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Need Something to Draw This Week? Try ‘Still Here,’ a Fun Still Life Art Challenge

 

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Week 16 by @laurendoughty_

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I love art chal­lenges. Any­thing that prompts you to cre­ate something—whether that’s over the course of a day, week, month—is a great way to stretch your cre­ativ­i­ty. In click­ing around Insta­gram, I came across Still Here, a week­ly still life draw­ing chal­lenge host­ed by Zena Kay and Tess Smith-Roberts.

Each week, Still Here posts a pic­ture of a still life from mul­ti­ple angles. You are then invit­ed it to draw it in any way you like. Open to inter­pre­ta­tion, artists have recre­at­ed them in a vari­ety of media and styles. Some take a nat­u­ral­is­tic approach while oth­ers favor flat­tened compositions.

To show you the cre­ativ­i­ty inher­ent in this project, here is one still life an some of the sub­mis­sions from it.

Here’s the still life from week 16:

 

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And here are some of the submissions:

 

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Week 16 by @claire__martha

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Week 16 by @maggiemargaret_designs

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Week 16 by @balaaguera

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Week 16 by @nikiusagi

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Week 16 by @theclay_kitchen

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Week 16 by @boboillustration

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Week 16 by @liart420

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Week 16 by @cararoooney

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Still life art by Lauren Doughty

Still life art by Claire Martha

Still life art by @ maggiemargaret_designs

Still life art by Niki Usagi

Still life art by Alejandra, @balaaguera

Still life art by Lyndsay Sawyer