Opposite contrast

Surface and Deep Sea - Flying Fish and Vampire Squid

Ocean vs Land

"You Are As Free As You Want to Be" Freedom vs Captivity Light vs Darkness Hope vs Despair Ink and graphite on paper. 5/22/2018.

My drawn opposite is on one side 'Dia de Muertos' and the other 'Cinco de Mayo'.

My sketchbook spread. This is actually a moleskin watercolor album which I'm mostly using to draw from life. This is sharp and spiky versus soft and fluffy. The models were the two of my house plants, and aim was a texture and light study.

On the road by bicycle every day

The sketch drives us through the shift in the landscape happening currently at an abnoxious rate. It drives us through the lush green area to a space where the whole space is under construction. #space through window#shift#pen&paper#doodle

"El bien y el mal", "Good and evil", you never know for sure who is behind every choice...

It seems lately I have missed reading the fine print. This is a sketchbook tribute to a pug who also missed those teeny tiny words that ruin everything. She showed up to her dream vacation in a Sun Valley covered in snow. I chose hot and cold as my opposites. Although I did use cold to tie my pages together I hope the heavy use of warm colors on the left divide the two. :) Title- Read The Fine Print using Derwent Pastels, Sakura metlic markers and Molotow all4one in Signal black&white

open vs closed, hand vs fist, woman vs man, color vs b/w

"Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun" -Chief Seattle

The balance of nature in its opposites; nature is strong and fragile, bold and soft. It's in all of its opposites that a balance is achieved to create something magnificent.

Reflections of Reality. (A sketch of glass ball in a stream and the reflections of the water and surrounding area) I got wet feet!

Sketch from ancient riddle. Two fast horses,black and white,galloping in a row without ever catch up to each other?

Creativity to Conformity.

Day and Night

Blue & Orange are opposite each other on the color wheel and I thought I'd have fun with opposing emotions too.

The battle between chaos and control in our minds as we fight our own demons for balance.

Predator vs. Prey

Left Side - Right Side

Classic example of a combination of old and new.

Who is chasing who?

Based on the Renaissance philosphy of the "Active & Contemplative Life" which was seen in their art, literature and music of that time. This is also a modern day interpretation based on the poems by John Milton. Scanned and rendered in PhotoShop

Hair upload and download.

Town and country. the vivid country colours next to the dull grey of the city scape. Ink and watercolour.

Knorpot

My first idea that popped into when I read the challenge was the difference between a dry, drought filled land & land that has been soaked with rain & storms. Painted in my watercolour moleskin using Daniel Smith Watercolour paints.

Social Interactions, Then and Now

How to tame your demons ;-) #doodle #pen #fantasy #blackwork

Drawn Opposites Challenge I chose to draw Synthetic Versus Organic. I had a lot of fun with this challenge!

Infinitive sides of mother nature

Seasons of Change: Summer and Winter. Watercolour and acrylic paints in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook.

Goat Evening and Goat Morning

This piece is full of opposites, from the opposing positions of the dragons to their opposing color schemes. Because of the multitude of differences, this piece does not have a set title. Interpret it as you wish, be it hope vs. despair, color vs. grayscale, optimism vs. pessimism, or anything else you come up with.

Drawn together :)

resting / fluttering

self-portrait. b&w / color. (first upload...had to start somewhere, I guess.) ;-)

Always. Together. Never. The black and white push and pull of attraction

The doodle represents opposite media in terms of their behavior. Pen and markers move according to our wish, giving us lines that make interesting forms. On the other hand, watercolors are extremely fluid. They have a flow and it may seem that they have their own minds! So, we get planes that make spaces. Laying these opposite mediums on the sketchbook spread, a doodle, with contrasts of shapes and colors is formed.

Heaven or hell, on both sides shit happens.

Duty and obligation rule those who will listen. We are told our duties from birth till death by everyone around us. Who's expectations are you going to meet?

An attempt to display opposites could of any kind and - giving vs. taking, empty vs. full (considering colouring in my illustration), backward vs. frontward (postures of the characters), red/scarlet vs. blue/Prussian (favourite coloured pencils), curly vs. straight hair (reality check)... Nevertheless in the real life things often get mixed, so do the colors here on both pages.

Outside/Inside

"Long distance Relationship" ( or "when unplanned doodles rapidly spiral out of control" )

Life vs. Death caught in an endless cycle of rebirth

Lena Klyukina, "You can't bear with me" Pencil on moleskine. 2018

Behold: technology vs biology! This was created with ink and marker (technology)/watercolor (biology). I watched this while I was watching a LOT of Dr Who. There are so many robots on that show!

Curvy warm VS. Spiky cool.

I call this "evil stringbean". It is an drawing of my very long roommate. I used composition and color as my subjects of opposites.

My drawing I’d the difference between a human and a monster!

"You make me so Bi-polar" it was created with oil pastels and ink. I was pulling from people and girls I have met that toyed with my emotions.

Life/ Death: As Life blooms it will be consumed. And the process continues... Sketchbook, paint and ink. Darren Luke submission for opposites challenge. 2018

A juxtaposition of the real and the unreal. What distinguishes the real from the unreal? Is there any way to separate the two when both hurt the same? Is pain the entity that connects the real to the unreal? Is it the blood that drips from the broken wings of the bird and finds its way into the folds of the paper bird?

Upside-down in an Upright World.

A week later... The drawings circle around an open eye and a closed eye. The one drawing is only coloured blue, and I have painted the negative space instead of the positive space which is far most common. In the other drawing, I have used red and yellow colours only, and keep the colours nside the lines, as a good (or boring) colourista would do.. I hereby challenge you to think different from time to time, challenge yourself. Like talking to a stranger..

Cats and dogs, friends and rivals. Two of my favorites

The concept is the beautiful opposite moment of flowers. I try to embrace the joyful of feeling alive through colorful flowers and monochrome side express how sad or lonely when the flowers are withered. The meaning of those pages can be represent differently, like in my own thought that the colorful side remind me how to live a moment (let's cherish the moment and seize the day!) and the monochrome side I try to reminisce that there's so many reasons to be feeling faded but to be grateful will always make our vibes always positive (yep, I hope you got the point :D ) So there are 2 opposite themes live at the same time ALIVE - WITHERED/FADED COLORFUL - MONOCHROME

Love Diversity... opposites keep the world connected.

These two pages are literal opposites; perception and reflection. They are also an expression of an obsessive sketchbook lover. Enjoy!

a quick drawing that illustrates the duality of human nature.

My opposites are hopeless and hopeful. The bird on the left has given up all hope were as the bird on the right is optimistic and isn't going to give up no matter how hard it gets. :)