Welcome, and I hope you'll enjoy the pictures!


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.


My older sister
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I live in Sweden, and it's cold...
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and finaly me, ten years ago
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have fun

Great photos i hope i get chance to tackle one

Great pictures O'Flahertie.
Thank you for hosting this week.
A moderator will pin this tomorrow morning.

Amazing pictures O'Flahertie!! I really want to draw your older sister in color.. but I never drew people in color before. Then again that's why it's a challenge.

Thank you! And same here, mabye I'll give it a try as well ^^

yes I love the childeren !!

I just saw your Sister's picture as a watercolor.. Thanks for the challenges.. Will try and do more later ..

wow it's so good! love the shading

I knew it.. I knew it.. I knew it!! When I saw that picture I knew you'll do it in watercolor Carol!! Wow.. it's absolutely breathtaking, what an amazing work!!

I must agree Carol. Great choice to use your colors and a lovely piece as well. I think it captures more than the picture.

yeah Monika you know me pretty well...just graphite was not going to do that picture any justice for me.. however I could see it with a hint of color .. Sort of reminds me of the photography they use to use in those Older Life Magazines..

Okay last one for this week .. I have to get a painting done for a local Club here and I am so DREADING it .. the composition is keeping me awake at night ..What they want just doesn't make sense and I committed myself to it .. Wish I had a magic wand and it would all be over. !!


So here you are Young O'Flahertie...

Stunning Ms C your a wonder

and he is my young O'Flahertie about 4 hours work i guess

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aaw, so cute^^ you are really good and good luck with the painting!

wow, you've really spent some time on this! and it shows

Brilliant.. just brilliant Carol!! You are so amazing with watercolors.

Good luck with the Club painting. Maybe once you start and get into it, it won't be that bad.

Excellent drawing Mark!! I love the face, the expression and the details on the shirt.

Here is my attempt of young O'Flahertie.
Love everyone's attempts so far.
Jon
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Its really good! Love the hair

Great work Jonyates!!

Wow Carol... Great Job! You outdid yourself this time. You really captured that look of wonder

Once again Carol... Wow! My daughter looked at your 2 watercolors and said " Wow Mom, there are actually artists better than you" lol

She said that you should give me hair lessons!!!!! LMAO!!!!! Ya know what's funny about the whole hair thing? I'm a hairdresser!!!! LMAO again!

Great Job Mark, wow you are really getting good at your portraits, they seem like they are coming alive!

All of these portraits are great! Wonderful Wonderful job on this one Jon. I have yet to start one I have been so crazy lately but I will start one today. The competition is tough this week,

That is funny Chris.. Being a hairdresser you should just pretend that your pencil or brush is the comb and just comb the hair with color add a few highlights and sgraggly flyaways I really do enjoy watercolors but the pencils are giving me more patience with details.. tell those kids thanks but they do have a pretty wonderful Mom Artist too after all she helped to create them ..

Carol

Thanks Carol, you made my day!

here's me contribution for the week, I'm not sure if it resembles at all because it was a tough expression to capture.

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haha yeha I know it's a difficult picture, but I think you've manage really well!

Thanks you it was worth a try... great picture!

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Georgeous work!! You captured her happiness

You captured it Chris!! Beautiful work!!

It's my turn now. This is my contribution for this week, a lovely Amanda. This is my first colored pencil drawing that is larger than 2.5 x 3.5. The paper was very grainy, something I'm totally not used to and I found it rather difficult to work with. It was a new kind of paper I bought for my new graphite portrait and I thought I'll use it for this challenge. Hmm.. not sure I'll use it for colored pencils again unless of course I'm going for that grainy look. Navigating around her face was probably the most difficult. All in all this was a good challenge. Thank you for hosting this week O'Flahertie!!

Omg, it's so beautiful! And it's so difficult with those colored pencils. Great work And thanks a lot!

Monika .. great Color Pencil with Amanda !! so vibrant .. love the colors !!

Beautiful Beautiful drawing Monika!!!!!!

Thanks guys. Despite challenges I was having real fun with this one. Now I want to try and learn to do portraits in color pencil. I went to the local art store and got myself a set of Prismacolors (I found a list of colors the best for portraits on WetCanvas), about 25 pencils. I love them and I'm so excited to start learning..

Thanks for the encouraging words. I just may try another challenge.

You met the challenge, Monika. I like your color pencil rendering a lot. Look forward to seeing more of your work.

yes.. you definitely should try another one

thank you