Weekly Challeng: Self-Portrait- Crystal

Just a sketch of me doing my favorite thing- eating.

Weekly Challenge - July 3rd: Self Portraits!

Hello fellow sketchers!  The weekly challenge for this week is "self-portraits"! Make it realistic, make it cartoony, make a photo-manip. Post your results here and/or show them on Sunday!

Single Vision Trip

Here's Nala and Samson from our Single Vision trip. I'm much more happy with Nala but that's probably because she just sat there in front of us for like forty minutes. It's easier to draw when your subject is motionless.

Imaginary Creatures Challenge

I don't know where I was going with this guy but I like the way he turned out. I was thinking Final Fantasy/Dinosaurs. :)

Single Vision Wildlife Trip Sketches -Effie

Today we went to Single Vision Inc. Wildlife Sanctuary and drew. It was amazing! We were literally inches away from some of the biggest cats in the world. I had a ring-tailed lemur sit on my shoulder, and held a baby bobcat! 

Here are some of my sketches from the trip. They were tricky to draw, since they weren't very still. Photos to follow soon!

Samson the 700lb Siberian tiger chills out in his pool. 

 Nala the Lioness (she was an attention hog ^-^)

 Mohan the white Bengal. He stayed still the longest.

 Sita --Asian Black Leopard. You can't tell from the pictures, but she was GORGEOUS.

Lemur fun. :)

Creatures and Monsters Challenge - Effie

Here's my submission!  Before I drew this dude I had no idea what it would turn out like. Just kind of made it up as I went along. I think I'll call it a "Crested Phalanx".

Weekly Challenge - June 5th: Creatures and Monsters

Creatures and Monsters!

Here's a good exercise in imaginative drawing! Create a creature or monster, or draw one from a reference. There are no rules on the content--the sky's the limit! If you like, write a description about your creature, and tell us what its all about.

Post your results on the blog! Remember that you can post responses to previous weekly challenges at any time.

"Big Bad Bunny Eater" by Imaginism 

Fill in the Gaps Challenge- Effie

Here's my entry, finally finished!

Memory 1. A Hearticorn

 From reference: A real looking horse 

Memory 2: ...I think I nailed it.

Bird Brain

"Fill in the Gaps" Challenge - (Amy)

Clearly, my memory is hazy: A model was necessary to remind me what Mockingbirds look like (see the "Mock Dove" directly below). In any case, I agree that this was a useful and revealing exercise!

"Fill in the Gaps"-Lindsay

What a great exercise. It made me realize how little I know of horse anatomy. I mean seriously, what are those critters supposed to be? Even after I studied the reference photo (second image), my memory took over in the third and confused the actual construcion of the face again. I found that I tend to shorten proportions, and make fatter what should be thin, and what's thin, fatter. I'll be trying this with other images as well...

Weekly Challenge - May 15th

The Challenge for this Week is: "Fill in the Gaps"

No, not that kind of gap.

There we go.

Step 1: Choose something to draw.

Step 2: Draw it from memory,

Step 3: Draw it again, this time using a reference- either real life or a photograph.

Step 4: Draw it one more time, from memory, and see how much you've filled in the gaps!


Step 5: Post all three pictures on the blog. :)

Food Challenge Sketch - Chrissy

-Chrissy

Food Challenge Sketches -Effie

Drew my breakfast the other day, along with a doodle. Yes, I really have those salt and pepper shakers. :)

-Effie

First Post! Also, the Innaugural Challenge

Welcome to the GSG blog everyone! Here we'll can post responses to our challenges, meeting and trip recaps, and any resources you think everyone else will find useful.

Without further ado:

Drawing Challenge (week of May 8th) 

"Food and Drink"


Draw your breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Draw food doing things it's not supposed to be doing. Draw anything even remotely related to eating or drinking.



Post your results!