Hello, I am Carol, This will be my first time as host for this week, inviting you to show off your skills here and in the gallery by sketching or drawing one or more of these 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 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 grey scale. 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.

Here are my photos.

1.Duke.... my Rotteweiler/Lab mix

2.Hands .. My friend John and his son Grayson

3.My outside work in the yard hat...

4.Oil Lantern

5.Rawhide Roping Stirrup

6. Wood spoke wheel

Hi Carol,
Great selection of pictures for the weekly drawing challenge. I don't know where to start, but I probably will have a go at a few of them before the week is out. Thanks for hosting the challenge and for picking some great subjects.
Regards,
Trish

Thanks Trish .. I was trying to pick different subjects that would please as many as I could without overdoing it .. I had so many to choose from my file it was a little difficult.. Well.. we shall see where it all goes.. Hope I don't crash and burn .. I have so many things going on right now and I want to do a few draws here myself.. Hope I can keep up.. Thanks again Trish for your participation..
Hugs .. Carol

ok , ok.. allright i get it ...i SUCK... probably blow too...and maybe even both at the same time

Thanks Carol I am going to go attempt the hat i think today

would someone be so kind as to do the baby hand in watercolor, so i may observe how to handle shading skintones in WC..

thanks in advance
Kay

Hi Carol
Thanks for challenge hosting
uiiih, very beautiful and not easy to drawing motives - I still can not decide which I should first take,
but I will attempt my best

Best Regards

Raidor

Thanks to the hostess for the interesting pictures. I have tried a very quick watercolour of the hands(have to work on the music trade) - I am far from the thought of showing "how to do' - sure, you'll do better than me, Kay. Still, skin colour is really difficult to do in watercolour without ruining the transparency of the media, and is a challenge.

This is beautiful! Kay, I'm glad that you asked for someone to do this!...and Sveta Thank you for doing such a beautiful job on it! I am so envious of people who can see colors the way you do .

I also want to thank "Texas Lady" for the challenge! I'm so excited about these pictures, because I think that they will work very for birthday gifts and Christmas gifts (It's never too early to start!). Thanks again, and good luck to everyone!

Sveta, thank you so very much hon for doing that for me, it is lovely, i shall try later..i woke up with a fever this morning..and feel icky..my hubby brought home a bug to me from the shipyard..

wow - you are very fast ... and very good

You are so welcomed sveta.. I am absolutely impressed with your style.. I can see it in everything you do.. This is not an easy draw.. and I thank you so much for jumping to Kay's rescue..
I'm hoping to see more attempt this one.. so precious to have a father and son moment..

Take care Kay.. Golly this time of year we will be seeing a lot of Spring colds and sicky stuff.. .Sveta really did a nice job with her super style.. Love it..

Great thoughts on the Gift giving !!! Glad you are excited .. makes me feel good about my choices now.. Thanks ..

Have fun with the subject matter .. make it your own and change it up if you get inspired to.. Anxious to see your choice.. Hugs Carol

Thank you all for the kind words!
Sorry to hear about your fever, Kay! Get better soon. Yesterday with the astronomic spring coming it snowed - in the morning I could see white flowers on my window.

that is bad news, I hope it will be better soon .. wish you all the best, Kay

I have decided for the stirrups, but never imagined it would be so difficult

First step :

sketch with pencil, will be finished in ink

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I completely AGREE! I am starting on the Wheel now, and I had not idea that it would be this difficult! Good luck with the stirrup....

Oh Boy ..!!! I get to see another Work In Progress.. Looks like you are on the road to putting difficult out the door.. Looks really really good !!!

Hang in there Sarah.. Christmas is not for another 9 months .. Hey .. Isn't that a funny coincidence??..

thanks , sarah .. I wish you too

thanks , carol ... and , yeah, it is a funny coincidence

good luck all and happy drawing

I finally got my children (Son, husband and puppy) to bed so that I could finish this piece.

My husband chose this one for me to do first...He wanted me to change the background however, so I tried to make it look like it was leaning against wood (Not sure if I achieved it or not) but now that I did, I realize I didn't take into consideration the shadows that the original background made. All of which should have been removed from this drawing, but I wasn't thinking.

....I know I talk too much, so here it is:
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awesome - by the color even a little nostalgic touch, bravo

last step

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I love your Stirrup Drawing, Raidor! I love the look that the pen and ink gives it! Very nice.

Sarah that wheel is super...what a great job, raidor yours too is wonderful..i am running behind and slow. you guys are awesome and thanks for the get wells...

Sarah ...I agree with your hubby.. The trellis behind the wheel was not exactly old west looking .. However anything can be changed .. I never noticed the shadows Sarah til you pointed it out .. It still looks awesome shaded or not.. The wheels tones gives it the "back in time" feeling....


Raidor...I think the Rawhide Stirrup turned out super.. All the lines in that wood ( had to take you all day ) and the oldness of that stirrup impresses me ..I am so thrilled you stayed with it .. I know it had to present some challenges for you.. But we are all here to push ourselves in to something out of the ordinary..
Thanks so much for your participation.. I am going to try and get some done today.. I am still trying to get the Card trade finished up ,, will put them on hold for a few days.. .
Ya'll have a great Sunday !!
Carol

Thanks , Carol, for the compliment

have a funny sunday

Regards

Raidor

My rendition of that ol' wheel.. Put mine up against a tree.. I agree with you on shadows.. They were certainly all over the place ..

Hi, Texas Lady, taking us to ol' Texas country, on a Texan theme!

Great Job, Sveta, Sarah, Raidor, Carol! Did i miss out someone?

I will join in later with an attempt at that unmistakable Texan hat!

fantastic draw, exellent

Yeehawww Elena .. Guess we tend to post what is around us and where we have been ..My next (hopefully ) host..I will get a few old windmills and barns in the mix. I didn't want to get too stupid with Rustic my first time out of the shoot.. trial and error..

Hope to see some Elena Texan Art soon..

I love your Easter Thread .. and the concept of Easter Cards.!!!. I will get one started soon.. Lovely colorful Easter !!

Raidor ,thanks so much for the compliment

Carol, Rustic subjects are fine, we don't get them everyday, and I think you must take pictures of all stuff you have there and makes an intersting subject for drawing.So, don't worry, yiour theme is great. I love it!
I am also in the color mood, so I will try at least one easter card first, before getting to the hat.

another 2 for this challenge.. Going to go and try my hand at those Elena's Easter thoughts..
Thanks Elena.. I'll be watching your thread along with Kay's naughty Leprechaun draws.. ..

Here is my attempt at a color piece. I have never used colored pencils before, but like Elena, I was in the "color mood" so I stole my teenage brothers colored pencils.....

I printed a copy of my original drawing of the wheel, and added color.

What do you all think? Any advise? Like I said, color is not my thing usually, so any help would be great!

Sarah

Sarah, I like it. It's a colorized drawing.Printed image on a drawing pad I used in oil pastels from my own previous drawing or painting. It is called underpainting and it is done in oil, acrylic, oil pastels paintings but not printed but painted before you add the respective medium.In color pencils as they don't mix with graphite, one must draw directly in Cp. But in a challenge anything goes as is more open to experimenting.For colored pencils drawing, check out Jeanette's thread on CP and also the animal cp workshop of last november.

Thanks for the references. I will have to check them out!

I agree with everything you said....I just wanted to play around...Actually, I thought it was going to turn out horrible, or else I might have put a little more time into it.
I haven't had much time today to draw, or else I might have started from scratch.
Also, my brothers cp's are as cheap as they get! I think he bought them to use for a geography project one time, but hasn't used them since!

Thanks for the compliment though. I have already put it in a cheap frame I had laying around and put it in the guest bedroom at my house! I too live in Texas, and as Carol said, we Texan's tend to have a lot of "rustic / country" stuff. The wheel picture goes perfectly with the decor in the guest room.

Sarah I am like you Time comes in spurts so I have to do as much as I can with what I have available.... next week is a busy work week and all I will have time for is mostly looking in on the new drawings..Maybe squeeze in a few cards at work when no one is looking..

I like the color version of your Wheel very much ..so nice to hear you are going to use it in your decor...

If you have never used the Derwent water color pencils and Inktense pencils you will be surprised how well they go down on your paper..I love them and combine them with my watercolor brushes..

Where in Texas are you?.. I live near Wichita Falls.. Gilbert ( lancruz ) is also from Texas .. Near Fort Worth..
Carol

that´s great ,amazing colored

I am about 30 minutes south east of Austin. I really don't know where Wichita Falls, but I think it's probably close to me.

Thanks for the info on the pencils. I am going to go get some more stuff to work with pretty soon, so I will add those to my list of things to get~

...p.s. I hope you can sneak some cards at work....Just don't get caught~ lol

You're going to love them...The Inktense pencils are my favorites..
Wichita Falls is just about the middle distance between Fort Worth and Amarillo.. I am 50 miles west of Wichita Falls.. and about 20 miles from the Oklahoma border.. Litttle ole bitty town off 287... you know the ones.. everyone here knows you whether you like it or not..
I'll be super sneaky tomorrow.. Ha !

Ok. I didn't do any bunny easter card. I tried graphite, horrible day for it and hats. First the drawing was bad, next the scanner died on me, I took a photo of my sketch, but when to download it , the Pc couldn't recognize the program. So I spent an hour for a bad drawing and two on the tools and ended up with no image to show . Wish me luck with my dino equipment.

Big Bad Bummer Jeanne.. Bet it was from all that scanning you did last week.. You were on fire with your Challenge Week.. Hope you get it back hittin' all cylinders real soon !!
Let it cool down and rest.. Poor things.. If we keep this up we may have to get Heavy Duty Industrial Scanners ! The Energizer Bunny must be tired of keeping up with these prehistoric PC's..mean time I'll keep fingers and toes crossed even if it hurts..

Finally, the bad sketch, bad picture taken in bad light is here.
Texan lady you should admit some witchcraft from Witchita falls fell on me from that hat and some Texan spirits messed up my drawing and PC
Yes, my challenge was a hit, but if you want to see my first challenge look at this.

Hi all! i loved that that oil lantern pic
so i made drawing of it,
hope you enjoy it.

This is my sketch for the oil lantern! Hope you like it... !

It took about 30 minutes

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Yes, I do

with pencil ,A4, ca 1hour

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Really nice sketch !!! Thanks for the comment !!

That is gorgeous! Bravo!