Learn To Draw With Friends!
Would you like to learn how to draw or improve your drawing skills?? Would you also like the to get feedback on your work and tips and advice from other artists?? And would you like to have the chance of winning a prize while you are doing so??
If the answer to any of these questions is yes then why not take part in the new weekly 'Learn To Draw With Friends!' contest! Our first week was really successful with loads of great entries and lots of good feedback from all of the entrants so we are hoping that the contest will continue in this vain and attract more new entries every week.
We have been very blessed to have some fantastically talented and very helpful members of the community take part but we would especially like to see more entries from those who are new to drawing and also from younger members. If you would like to get your children involved by having them submit an entry, that would be fantastic also!
The contest is designed to be fun, with an emphasis on learning and improving skills....it is not just for talented artists and the awarding of prizes will reflect this with prizes going to those who have shown the most effort or improvement as the contest progresses. It is also designed to help make new friends and gain new followers so that we can support each other on the platform so please do not be shy about having a go! :)
The prize pool this week will again be 35 SBD but will be broken down a little differently from last week.
1ST Prize will be 15 SBD!!
2ND Prize will be 10 SBD!!
3RD Prize will be 5 SBD!!
And there will again be 5 runner up prizes of 1 SBD!!
I did say last week that I would consult on how the prizes should be broken down so if anyone has a better breakdown I would be happy to hear it and put it to everyone taking part!
As I mentioned in last weeks launch post, prizes for this week will be awarded based on the number of votes each entry recieves. With this being the case it will be partly up to you to raise awareness of your entry among your own followers and encourage them to vote for your entry. I would suggest that you turn your entry into a post for your own blog in order to do this but there is no requirement to do so. Again, the number of votes will be counted and won't be based on upvote rewards!
So, for this weeks contest I have chosen the theme of 'Portrait'.
I have chosen three images this week for contestants of different skill levels, beginner, intermediate and advanced! You are free to choose whichever image that you feel comfortable with and if you like you can try all three and enter three times.
Here are the images I have chosen for this week!
Beginner!
Intermediate!
Advanced!
RULES!!
Your entry must be one of the three images above!
You must resteem and upvote this post for your entry to be valid!
You must post your entry in the comments section of this post for it to be a valid entry! It must be visible for others to see and upvote! If you decide to make your own post that would be great but I will not accept a posted link only. It must be visible!
The winners will be decided by the community with the highest number of upvotes claiming first prize, second highest claiming second prize and third highest claiming third prize! Runner up prizes will be decided by myself!
ONLY PENCIL DRAWINGS, EITHER BLACK AND WHITE OR COLOUR, WILL BE ACCEPTED AS VALID ENTRIES!!
The contest will close after the seven day reward period!
I hope that everyone who takes part has a fun time and also takes the time to support the other entrants with any helpful advice or by upvoting the entries you like! Remember, while it is a contest with prizes, the main reason we are here is to help one another and give support! I will also be posting my entry this week although it will ofcourse not be valid!! :)
Please take the time to check out a recent post of mine that really means a lot to me by clicking the link below!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@tonyr/being-the-change-i-want-to-see-in-the-world
THANK YOU!!
Here is my 3rd entry - definitely the most challenging of the set.
I made a full post showing my progress as I went along with this drawing as well.
https://steemit.com/contest/@steempowerpics/sean-connery-my-learn-to-draw-with-friends-contest-entry-3
I hope you like my drawing, if so, please upvote me.
Thank you!
Wow that one is awesome! Did u used just this one pencil? Which quality is it? 2B?
Yep, it's just a standard #2 pencil that our local grocery store (Publix) gave my son for school supplies.
Nice :)
Brilliant @steempowerpics! You have done the contest proud with the time you have taken and the effort you have put in. I have been distracted by other matters a bit more than I had intended or would have liked this week and haven't been able to get as many people involved as last week but I hope to get a bit more interest and a few more entries over the next couple of days.
My apologies my friend!
I will of course be upvoting and resteeming your excellent post and hope that it helps attract some more attention to your blog!
Hope your day is going well as always!
Hey Tony, Thank you. I totally understand life getting in the way of plans and ambitions from time to time. I'm happy I was able to accomplish all 3 for you so others can follow you're lead on learning to draw.
My son had watched me draw the Homer D'oh-nut entry and that inspired him to draw a Minion and a Minecraft character based of his toys. I plan on posting them on Wednesday for the yellow colorchallenge.
You have my vote!
Thank you so much :-)
Awesome work! Upped and followed as we are very alike :)
Hi everyone! Here is the post about my entries and my drawings you can see here. @tonyr have I did all ok? This is my first time participating in this contest so I hope I did everything good :)
YAY! Another triple entry. You did great @oceansoul13. You've got a vote from me.
Thank you so much @steempowerpics! I'm glad you like it :)
A fabulous entry @oceansoul13! thanks so much for taking the time and going to so much effort in your entries to the contest. The winning entries will be determined by how many votes they recieve so it would be good if you could get some of your followers to vote for your entries!
Hope your day is going well! :)
Good luck to you!
My submission.....
That is a fantastic effort @offgridlife! You are a very talented artist! And very quick at drawing also. :)
Thank you for a fantastic entry my friend! I hope you had fun taking part! Remember you can enter three times so feel free to have a go at the other two also if you like! There is still plenty of time. :)
I hope you enjoyed taking part and are enjoying finding your way around steemit!
Good luck buddy!
Thanks - that was a quick 5 minute sketch on my coffee break - we don't have very good pencils here so I'll follow along and enter other contests when I have a better pencil and paper. I'll get my kids to enter too. They don't have Steemit accounts so can the enter under my account?
That's an incredible sketch for just a few minutes. I can't wait to see what you do when you have more than a coffee break :-) I started with Homer and will take a crack at the other 2 later.
Ofcourse they can! I would be very happy if they could join us and learn to draw with friends! :)
Great contest and community building effort.
I cant draw, and actually dont care to... but i can see where someone who can draw would enjoy creating some art. Maybe one of these times ill try to draw something??
Anyways, great idea and i hope you get plenty of users to participate. You get my vote
Thank you so much for your support @generation.easy!
If you find a little time in the next seven days we would love to see you have a go!! :)
Hope your day is going well!
Here is my entry to the contest fellow steemers! I am quite happy with the outcome but please feel free to give me any advice you may have for improvement! I'm always keen to improve my skills!
Thanks to all of you for taking part!!! :{)
I see we had similar techniques for starting the sketch and both opted for a white background - would have burned through the whole pencil trying to shade it all in. Nice job. :-)
:) thank you @steempowerpics. I saw your post where you were asking your followers to support you by voting for your entry. A really excellent post my friend and I appreciate the time and effort you put into the drawings.
I really hope you had fun and so glad you decided to tske part.
Thanks again my friend and hope your day is going well!
You're welcome. I figured I'd give it one more try to get some eyeballs to the contest page. Hopefully next time around we will get more support.
I joined the steemit discord group the other day ( I had no idea what it was) in order to enter a b/w photography contest I have a post for. That might be a good place to promote the contest and get entries next time. It has a channel for contests. This is the link I used to join from his contest post https://discord.gg/CFJ97HW
was never big on drawing but never too late to get better I guess. kinda late to the post but here goes anything, came out a little sloppy but better than I expected to do :)
This is excellent @blaxalb! :)
Thanks so much for entering the contest. As you can see we haven't had the greatest turnout this week so far which means that you are more than likely to win a prize of some description my friend! :)
Why not have a go at the other two as well and make a post of it for your own blog?
Thanks again for entering and hope your day is going well!
Great contest, I hope I remember to enter. I like the rules and set up, good luck with this!
Thank you @cryplectibles! We look forward to receiving your entry!!! :)
I'm in! I will try to do all 3 in order if I have time this week. I'm a bit rusty with the freehand sketching, but this is a great opportunity to brush up on my skills.
Thank you so much for taking part @steempowerpics! We look forward to seeing your entry my friend!
Hope you have fun with the contest! :)
Here is my first entry - I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I enjoyed drawing it.
I made a full post showing my progress as I went along.
https://steemit.com/contest/@steempowerpics/d-oh-nut-my-learn-to-draw-with-friends-contest-entry
This page has been ReSteemed and Upvoted!
Great Entry @steempowerpics!!
Thank you :-)
This is a fantastic post and entry for the contest @steempowerpics!
Thank you so much for putting in so much effort and taking the time to show all of the workings of your process. We are blessed to have you take part in the contest and I'm sure others who are just starting out will find this a big, big help!!
Really, really happy that you have taken the time to do such a great job!! :)
I hope you had fun my friend!!
Good luck to you!!
I am of course following you now and am sure you will gain some more followers from such a great post!!
Welcome to the wonderful world of steemit! :)
Thank you. I appreciate your positive review of my drawing. It's been a while, I had to go raid my son's coloring supplies :-)
I will attempt the other 2 options in the next day or so.
I am excited to be a part of SteemIt. It's only my first week, but I've met a lot of really great people here.
Here is my 2nd entry - I had fun drawing it, as it forced me to rediscover a long past skill.
I made a full post showing my progress as I went along with this drawing as well.
https://steemit.com/contest/@steempowerpics/mystery-girl-my-learn-to-draw-with-friends-contest-entry-2
If you like my drawing, please upvote me. I will attempt the 3rd rendering in a day or so.
Another fantastic entry @steempowerpics! You are really, really talented and have done the contest proud with both of your entries so far and also the posts you have made in support of them.
I'm sure some of our other entrants will be able to learn a few things from your efforts and are looking forward to seeing your third entry.
I am really pleased that you are having fun and have rediscovered your passion for drawing my friend! That wss the reason I decided to start the contest so it is really rewarding to see it working out for yourself and others. I recently rediscovered my own passion for drawing and though I don't have as much time as I would like to devote to it, I am glad of any spare time I can find to pick up the pencils again!:)
Thank you Tony. You have some crazy skills yourself. I was looking at some of your early posts with the sketches you have done. Really nice.
I am always happy to share what I know with others. Hopefully in time as I gain some followers, I will have more reach and a positive impact on the Steemit community.
Thank you @steempowerpics! Part of the reason for the contest is to help and support each other and I am happy to resteem the posts you made for the contest in the hope that maybe you will gain a follower or two. I'm sure it will not be long til you have a big following my friend!
Hope your day is going as well as my own! :) :)
Doing good :-) Thank you for the support and resteems.
I'm still apprehensively eyeing the 3rd challenge LOL I will take a crack at it tonight or tomorrow. That one will take some quiet time and focus.
How do I upvote if I dont have any steem? I'm new to Steemit but I am an artist.
You should still be able to upvote @offgridlife but if not I will accept your entry without one but it will still have to be resteemed to be valid! :)
Hope you are having a great day and enjoy the contest my friend!
Do I need steem to upvote? I dont understand my wallet. I have $1.09 I think????
Just go to the bottom of the post and you should see a little circle with an upward pointing arrow. If you click on this you will upvote the post! :)
OK ..... Does it cost me money to do that?
Upvoting does not cost you anything my friend! It is your way of rewarding others from the reward pool which is available to all of us to use! :)
OK - I will
OK - I upvoted and the $$$ amount went up by $1.09 I think?
Great news @offgridlife! The amount would have gone up by that amount because others would have voted and it would refresh with the new total. I myself only have a 5cent reward so I would think yours would be less than mine but it all counts my friend and the more active you are here the more rewards you will be able to give to others. You will learn how things work around here very quickly buddy and everyone is very helpful so don't be afraid to ask questions! :)
I look forward to recieving your entry @offgridlife and polease support the other entrants with any advice or friendly, constructive criticism you might have!
Good luck to you!