Hello again!

I hope you all had as much fun as I had this past week. All of your drawings/paintings were just beautiful! I hope that you all like my photo choices. I added my favorite of Gabe this week because he asked why everyone always draws Ava. I told him "because she actually smiles for the camera, you always make funny faces!" So this one of Gabe is my all time favorite.

The rest are some great photos of vacations, day trips or some type of nature shot.

Have fun!

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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 endeavors to some form of drawing: graphite, colored 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 3-5 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.

oooooo some good ones Chris super job

Nice But very very small.. so no flowers and that's wonderful .....Now you want to make my eyes to go jake !!

I've tried the first one 2 times now, and it turned out disasterous both times^^ well, perhaps I'll ty again tomorrow

post them maybe someone can give you pointers

I'm so sorry about the small pictures. I didn't realize how small a few of them were. I was able to get a bigger one of the leaf but not the others.

It can't be as bad as my rose from last weeks challenge.

Yeah ,, hey we show the good bad and the ugly in here ..We can take it ..

LOL!!!

Hi all, I am new here and would love to have a go of one of these.

Jacqui

Please do! It is so much fun and I have to say that I have learned so much from the help of everyone's comments and advice.
Have fun!

well, on everybodys request
I usually don't do much colour, and I didn't really spend that much time on either of them...

Hello again.
I've tried to do the baloons.
In the second photo I added more light.

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Okay Mister Gabe .. we don't want you to be left out .. However ,,,here was the Challenge .. Your Mom posted the smallest picture ever in the whole world !!.. So whatever is wrong ..just remember..it's your Mom's Fault ..

Hello Chrismh!!

Hello everyone!

I ask permission to post all of my contribution, and sorry for any lapse in employment. (I'm still learning!)

Gabe, I tried to do a good job. Next time, do better ok?

Happy 2010!!!

Hello my friends!
Thank you for the photos chrismh! I will try another one soon!

Hope you like it!

Pencil 4b;
Watercolors;
2 hours of work.

P.S: Here in Brazil the date is "day/month/year". That's why "04/01".

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I am so loving the Art coming from this week.. I am going to try a couple more hopefully .. Great job everyone !!

I'll send a general post to you all, I am loving this week as well. You can just tell that you are giving 110% and that makes me so happy!
Love the Red rocks of Sedona

Love the photo pf Costa Rica ( That is where my husband proposed)

And last but not least I love all of the "Gabe" paintings/drawings, they are just great!

Oh and your balloons were wonderful... great job!

~Chris

Here is my contribution this week:
Small is beautiful, !!!!!

An

Very nice! great job

LOVE IT! Thank you!

Thank you for your comments, your work is very beautiful.

Thank you for your comments, congratulations for the challenge.

Gabe will be happy Chris... so much response to his picture I'm drawing him as well, but not ready to post it yet. It's a real challenge for me to work from such a small picture, because I love detail.. lol

Well i was going to draw Gabe to

but all the other picture were getting really upset and threatening strike action

so i did this one

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Yeah good one Mark.. uh huh.. sure,, upset,, strike... ..
Okay ..okay .. nice draw..

Oh no soon as Gabes pic saw i ignored him he wasnt happy and was going to withdraw himself from the challenge

so here is a quick sketch

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You're a complete nut Mark.. Me thinks you could be kin to Steve..

hehehe why thankyou young Lady

Very nice!

LMAO!!!! Please do not take that the wrong way, but this drawing of Gbae is Hysterical. I feel I can say that because I know how great of an artist you are and I hope you are not offended.

I am so sorry for the small picture it's the only one I have. I am going to post a similar one with the rest that is bigger.

Of course he was being silly.. Tell Gabe that drawing reminds me of some of my Hippie friends back in the 70's.. What a Dude !! Mark needed to release all his tension ...and ,,well guess that happened...Tell Gabe he needs to draw one of Mark..

Everyone has been so busy. They all look great. Here is my first attempt, it is pen and watercolour pencil of the sedona mts. Thanks for the great image. Hope you like it.

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Jacqui

Everyones done a great job ....gabe sure is popualr my fav is the bangs in the face .

Hi Kim, It is great to hear from you again! Missed ya. If you check out last week, it was Ava's week, lol.

I hope you have the time to drar something.
ttyl

How could i be offended with words like that flattery will get you everywhere i belive they say



noooooooo i have more built up tention i need help with . . . . . dont draw me pencils and paints hate me

I cannot wait to see it.... Thank you!

LOL! That is what Gabe said last night, I was showing him and laughing... he said " I should just draw one of him and he stuck out his tung(can't spell and spell check can't either on this one)

Anyway this week is another good one, Thank you all.

I think it's just a guy thing..

Tongue

lol guys.. you crack me up

here is my version of Gabe. This was a fun challenge (real challenge from a pic this small.. lol)

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That is wonderful

Thank you Slaine

Seriously, why are my pictures not reducing to a thumbnail size when I post? Others have nice little thumbnail postings and mine always takes half the page.. lol

Are you using the Browse at the end of this message box .. says Browse and upload ?

No, I'm using the icon at the top of the screen to insert an image...

lol.. I just got it.. thank you for the hint I was using the wrong tool

You're welcome.. Thought that may be what you were doing.. Glad you are thumbnailing now..

That sounds painful.