Welcome to my challenge hope you have fun and there are pictures to challenge you all

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 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.
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Beautiful photos Mark. I'll start the little boy later today.

Thanks Monika that will please him he has moaned at me that know one has drawn him yet

Great pictures Slaine.
Thank you for hosting this week!

Its a pleasure ,, thanks for having me

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Here is a line drawing of your beautiful dog, he reminds me so much of my old dog Bob, a Great Dane.

Great Danes are great for sure

i am just doing this stage as well but you have done 5 times more lines than me

so i am going to stop adding shade and do some more lines as you have got it spot on

thanks

These are great photos Mark, I of course will attempt the little guy! He seems like he's a handful so this should be fun but it will be a challenge to capture that expression.
Thanks for the photos!
Chris

Thanks Chris he sure is a handful but easily controlled when wrapped in a few rolls of sellotape

but is a boy of a thousand faces i did try to get him playing the X Box but we ended up fighting as he wanted to be left alone rofl

Great photos Mark - I will also be attempting the lil guy, hes adorable! so is your dog, but im useless when it comes to drawing fur

Hehe thats Great Marie wish i never started this blinking dog as your right fur is a nightmare

No more moanin and groanin'

omg this is so good Carol!! and how quick!!

Not really Monika.. took a couple of hours.. As Steve says when you Watercolor .. don't fiddle with it.. Just do it.. That's what I love about Waters .. they are faster than the Draw..

Congratulations for the photos are very beautiful ... I loved especially the angel.

I'll try to do something, my weekend will be busy, I have activities that my days are supposed to last 35 hours.

I agree great choiuce here ...I love the watercolor ..

WoW he is really going to love that

its fantastic

i should go wake him up to show him but its only 5.15 ..................... i will go wake him

Great Job Carol... you def. captured that expression!!!!

Carol, What an awesome job, well done. Water colour I have never attempted but looks fantastic.

Mark, Some great pictures this week, I will dive in this week and attempt a few of these.

Thanks again for hosting Mark.

Cheers

Jon

well here's my version of the "crazy kid" lol.

I'll have you know that I started working on him late this morning and I got so wrapped up in drawing him that I forgot to pick up my kids at the bus stop. They don't have a long walk, I realized I had forgotten when the bus went by the house. I quick jumped in my car and met them 1/2 way. LOL

I thought that was a pretty good story to tell.

I hope he likes it, I can't decide if it looks like him or not, I tend to make kids look older but I think I made him look younger... I don't know.
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I love it Chris

that is getting into your drawing letting the time whittle away

it sure does look like him great work thanks

I couldn't resist this sleeping giant! I used my Derwent Tinted Charcoals on cartridge paper. Measures about 8 x 8 ins. SHHH - don't waken him!

Awesome drawing Chris. I think it totally looks like him

Beautiful work Norma!! he looks amazing

Awwww that is lovely Momwond love it and as the saying goes let sleeping dogs ly

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Here is my puppy finished.
Bristol Smooth 148lb, Staedtler pigment liner 0.3, 4x6.

Love it Paulette thankyou

Hope this works and you dont mind paulette

click it and should give a slide show of all your diff stages

I finally got around to completing a drawing in time. Great images Slaine. I couldn't resist the bunny with the fluffy hair doo. Done is graphite.

Jacqui

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hello everyone! this is my version of the angel...

Beautiful work alina!! I love the added glow

Awesome bunny Jacqui!!

Beautiful Angel alinai. I agree with Monika, I love the added glow!

That's cool Slaine, Thank you!

Absolutely beautiful.

Soz didnt get on yesterday was a manic day and night



This is a lovely fluffy bunny love it



wow that is superbly drawn



Its a pleasure

Just to let you know I'm working on Mark Jr. My little girl had an appointment to the dentist for tooth extraction yesterday which triggered a migraine in me, which in turn made me unable to concentrate on finishing Mark Jr's right ear. I want him to have both ears so I'll wait till tomorrow to finish.

My little one is 4 years old and she banged her tooth 1.5 years ago. We were able to save it until now but it started moving recently and dentist recommended extraction. Let me tell you.. I've never had this much anxiety at the dentist before. I wanted that laughing gas for myself.. lol.. She is good now and sporting her gap with a pride btw.

Is she gonna get her tooth replaced? My bf has a fake tooth because it got knocked out from hockey a while back when I didnt know him. He got an operation to get a foundation for his new tooth which he'll probably get in a few months or something.

No.. this was just a baby tooth so in a couple of years the permanent one will come in. Your bf's was most likely a permanent tooth; so many hockey players loose their teeth.. dental surgeons must love them. lol

Monika so sorry to hear about your daughters tooth. What a rough thing to happen to her, at least she seems to have come through it okay. Sounds like it was more stressful for you, poor mum. Hope your migraine has gone now.

I HOPE IT WAS A BABY TOOTH!
I have had a migraine for two days now, it's horrible and I hope it goes away soon. I am hosting the next challenge and I wanted to get out and take some pictures and that never happened. It will be tough to find some pics that I haven't used yet but I'll find some.

Thanks Jacqui. It's been two days now so I'm hoping it will be gone tomorrow.

I hope you'll feel better Chris. Migraines are nasty.

Hey Monika glad your on the mend , your work is alway worth waiting for i still got mine to finish to

its amazing how resilliant kids can be and to be given a gap after the exstraction is just way cool

Here comes my version of little Mark Jr. Couldn't resist giving a little blue hue to those cute eyes.

That is really brilliant Monika he loves it ,, love your little touches of colour ,, thankyou

Heres my drawing of Marks lil boy, its a pretty awful drawing! I kinda gave up on the teeth and hair after drawing countless times, soz I didnt do a better job of it Mark!

Forgot to say in last post, loooooove your drawing Monika, brilliant work as always!

Heya Marie

well the way you been going on i have been expecting a pink alien lmao

this is great done in your lovely style the hair is really brilliant and you have caught his cheekyness

great job lady