Weekly Art Challenge #66: (May 20th ~ May 26th)

Draw any character, at another age!

Time changes everything! Especially people, inside and out. This week, let’s focus on the effects that time has on exteriors. Take a character, be it yours or another’s, and imagine them at an age that you normally wouldn’t! Depict your 13 year old children as grandparents, your 87 year old characters as toddlers. Mix up their age however you like, but make sure that you can see the difference!

Some things to note:

• Aging is about more than just growing. Take the opportunity to understand how wrinkles form, or how the structure of a child’s face differs from an adult’s. And there’s more to it even than that! Scars, styles, fitness and personality, nothing is immune to a good weathering by life. Consider every detail in your age reassignment!
• Any media is acceptable!
• Original characters are welcome, and so is fan art! Tell us a little about the character you chose in your submission, especially what their usual age is.
• I encourage you to do this challenge for incredible multitudes of characters, but please, limit your submissions to two for this challenge. 

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!

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For more information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you have a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

IRRELEVANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello all! I’m the new admin of Weekly Art Challenges, here to return us to our normal schedule. I’ll be working on lots of new challenges for everyone, and I have a few interesting ones already planned. The inbox is always open to suggestions though, and I encourage you all to submit ideas and feedback. I look forward to challenging all of you!

- waywardKing

Weekly Art Challenge #65: (April 8th ~ April 14th)
Challenge suggestion by Tumblr user Eqstatic

Bringing back a memory… with a scent.

Do you ever associate smells of certain things to memories in the past? Maybe a bubbling pot of soup reminds you of your grandmother? Or does the smell of a dusty book remind you of a childhood friend? That’s what we’re going to draw this week!

Some things to note:

• Please describe your memory in illustrative form! Use any media or subject that will get your memory across.
• Have some fun with this~ Make your illustration either as a narrative or a mini comic!
• Having a hard time with a memory? What about how a certain smell makes you think? Makes you feel?
• I always promote being productive, but please limit your submissions to two illustrations for this challenge.

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!

[US Eastern Standard Time]

For more information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you have a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #64: (April 1st ~ April 7th)

Create a character using the idea of diamonds!

Well, it’s April now! And the birthstone of April is… the diamond! [Don’t worry, this isn’t some clever April Fools joke… I’m not *that* good, hehe.] So yes, this week’s challenge is to get inspired by a diamond, and create a character around it!

Some definitions of diamonds;

From Wikipedia - In mineralogy, diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas ”unbreakable”) [sic] … Diamond is the hardest known natural material on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, where hardness is defined as resistance to scratching and is graded between 1[soft]~10[hard]. Diamond has a hardness of 10 (hardest) on this scale.

From the American Gemstone Society -  Fancy-color diamonds are natural, rare and truly exotic gem of the earth.  Diamonds in hues of yellow, red, pink, blue, and green range in intensity from faint to vivid and generally the more saturated the color, the higher the value.

Some things to note:

• Take what you know about diamonds and craft a character! The person doesn’t have to be made *of* diamonds, but take some of it’s properties to craft a character!
• Any media is allowed. Heck, if you wanted to do traditional media and throw a couple of swarovski crystals on the canvas - be my guest!
• I always promote being productive, but please limit your submissions to two illustrations for this challenge.

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!

[US Eastern Standard Time]

For more information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you have a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #63: (March 25th ~ March 31st)

Create an illustration using a fixed palette!

Well here we go! The challenge everyone waits for! For this one, I picked very quiet colors… nothing too bright, nothing too dull. These are great colors that show the slowly emerging spring ephemerals.

Some things to note:

• Do not use the blended colors in the palette! You can ONLY use the original palette, and blend those colors together - but please do not use the new blended colors as part of your palette.
• I would appreciate mostly original art, but fanart will be allowed in this challenge.
• I always promote being productive, but please limit your submissions to two illustrations [one for each palette] for this challenge.

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!

[US Eastern Standard Time]

For more information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you have a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #62: (March 18th ~ March 24th)
Re-draw something you illustrated a year ago…

Ever scanned/drew a picture, get ready to go CG it or add some finishing touches… then you decide that it’s possibly one of the most hideous abominations you’ve ever drawn? Well, maybe not that drastic, but it happens! I think out of every ten illustrations I work on only two get published online… the other eight usually get tossed aside to never see the light of day.

This challenge is for those drawings.

Some things to note:

• Please go back a year! … But not December of 2012! Let’s try to keep this to art originating from around January 2012 to September 2012~ [I know that I cannot source all art done, but please be as honest as you can!]
• If you reworked something that’s in one of your online galleries, please show us both! A side-by-side comparison is always good to see your improvements!
• This challenge is about taking a piece of art that you originally disliked and transform it into something AMAZING! Utilize your skills and make a masterpiece!
• I always promote being productive, but please limit your submissions to three illustrations, per challenge~

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!

[US Eastern Standard Time]

For more information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you have a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #61: (March 11th ~ March 17th)
What do you wanna be when you grow up?

A Ballerina? Astronaut? Zookeeper? Marine Biologist? We all had them - those dream jobs we wanted when we were kids… I’m pretty sure those of us in our adult lives are probably doing comfortably in a normal job, or maybe yer still going through school? But what about those grandeur dreams while you were a kid? That’s what this challenge is all about…

Some things to note:

• What was that BIG dream? This is your time to have fun! What was a crazy job you always wanted when you were a kid? How does it relate to what you do right now?
• Since I know there are varied ages amongst artists here, those of you that are currently still GOING to school - draw the job you’re trying to get as well!
• I always promote being productive, but please limit your submissions to three illustrations, per challenge~

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!

[US Eastern Standard Time]

For more information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you have a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #60: (March 4th ~ March 10th) Create a character… Based on fixed traits!

In something I notice as a reoccurring theme on this group is that people like to create characters! So I present to you a little different idea on the character creation process. This week, we’re all going to work off of the same description. Let’s see how many different looking characters we can create using the same prompt!

Here is your character assignment:

• One of your character’s cardinal traits is gullibility.
• The character’s greatest weakness is always seeing the grass as greener elsewhere.
• The character’s most prized possession is a river stone.

See this description as you will, and create a character using this information!

Some things to note:

• I purposely left gender out. It is not up to me what you come up with this prompt.
• You can create multiple characters with this prompt! But for posting purposes, please limit your submissions to three characters per artist! [you don’t have to submit all three at once!]
• If you want to craft a little history about your character to help with the creation process, please share it in your comment~

[The generator used to create this prompt is from Archetype Writing.]

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!
[US Eastern Standard Time]

For more information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you have a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #59: (February 25th ~ March 3rd) Create an illustration that focuses on an animal!

I dunno about you, but for the longest time I struggled with drawing animals. Monsters, I can do. But tell me to draw a cat or kitten and you’ll usually end up with something closer to Hello Kitty than Lil’ Bub… So here’s my challenge to you this week: WE’RE DRAWING ANIMALS!

Some things to note:

• The focus of the piece has to be an animal. Humans or humanoid characters are allowed in the illustration but should not be the primary focus!
• CHALLENGE YOURSELF! Domestic house cats and your family dog are cute, but what about the odd animal? Draw an uncommon animal~ Do you know what a capybara is? How about a Blue Sea Slug? Or a Hadrosaurid?
• But I’d like to include everyone; so if you are nervous about drawing a Giant Isopod and you’d prefer to illustrate a common animal, please do so!
• For those artists out there that already are skilled at drawing animals, hone your skills and blow us away! :D

Please remember to link to your Tumblr/Website/Blog/what-have-you when you submit your challenge! There are watchers/viewers who would like to see your website/tumblr/blog! So link em’ up! :D

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!
[US Eastern Standard Time]

For up-to-date information about the group and it’s submissions, please read the FAQ! If you’ve got a question or concern that you do not see mentioned there, please don’t hesitate to ask.
[I only ask that you do not ask questions anon - all inquiries sent to me are kept private.]

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #58: (February 18th ~ February 24th) Music Appreciation Week!

We all do it - we listen to music while we draw. This week I wanted to do something easy that everyone can do!

Turn on your music player of choice [Zune, iTunes, Pandora…] hit random, and the first song you hit? Listen to it and illustrate something inspired by the song! What you choose to draw is all up to you - but please let us know what inspired you when you submit your piece!

Some things to note:

• I’d prefer the content to be original - but if the song you listened to is from a video game/tv show/movie/etc feel free to use that as a base for your illustration!
• We artists can listen to a LOT of music… so I’m allowing multiple posts… but please keep it to a maximum of 3 for the week~
• Use any media you like! Does the song you listen to invoke madness on a canvas with acrylics? Work with that! Not all art has to be digital~

Please remember to link to your Tumblr/Website/Blog/what-have-you when you submit your challenge! There are watchers/viewers who would like to see your website/tumblr/blog! So link em’ up! :D

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!
[US Eastern Standard Time]

If you’ve got a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #57: (February 11th ~ February 17th) Using Photo Reference: Create a Crafty Hero/Heroine!

Alrighty, it’s time again to roll up the sleeves and let’s practice something! Sometimes, when you want to get that perfect dynamic look - it’s best to grab some reference so help you get the pose right. There is nothing wrong in having to use reference for poses. In fact, practicing dynamic poses is a very good way to be able to broaden your range as an artist~

So what I’ve come up for you all today is to work from a select group of photo reference! And whom else than the well-known Sakky of “Senshi Stock” on DeviantART! Her pose packs are probably some of the best out there, and I know that she’s a great help to some of us out there when we’re just a little stumped on how a person’d look when they’re firing two guns whilst jumping through the air. ^w^;; [kudos if you get that.]

Alrighty folks, let’s get started! But first, there’s a catch: Your pose must be selected from her “Female Rope Pack 1”! I want you to use these interesting hanging rope poses to create a craft hero or heroine getting themselves out of a sticky situation!

Some things to note:

• When you submit your illustration to the group, please be sure to add a credit for the reference used~ It could be as simple as “Pose Reference from SenshiStock on DA” [url for her DA page: http://senshistock.deviantart.com/] Please do not rely on me to add it in for you!
• You do not have to use the exact angle of the pose presented in your submission. Please feel free to ‘rotate the camera’ to challenge yourself!
• Want to add more than one character? Use a second pose from the same pack to add in a side-kick! Or maybe a villain going after him/her!
• Keep in mind that although you do not need to create a ‘background’ for the illustration, sometimes putting the characters in a location helps with the whole picture! Also, the final piece does not have to be fully rendered in color.

Permission was asked prior to this challenge of my intent. Sakky was actually very excited about this, and would like to see everyone’s submissions - and I will be showing them to her! So do her proud! ♥

Please remember to link to your Tumblr/Website/Blog/what-have-you when you submit your challenge! There are watchers/viewers who would like to see your website/tumblr/blog! So link em’ up! :D

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!
[US Eastern Standard Time]

If you’ve got a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #56: (February 4th ~ February 10th) Create an “Evolution” Character!!

Let’s have some fun this time and create a character that will evolution-ize… in illustration! Think things like Pretty Soldier Sailormoon [when Sailormoon obtains new forms] Pokemon [when they go through an evolution], Shining Force [character level ups], or the mobile game Blood Brothers [when minions undergo a blood rite]~

Some things to note:

• Please create original characters for this~ No fan art please!
• The characters do NOT have to be humanoid! They can be anthropomorphic, animals, plants, aliens, inanimate objects - the world is your oyster!
• Also, they don’t have to be fantasy-themed… got a clock werk steam punk character? How about an old western-ten-gallon-hat hunk? Heck, your house cat turning into a robot is an evolution! XD
• The final illustration has to include the whole evolution~ it can be in as many stages as you wish!
• Finally, it doesn’t have to be in color~ [although it is recommended to at least have flat colors to show how they change in palette] If you choose just to do line art or a draft concept illustration, please feel free to submit that!
• I want to see as many submissions as you can do! So please feel free to submit as many characters as you wish~ [If a single person sends me too many, I may have to ask to limit submissions… XD]

Please remember to link to your Tumblr/Website/Blog/what-have-you when you submit your challenge! There are watchers/viewers who would like to see your website/tumblr/blog! So link em’ up! :D

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!
[US Eastern Standard Time]

If you’ve got a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #55: (January 28th ~ February 3rd) Color in another artists’ lines from the previous challenge!

We’re going to combine two challenges! In the first part, Challenge #54 - we illustrated covers for a romance/crime story… but in this next part, we’re going to be coloring in someone ELSES lines! But with a fixed palette! Mwahahahaha…

Since there are a TON of submissions, [Thank you all! ♥] I had to throw them out onto another page! So click here to see the line art to choose from!

Addendum: You are coloring in another artists’ line art - this does NOT give you the permission to post the illustration as your own [ie. you MUST give proper credit] nor can you use the illustration for profit [unless an agreement is made between yourself and the original creator]. If you are an artist that submitted line art from Challenge #54 and would like your lines to be withdrawn from the allowed group of illustration, then please let me know! Sorry for any problems or confusion this may have caused. Otherwise - happy coloring? XD;;

Some things to note:

• The illustrations have signatures and watermarks of whom the illustrator are - please do NOT remove these watermarks/signatures! 
• Please LINK to the creator in your submission if you can~ [You can always look here to find the original creator’s Tumblr!]
• Although it’s encouraged that you add your own signature with the mention that you did the colors~
• If you choose to color in your own lines, please do not submit them to the group - the purpose of this challenge is to work with someone else’s line art. You may post them to your own tumblr, and use the #Weekly Art Challenges #WAC Challenges tags so those tracking it can still see your work! :D
• Unlike the previous palette challenges this one does NOT restrict you from blending! Just only choose from the colors I gave you to make the colors. (black and white are freebies! XD)
• if you are a traditional artist, can you print a line art and color it in? Match the colors as closely as you can, obviously I am not going to be as stingy as digital.. XD

Please make sure to link to your Tumblr/Website/Blog/what-have-you when you submit your challenge! I have been linking to them as I can, but with Tumblr’s new change to the system it’s not very user-friendly for me to do so [sometimes it replaces the original poster and says that it’s my post…] There are viewers who would like to see your website/tumblr/blog! So link em’ up! :D

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!
[US Eastern Standard Time]

If you’ve got a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #54: (January 21st ~ January 27th) Draw a cover for a Crime-or-Romance Movie/Novel!

Have you ever browsed your local bookstore? Or surfin’ around on Netflix looking for a movie to watch? Don’t you notice how some covers are just so well drawn/designed that you HAVE to take a closer look? That’s what this challenge is all about - I want you do design a cover for a movie or novel, in the style of a romance or a crime story!

Some things to note:

• Please do not soft-shade your lines! This will be prevalent in the next challenge!
• When you submit your illustration, please submit a slightly larger resolution! I would appreciate a minimum of 1000px please~
  [If you’ve previously submitted a cover, just re-submit with the new illustration, I’ll replace them accordingly~]
• You may use your own established characters [Originals], OR Fanart to use as characters for the cover.
• Can’t choose between Crime or Romance? Why not do both? :D
• Did you make up a story that goes with the cover? How about you tell us all about it!
• All I ask is that you do not parody a released movie or novel cover. You may use inspiration, but please do not just copy the look/poses/etc.
• The main thing about this challenge: DO NOT COLOR IT!
  I want line art only~ [Colors are part of the NEXT challenge! XD]
  Submissions that are in color will NOT be published.

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!

[US Eastern Standard Time]

If you’ve got a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #53: (January 14th ~ January 20th) There’s a monster under your bed! What did it look like?

We all know about it - kids sometimes imagine monsters hiding in their beds/closets/what have you. But what would YOURS look like? Is it scary? Cute? Does it resemble a clown…? [/shudder] Time to flex those creative muscles and draw some monsters!

Some things to note:

• Please try to create a unique monster! Yeah, so it’s easy to draw a werewolf… but what about a mop-haired-uni-browed-tentacled-HORSE? That’s creepy!
• Illustrations can be in color or monochrome! Remember - sometimes the most descriptive illustration is done in black and white…
• Draw your monster scaring a kid for extra credit! BOOGA BOOGA! >D

Challenges submitted are valid up to 11:59PM on SUNDAY!
[US Eastern Standard Time]

If you’ve got a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz

Weekly Art Challenge #52: (January 7th ~ January 13th) Creating an illustration with fixed criteria!
I wanted to work with something a little different… you can do whatever you want for this week’s illustration - but it MUST contain a green shirt, a calico cat, and a red bicycle!

Some things to note:

• No fanart, please!
• You do not have to use the exact colors that is on the challenge sheet! Any shade of green is good for the shirt, and any shade of red for the bicycle. The cat? Use some reference! XD
• Not sure what to do? Remember that not all illustrations must have a character… draw a urban side street with no people! Or an child’s empty bedroom…
• Something silly: Fuse the three together for a masterpiece! hehehe…

If you’ve got a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Make sure to submit your piece using the submission page, and tag it for the appropriate challenge! If you don’t complete in time for the deadline, still post it to your Tumblr and tag it as ‘weekly art challenges’ & ‘wac challenges’! Now go out there and have fun!

♥ Karniz