Hello!

People are used to call me Audrius. I'm your host for the weekly drawing challenge this week.
I hope you like my photos. And I'm looking forward to see your drawings.
Have a great week and don't forget to smile

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 7 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.

1. A simple still-life

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2. Another still-life

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3. A tamarind with seeds

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4. Cathedral in Vilnius.

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5. My boots

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6. Two friends: Agne & Akvile

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7. Akvile

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P.S. Sorry for not finding any photos for Easter...

Great pictures, Audrius. I hope I can find some time to join in this week - I particularly like Still Life.

excellent choice of pics, Audrius. Some are really great for oil pastels.

Nice pics, would like to try out a few of them by the end of the week.

WOW

The challenge even hasn't started yet but the first drawing is finished! You're so fast! Thanks, Kay, for such a wonderful drawing!

Elena, Barbara, and 1_8, (sorry, I don't know your name) can't wait to see your drawings

Wow! That was quick! This is a wonderfull drawing. The colours are fantastic! Well done you!

Brilliant! You must be feeling much better!

Kay, you're fast like a rocket heading for the Moon Fantastic drawings!

thanks guys, i am feeling so much better.. i think i slept so much when i was ill that i could not sleep this night and have yet to be to bed, i shall now probably have my days and nights mixed up

Kay, what lovely and fast drawings! Amazing!

Wow Oliverandjazz, you have a lot of inspiration and motivation! They are all lovely, the shoes look soo real! Nice work!

thank you ladies for your nice words of encouragement

Here's my version of Akvile. I used a single mechanical pencil on Strathmore drawing paper. The reason for the one pencil was simply that I couldn't be bothered hunting out my box of graphites. I know Kay is giving me a showing up with her prolific output on this challenge. All well done too!

norma that is beautiful..a great job

i am afraid i could not sleep last night, and with the quiet i just got lost in the colors..

Great portrait Norma!

I showed both portraits to Akvile and she liked them very much.

Thanks to the host for the beautiful pictures and to all the participants for their great contributions!
I've been tempted to try the cup &grapefruit and inspired by the watercolour thread in the forum and have tried to sketch with watercolour - very quick, no preliminary drawing and a small piece of paper, not very suitable for watercolour. I hope to have some spare time and try the other pictures as well.

that is pretty good with no underdrawing,
How do you do that with your colors, you are NOT AFRAID of color that is true it amazes me the way you use them and they look so good, when i try to do that it just doesnt work a nice rendition

I agree. Wonderfull use of colour! Vibrant and alive. Well done!

Thanks for your contribution, Sveta! I just love the vividness of colours in all of your drawings.

Well Ummm .. There I went again.. I posted this one to last weeks Challenge .. Guess I should get with the program ??.. One more time ..
I did these today at work .. Loved the Subjects .. so thanks !!

What an incredible start for this week's challenge -- congrats to all the participants. Kay, you're just blowing me away. Looks like the devil weed was holding you back, dear!

I swear to goodness Kay .. you and I must share the same brain donor.. If I had brought my watercolors to work I was thinking seriously of turning that lemon into an Easter Egg..

thank you ernest very much..

Carol that is too funny, Mindy was also thinking the same thing, it is the creative brain that does it, we are all creatively linked..great minds think alike

Those are like all really good choice of pictures to draw. Tomorrow is my last day of school so i'll have time to finish my atc music cards and I'd like to try some of these pictures. I have yet to participate in a weekly challenge

Pastel pencil and smooth 70 lb paper
5 x 6, about an hour.

marisa you did a great job..this young lady has a lovely face for drawing..and so far she has seen herself in pencil, watercolor, pastel, ..

So much display of talent and beehive activity here, I am impressed. This challenge seems it will go down in history as well as the early signs show.
I am still adding the final touches to my tempera tulips. The week is still young and I have a few favorites to try in color and graphite.
Spring must be in the air that everybody burried the charcoal and pencils and reached for the watercolors and pastels.Watercolor should be included as an Ok medium for challenges because there are subjects that ask for this medium.
Anyway i am glad that everyone is lively and active in these past weeks.

WOW! I am so jealous! You are SO fast! I am so excited about this weeks pictures too! They are so intriguing! I love the first on of the vase!

I can't wait to get to work on all of these! I hope I get to do as many as you already have!

Sarah

OH!!!!! These are so beautiful! I love them! You are SO talented!

Thank you very much Sarah, we look forward to seeing your posts too, these pics were indeed very good inspiring choices..

I never even noticed that watercolor wasnt listed OOPS...my Bad..sorry Siks..

First of all the photos are amazing.... I will surely try some of them during the week !!

And all the drawings are so far amazing ... keep up the good work !!!

Wow.... This week is going to be very interesting! Thank you all

Kay, nice drawing/painting. Who cares? Yep... It's a DRAWING challenge. But I guess that nobody will die only because you used watercolor for your drawings

Carol, thanks for participating with your great drawings! I enjoyed seeing them. I hope you enjoyed drawing them

Marisa, wonderful portrait! Thanks for joining us.

And thanks, Garyfallia! Can't wait to see your drawings.

I just made a quick sketch of your friend ... it took me about 25 min ... and I only have two different pencils here at work ...

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I wish I could do something like that in 25 min Awesome!

Thanks ... You should try drawing something withouth many details ... it's really fun !!!

Oh , I bet your friend would be really happy to have so many portraits !!!

excellent job garyfallia,

something like that would take me about 3 hours..


Thanks siks, i have always used different media in the challenge and it has NEVER been brought up before..


I mean i do have to draw it first before i watercolor it

Great Pictures ;D
I'll have to find some time to draw the flowers, very pretty if i may say so ;D

Toni.

Looking forward to see your drawing, Toni

This is a 2-hour drawing in oil pastels on canson mi-teintes pad dark blue 8x11in.I made many mistakes in shapes, the saucer, the half grapefruit in the cup; and changed the background color. I called this breakfast fruit as I use to eat in the morning half grapefruit followed by a cup of Turkish coffee.



I enjoyed drawing this still life mostly for the play of colors.The flesh of the fruit was the actual challenge.I don't know if i rendered it properly.

I think you did a great job, Elena.
I particularly like your blue cup and saucer, especially the nice reflections.

started work on the tamarind seeds and pods. Two grades of sepia and sanguine. 9x12in. Strathmore sketch pad.
So far i have one hour of sketching on this. Needs more touch up. I will repost the final version later.

Ten more minutes and I am calling it a day.


used some orange reds for the background.

Thank you, Barb.In the case of oil pastels i do not have the same control on shape and color like in CP. Also I am using a rather cheap set of 35 Pentel oil pastels.

Great drawings, Elena! I like the colors you used in them

Tried oil pastels for the first time. Not something I feel comfortable using! 7" x 5" gesso primed canvas pad. 20 minutes.

Lovely drawing, Steve.
I'm impressed by everybody's speed... A drawing in 20 minutes? I would need lots of practice [and time, of course] to achieve that.

What a wonderful week
Here is my modest contribution. Charcoal.
NVA

Your 'modest' contribution is excellent!

Hola Elena,
Maravilloso, realmente capturas la atención con esta pintura. Me gusta como hiciste el fondo. Muy bueno.

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Hi Elena,
Wonderful, you really catches the attention with this painting. I like how you did the background. Very good.

Turrialba

Hello Audrius,

It is great to have communication with somebody from Lithuania and thanks for those nice pictures. I wanted to try with Akvile, who is a wonderful model. Here is she, about 2 hours mainly using HB and some 3b pencils. I hope she like it!

Turrialba