Welcome to the Drawing Challenge - # 6.

Hello, my name is Joanie or Painter48 and I will be hosting the challenge of December 10 to December 23rd. All the way to Christmas Eve. I know a lot of you will be busy in the next couple of weeks but try to take a few moments and de-stress yourself with some drawing in your sketchbook.

I hope you will enjoy the pictures I have chosen to draw as I have tried to pick pictures that would appeal to all levels of participants, Beginning - Intermediate & Advanced. I have also added references to Brenda's Lessons to help some of you on these pictures. I just had to throw in a few Holiday pictures and a couple of portraits since everyone seems to like doing them. Sorry, no animals, I don't have any pets at this time and the neighbor's dog won't sit still long enough for me to take his picture. LOL

The rules are: You can use pencil, graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, chalk, conte, or pen and ink. If you use watercolor pencils, you must use them dry. You can add the water after you have submitted the drawing. No painted pictures allowed.




1. Birdhouse Still Life - Refer to Lesson D10 on Squirkling
2. Holly - This is my granddaughter at 18 mos.(Yes, her name really is Holly) LOL - Refer to Lesson H15 Baby Cameo
3. Matthew - This is my 12 year old grandson - Refer to Lesson H04 Eyelashes. He has the most beautiful blue eyes and those eyelashes!! Wow. He usually wears glasses so this is an unusual picture of him. Try this one and only do the eyes, not the whole face for practice.
4. Pitcher Still Life - Refer to Lesson B03 and J03 on Symmetry This should be the easiest of all the pictures.
5. Copper Plate Still Life - Refer to Lesson J03 Symmetry
6. Christmas Balls -Refer to Lesson G03 Smelly Spheres or Baldy Noears. (Pick just one ball and draw it if you feel that there are just too many)
7. Christmas Snowmen & Santas - Refer to Lesson D10 Textures (Again, pick just one snowman or santa and draw it if you like)
8. Holly Jolly Christmas - Dec. 25, 2005. She's 2 years old here. I just had to throw in one more Christmas picture. Refer to Lesson H14 and PO3, PO1

Draw one or as many as you like. Try just sketching one. Try getting outside your "comfort zone" and draw one that challenges your artistic abilities.





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P.S. I have no idea why these pictures are jumbled around like this. Sorry

WOW Joanie!! quite some challenge you have for us here! I'm just barely awake and you already have me looking for negative spaces!! I can see where you're coming from - composition, types of hair, shades of eyes, metallic reflection, texture...WOW again! I wish I had good colours but since I don't I'll have to stick with shades of grey.

Now why is it that I can see it all in my head but get lost when it comes to setting what I see on paper?!

But I will most definitely try some of these. I'm particularly intrigued by the boy. I have never as yet drawn a boy and I would love to learn so I can some day draw my perky little grandson!

Thanks for the time you took putting this together.

Thanks Joanie for the wonderful range of pictures.
It's a difficult choice . They are all nice pictures.

What a fabulous choice of images Joanie! Thank you for the time and effort you put it this challenge. I love the references to Brenda's lesson, what an inspired idea!

Yes, a hard decision as to which to choose from, I want to do them all I'll see how many I can fit in during the run up to Christmas. Your grandson has the most beautiful eyes - most women would kill for eyelashes like that. lol

already printed out--great images, thanks
Lori

Joannie great choices. I think I am actually gonna jump in and try 1 or 2 of them . Time is scarce with Xmas and my Birthday coming but I am gonna try LOL.

Joannie great pictures. I think I am gonna burn them to a disk and put them on my new computer. I can't get online with it yet being as how it came full loaded but without a modem. So we ordered one and it will take a few days. Then I have to wait for Brian to put it in. Shouldn't be too long though.

Jeanette...yes most boys always have the georgous eyelashes and if girls are born with them they are lucky!!!! Not many do.

Nice choices .. and a nice range of skill I like that .. now everybody can join in and not be shy .. there is a picture of any level of skill thanks for the images joane

Whew - I was worried about my choices but I guess I did okay. I really did try to get something for everybody and I added the little notes for suggestions that I could see to be done with the pictures. I'm sure everyone will come up with their own interpretations.

I actually took my camera into the store in hopes of getting a picture of a nice Christmas Tree that was already decorated since I don't put one up at my house. I like these pictures even better.
I went to Hobby Lobby with my camera to get those pictures of Santa and Snowmen, I tried rearranging them to a pleasing picture and turned most of the price tags without being too noticible. Then I just happened across a basket of Christmas Balls that were sitting on the floor ready to be put on the shelves, so I turned them around and tried to hide all the price tags and took a picture! hahahaha Nobody said a word to me either! Too funny. hahahaha What we won't do for art!!!! LOL

Venus, you're right, it never seems like its the little girls that get the big eyelashes! I wish the photo would have shown the pretty blue of his eyes better. They look a little on the grey side in that photo but they are the prettiest blue. Like I said, Matthew wears glasses (poor baby wears bi-focals) and they tend to hide those eyelashes in most pictures.

Rose - good job on "seeing" all of the different things in each picture. That's what I was aiming for.

I know we all have a lot of things to do in this busy season but I appreciate everyones participation. Now, get off your computers and DRAW!

So here I am with my first two drawings.

I had a hard time with the first one - how on earth do you shade white!!

But I think I did better on the second one...I guess that was a bit of a learning curve. I particularly enjoyed the copper plate!

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I may not have so much time now that he weekend is over but I really want to try my hand at one of your grandchildren Joan... they are lovely!

Wow Rose, that was really fast, and you did 2 of them! You did a fantastic job on both.

White is never really white. Does that make sense? Use the paper for the highlights of white and draw it grey!
Especially good job on the copper plate, I'll have to try that one myself. I'll bet if you had colored pencils you would do really well with them.

Here is santas ....lol that was not easy cause the santas are not straight there all over the place . once I thought I was done and nope another santa ... lol ... so here are my crazy santas

Kim - I was hoping you would do that one in color. Good job as usual. That picture just makes me laugh. They are a really goofy group of santas and snowmen. Anyway, I hope you had fun doing it.

rose wonderful job and fast
kim love those colors--fantastic as usual. you guys are to quick for me. i havent even got started yet. i am trying to get that christmas card thing done.
Lori

Thank you Jonie and Lori .. I wish I had more colors to work with .. I am getting the prisma 120 set for christmas .. but I sure would love to use them now lol ... the santa and snowmen were fun to do alot of different lines ...I could have taken even more time with it ...but i was wanting to get started on another

Great still life Rose. Good job on the metal plater too. Still life terrifies me..But not as bad as the toys that Kim tackled. Beautiful job, by the way, Kim....

Here's my first stab at something..

Nice work on the still lifes Rose. White is like any other colour, you just need to look for the tonal changes. You've done very well with both these.

Kim, love the colourful jumble of Santas. They'd make such a cute card.

Cyn, that's a sweet portrait of the baby, you've gotten an excellent likeness.

I'm not really quick Lori. Keep in mind that I have a minimum headstart of 6 hours over most of you!

Cyn - I love your portrait !

Kim - Brilliant!!!

Cyn - good job on the baby - you handled the folds in the clothes great. Don't be afraid of the still life s
try the pitcher one, it's pretty simple since it''s white with a dark background. hahaha

Cool Im looking forward

Painter...I did the picture of your granddaughter Holly when she was a baby. I know I didn't do her justice. I am still having a pretty hard time with portraits but not giving up yet. I am redrawing it now but will show my first attempt. I also plan on doing a few of the still lifes with my new prismacolored pencils...hehehe I need and electric pencil sharpener first. 120 is alot of pencils!!!! I see on the left side where I made my mistakes sooo...here we go!

I couldn't resist and did a little sketch of the jugs on some yellow lined paper. I'll do them properly later. You can also see the ghost of your grandson's eyes on the other side. A doodle that didn't quite make it.

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Cool bunch of santas Kim,
That was my idea of Santa Card contest... how did you know?
Fatcat
PS You mind if I use your idea ? "not for sale or commercial purposes" .




Hello Venus,
You managed to capture the expression of the baby very well !
This drawing is worth perfecting, I wait to see it in colours,
Fatcat

Here's my view of Matthew... what a lovely, lovely boy!

I loved drawing him and am sorry if I didn't quite make it. I think I went to town with the eyelashes and I took the liberty of inventing the top of his head.

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Thyank you for the kind comments ....Cyn you portrait is great....Venus you also tackled that portrait very well .....Jeanette ! line paper lol ...fatcat .....use anything you wish to use for a card udea .
rose very nice portrait .,that boy has a face for drawing .. such expression.

Thanks All, you are too kind. Anyways I tried the baby again (just in regular #2 pencil on canson sketch paper) but I think this one came out alot better.

Fatcat I wasn't talking about doing the portrait in color...LOL. I need to perfect drawing portraits first. I meant the ornaments and snowmen I was going to do in color...or the other still lifes.

So far everyone is doing a wonderful job with the draw challenge!!! I blame it on the wonderful reference photos provided by our new host!!!!

venus great job. your doing great with portraits.
jeanette love those sketches
rose what a great drawing of mathew--i really love it. i think you captured his spirit.
Lori

Hi everyone.......Joanie,what beautiful pictures you have provided. I hope to start on one soon I have been so busy.

Kim.....Yours is so awsome and real I thought I was looking at the reference pick again...

Cyn....Your portrait is absolutly adorable I love it , and likewise to Venus.

Rose , I think you get better with every sketch you do....way to go! great work, I think you are talented.

Jeanette , you put a big on my face when I saw your talents on a yellow lined sheet of paper...lol Thanks for the happy.

I admire everyone's work.

Brian

Super drawing of Matthew Rose. You go from strength to strength with your art. Lovely work.

Holly as a baby is a little challenging with lots of angles, but you've done very well with it Venus. Every drawing makes us better.

LOL, Kim, I know yellow lined paper. I was at work at the mood struck me. What can I say?? LOL

My pleasure Brian, always here to make you smile. I haven't got time tonight to work on much drawing, I'll try tomorrow if I can.

Venus - good job on the portrait of the baby. I can't believe you did it twice already! hahahaha You guys are fast! I'm with you on the portraits though, its practice, practice, practice. Thank you for the very kind comment about my challenge pictures. I can't wait to see your work with those new pencils. Be careful when sharpening them, you'll burn up an electric pencil sharpener real fast. When I got mine, I would just sharpen a few at a time while I was watching TV. Just make sure you sharpen the primary colors first so you can use them. LOL I was very pleasantly surprised when I bought my Verithin pencils, they were already sharpened!!!

Rose - you really did a great job with Matthew. My husband walked in the room when I had just pulled it up on the screen and he commented "hey, you did a really great job of drawing Matt". I didn't take the credit though, I told him that you drew it and not me. So you see, he recognized Matt right away. (he had never seen that picture that I posted). I like the way you finished off the top of his head. It really looks like that. He likes to keep his hair very short - mostly like a military haircut - high and tight is what they call it. LOL I know you think the eyelashes are a bit exagerated, but you know what?, his lashes really are BIG.

Racedolls - I don't exactly know if she captured the spirit of Matthew or not. hahaha LOL He is quite the handful - he is bi-polar and has ADHD - he's a good kid and an extremely smart kid, but he can drive you crazy sometimes. He is getting better as he gets older. LOL

Jeanette - I'm with Kim - yellow lined legal pad????? Where's the moleskin? Hahahahahaha Good job though, as usual.

I am looking through everyones work and you are ALL doing such nice work I cant believe it
sorry I have been away but my computer crashed and I am getting a new one so for now I am using my sisters lol .
great job everyone .

Thank you brian
Jeanette I guess if the mood struck you we can let you off lol
Venus your portrait is comming along great

Hi,

this is the drawings that i choosed... hope you like it

Very nice wrok everyone.

I have corrected Matthew's portrait. Looking at it with fresh eyes this morning the right ear seemed far too small in proportion. It's amazing how you don't see such things when you've been working on something for some time! Hpwever, that is now fixed and Matthew now has perfect hearing even in his right ear.

I've also tackled Baby Holly... great fun!!

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Nair, welcome to the drawing challenge. Your first post is wonderful. These are excellent drawings. I'm glad you decided to post them here. I'd love to see more of your work.

These are fabulous Rose. Matthew is a real darling with those big eyes and little Holly is gorgeous. You've done justice to both images. Well done!

I will do some more drawing today - not on yellow lined legal pads either! lol Just need time...

Thank you, Jeanette. It's very good for our soul to hear that some one enjoyed our work.

Nair - good job on the portraits. The baby is a very challenging portrait.

Rose - you cease to amaze me, you did yet another picture! Wow. Matthew has very big ears that stick out along with those big eyes! hahaha Great likeness on Holly. That is a hard one to draw. I never could do it justice.

Just so everyone knows, the picture of Holly as a baby was taken on Easter and she wasn't used to walking outside with shoes on so she has her arm over the back of her head because she is holding on to her mom's hand and she is trying to run to a basket full of eggs! So her pose is sort of awkward. I just thought that the look on her face was cute with the little yellow hoodie to surround it. I'm not a pround Grandma am I ?????LOL

Thank you painter48...your granddaughter is beautiful

Nair your portrait is sooo cute ...very nice and welcome to draw space.
Rose ...beautiful job like always hun

thank you.. you all are so nice

hi all,
i'm new here.
liked the idea of challenge.
here's my attempt. the baby caught my eye.
my scanner is pretty lousy with drawings, so i had to take a picture of the drawing and then to scan it.
done with pencils (5H and 2B) on a regular A4 paper.

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Welcome Venona.

Excellent drawing!

Hi!
I'm new around here...my name is Andreea...and this is my drawing....
Sorry about the quality...it's a picture...I don't have a scanner...but i'll try to take a picture at daytime...

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Fabulous drawings Venona and Deea! You've gotten great likenesses of the baby here. Lovely work, both of you!

I guess I could have done better but I am tired of this one. I will put it on the easel and tweak it every time I walk by just like I do the rest of them.

Cyn - Nice, very nice. I think the dark background makes this picture "pop".

Venona and Andreea - Excellent job on a very hard subject. That baby picture is a tough one but you guys made it look easy. LOL Very good likeness.

Everyone is doing such a great job on these pics.

Venona ...very nice drawing... I love it
Andrea....nice shading ... you both made it look just like the baby .
Cyn ... awsome job you captured the light and the roundness everything ...nice job .

Cyn, its perfect. You've done an amazing job with it. Well done.

You girls are great.. You made me feel so much better about my feeble attempt. I was really feeling disappointed in myself because I have never in my 6 1/2 months of drawing, tried still life. I thought to myself, "How hard can it be. It's just a pitcher and jug". Duhhh! It's harder than anything I have tried so far. I sure admire all of you that can do still life. I got so discouraged with trying to make it look right, that I got tired of working on it. It's a symmatry thing as well as real darkness. Maybe I should have walked away and tried more later. Sometimes it's hard to walk away. Also, I was trying to get over being afraid of the dark. Laura offered me her night light but I needed a whole flood light.