take the 100 things drawing challenge

Where is the “I want to do this again” button? I got rid of this goal prematurely…..

EDIT: Oh Goody! I found a way to add it again.

I won’t be posting photos of my drawings as I have no way to do that. But I still want to play.

I just completed number one.

Number one was/is entitled “Introduction”.

I didn’t have anything in mind for a subject. I just sat down and started to draw. By the time I was done I had used drawing pencil, colored pencils, pens, crayons and pastels. What I ended up drawing was this:

A woman with long, flowing golden hair (imagine that, that’s a stretch, eh? LOL) and she is wearing a long flowy, drapey blue gown with bell sleeves. I wanted the gown to drape just so, so as not to appear “baggy”, so I spent time on it, and in trying to make her figure under the gown accentuated by the drape, the curve of her arms, the thigh and knee underneath as she strides forward. She is standing side too, and wings and feathers are growing out of her back and thru her hair (NO—this was NOT inspired by the Grow Wings goal! LOL) I colored the wings the same colors as in a Falcons wings….browns, beiges, whites…hints of blue and gold, smudged in, as I used pastels and colored pencils on the wings. She is holding her arms out and her hands are open. Hands are hard to do! I spent a lot of time on them. And they’re not even detailed, I just wanted to depict them as offering something. From her hands I drew spiral after spiral after spiral, in varying lengths and colors, flowing off in all directions, but out in front of her. Then…I thought I was done…..but just kept drawing, and out beyond the magic spirals grew hearts and flames….hearts IN flames. LOL. Well, that was my intent; hearts on fire, to symbolize passion. But they ended up looking more like hearts enshrined in pieces of amber. Ha!! Which was OK by me as I love amber….so I put in a few lil bugs for good measure. (If you have seen many pieces of amber, sometimes there’s lil fossilized bugs in it, preserved for posterity, by this formidable, gorgeous, primal and ancient, most exquisite of preserving mediums.) I am not going to spend much time psychoanalyzing it, but aspects of it are clearly autobiographical. I do feel like a woman with wings….I do feel like I live in a world of and create and spread magic….I do often feel like my heart is on fire in the best possible way…..Hmmmm….but I don’t feel like a bug stuck in amber, even though amber is one of my favorite gems. I attribute that aspect to the fact that I was unable to render the flaming hearts in the way I saw them in my head. Fire is hard to draw too.

I was pleased with my effort and the result. Especially with the figure of the woman; she came out really well.

This is fun! Thanks to Wren for making me aware of the goal.

EDIT: I think for future drawings in this series, I will attempt to have a subject in mind, but for INTRODUCTION I thought it was appropriate to just draw whatever came to mind…...how are the rest of you doing it? Literally, figuratively, metaphorically, etc?

I see oodles of doodles in my immediate future…...pen & ink, pencil, crayon, colored pencils…..swwwwooooonnnn…..yippee! I already kind of do this a lot anyway, perhaps a goal, some direction will inspire me further & lead me down other creative avenues. (Not my doodle posted here btw…I have no camera at present, not one that works anyway…so I’ll be unable to post my doodles, but that’s ok, it’s the doodling that’s important…)

1. Introduction
2. Nurture
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can’t
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation