Do you have artwork to share? As long as it’s appropriate for all ages, I’d love to post it on this site! Here’s how you do it:
1. Take a good quality image of your art.
2. Send it to me! Be sure to include:
- Your first name
- Your age (if under 18)
- The country where you live
- The title of your artwork
- Anything else you’d like to say about your art
Email it to Sam at SamanthaBellBooks.com and put the word “Artwork” in the subject line.
Below is the artwork that’s already been posted. You can scroll through them all here or click on a particular piece below.
18 and Over
17 and Under
Animals
Nature
Scenery and Buildings
People
Characters
Other
Junimong Drawings
Hey Samantha!I love all these drawings.I love the animals best.Im an animal freak.I loved the wolves and horses and dogs and dinosaurs and owls and cows.Even though you didn’t draw them, may you send some art tips and tutorials to me with animals included?The same with writing.Its so confusing.I go onto writing but it just talks about so and so.No tips.No tutorials.No contests.Well, I can’t see them at least.So any contests I could go in for?Anything?Not to boast, but I wrote a six-page story about these wolves that seek a home to live in for the winter, and they find one that belongs to their enemies.The enemies caught them, but they become friends.Soon they become family and they help fight this enemy monster spirit wolf called The Sight.I did it in ten minutes flat.All I got was a tick from my teacher.I was a bit disappointed.Oh dear, I am seriously boasting right now.Onto art again.Art is my second favourite subject at school.We do writing most.VERY rarely we have freedom writing, and it’s so rare we are only allowed to do it once a year or something.On my first day there (yes, I moved) you had to draw these sporty people in a jotter or whatever called a Busy Bee.It has exactly 40 or so blank pages you can draw on.You can draw on the front and back too.My brain used to be spilling out millions of ideas and automatically my hand would draw them and colour them in, but now it takes centuries and centuries to even think of one thing to put in a drawing.It took me nearly the whole drawing thing at school to think up a picture.We were supposed to draw a landscape, but instead I drew a collie on the edge of a hill filled with lavender and flowers and heather and foxgloves,all purple stuff, and then I drew its fur blowing in a breeze, and in the background I did a wee croft with sheep and cows and a barn and a cottage and a little horse and a person riding on the beach and a tractor and somebody shooing the cows away from his crops, and a huge rocky cliff that joined up to where the collie was, with rows of dainty little bungalows and cottages with people holding bread bags or shopping or people sitting on little benches or people walking their dogs or little pies on windowsills with steaming pencil lines coming from it, and I put little bees and bunnies and puppies and cats whizzing around in the grass, the village,and wherever you would least expect them, and gulls and birds flew high up in the sky, or swooped down to a tree branch to have a rest.Thats the long story.The short one is, could you please give me some drawing ideas?
Excuse me Miss Bell, I have waited a day or so and I have not got a reply.I checked everyone else’s comments and it said April 2 2015 10:00 or whatever and I see your replies and it says April 2 2015 10:25.Please may you reply because I am desperate and impatient.It is a bit unfair, you talking to everyone else and not me (not to be rude).
Maggie! I’m so sorry for the late reply! I had started to write a reply but never got it posted. 🙁 Please forgive the oversight — we have had a lot of company the past few weeks, and the days have been a blur!
Thanks for the great comment you left! Here’s some pages to look at:
For Contests: https://www.samanthasbell.com/art-contests-for-kids/ I post new ones as I come across them. There will be a lot more coming up in the fall.
For step by step tutorials: https://www.samanthasbell.com/drawing-step-by-step/ I’m also working on my first drawing ebook! You can sign up for update and special offers! Click here: https://www.samanthasbell.com/draw-25-wild-animals/
There are some writing contests out there. I need to make a page for those too. I’ll work on hunting those up this week. 🙂
Your drawing of the collie sounds amazing! I post daily drawing prompts, but they are very elaborate. Here’s where you’ll find those: https://www.samanthasbell.com/category/drawing-prompts/
There are other sites that have very imaginative writing and drawing prompts. Here are some:
Writing: http://writingexercises.co.uk/subjectgenerator.php http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/story-prompt.htm http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/imagination.prompt.html
Drawing: http://artprompts.org/
I hope this helps! 🙂
I forgot about the writing tips! I have posted a few here: https://www.samanthasbell.com/write/
But as you can tell I have a lot more to post! What kinds of tips were you looking for?
Hi Samantha!Im so sorry I was rude with my impatient emotion!I just knew you were brilliant at drawing and I just thought I had no time, but now you are here!Im so sorry, I very nearly forgot about this site.I just wanted to draw something and I couldn’t find any inspirations in the pictures because they were SO detailed when I looked here, then I wanted to post down a comment and I saw your reply!Thankyou.And the kinds of tips are like shading tips, sketching tips, detail tips, or anything like it.I would also like to know where to get some decent stationery, like artist’s paper, notebooks, pencils, ballpoint pens,paint, watercolours and so on.Oh, I forgot you said WRITING tips, not DRAWING tips.Well, with the writing tips are like, how to make the words spring out of nowhere and make the illustrations dance around and move in your head while you read, basically while you read you can see it all happening in your mind.And I really need some describing words!I was thinking of writing down all the describing words I can think of, then put illustrations around it and stick it on my wall, along with a few other dopey dragon drawings and wolf drawings and scribbly printouts.And could you help me with this problem?I write a story and its good at first, then when I keep writing it gets too boring and it becomes a story to a piece of paper scrunched up at the bottom of my bin.Sorry I’m asking so much things, its just I’m the artist of my family, and I desperately need help so I can evolve into a five star-full time-award winning artist in a couple of years.Bye!
Sam.Please.REPLY.I’ve been waiting for nearly two weeks but you have not answered!Im getting a bit annoyed now.Just please reply.For me?
Hi Maggie, I’m so sorry! I replied to you earlier — did you see it? I just saw where you posted one on the 24th — I don’t know how I missed that one! (We were out of town for about a week, and it was difficult to keep up with things.) I’ll send you an email tonight. 🙂
Thanks Sam!:)
Hi Samantha,
I got inspired by you and your website.
I would like to share my art work. When I am trying to e-mail. It says invalid address.
I’ll work on getting a form up this weekend. In the meantime, try: sam@SamanthaBellBooks.com If it doesn’t work again, let me know! 🙂
I have submitted my daughter Madhurika Sivakumar’s Drawing. I couldn’t see the Image. So I have tried multiple time. Sorry for that. Will I get any notification? how long it takes to upload the image?
They are all very beautiful…
Hi i am shilpe and i have some artwork. I want to show you. How can i???
You can send it to me at Sam @ SamanthaBellBooks.com 🙂
Ok thanks samantha, and i also want to take part in your art contest from my contry Bangladesh, so how can i???
Which contest do you want to take part in? Most of these contests are sponsored by other websites, although I will be posting a contest here soon!
Hello Samantha. I teach art for kids and I have many good images of their artwork. Can I send some of them to you for contest or they have to send their work themselves?
Hi Nina,
The contests that are listed are ones that other people/companies sponsor, so they would have to send them in themselves (or have their parents help). Some of them require art teachers to submit the work. I wouldn’t be able to submit it for them since I’m not their parent or teacher.
I’ll be hosting a holiday contest in November/December, though, and those you can submit directly to me. I’ll announce it on November 1. 🙂
You can make something. 🙂 Some people have sent in pictures of sculptures before. Here’s the page you need: https://www.samanthasbell.com/your-art-gallery-2/
How can i post a picture?
It’s easy! Just send your artwork to me: Sam at SamanthaBellBooks.com.
After upload image, how I confirm you got it or where we see my image (art)
I’ll send you an email letting you know I received it. It should be up on the site within a week. 🙂
Hi.
how can I send you pictures of my 3 year old boy´s Art? any e-mail? Thank you
Sure! Send it to Sam (at symbol) SamanthaBellBooks.com.
want to post my art…tell me the rules and guidelines
Sure! They’re listed above on this page. Here they are:
1. Take a good quality image of your art.
2. Send it to me! Be sure to include: Your first name, your age (if under 18), the country where you live, the title of your artwork, and anything else you’d like to say about your art. Email it to Sam @ SamanthaBellBooks.com and put the word “Artwork” in the subject line.