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Creative Community: Participating in the Six Fanarts Challenge

Fan Art Frenzy: Diving into the Six Fanarts Challenge

I’m a little late to the Six Fanarts Challenge. What’s the Six Fanarts challenge you might ask? Well, it’s an art challenge put out by Visual Artist Melissa Capriglione on her Twitter account. The challenge is for artists to ask their followers/fans/friends for six characters to draw.

The artist then draws the six characters in a template of portrait boxes that Melissa Capriglione created and shared on Twitter. The fan art is done in the artist’s style. I do love a fun art challenge, so you know I have to participate too. I learned about the Six Fanarts challenge from other artists posting their work on Instagram.

I asked my followers on Instagram who I should draw, and these are the characters they suggested.

Alucard
Anne Shirley Cuthbert
Aelita Schaeffer
Batman (Michael Keaton)
Gekko Kamen
Kratos

Thanks to everyone who suggested these characters. I had fun drawing them.

Artistic Surprises: Discovering Zapata in a Christmas Sketch

Sketch of Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Rebel by Ralph Contreras

Exploring Latinx Heritage: Drawing Zapata on Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas! This Christmas Eve I felt like drawing something different. I searched Pinterest for some inspiration. What I found was an image of a Mexican revolutionary. I thought this would be fun to draw. I’ve been feeling a pull to create art with some Latinx cultural influence.

After sharing the sketch drawing on Instagram, one of my followers pointed out that the photo looked like Zapata, a famous historical figure from Mexican history.

I went back and looked at the reference image, and it was a photo of Zapata. Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican revolutionary, a guerrilla leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920. I had no idea when I chose the picture to reference for a sketch drawing.

I used a blue pencil for this quick sketch drawing. I forgot that blue pencils don’t erase easily, at least for me. This figure came out a little stiff, but for a sketch I still like the way it came out.

Improving My Drawing Skills: Taking on the 100 Heads Challenge

The 100 Heads Challenge: Pushing Myself to Grow as an Artist

I recently stumbled upon an exciting challenge that has me feeling super inspired. And I love participating in an art challenge. It’s called the 100 heads challenge, and I found it on Instagram from artist Ahmed Aldoori. The goal of the challenge is to draw 100 different faces in just 10 days. Ahmed created a Pinterest board filled with 100 unique faces of various ages, genders, and races. The purpose of the challenge is to help artists like myself improve our drawing skills.

I know myself and I’m kind of slow artist, so I dont know if I’ll be able to finish all 100 heads in 10 days. But I’m going to give it my best shot and see how many I can get done. Here are the first four faces I’ve drawn from the Pinterest board. I started from the bottom of the board and plan on working my way up.

I’m taking a different approach to these portraits compared to my usual comic book style. I’m trying to draw these faces more realistically. It’s a challenge, but I can already see the progress in my drawings. I’m looking forward to completing as many of the 100 faces I can, beacuse I know it will help me grow artistically.

If you’re interested in participating in the challenge, you can find Ahmed’s explanation of the challenge on his YouTube channel. It’s a great way to challenge yourself as an artist and improve your skills.