Hello Everyone!

It's time for another drawspace challenge, I hope you all can participate this week. Have fun.

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.



I always have to include a picture of Gabe and Ava
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This is a picture of a lion cub, my sister works at a veterinary's office and they are in charge of checking out all of the baby's that are born at a small zoo in the area.
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I thought these buttons would be fun, you can choose one or try them all.
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I took this picture at an old cemetery that we found along the side of a road, all of the headstones were dated from the 1800's. Some of the headstones had coins on top of them which I thought was pretty cool considering how old the headstones were. We took these pictures for a project that Gabe had to do in his art class at school( They had to find something to do a rubbing on, of course his was the coolest! ). We had a great time looking for the oldest dates.
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Here is a picture of my sister with the baby lion, It's not everyday that you get to hold a lion cub!
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Has my computer gone mad or have you forgotten to add the pictures

lmao.. good that you've said it first Mark. I was starting to think my eyes were playing tricks on me..

Maybe Chris wants us to use our imagination....

She's just teasing us, building up the anticipation...


A moment later: AH! There we are. Cute pics!

LOL!!! I had all of the pics up and I clicked on one of the pics and it was tiny so I had to enlarge them and then add them again......Sorry!

Your forgiven great pictures

Great pictures Chris!!

Nice cross section of pictures Chris!
Thank you for hosting this week.

your welcome, hosting is so much fun. I hope everyone likes my pics.

Great set of pictures. I so envy your sister working with baby lions... ooohhhh he is such a cutie. Those buttons look really great too. This is going to either be hard to choose or a very busy week

Thanks for hosting Chris.

Thank you Jacqui, I hope you have fun drawing this week. I agree my sister is so lucky, that had to be a great day for her!

I have challenged myself to draw Gabe and Ava and omg.. what a challenge that's going to be!! First, I never drew two people at once before.. and never in the middle of winter.. this is going to be very interesting.

I do want to do the leaf in color too, I hope I'll have time.

Good Luck Monika... I have never tried 2 together either. At least snow is white so you can leave a lot blank

Is it easier to draw two people in the middle of summer?

lmao.. I don't know.. but winter can get kind of tricky with all that snow, having to leave the blank spots for all those snowflakes and all.

I'm mostly freaking out about having two people on one sheet of paper..

I have faith in you Monica, your not alone... I will attempt it with you

Yess!! That's awesome Chris

Okay thought I would try the cub. I started alright but got lost along the way with this, proportions went wrong. Found this hard to draw. I am more of a dog person so the emotion and passion to draw this one wasn't there.
I will however like to try other animals including cats to see if i can improve on this.
Jon
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Jon I think you did really well on the cub, esp as you haven't drawn cats before. I like the expression on his face. He is one I have been playing with too.

Jacqui

Great work Jon!! I love the eyes and the expression.

Here are a couple of quick pieces. The lion cub just called out for colour - watercolour and pen. Then I had some fun doodling with a few of the buttons, they were so cool to do. Great idea with them Chris.

Jacqui

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Awesome work on both Jacqui!! Love the cub with it's cute eyes and heart melting expression.

Great Jacqui them buttons scared me

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Here you go Monika, no where to go but up from here. LOL

lol Paulette.. you cracked me up.

You did a great job Jon! I think he looks adorable! I have yet to attempt an animal so I can only imagine how difficult they are to draw.

Great Job!

You guys are so funny, I suppose I should post what I have on the 2 of them so far so you can get a good laugh.

Mark... don't let the buttons scare you. They're only buttons and they don't bite. LOL

Great job on all Jacqui!!!!!! Your lion cub face is so sweet and you did a beautiful job on the buttons. I was hoping that someone would have fun with them!!!!!!

Thanks everyone for the comments and encouragement, I love these challenges it makes me draw, and draw things I wouldn't normally consider.
Also would like to say another thankyou to everyone, you have all helped me develop my drawings and given me ideas and techniques from your comments but also from all your pictures.

I am really glad I joined and participate in the Drawspace world.
Jon

I went ahead and pinned the thread ...if people have a challenge cominbg up and you need it pinned any of the mods can do it for you .. I would like to see active challenges pinned and unactive unpinned .. so just let me know if you need help with that and I can make sure your challenge is in the spot light

Chris Love the pic of the kids in snow ...their faces are so colorful compared to the surroundings .

Thanks Kim

here's my starting scribbles for Gabe and Ava and also the lion cub, lol

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Okay Chris no more snow !!! We want Spring !!! ...
Your Children are adorable.. Carol

Jon... An excellent drawing of the cub, the eyes look great.

Jacqui... two great drawings, I thought I'd just try one button.... for now.

Paulette... A great double portrait, well done.

Chris... You have made a great start, looking forward to seeing them later.

Carol... A stunning drawing. Beautiful.

Well here is mine, just one button.

wow Carol.. amazing drawing!! A real winter wonderland.. brilliant!!

Paul - Awesome button!!

Carol... I'm in love with your drawing!!! you did an amazing job on them! Thank you

Paul... Beautiful job on the button, you really brought out some depth with your shading. Great job!

I'm so happy that you all are having fun with the buttons, I wasn't sure if I should use them in the challenge but now I am happy that I did.

Thank you everyone for participating so far.

Carol... I said to myself yesterday that I am so sick of seeing snow so I went outside and all of the snow that I had shoveled off the driveway I scooped up and threw it all back on the driveway so it would melt! I'm sure the neighbors got a good laugh at that one. ( They know me well enough to expect the unexpected from my kids and me, we do get a little crazy at times)

Paul excellent button I love the shading and realness of this, well done.

Carol, as always an excellent portrait. Looks fantastic makes me feel cold. We don't get much snow down here in Aus so its a wonderful pic for me to see.

Jon

Hi Jon
We got about 2 and 1/2 feet for that storm, The kids were outside for what seemed like forever. They canceled school for 2 days. It was great, I love the big snow storms. I'm happy that Australia did not part of that tsunami.

Yeah me too we had a few king tides but nothing to major. My wife and daughter have never seen snow so I am hoping one day to go to southern NSW or over to New Zealand. I was born in UK so I remember it from then (I was 6 when we came to Aus) just.
Jon

Here is my contribution for this week: Gabe and Ava. I have to say this was a real challenge, more difficult than it first seemed. First of all I had two people on the same sheet of paper that I always use for challenges, which meant drawing portraits on much smaller scale that I'm accustomed to. And then there was the snow and the whole winter wonderland which I had never drawn before.. it turns out it's a little more to it then leaving a blank space...(you got me Chris ).. all in all... great challenge, I have so much to learn.

Thanks for hosting this week Chris!!

Holy cow Monika stunning

thank you sir

Chris.. I am afraid I probably would have had to giggle at your antics myself..

Sort of reminds me of the Internet joke that has been going around about these 2 blonds working outside.. one was digging a hole and right next to her another blond was filling it back in .. when asked why ,,the first one said that the blond who normally puts the tree in the hole was sick today...
If anyone asks you tell them the blond who drives the truck to carry the snow off was sick that day.

Monika with each one you do I see a vast improvement .. This one is picture perfect !!! Absolutely a masterpiece..

Mark took the words right out of my mouth... Holy Cow Monika! You did such an AMAZING job. It looks like you had no trouble at all.
Thank you so much for drawing them.

I'm still working on mine, I think it may turn into a spring background lol. just kidding

LOL!!!!! That is funny, my only problem now is that my hair is not blond anymore so I don't have that excuse to use.

I may have to change that.