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So, after failing pathetically to even make much headway on the 100 picture challenge, I think I realized why. I was so determined to make the PERFECT PICTURE IDEA for each word that I lost sight of the object of the exercise: to draw more figures.

To that end, I'm setting a new challenge for myself for the new year. Every day, I'm going to sketch at least three nude figures from the DA stock images. At the end of the week, on Friday night, I will pick the five best images of the week and upload them as a big...sketch-montage. This way you folks don't get deluged with bad arts, but you do get to watch the progress. If you care! If not...screw you. No, wait, it's fine if you don't care.

Anyway, unless I do something I'm incredibly proud of, these things will be uploaded as scraps. So if you want to watch the progress, watch my scraps.

My first upload will be Friday, January 4th, after I get home from visiting my parents in Pennsylvania.
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Saw this...somewhere, I don't remember where. Anyway, I'm gonna do it. And to make sure I actually practice what I REALLY want to get better on, they're alllll gonna be pictures of people. Starting...soon. But not tonight.


The point of this challenge is to test and improve your skill as an artist. After 100 pics who wouldn't be better. Please forgive me if this in any way excludes you from taking the challenge.

The rules

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST


1. Introduction- Done!
2. Love- Done!
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation
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Hraka

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So, where have I been the past...forever? Wishing I could replace my tablet, actually. My good old Graphire 3 gave up the gun, the USB cable completely quitting. Before it quit, though, it gave me a month of agony, sitting absolutely still and holding the tablet at the precisely correct angle to avoid even the most minute jogging of the cable connection. If my legs fell asleep, I let them sleep. If my nose itched, I let it itch. If someone IMed me, I let them believe I was dead.

Nothing. And just as I'm getting more serious about digital painting, too. I'm ready to give myself a full-blown course in painting, working every day on speedpainting and starting some huge projects. But now all I can do is pencil in a sketchpad.

I'd show you that, but my scanner broke this week. Yes, I'm serious.

Since I'm flat broke, it'll probably be a little while until I can afford to replace the damn thing. I am pondering, however, springing for an Intuos rather than a Graphire. Any opinions on that?

Oh, and by the way...I've tried painting with a mouse. And with a touchpad, since I use a laptop. It looks like our five year old painted it. Never trying that again.
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So, hi.

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This is my first journal entry, on this new thing for me that is DA. Thanks to the one who is already watching me, and to those who have faved any art of mine. I'm not hugely prolific, but you'll have more to see in the future!
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