I tried the marbles too... this is my first drawing in colors, I hope you like it...

Great photos Kim, lil Max is adorable!! and the drawings of him are brilliant . I am going to attempt the young portrait, it is a challenge for me drawing a young person!

Thank you everyone ..i always try to find interesting photos ..I cant wait to see what you guys come up with

Alinai ..the first colored drawing is amazing ...you did very well with the way the colors bend inside the marble ..way to go !

Hey Kim are they freckles on the picture of you ?

or is it because its a very very very very old picture and just marks ? ,, hhmmmmm not meaning your old hehehe

thanks. I don't even know how to use the colored pencils, so I added the shades with graphite...

Here is my contribution to the challenge - and challenge it definately was! especially the clothes. It doesnt look much like your photo Kim, and its very messy, but anyway....

Here is my attempt at Kim's portrait.

Once again great pics from everyone and great images Kim.

Jon

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They were freckles but I no longer have them as dark only a couple.

I think the drawings are great ...look at my clothes how retro is that ...it was a toss up between the two .. this one was taken of me when i lived in vegas and I was drawing in my art pad ...but it was very dark and hard to see detail .

I see some fantastic contributions here since I last checked.

Marie and Jonyates - Love the portraits. Both look great!!

Alinai - The marbels look amazing, so real. Same thing with the statue. Brilliant!

Kilo - Max is adorable. Great work!!

Great photo Kim. Not a lot of detail but I love the sunlight in your hair.

I'm working away on our little Kim. I should be done tomorrow... I think.

Young Kim

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Portraits are the biggest challenge to me... I finally brought myself to doing this.
What a way to learn!

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Slaine and Siks portraits are always a challenge because it like you have to be exact ...but really the more you do the better you become .. i think these are great ! but they are of me I love seeing how people do the same picture only are so different .

This is my "Young Kim". I just had to put a pencil in her hand.

Bobby

Bobby,

This is lovely and the pencil is quite fitting. Excellent work.
Jon

Pencil on printer paper, just a quicky.

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Paulette nice job on the squirl ...our squirls here are pretty friendly ..they know who sets the nuts out for them

Bobby A beautiful drawing indeed thank you so much for joining in on my challenge

Holy Moly Bobby!!!!!
I have said this before.... you are one amazing artist, your drawing of "Young Kim" is beautiful.

I am working on this photo also and I'm having a hard time on a few spots but after seeing yours I'm not sure I want to post it,LOL.

But I will anyway.

I love this pic!!!!!!!

thanks kim


well here's my try

with pencils

That looks sooo beautiful .. you really captured the movement inside the marble .. very nice .

Thank you Kim!

your marble was nice too, I like the shine.

by the way the dogs you guys made are very nice!!

Bobby - wow.. stunning work

Paulette - that some amazing looking squirrel for a quicky.

Di - the marble looks fantastic.. beautiful work

I'm still working on our little Kim. It might take me longer now that I've seen Bobby's work.

Alrighty, this is my contribution this week. Meet my version of Little Kim.

I love that !!! that looks just like me hun .. thank you ...I am going to print all these off and add them to my book of all the challenge pics .

Great job Monika! I had to start all over on my "little Kim". There were a few areas that I was having trouble with and I couldn't for the life of me fix them. I decided just to start over because I couldn't erase anymore. I will probably work on it a little longer and then just post it no matter what. It's a great photo so I really want it to come out good.

Well here's my version of the marbles. I started with charcoal and finished with pencil. hmm....

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Good work everyone!
I like all the different interpretations.

OK... so I started my drawing of Kim. It was going OK but I just wasn't happy with it the further I went on. After I had erased and erased I threw in the towel and decided to start over.

The second round was going OK, better than the first and I was feeling good about . I started entering my downward spiral as I was touching things up so I decided to be done with it.

I like how the second one turned out (except of course for the hair ), the shirt is a mess, I need some major help in that dept. The hand is horrific, I have drawn a few portraits with a hand in it and they turned out pretty good but I don't know what happened to this one. Oh, I forgot one, I tried to do that little wispy hair on her cheek and I shouldn't have ( this is in the second attempt)

Welp... here is my lil' Kim drawing. I'll include the pic of both drawings and a side by side.

Any tips and critiques would be great!

First try
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Second one
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side by side
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I can't do critiques yet as I am still a beginner myself but I think this is great work Chris. You definitely captured her expression. The hair is not finished but it's got a great flow to it so you were definitely on the right track.

Thank you all for the comments on my drawing.

Thanks Monika

Jim very nice marbles .. I love the reflection ...thanks for joining in

Chris I love both and the second smaller one looks very close to the photo .. you have come a long way hun on your portraits ...maybe darken up your tones a bit ...dark is hard for me as well ..I always have said I am afraid of the dark lol but it does make a drawing pop out ...I love the eyes and the mouth you seem to have captured very well .

Thanks Kim Even though I had to start over I still loved trying this portrait. I may even do it again and use your advice on the darks. It is a great photo of you.

That's darn good for a quicky. Forget it... even a quicky would take me a day or two.

Thank you Chris.
Great work on the portraits!

Here is a line drawing of the pup.
Sorry not very dark.
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A very late entry, and one that flouts the rules. But I know the person running the challenge, and I'm pretty sure she'll let me get away with it. Watercolor on Canson Montval cold press paper, 12x9" .
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Kim... ashamed of myself for not joining in earlier.. got a little side tracked on the pencil fun.. As always I need a watercolor fix after I do a bunch of them ..loose with some color usually cures my black and white world..

another Kim for your scrapbook..

Wow Carol, this watercolor is really beautiful. I would love to try watercolors some day but for now I am just going to focus on my pencils

Nice surprise to see all of the new drawing ...I love them all !! thank you for joining the challenge

Tried the Squirrel I know its late but thought I would try it.
Not happy with the squirrel but overall its okay.
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Since we are adding these at the last minute and everyone knows I am a procastinator I will throw mine on the pile as well. It was a nice diverson from work . I can't resist an adorable dog.

Great job on the adorable dog Nancy, I love it!

Excellent drawings everyone, well done.
Once again I'm well behind on everything just finished this one, thanks for the reference, hope you like it.

wow Paul.. this is amazing.. great job!!

Thanks Monika.

these are very nice thank you for joining the challenge