Welcome to Week 17 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! If you haven't started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check back to see what other fellow creatives have made with this week's exercises. Read more about the challenge here.
Without further ado, here are my 7 for this week… the good, bad, and ugly!
#113 Draw an animal out of cut-out pieces of paper. I think I did this incorrectly... I drew an animal on a different piece of paper and THEN cut it out. Was the prompt supposed to be like a paper mosaic? Who knows! But I tried making an elephant! I think the tusks and the ears look a bit off, but he's pretty cute!
#114 Add smiles to these stars. So this one was probably one of the easiest yet ridiculous exercises. I added smiley faces to the star, but there are different ones! How boring would it have been if it was the same type of smiley face?!
#115 Look outside your window and observe what you see. Then draw the scene from memory. So I remembered the 3 big trees outside, but I couldn't remember the windows on the house! So much for looking at our neighbor's house very often. The house was also supposed to be beige, but who has a beige colored pencil? Not I!
#116 Write down the top 3 places you'd like to visit, and why those places are on the top. Well I tried some fancy hand lettering of the cities I'd like to visit, but I ran out of space to write why! So here it is... Istanbul, I love this city so much and I went in 2012. It is beautiful and so rich in history! I'd love to go back and explore again. Machu Picchu is the only place on this list that I have not been to. I would love to go hike to Machu Picchu, but I haven't been able to get it scheduled! London is a classic location, and I just haven't been there in many years!
#117 Visit a garden center or park. Look at plants individually, rather than seeing a scene as a whole. Focus on drawing one plant at a time. So this exercise wouldn't work for me very well since I am very allergic to greens... so I decided to draw the one plant I have at home. My tiny little succulent, aloe vera! It's actually on life support now since it's close to death!
#118 Put on some relaxing music, take a colored pencil in your hand, close your eyes, then draw as you listen to the music. Ummm what?! Well there you go... that's what I drew not looking at my sheet listening to music. It's a masterpiece.
#119 Use this page to paint or draw some skies. The top sky was printed, and I decided to use watercolor for this exercise. I think the all blue sky and the red/orange/yellow gradient turned out well. However making a sky with blue and red/orange/yellow seemed very harsh in the color transition. I think I should observe more sunrises and sunsets.
Now that we've all had a good chuckle and/or grimace, I encourage you to join in the fun and expand your creative horizons too!
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