paulette ....nice portrait of tuesday

Hey twincedar that is a realy good drawing for a first try. If you keep trying to draw people you will find that with every one you draw you get better. Great drawing WoW !

Way to go, Paulette ! I think you did a fabulous job of it.

Awwww Brian David...you made me blush. Yes my girls are very good looking but they get it from their daddy's side of the family. Thanks you for the compliment though.

Maire..I just wanted you to know the picture is saved and is now the theme on my desktop...I love it so much. Thank You. You are very gifted!!!


Paulette..I really like your picture of Tuesday too! WOW it is great!!! Now that I have seen her drawn without makeup I think she does look alot better. More innocent. Plus you are right the makeup thing was JUST FOR halloween. I don't want my girls growing up to fast in any way. Plus there are too many perverts in the world. So I want to be safe.


Actually EVERYONE of YOU on Drawspace is tallented!!! I have seen some people start out at beginner levels and mature to great advanced! Thanks to Everyone who participated in my reference for this Challenge.

Thank you everyone. I'm pretty happy with it, I can see places to improve but that will be for other drawings. You guys are so good for the ego.
Paulette

Twincedar, this is a wonderful first portrait. You have a good likeness there too, which is difficult to capture. Keep practicing, keep playing with it, it really is the trick to improvement.

Paulette, that's a great image of Tuesday. You've done well with it.

Thanks Kim, PeeWee and Islander for the encouragement. I will continue to work on portraits. I would like to get good enough to do some of my family so I will need to practice.

Twincedar ...this may help you ..in the begining of my trying to draw portraits I started by doing coloring book images ..so I could see the outlines clearer.. and it did work for me ..I slowly started adding more and more detail ..soon I was doing them with out looking then I started doing women out of vouge and people ...that was it didnt have to look just like them but as long as the eyes and nose and mouth were in place I was good ...then from there I moved to trying to really make the drawing look like the person .
not sure if that helps ...also I use to love coloring in books and put so much shading and detail ...lots of ways to practice .

Hey Kim that's neat. I too like to borrow my son's coloring books and freehand draw the pictures and add shading. It's quick and fun but I didn't think of it as practice. Thanks for the tip!

Kim,
Good tip, thanks also.
Paulette

Hello guys and gals....

Thanks Venus for the photos...

I can see some new faces, and many great art pieces....

At my workplace, during a slow morning , I tried a quick approach, from quick glances at the monitor...

These are not finished drawings, they're done as quick exercises on basic features and likeness...
.... It took me about 40 mins on each drawing. both done in a strict aidless freehand style, from visual perception alone...



The second drawng was done from imagination, thinking ahead in time...

Comments and suggestions are always welcome..

Regards

Neat drawings JET - and only 40 minutes. I like the concept of working from imagination on the second. Very creative.

Twin and paulette thank you and it really is concidered practice .
Jet nice portraits

Nice portraits J·E·T, also I like the last lady portrait in your Aided Graphite Drawings web site.

Hi Venus!
Great pictures. I attempted your eldest daughter.
It was a great challenge. It took me about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Suggestions and comments are most welcome. Tks. for looking

good job jet and chloe.
Lori

Great Jobs...Chloe and Jet!!! Thank you so much for participating in my Hosting of the Draw Challenge!!

Chloe actually Crystal is my eldest daughter.. While Tuesday who you have drawn is my middle daughter. I didn't add photos of my other two children. I figured the first two were hard enough!!!!

Ok Everyone...there is only a few more days of the challenge so lets get some more wonderful pictures up here!!!! I also want to thank everyone whp participated and tell other newer members there are still more drawing challenges to come so if you think you missed out there are still more chances!!!

chloe ....nice portrait what did you use ?

Good start Chloe on a challenging portrait piece. Is it charcoal?

Tks. Jeanette and Kim.. I used mainly H and 8B pencil for the darks.There was no charcoal in this drawing.
I use the H to do the cartoon, and fill in my lights and darks then use 8B for very dark. Idon't always work this way; but went along with my muse

It's in a version of the moleskin books..same size, cover and everything ; but the paper is not as smooth as the original moleskin.. I keep the original moleskin for my good sketches


Just a quick question ..Can anyone start a Drawing Challenge?

Thanks for the info Chloe. Its nice to know what people use to create their artwork with.

The Drawing Challenges are set on a schedule with volunteer hosts signing up. The next sign up will be in January, with free hosting dates mid February onwards. If you would like to host a challenge then just let me know when the next call goes out for hosts. Everyone is welcome to host one, we want to give everyone an opportunity to do so.

Tks. Jeanette for the information. Yes, I would like to participate in one.
Looking forward to it;-)))

Chloe,
I'm curious, did you draw the cat that you are using for you avatar? It's very nice.
Paulette

Hi Paulette
Yes, it was done in acrylic 7 x 91/2
I am glad you enjoy it!!!

I have been trying to make time to join in the challenges and finally to day I was able to!!! Everyone here has been drawn (no pun intended) to your lovely daughters, Venus, and I am no exception....Just couldn't help myself...although I didn't have time to draw both of these beautiful little girls I did make time to draw your oldest. Not sure if I caught a good likeness only Momma can tell that...even if she doesn't look exactly like her you can tell she is the inspiration for this drawing.
Time 2.5 hours a quicky for me
Size 5 x 7.5 inches on stonehenge vellum using 2h wood and 2hb mech pencil

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Laura, once again, you just amaze me with your abilities. Awesome, and only in 2 hours, WOW

Lovely work Laura, it has a very 1940's feel to it. I like it.

This is the last day of Venus' Drawing Challenge. So get all those stray drawings in before tonight!

Tomorrow bright and early Painter48 will be hosting the next Drawing Challenge. Get your pencils sharpened, forget the holiday rush and spend some time with your friends at Drawspace.

Laura she is beautiful. you do wonderful work. i love it.
Lori

Laura, she's fabulous. She looks like a post card. Beautiful.

Laura wonderful detail ....she does have a 40's look ... does anyone know what she is dressed up as ? I know it was a holloween costume .

Painter48,
More than 2, sweety...hehehehe and thank you!
Jeanette,
I noticed that flavor coming through about 1/2 way into this...I liked it so just went with it...Kinda reminded me of one of those silent movie heroines
Lori,
I really enjoyed doing this...I don't often get to do something just for the fun of it!
Cyn,
Thanks, if you all look closer I bet you could pick out all the boo-boos.

Kim,
I'm takinga wild guess, but as the mother of 4 daughters I would have to say some character like Princes Jasmin in Alladin...but the head scarf is different....

Thanks for the kind comments,
Laura

Laura..lovely drawing...and as far as her costume goes everyone is wrong. She is dressed up as Princess Gwenevere. That was a long time before 1940's...hehehehe Ohh and Tuesday was my flower child.

Venus,

Now the head dress makes sense!!!! Regardless she is a beautiful little girl and it was a pleasure attempting to draw her...sorry it didn't resemble her more...that sometimes happens with the quick ones.

I have a flower child too. My daughter Jamie...you guys will have to go to the cafe to hear the chicken story...hehehehe

Laura

Venus, thanks for your comment.
It was fun drawing your daughter.

Thanks Jeanette, I know how much you encourage creativity in our works.

Kim, thanks for your comment.


Old Dad,hi!
The drawing you liked, was done using a grid, for getting the main face features; and was drawn from a photograph of our beloved IslanderNL (Jeanette), posted in another art forum, where we first met at
Thanks for taking your time visiting my 'freehand' galleries

Kind Regards


PS- -A Suggestion-
It might be a good idea to include a christmas theme in our Next Challenge

Good guess then ..I thought maybe jasmine with the thing on her head .