Hello and welcome to this week's challenge!
This is the first time I'm hosting and I hope I have at least one subject your interested in attempting.
Below are the general guidelines for this challenge.
I look forward to seeing your work.
Have Fun and Enjoy!

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 as not under copyright, meaning you can use them as you wish for drawing.

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 one week. At that time, all challenge drawings should be submitted to this thread.

I have offered a number reference images to choose from. The images are also provided in greyscale. Seeing the images in black and white gives a better sense of basic values.

I have kept the images to simple shapes that still provide challenges. Block out your basic shapes first then work the details into them, rechecking proportion and measurement against other reference points in your drawing.

If you have an interest in hosting a challenge, please see the list in the pinned area of general discussions.

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My daughter Rebecca at the local county fair. Not a real horse but hopefully you horse lovers are drawn to it.

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Nice closeup of a bird taken at Epcot in Orlando, Fla

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Fishing Boat at Sunset on Lake Erie Buffalo, NY

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My son and Daughter Rehoboth Beach Delaware My wife and I Love this photo! Hey they're not fighting, what's not to love!

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Fall Leaf from local park

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Taken during a recent trip to New York City. In honor of this weeks Presidential Inauguration.
At Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street in New York City. This was the site of President Washington's first inauguration

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Moose taken at Cabello's Sporting Goods store in Wheeling, WV Wish it was a live shot. That would make for a better story.

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Another shot from Cabello's. Leopard on the attack

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Cool Photo of a Giant Fly taken inside a childrens play area Disney Studios Orlando, Fla.
I like the detail on this one.

I hope this selection of photos inspires you to pick up your artistic tool of choice and get to work.

Cya soon! CoachKWL

Cool photos, Ken.Hope to be able to draw one or two.

I have already picked 2 I like .. Hopefully I will get them both done ?? GREAT photo's !!! Carol

your daughter is so cute!

Decisions, decisions!! It's much easier when I only like one or two. Thanks for great selection of photos.

I like the selection of pics to, but I swear it looks like Pres. Washington is kind of hip and wearing leather pants.

Very nice pictures!

Here's my answer to the challenge, not a very good one though. Hope to have some spare time and try once again.
Good luck with your attempts!

Not very good? Gracious me that's a wow from me.. !!

Hi all! Here is a quick try in charcoal. Not as charming as CoachKWL's photo, but being my third or fourth charcoal drawing ever ... well, maybe I rather give up and try ant collecting
Bye

Claudio

Hi everybody!
Thanks, CoachKWL, very nice pics!
Who is Sveta17 to draw so beautifully ?

NgVanAn

It was a real pleasure to quickly draw this gentle bird before going to bed !
Thank CoachKWL !

I could not have had more fun than to draw your daughter Rebecca .. She looked like she was having the time of her life !! Thanks for the Picture !!

Being a baseball coach, I thought he was styling in some wicked cool baseball pants!

Your "Not very Good" is awesome! More please!

Great job Claudio. When you do start collecting Ants, make sure they're dressed properly before going out into that Canadian winter!

I bet that was better than a warm glass of milk and a bed time story! Wonderful!

Wow Carol, That's GREAT! I figured the horse would force you into drawing that photo! Thanks!

I will be attempting the same photo. Should have it done by Tuesday.

I look forward to seeing other member's attempts!

Wish i were there...

Thank You! She gets her looks from her mother and possibly the Mailman.

Well done. Lake Erie is currently frozen over. It is a very relaxing place to go during the warmer months. Lake Erie runs into the Niagara River that leads to the famous Niagara Falls which is about 45 minutes from my home.

I just tried your daughter on her own as I'm trying to come to terms with portraits in colour pencil. Hope your wife doesn't see the comment about the mailman! My Mum used to say I was like the coalman as I was always dirty - I used to look at him and wonder. She is a lovely wee girl and I hope she doesn't mind what I've done to her.

Here is my attempt at the carousel picture.
That ATC trade with the flowers this month has me working the colored pencils so I figured I bring them into this drawing.
This photo was screaming color. I might do a b&w of it at a later date but for now a quick effort with cp.
Took about 2 hours.
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Wow Norma, That's Great! My daughter just gave it the thumbs up too! She's getting a kick out of seeing herself on here.
Thanks

here is my first try to draw something for drawing challenge...

hope you like it and comments are welcome..


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i'm not very satisfied with the surface on which fly is standing but I had no idea how to draw it so it's my best try..

p.s.
sorry for my english, it's not my first language..

Wow! Your fly is very good!! I find that the values are very well rendered, and the different textures are very well done.
Congratulations!
Claudio

I agree with Claudio, Excellent job. I am also attempting the fly with pen and ink. Hope to have completed by Tuesday night.

Claudio and CoachKWL, thanks for the comments..

@CoachKWL:
it's great you'll also draw the fly... I like to see other people drawings of the same subject so I can learn something new..

very quick quick quick pencil sketch..

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Quick sketch of the moose in all surface graphite pencil on Strathmore drawing pad 9x12in.
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Great drawings everyone!

Nice job Kay and Elena!
I hope to get the beach scene done for my wifes birthday tomorrow. She'll be 29 again.

The moose and many other animals were on display at Cabello's. They had a huge mountain display with the animals scattered throughout it. It was pretty impressive.

Here's my attempt at the fly.
I wanted to practice with pen. I've been using it during the flower ATC trade and liked the outcome of some of those cards.
I decided to add some color to the little pest.
Pastels with some color pencil
5x7 on smooth bristol approx 1 1/2-2 hours to complete.
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I like your fly..

wow..great fly coach

Ok, this is my first time posting a picture here. I must have messed up my first post with the way I tried putting the image in it.

Anyway, here's my sketch of the father and daughter at the beach. I felt like sketching in ballpoint blue today

Hey Vee, that's excellent! I love the blue pen. Give's it a nice effect. I'm laughing because that's actually my son and daughter.
He's 15 and she's 7. He's already 6'1" and climbing. I'm hoping he becomes a father some day but let's wait about 10 yrs!
Thanks for contributing!

Thanks Barfuss and Kay.


My wife said, "Your drawing a fly?" After doing the flower ATC trade the past two weeks, I guess I needed to do something manly and less feminine. You can't get less feminine than a FLY!

Ooops, hehe. Didn't mean to make a grandpa out of you so soon

Wow, great pictures everyone. Well done.

Here is mine, I thought I'd have a go at the statue. 2B pencil.

Hi, great drawings everyone!
Here is my contribution: the bird in ink.
I must thank Ken for the challlenge. This is the first time I draw something else than a landscape or a plant. I have never drawn an animal or a person, and I am very happy with this one.
Claudio

Claudio - You are really brave drawing in ink. You made a great job of the bird.
I tried the boat last night - I used soft pastels for the sky and water and the black coloured pencil for the boat - if I'd enough confidence, the boat would have been good in ink, but I'm a coward.

Thank you!
I like your subtle touch with colors. Maybe an inked boat would break this subtility.
Claudio

Very nice drawings by everybody.

Here's a sketch of the two children on the beach with pastels. The photo is one of those that the longer you look at it the more you find beautiful.

Good luck to everybody.
Sveta

Wow!!! Congratulations, it is excellent!
Claudio

Good Job Paul. Terrific shading. You've made America proud!

Looks Great Claudio. I'm happy that I provided photos that have inspired you to try something new.

Beautiful! You really captured the scene.

Well this really makes me rethink my approach on this same scene. I am finishing up my version and will give it to my wife tonight for her birthday. I will post it later. Yours is much more in-depth. That is something I need to visualize more when I am approaching a project. Thanks for sharing yours! It's terrific!

Here's my version of the beach scene.
I like it but I don't love it. We'll see how it looks framed and maybe I'll add a little when I have more time.
This is one of my early attempts at using pastel chalk. I like working with it, but it does get messy.
Do you spray this with the same fixative you use with pencil / graphite?

Ken

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I like your version better - it's clearer. I use a very old bottle of fixative for charcoal, pastels and pencil(Windsor&Newton).

I like your tehnique... and nice shading on children and clothes...