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I have received a lot of support and have been well rewarded for my efforts in that time and have also been lucky enough to meet some fantastically talented men and women with a wide range of views and opinions on all matter of subjects but who in my experience, are all friendly and respectful of one another! I have had lots of encouragement and feel that I have progressed in my drawing in my time here while still have much to learn.
There is a true sense of community here that many of us find lacking in the real world and this is something that we should all feel very proud and protective of. We are all building something here that we hope will become a blueprint for the future and I feel we should all do our part to help strengthen the community spirit that clearly already exists here.
With that in mind, for my part I would like to start up my own weekly art contest with a focus on learning to draw. Contests are a great part of the steemit platform and really help make it a fun and interactive place to be and there are already some great art contests available to choose from but one of the main reasons I post my drawings here is to get feedback from the community with a view to improving my skills and this is something I would like everyone to get involved in.
I myself am an amateur artist and want to improve but I am also happy to share any tips and advice that I can with anyone who needs help and this is a big part of what I would like the contest to be about as well. We can all learn from each other so I would encourage anyone who decides to take part to make themselves available to others for help and advice on how to improve their work. There are many talented artists on steemit but drawing is not just for those who have the natural talent, it is a skill like any other and can be learned by anyone who is willing to practice and improve.
I know that there are many artists on Steemit who are happy to give feedback, share advice and support one another so I am hoping that over time we will be able to get a good amount of entries and interest in following the progression of those taking part. Although it will initially be aimed at helping those who are new to drawing it would be very helpful if more experienced artists also took part and gave their support.
I intend to hold a new contest every week with the prize pool being made up of all the sbd rewards from the previous weeks contest. I have 15 SBD in my wallet at the moment and that will constitute the first weeks prize pool but hopefully with enough interest and participation the rewards for the contest will increase and become more attractive but really this is just an added bonus to what will hopefully become a fun and friendly learning and growing experience for all of us.
I haven't held a contest before and am not exactly sure of the best way of going about these things so I would encourage any help and advice on making this a well run and well organised, fair contest. Any input would be greatly appreciated! Whilst I am the one doing the organising I also hope that others get involved if they feel they can make it more helpful and fun for those taking part! I am also learning and growing as I go and need the help of the community to do so, so any and all input is welcome!!
So to get the contest up and running I have chosen two images and all I would like you to do is draw what you see. It is very simple. !! :)
The first image I have chosen is the one below.
This is a classical fruit bowl still life that most artist learn to draw when beginning their journey into the world of drawing. I know it may be a little boring for some but it is definitely a very useful way of learning to draw and developing the required skills to progress to more complex pieces.
The second is a bit more fun!
This is a little bit easier than the fruit bowl and is designed more for those who are picking up a pencil in anger for the first time so to speak. Those who are literally starting out. For a bit of added fun I would like you to include a speech bubble and add a few words of your own choosing. Family friendly please!! :)
So what I would like you to do is choose whatever image you feel comfortable with and have a go at drawing it. You can do both if you would like but only one is required to be eligible to win the contest. As it is the first week I will be judging the entries based simply on those that I feel have taken the most time and effort to produce, not the best quality or best result. This contest is based around learning and improving so what I would like to see happen in the weeks to come is that voting will be done by the community to decide who will receive the rewards from the contest with an emphasis on rewards for those who are making progress and improvement in their work as well as rewards for those who are putting in the most effort to improve.
In order to do this I would like everyone to post their entries in the comments section so that they are visible and can be seen by everyone who visits and votes. I am more than happy for you to make a post of your entry for your own blog and link it in the comments but for now am only accepting entries that can be viewed directly in the comments section of this post! I'm not sure if this is the best way to do things or not and it will be a trial and error process until we get it just right so again, I encourage any and all advice from the community. Please don't hesitate if you feel you can make improvements or have any suggestions at all!
So, the prize pool for the first contest will be 15 SBD and I have decided to break it down in the following way.
FIRST PRIZE - 10 SBD
PLUS 5 MORE PRIZES OF 1 SBD
**PLUS 10 SBD VERY GENEROUSLY DONATED BY @son-of-satire TO GO TO THE ENTRY OF HIS CHOICE!
**PLUS ANOTHER 10 SBD VERY GENEROUSLY DONATED BY @dreemit TO BE SPLIT BETWEEN THE ENTRY OF MY CHOICE
AND THAT OF @son-of-satire!! :)
As i said I will be judging based on what I feel are the entries that have given the most effort to produce their best work with the first prize going to the work that I feel best represents this and hopefully the prize pool will grow as the contest itself does.
RULES! :(
I am not a big fan of rules so will try to keep them to a minimum for now.
1. Your drawing must be either of the two images I have provided. If you draw both then both are entered into the contest!
2. You must re-steem this post in order to enter. This will help us raise awareness and support of the contest and to help participation and rewards in future!
3. Your entry must be via the comments section of this post and be visible to all who view it so that they can vote for it. As I said I am happy for you to make your own post and link it in the comments but this will not constitute a valid entry for now. If anyone has a better way of doing it please let me know!
4. All SBD rewards from this post will go towards the prize pool for next weeks contest and I will consult with everyone with an interest in the contest as to how the prize pool should be broken down.
5. Voting on entries by the community will determine who is rewarded from the prize pool with this reflecting which entries received the most votes. This will not be decided by which comment receives the most curation rewards but by the actual number of votes. Again, if this is not the fairest way to decide then please make me aware of it and I will look to make the changes that are required!
The contest will close after the seven day reward period with prizes being distributed based on the number of votes received by each valid entry in the comments section.
If you like this idea and would like to support it but aren't able to take part for whatever reason then please support the contest by resteeming and upvoting this post as well as providing feedback for those who enter and also by voting for the entries that you like and feel deserve to be rewarded.
Also I would really like some suggestions for a proper name for the contest so if you have a suggestion for this please leave it in the comments as well!
I am very new to everything so all the help I can get in making this a positive, fun and value adding learning experience would be well received!
Thank you all so much for your time and I hope you are all having the best day! :)
This is the latest drawing I have posted here and I think it shows a lot of improvement from the first! :)
BANNER CREATED BY @son-of-satire
Count me in! Here's my entry:
I did a pencil sketch first and then went over it with pen. I've recently been getting back into drawing seriously, and I had a lot of fun with this one! I think I might have found Waldo along the way ;)
Awesome contest, looking forward to more in the future! Good luck everyone!
Haha great idea! And top quality! Love how u cast the shadows! :)
Thank you!
haha! Love your entry @surlysquid!! You're really, really good my friend!
So glad you had fun and are getting back into drawing! I hope you decide to keep it up and post some of your own work to your blog for us all to see!! :)
Hope you day is going well!! Good luck!!!
Thank you! I'm just getting started with Steemit, but I'm trying to post my work regularly and the support from awesome folks like yourself definitely helps!
So this is my first entry:
I started with the fruit bowle:
Added a little twist ;)
(it's potato a little character/mascot of mine)
hope thats not against the rules
And did some final touches.
And that's the final result:
Hope you like it, and potato of course. ^^
Happy drawing!
@w0olf
;0 Excellent entry @w0olf! Love the potato-man!! :) And also the hidden steemit logo!
Quality! Thanks a lot!!
Good luck my friend!
Aww thank u so much!!
And because of your idea, i can practice drawing again, with a given topic. Love it! :)
I'm really glad you're having fun @w0olf!
I think we've had a pretty good turnout for the first week! :)
And entry number 2:
I made my own version of walter ;)
I think it's centuries ago that i tried to colour something with pencils...
final result
coloured with coloured pencils
Oooh i forgot. His english name is waldo! :D In Austria and i think in Germany he's named walter. ;)
;0 Fantastic @w0olf! :)
I think Waldo is the American name but here in the UK its Wally I think! :)
Great entry!! Good luck to you!!
Ah alright, the man with a thousand names xD Thank u! :D It's really fun to participate!
Awesome Tony! Hosting a contest is a great way to get involved in the community and meet people. It was in fact @son-of-satire's 50 word fiction contest that first drew my attention to him.
I'm going to match Scott's donation, but instead of choosing someone myself I'll support both of your choices by having you give five additional to each of them.
Also, I will resteem this post, but I'll have to wait since I resteemed three posts this past day. Which might work out better anyway, since it will show up new once I do.
And p.s. I wrote you back, sorry it took forever, I was out of town visiting family and meeting some awesome steemians (and I truly hope one day I will be saying that of you, in fact if I make it to steemfest, myself and @prufarchy plan to descend on Scotland! :)
My entry :-)
This is a brilliant piece of work @veronicavaldeon!
Is it in pencil though? The contest is for pencil drawings only I'm afraid so not sure I'm able to accept this as a valid entry! :(
There's still plenty of time for a pencil drawing entry though! :)
Oh dear, sorry I think I did not read the post properly :-( I will submit one with pencil then ;-)
Look forward to seeing it Veronica! Your first was really awesome though! :)
I know that this is technically not a valid entry in the competition, but it still happens to be my favourite. I am often guilty of not reading closely enough, so I can empathize with your position. Given the effort you clearly put into this, and because I do very much enjoy it, I have decided to pay my portion of the bounty to you. You will be able to find it in your wallet in a few moments.
Well done, and thanks for sharing!
Thanks :-) I am so glad you like it!
First of all thank you for the opportunity to participate in this contest, it is a great initiative, and an opportunity to meet new artists!
I decided to participate in drawing the fruit bowl, I hope you like it and that it helps you to those who want to learn to draw.
Here the finished drawing
I also share the details of the process.
For starters I have sketched the photo, sketching is always important when we draw something that we are not used to, although apparently simple.
After doing the sketch, I outlined the main forms.
And to finish I have filled up the forms based on gratings, making more gratings where the shadows are darker
To make the drawing I used a pencil and a pilot
A fantastic entry @paper-pecado! Thank YOU so much for taking part and for providing us with the process by which you put this excellent drawing together!
I hope you had fun and that you will also take part next week! I'm sure there are lots of novice artists out there that would benefit greatly from your experience and ability to explain technique, myself included! :)
Looks like you have the makings of a good post there for your own blog also! :)
Good luck my friend!
Thank you very much @tonyr, I hope you have been helpful and of course I will participate next week!
I like how you showed the progress of the drawing. Very nice!
Thank you!
This is amazing!! great job and great study of the forms!!!! love it!
Muchas gracias!
:-)
I drew this last night. A little close to the deadline but it was fun to draw. I've also got a time lapse video of me drawing it which I'll put in a post after work today as well.
This is incredible @stephen.king989!! It looks like a painting!:)
Can't wait til you upload the video later so we can all see your process for achieving such incredible results!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to enter and I am glad that you had fun!
If you have the time please also check out some of the other entries and upvote any that you like and if you could give any of our entrants some tips or advice I'm sure they would be very appreciative of them!
Fantastic my friend!
Thank you!
It's a great idea, Tony. Obviously, I will sit this competition out as I feel it would be questionable if I won it. But, I do see this providing an opportunity for people who have been wanting to develop some art skills, so I am going to donate another 10 SBD to the prizepool.
I will pay it to whomever's I like the best when the competition is over. Good luck people!
cheers @son-of-satire! Hopefully we can attract more entries with a bigger reward.
You are very kind!
Thank you!
That's just weird. You don't have to call me, Son-of-Satire. Lol. I don't mind anyone knowing that my name is Scott.. so it's cool if you call me my name on here.
Also, you should update the title to say "25 SBD BOUNTY" so as to attract more attention to the post. I just resteemed it for you, so hopefully more people will see it and click on it now. I'm curious to see what talent we have on Steemit now after the recent influx of new users.
Cheers bro. Have done! I'm looking forward to seeing the same and also hoping to encourage a few people who have never given drawing a try or haven't done so for a long time! Cheers for the donation to the prize pool and the resteem! Owe you one!
Well isn't it fortunate that I read the comment section LOL. I am back from my trip, and I see that you are fully back from your sabbatical, fantastic, will be reading your bank robbing post next. Thanks to your brother I don't even have to leave this page :)
Last minute entry. Thank you so much @tonyr for the chance. Haha.
An excellent entry @krizia! You are very talented! :)
I will be announcing the winner tomorrow but in the meantime please feel free to comment and upvote the works of the other entries and if you have any advice or constructive criticism I'm sure the artists would be very happy to hear it!!
Good luck @krizia!!
Hope you're having a lovely day my friend!!
Well, I've already upvoted entries that I particularly like. Thank you @tonyr! Btw, I just noticed your avatar and I have to say, you are rocking that tobacco or cigarette. Lol. I keep noticing random things. I'm sorry.
:)) Yes, a cigarette!! :)
Here is my Waldo :)
Excellent doodle @keepdoodling!
Thank you so much for lending your support to the contest!
Hope your day is going well my friend and good luck to you! :)
Thank you! Best luck to your contest :) I hope it will be popular.
I have never done any serious drawing before and decided to have a go at it. Critics be gentle!!
Cool contest keep it up!
Fantastic entry @yakuhi! You are very talented! I hope you decide to join us again next week and improve your skill levels which are already very good!! :)
If you have any tips for others or would like to ask some of the other entrants for advice to improve yourself please do!
Thanks again for taking part and good luck to you!!
I hope you are having a great day my friend!
Thanks! :d awesome day here, raining cats and dogs :)
:) Here too my friend!! :(
I've just read your lovely post,
https://steemit.com/art/@yakuhi/support-artists-they-re-hard-working-people
That is very good of you @yakuhi.
Thank you very much!! :)
It was fun! I haven't done this for a very long time.
An excellent attempt for not having drawn in a long time @rawinhabitant. Thank you so much for taking the time to take part in the contest. You clearly have lots of potential and I hope we you will continue to take part in the contest as it progresses. Things are a bit slow at the moment in terms of attracting entries but I hope this will change as the weeks go by and if you have any suggestions for improving the contest I would love to hear them. As I said, the point is to introduce people to drawing and helping each other improve our skills but the prospect of winning a prize always helps motivate. :)
Good luck my friend and hope your day is going well!
Thanks @tonyr
I hope we get more people participating. I asked a friend to resteem the contest. Hope that helps!
Thank you @rawinhabitant! Hopefully there will be a late surge of entries and we can make this a regular contest! I'm going to do another little post myself at some point in the next couple of days to try and get more people involved also but I am very happy to have two entries so far and glad that it has gotten yourself into drawing again. That is a big part of why I wanted to arrange the contest! :)
I'm not much of an artist... But I'm sure there others who would really resonate with this. Upvoted and resteemed..
Thank you so much for your support @jiva34! It is really appreciated.
Please stop by before the end of the contest to vote for and show support to our entrants by voting for their work and offering any tips you may have for improvement!
Hope your day is going well!
My entry:
Haha! :) Very creative @blackvapor!! love it!!
I hope you enjoyed yourself!
I will be announcing the winners tomorrow so good luck my friend and hope to see you again next week! :)
Thanks, fun stuff, drawing together with my kids. -summertime
:) That makes me really happy!
Glad you and your kids are having fun my friend!
Upvote and resteem !
Drawn by my partner (Antonio)
:) excellent entry @christianytony! Your partner is very talented and I accept this as a valid entry. Thank you so much for taking the time to enter the contest. I hope both of you have enjoyed it and will take part again next week. It is a bit slow in attracting entries but I hope things will pick up as the contest progresses. If you have any ideas that might improve things please let me know. Good luck my friend!
Thanks to you, if I can think of anything, I'll let you know.
Nicely done. I particularly like how you did the shadowing on the fruit bowl.
This is my entry :D
first, I got to draw the shape with a light colored pencil like this 'B'
so it looks like this
then, I started to add the volume and shadows with a darker pencil,
it was with the '2B'
it started to look like this
then I added darker shadows and volume with a darker pencil
this time was the '6B'
after some coloring, this was the final result :)
I had a fun time making this entry! thanks for bringing this cool idea on steemit
Wow! That is fantastic @aneblueberry! Thanks for such a detailed breakdown of how you went about creating your drawing! This will give anyone new to drawing a clear understanding of the process!!
Really great entry!! I'm glad you enjoyed taking part!! :)
Good luck to you and hope your day is going well!
Awesome Tony! Hosting a contest is a great way to get involved in the community and meet people. It was in fact @son-of-satire's 50 word fiction contest that first drew my attention to him.
I'm going to match Scott's donation, but instead of choosing someone myself I'll support both of your choices by having you give five additional to each of them.
Also, I will resteem this post, but I'll have to wait since I resteemed three posts this past day. Which might work out better anyway, since it will show up new once I do.
And p.s. I wrote you back, sorry it took forever, I was out of town visiting family and meeting some awesome steemians :) I took a short leave from the platform, first one ever :)
:) That is really, really nice of you @dreemit and the resteem will really help also. as I know you too have a lot of followers like Scott. Haven't really got much of a clue how to run a contest properly but I wanted to do something that would be a benefit to others and myself. There are already a few excellent entries that I have learned from myself and hopefully your donation will attract some more entries.
Thank you so much! And we've missed you around here!! :)
Hope you had a lot of fun and looking forward to hearing about it.....Dreemit's World! :)
What we say or do will never change. Many cannot grasp that until they have made mistakes; but that's the process of growing up. We learn from our faults and try our best to create alternate paths.
I love a good contest. Glad I can support it and will try to get my entry in before day 7! Question: colour or no colour?
Great @jaybird! Glad to have you on board! :)
I will leave that up to you. I didn't really specify so happy to accept either for the contest!
Hope you have fun and please take the time to upvote the other entries that you like!
Hope your day is going great and look forward to seeing your finished work! :)
Coolio will do! Thx for the response ~
I am in!! so exciting!
Thank you very much for your support @veronicavaldeon. I really appreciate it! Good luck to you!
this sounds like so much fun!! I want to enter too :D gonna go and draw then!
We look forward to receiving your entry @aneblueberry! Thank you so much for taking part!
Please also take the time to vote for the other entries that you like and offer any constructive criticism if you have any! :)
Good luck and hope your day is going well!
oh and can I make the bodegon in oilpaint? or just pencil drawing?
feel free to use do your own oil painting @aneblueberry but for the contest I would ask everyone to use pencils. The point of the contest is for people to learn basic drawing skills and improve in this area with a view to heopefully moving on to other mediums but I think getting a good basis in drawing can help in all other areas! :)
Thanks again!
Looking forward to your entry!
okay, I get you I'll stick wth pencils for the contest... I miss drawing bodegon and I'll make a step by step :)
Great contest drawing now. and a resteem.
Fantastic @blackvapor!
I look forward to receiving your entry my friend!! :)
Thats such a great idea @tonyr :)
I'm in. :D
Think i'll find some time in the evening for a little drawing session ;)
Thanks @w0olf! and thanks for the compliment on my drawing! :) I'm actually working on another at the moment but while I'm pretty decent at doing portraits since that's what I like my basic drawing skills are pretty lacking so hopefully the contest will help me just as much as others and I think that drawing is such a great skill and one that is being lost these days so Hopefully we can get a few people interested again and hopefully that leads to a lot of support fro drawing and art in general on steemit. There are already a few art contests out there but I thought one that focused on drawing would be a good idea. :)
If you have any suggestions at all for improving things and getting more people involved please feel free to share them. I'd like the whole thing to be as interactive as possible for everyone involved!
Good luck my friend!!
Look forward to seeing your entry!!
Hey my friend! How is the contest going?
Hi Dreemit! It's going very well thanks. We've had a good amount of entries for the first week and everyone seems to be enjoying it. :) Thank you again for the donation. !!
Wouldn't you know it I've had a few things come up at the last minute that have to be taken care of which means I haven't been on as much as I usually am but I'm hoping to get a bit of time to myself this afternoon as there's a post I want to put up and hopefully catch up with the what I've missed. :) I can't imagine how many comments you had to reply to after taking a few days off! :)
Hope you're having fun with your visiting relatives and that you will be back giving us your full attention very soon. :)
Ahh I missed it. I made a rough draft too, just didn't get around to the good copy :( next time!
Week two is up and runnming @jaybird!
https://steemit.com/contest/@tonyr/35-sbd-prize-pool-learn-to-draw-with-friends-week-2-for-all-ability-levels
perfect thanks!