Tripod as he has only 3 legs.

No, the bowl and eggs aren't easy Lori but you've done a wonderful job on them. The only thing I would comment on is the egg in the forefront in the bowl. The ellipse looks a little elongated on that one perhaps? Beautiful work.

You've created the perfect abandoned house Brian. You have all the elements there, I'm just waiting to hear the crash as the roof collapses!

wow Andros i love your Cat drawing very good and i love all of your drawings well done peeps in the house LOL

thanks kim and jeanette, them eggs!! you would think an egg of all things would be easy, it is not. i know what you mean jeanette, i think i did that egg 3 times. all the eggs i did over and over.
brian david-- great house, you did a great job on that. i think i might try that one next. (i am putting off the kitty) houses and animals are so hard for me.
lori

Thanks all.

BD, kudos to you for trying that house! I have downloaded the photo & it's on my list to do but I think I'm going to tackle the eggs next. That bowl is neat!

Good job on your eggs, Lori! They aren't easy, are they? It seems that all art teaches use eggs to teach proper shading & no matter what the setting or lighting, they were a bear to do!

Thanks Jeanette. Instead of laboring over the cat for hours & hours, I decided this one was going to be a quickie! lol I'm trying to speed up my drawing & this poor kitty is the result! He only took a couple of hours.

J

Thanks everyone for your kind comments, and I hope to finish it.

Thanks Jeanette , that shack may cave in yet as I am still dizzy from doing that playground from the last challenge...I found that one really difficult.

Looking forward to seeing your eggs J-L...I wounder if that one would be easy for me since I have had many an egg in my day...lol


Have a great day everyone.

Both of your drawing are great. You really moving! Are you drawing with both hands at the same time or what?

Chris

The eggs picture I thought would be easy also but it was so hard to get them just right .. and the colors I had to use .. it was a challenge .

If I end up trying the Eggs I don't think I could come close to Kim's. I think that one is a is a masterpiece and I am sure not easy. Green eggs and ham that was my favorite....

OMGOSH ! Brian ... I was so good at reading that book .. my nephews would just set for hours and let me read that .. I would get so into it it would sound like i was getting upset lol .. I love that book .

Isn't that a wonderfull book Kim, I love all his books and his sketchy style. My problem was I tried to eat the eggs.

I noticed that in the gallery, "firstly" did the egg picture and I like the color and flow. I think it was oil pastel?
Maybe firstly thought it could sneak by..
Good job firstly..





OOOO Racedolls, I was wondering about the eggs in pencil as everyone was doing color. I love what you did..
Good job..

I noticed also ...and wondered what the heck why didnt she post so a beautiful painting..Firstly please post in here also .. I check this everyday to see the new stuff

thanks cyn. the eggs was actually hard to do. i love the colors that kim used in hers. you are great with color kim and have inspired me to just dive in and try color. i will post some things this weekend maybe. here is the house i said that i was going to try. i told you all that wasnt good with houses and i think maybe this proved it.
Lori

I think you just proved yourself wrong Lori. You CAN do houses, even ones that are falling down.

See the time you say your not good at something you prove yourself wrong by doing well .. I think you did a very good job with the house cyn .. and thank you so much for your comments .. as i give credit to this forum and the comments and help i have gotten . keep up the good work .

thanks jeanette, i dont think it looks good but thanks.
Lori

Lori .. your house looks great .. I have not yet attempted it because it looks hard .. you have made it look easy . good job .

Well Jeanette , here is my abandoned old shack. I finally got back to it, hope you can here the roof crash

Lori thanks for your kind words, I think you did a great job on yours. I admire everyone's work.

Well I tried the house in a fifteen minute sketch.
I think I thought I was an artist that knew what she was doing. Apparently, I was sadly mistaken and it now resides in the drawer titled, "What were you thinking!!?"
Sad.. so sad.... LOL

And now that I see Brians shack, I know mine belongs in the "what was I thinking drawer"..
Good job, Brian. It looks great..

Its really such a good exercise to make yourself do a drawing that you feel is outside your level of comfort. One, it tests your technical and observational skill levels; two, it proves that all drawing, no matter how detailed is simply a matter of light and shade.

HI Cyn Awww thanks .. Kind of you to say ... sometimes what you think is bad may be good to others...you are a great artist ..I would like to see it....that is if you have not retired it to your bin.. from your desk drawer I also agree with Jeanette , the more the challenge to me the more I learn. I still can not come close to drawing people as well as you. And believe me it took me allot longer then 15 min.......

Okay Brian, this is all your fault. Here is my 15 minute disaster.

Ok this is off the subject ... I am saying goodbye to those of you who know I love your work ...and my message to you is keep going with your art ..dont give up even if it seems to hard to do .. if you try it always pays off and you end up impressing yourself and others
Now for my reason of leaving ...I made a complaint ..I feel that Digimug should not have been allowed to lie and say he drew something with pencil ..when he did not ...making excuses when he was caught ...I cant trust people like him ...after Harassing me via e-mail I complained to Jeanette ..someone I trust and felt would understand .. she basicaly told me ...."what did he really do that was all the wrong " and said for me to try and just deal with it ... umm thats the worst kind of advice to give someone ..and coming from her it shocked me . but I stood my ground and I will not deal with it ..why because i dont have too ...and if this is how problems are taken care of here I cant stay...there are others who have left ...wonder what the reasons were ...thing that sad is i love this site .. I love most of the people here .. I am a stay at home mom .. who loves to draw and learn from all of you guys here ...I love all forms of art ..even digital ...just dont lie and pass it off as pencil ..that makes you a liar .. and thats something i will not stay here and be a part of ...so many of you I will miss ..but I DRAW the line to allowing people to come into this site and treat others with disrespect by saying rude remarks ...then when I complain to the moderator I am told .. cant you just deal with it .
Kim

You know I'm getting heartily sick of having my words which I offered in private and which are designed to clarify issues and resolve conflicts, turned around by others to suit their own purposes.

Kim, you know perfectly well that is not what I said, so do not garner public sympathy by turning things around please. And yes, it IS off topic.

My apologies everyone. End of story.

Jeanette .. I have the e-mail .. so please do not try and lie to these people i have nothing to gain .. you do .. to keep your position here at drawspace ...I make it public because of what you told me in e-mail ..and how unfair i was treated ..I have deleted my images .. and I am not trying to gain public sympathy ...dont care what anyone has to say .. if they support lieing .. then there words mean nothing to me .

I refuse to debate this in public Kim. Please keep your posts on this matter private if you have an issue with me and address it through the appropriate channels.

And just to be clear, I do this 'position' as a volunteer. I do it for the 'joy' I get from people just like you.

Cyn .....you make me laugh....because I really love yours . 15 min.... You just made mine look like a 3 hour disaster.