Hi everyone, have been busy and not had time to do much drawing unfortunately.
But started again this week. (Feels good to be behind a pencil again)

I have attempted a few of this weeks pics.

Once again some fabulous work submitted on this challenge well done everyone.

Jon
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big thank - I will do that

many thanks, vielen Dank

I believe it`s more practice than talent

very very good works


A few observations

Shading will be exercised - only stronger darker strokes do not really look for shade

the boat has been good, to follow in the tire with the strokes of the curves = looks better, you have lost the desire to draw water? = It looks so monotonous, boring

Your lines are good Jonyates...little more focus on the roundness will give beter results.. liked the guitarist..nice lines and then you finished that image with the background and people..

drew the remaining two images also..
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falcon i tried with charcoal piece..need to practice and get a better control in charcoal..
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Hi, Jon! Happy to welcome you! Beautiful strokes! I feel the pleasure you have when you draw! All the sketch are lovely! Wait for more from you. Thanks,
An

[quote name='Jaisan' date='Oct 23 2009, 07:37 AM' post='123647']
Your lines are good Jonyates...little more focus on the roundness will give beter results.. liked the guitarist..nice lines and then you finished that image with the background and people..
drew the remaining two images also..

Both are very good! You are a master! I'll try something today.
(I've visited the site you indicated. Excellent school for drawing at all level!)

The falcon (pen)

(welcome to my friend who has accepted my invitation to visit me this morning)

Oh, your reference photos are so beautiful, An!
Amazing challenge!
Congratulations to you and to everyone who have participated!

Regards to all,
Sonia.

Nice and strong Ann...uuh..i mean the drawing..
Adobeiro..just went through ur blog..very gud work..

So happy to see you, Sonia. I have also visited your blog (for the first time) and found, among other nice artworks, the beautiful chinese lady from my last DS challenge. Can we hope to have your contribution to this one ?
Cheers,
An

Remaining, remaining ? What remaining ?

Here is another couple, with special challenge for composition and perspectives. Landscapes are excellent exercises, hihi !!!
To you and to all our friends!!
Best,
An

I do! very nice.

Falcon and duck
Pencil, Pen, Charcoal.

amazing

beautiful

a bit of repair

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Hi and Thank you, I got the large board at an art supply store called Michael's. On the back of the board it gives a website. (www.nicolecrafts.com)

I love it because I can use larger paper, the clips on top hold the paper perfectly from slipping and there is a large rubber band to hold the paper from moving
on the bottom.
I hope yu can find one.

Nice works An..nice blend of tools..and good improvisation Raidor..

An, u made me realise how hard it is drawing strait lines in perspective angles..lot of calculations.. ...

anyways i tried it out..didnt dare to go for any details as the angles are not correct..need to look some perspective drawing methods and sort things out..
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tried a color inversion in photoshop
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This is a nice delicate painting! You are right to frame that way. It remains now to find a place to hang it. Thank you very much for the comments on my posts!
An

Well I rushed to get this done. It has a fair bit of artistic license (I am not much of a draftsman so I interpret here and there) but I like it. The wood is the biggest disappointment for me.

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Mechanical pencil on White copy paper ( my usual medium).

Thank you, Jaisan, it's really not easy, but you got it very well. It's a very agreable picture. The main ideas are there. From the photo, it is already difficult to get the main directions, from the real landscape, it's still more difficult. Good idea to inverse black and white. I'll try it with some of my posts ! Thank for the idea.
Here is my freehand attempt on the landscape. Many mistakes! Not so elegant as yours.

Very good NickDMax! I too like invention and interpretation. Vive la liberté! We can't live without!

Swan.
Inversion BW. Thanks to Jaisan

THANK YOU,
When I write these lines, this week Drawing Challenge has beneficed of 1610 visits, 123 comments and 35 drawings. The reference photos have been particularly welcome (400 downloads), and the drawings highly appreciated (more than 640 downloads). The general ambiance was extremely friendly.
To show my gratitude to all of you, visitors and contributors, I’ll take time to reproduce all the drawings in this post and in the next one. They are all beautiful, various, full of talent and personality. All show evidence of our pleasure to draw.
Next week, Tania Bee will host the challenge. Please, join her in the new topic. However, it is clear that you can continue to post and to draw in any Weekly Challenge at any time.
I wish everybody an excellent new week full of joy and art.
(below are part of the contributions, see the following post for the other drawings)

THANK YOU (continued)
An

awesome birds, congratulation jaison

you did a very good job

many thanks An + Jaison

awesome

very very good

Dear An,
Thank you for the wonderful photo set, it was a week full of fun and joy of drawing, all the other friends of drawing a thank you for the great pictures and helpful and fair comments
best regards Raidor

hi NickDMax, tat was a nice one..feel like have nice patience..i liked the pattern of the tile and wood texture also..

Thanx An, the the bulding and especially the swan had very good flow of line..nice work..And Raidor thnx for the good words..

And to sum up, it was fun and enjoyed a lot...thx every..

Thank you!

Funny though that I was rushing to get it done... I suppose it is easy to have patience when things are going well but much harder when they are not. I tried some of the other pictures but I never got off to a very good start and would get frustrated. My seagull for example looks more like someone giving a thumbs up with oddly painted thumb than it does a seagull. My falcon looked more like a seagull than a the seagull did!

Looking over the pictures though your are some of my favorites because they show an economy that I wish I could find. A few strokes to capture the nature of the what you see. The strokes are not exact or even necessarily lines within the original picture at all, and yet you capture the scene. In this I am envious.

I really enjoyed this challenge and hope that I can participate in more.

hahah..the real thing is in keep practicing..understanding what you need, planing for it and executing..its surely an evoutionary process and surely everybody is at some level of it...practice will make us evolve..
i feel like economy of lines is very important..every line should have a purpose in defining the thing..can only hope to reach that stage..but can surely evolve...its never ending..keep posting..gud luck..

Thanks to all of you, who has visited and participated, in particular to Raidor, Jaisan and Nick. It was a good week, full of fun.
Each of us has learn a lot. Thank again.
Nguyen Van An

I love the choice of photos to choose from ...excellent work you guys .

Thank you, Kim.
(Green) tea, or coffee? No sugar, yes ?
An