Day 8: Draw a Mountain
I really don’t like drawing scenery, I guess because it just takes forever, but I’m fairly happy with how this mountain/valley/house/lake thing came out. This drawing was done with inking pens and Prismacolor pencil crayons.
See everyone tomorrow for Day 9. 🙂
Day 7: Draw a girl in a dress
This young lady is taking a walk on the beach with a seagull. I did this drawing with inking pens and Prismacolor pencil crayons, and I definitely like it better than yesterday’s 🙂
See you guys tomorrow for Day 8.
Day 6: Draw a childhood memory
(I must confess that I do not like how this drawing came out, but here goes) So, when pondering what exactly I should endeavor to illustrate for today, I remembered, for some reason, that there are a lot of cicadas around this year, which reminded me of how I used to collect cicada shells, back when I didn’t loath bugs for the creepy, crawly things they are. This is (supposed to be) a drawing of a much younger me looking in awe at a cicada, although I must confess that a) my head is too big, even for a little kid. b) I am bad at drawing trees/bugs/also scenery in general. Anyway, this drawing was done with inking pens and Sharpie markers, although I must remind myself never to leave such large skies that must be colored in, because it wears out the markers really quickly. 😦
Also, yes, that butterfly looks evil. It wasn’t on purpose, but it happened. Also, this is just a weird looking drawing. I am too short!
See you guys tomorrow for Day 7! (On which day I will hopefully have something more interesting to illustrate)
Day 5: Draw an animal
Yes, this horse looks like its made of caramel. Okay. I used to know a lot of stuff about horses, and although I’ve forgotten most of it, I still (kind of) know how to draw them. This drawing was done with inking pens and Prismacolor pencil crayons.
See you tomorrow for Day 6. 🙂
Day 4: Draw a self portrait
This is my self portrait, done in Prismacolor pencil crayons and inking pens. ‘Nuff said. 😛
See you tomorrow for Day 5.
Day 3: Draw something on fire
So, this was probably a crazy idea, but I went with it anyway. Last night, when I showed my dad yesterday’s drawing, I told him that today I would have to draw something on fire. He (jokingly) suggested that I draw Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games, who, for the benefit of those who haven’t read the books or seen the movies, often wears various flame-inspired costumes, including this one, from the first book/movie, which I have chosen to depict below. This drawing was done with inking pens and Prismacolor pencil crayons.
See you guys tomorrow for Day 4.
Day 2: Draw your favorite holiday
Today, I have created for you a Thanksgiving dinner, with turkey, potatoes, peas and gravy. In my family, we always set up the Christmas tree and decorations on Thanksgiving, and its a time when we get to have special food like chocolate cobbler, which we often have with ice cream for desert. A word of warning about chocolate cobbler: We cook it in a glass dish, and once we put it out on the warm stove top just after it came out of the oven. The resulting explosion did not harm anyone, but it did leave a lot of glass and chocolate all over the kitchen. 🙂
See you tomorrow for Day 3.
Day 1: Draw an object on your desk
So, today I drew a geode that my aunt gave me. This geode has some pretty cool crystals and odd and colorful patterns inside, and its one of the many random objects I have cluttering up my desk. 😉 Below is a picture of the drawing, along with the actual geode for comparison. I used inking pens and Prismacolor pencil crayons for the finished drawing.
See you guys on tomorrow for Day 2!
Hello, everybody! Tomorrow is the first day of September, meaning it is only a month until the publication of my book. However, a month consists of thirty days, and thirty days is a long time. It might be nice if I had something (mildly) interesting to post on the blog every day…
There are a lot of ‘Thirty Day Drawing Challenges’ floating around on Pinterest, and since I like to draw, but often have a hard time deciding what to draw, I’m going to be doing one of these challenges for the entire month of September, and posting my drawings right here on my blog. Here is the drawing contest, originally from acreativewife.blogspot.com, and also here on Pinterest:
If anyone else wants to participate in this drawing challenge as well, that would be awesome! Let me know what you think in the comments. See you tomorrow with my first drawing. 🙂
Aria E. Maher 