30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 30 (Thursday, 5/23)

I can't believe it's the last day of the challenge! I have enjoyed myself, and I hope the few of you who followed along the whole, tedious time did, too! I honestly found myself reaching for skills that I had not used in a long time for a lot of these drawings, and I'm glad I made myself do it. I have also reawakened the daily desire to make art that is a gluttonous thing; the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets. So, today is the last assignment. I think I might take a few days with it, and I am going to try to combine a literal and a metaphorical interpretation.

30. A self portrait

Previous challenges:

1. Your bed
2. Someone you love
3. An animal
4. A food item
5. Your favorite room in your home
6. Something that reminds you of childhood
7. Something in your kitchen
8. The view out of your favorite window
9. An eye
10. A hand
11. A mouth
12. Your favorite feature on your body
13. Your favorite feature on someone else's body
14. a Leaf
15. A symbol of your favorite holiday
16. A symbol of your country
17. The first word you learned to say
18. An object with a strong glare
19. An object with a strong shadow
20. A transparent object
21. A TV character
22. One object from three different views
23. An object that you always see from one view, from another
24. A room, where a corner is directly in front of you
25. Something dead
26. Something alive
27. A landscape
28. Something you owned in the past

29. Something you hope to own (Or have or see) in the future

30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 29 (Wednesday, 5/22)

This is a partner to yesterday's challenge, and a nice way to almost wrap this thing up:

29. Something you hope to own (or have or experience) in the future

When Tony and I got married, we did it in the courthouse and never had a big wedding. We still want to have a ceremony at some point, and I really really want to wear a wedding dress. Plus I wanted to do one little fashion drawing before this thing ends :)

Previous challenges:

1. Your bed
2. Someone you love
3. An animal
4. A food item
5. Your favorite room in your home
6. Something that reminds you of childhood
7. Something in your kitchen
8. The view out of your favorite window
9. An eye
10. A hand
11. A mouth
12. Your favorite feature on your body
13. Your favorite feature on someone else's body
14. a Leaf
15. A symbol of your favorite holiday
16. A symbol of your country
17. The first word you learned to say
18. An object with a strong glare
19. An object with a strong shadow
20. A transparent object
21. A TV character
22. One object from three different views
23. An object that you always see from one view, from another
24. A room, where a corner is directly in front of you
25. Something dead
26. Something alive
27. A landscape
28. Something you owned in the past

30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 28 (Tuesday 2/21)

28. Something you owned in the past

My son actually has one of these now, but my siblings and I had one throughout our whole childhood. It probably still lives in the basement at the house I grew up in in Woodbine. Pencil and sharpie. 

Previous challenges:

1. Your bed
2. Someone you love
3. An animal
4. A food item
5. Your favorite room in your home
6. Something that reminds you of childhood
7. Something in your kitchen
8. The view out of your favorite window
9. An eye
10. A hand
11. A mouth
12. Your favorite feature on your body
13. Your favorite feature on someone else's body
14. a Leaf
15. A symbol of your favorite holiday
16. A symbol of your country
17. The first word you learned to say
18. An object with a strong glare
19. An object with a strong shadow
20. A transparent object
21. A TV character
22. One object from three different views
23. An object that you always see from one view, from another
24. A room, where a corner is directly in front of you
25. Something dead
26. Something alive
27. A landscape

30 Drawing Chllenge: Day 27 (Monday, 5/20)

I can't believe the drawing challenge will end this week! It feels like it has been way more than a month. Well, it has, with the skipped weekends... but I digress. I feel as if I have been reaching for some skills I haven't used in a while, so this has been useful. The first challenge of the final week is:

27. A landscape

I mad this on a really fantastic ipad app called Procreate while following along (not very faithfully) to the Best of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, which is a hobby of mine. This was the first time I thought to reconfigure the scatter on the airbrush tool to make leaves! woohoo! 

Previous challenges:

1. Your bed
2. Someone you love
3. An animal
4. A food item
5. Your favorite room in your home
6. Something that reminds you of childhood
7. Something in your kitchen
8. The view out of your favorite window
9. An eye
10. A hand
11. A mouth
12. Your favorite feature on your body
13. Your favorite feature on someone else's body
14. a Leaf
15. A symbol of your favorite holiday
16. A symbol of your country
17. The first word you learned to say
18. An object with a strong glare
19. An object with a strong shadow
20. A transparent object
21. A TV character
22. One object from three different views
23. An object that you always see from one view, from another
24. A room, where a corner is directly in front of you
25. Something dead
26. Something alive

30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 26 (Friday, 5/17)

As a counter to yesterday's melancholy,

26. Something alive

One of the blossoms from our magnolia tree? sidewalk chalk. 

Previous Challenges:
1. Your bed
2. Someone you love
3. An animal
4. A food item
5. Your favorite room in your home
6. Something that reminds you of childhood
7. Something in your kitchen
8. The view out of your favorite window
9. An eye
10. A hand
11. A mouth
12. Your favorite feature on your body
13. Your favorite feature on someone else's body
14. a Leaf
15. A symbol of your favorite holiday
16. A symbol of your country
17. The first word you learned to say
18. An object with a strong glare
19. An object with a strong shadow
20. A transparent object
21. A TV character
22. One object from three different views
23. An object that you always see from one view, from another
24. A room, where a corner is directly in front of you
25. Something dead

30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 25 (Thursday, 5/16)

I don't have a good lead-in for this, except that you can get kind of creative with it depending on how you take it...
25. Something dead

A dead and shriveled gardenia blossom from my backyard. graphite.

Previous challenges:

1. Your bed
2. Someone you love
3. An animal
4. A food item
5. Your favorite room in your home
6. Something that reminds you of childhood
7. Something in your kitchen
8. The view out of your favorite window
9. An eye
10. A hand
11. A mouth
12. Your favorite feature on your body
13. Your favorite feature on someone else's body
14. a Leaf
15. A symbol of your favorite holiday
16. A symbol of your country
17. The first word you learned to say
18. An object with a strong glare
19. An object with a strong shadow
20. A transparent object
21. A TV character
22. One object from three different views
23. An object that you always see from one view, from another
24. A room, where a corner is directly in front of you

30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 24 (Wednesday, 5/15)

One more perspective exercise, and one that drives me crazy:

24. A room, where a corner is directly in front of you.

Previous Challenges:
1. Your bed
2. Someone you love
3. An animal
4. A food item
5. Your favorite room in your home
6. Something that reminds you of childhood
7. Something in your kitchen
8. The view out of your favorite window
9. An eye
10. A hand
11. A mouth
12. Your favorite feature on your body
13. Your favorite feature on someone else's body
14. a Leaf
15. A symbol of your favorite holiday
16. A symbol of your country
17. The first word you learned to say
18. An object with a strong glare
19. An object with a strong shadow
20. A transparent object
21. A TV character
22. One object from three different views
23. An object that you always see from one view, from another

As I mentioned above, I hate this perspective. I never liked one point, and I don't remember how to do it correctly. So I just picked up a sharpie, threw a little New Orleans wonk in it, and called it a day. 

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