Welcome to Week 27 of the Renderosity Magazine Weekly Art Challenge! The aim of this challenge is to get everyone creating, regardless of tools or methods. 

This week's challenge theme, as suggested by an entrant, is"nature"

For this week we have a really broad theme. Anything existing in nature is the challenge this week: landscapes, a leaf, a tree, or even animals. 

Hope you enjoy this week's challenge. And, if you have any suggestions for future challenges, please let me know!

If you wish your work to be featured, contact me at nickcharles@renderosity.com, and be sure to include "Renderosity Magazine Weekly Art Challenge" in the subject line. All I ask is that for your work to be featured, it does not contain nudity, or otherwise could be deemed offensive.

Last week's challenge theme was 'patterns'. Here are some submissions:

This piece was submitted by Dochtersions on Renderosity.

"I had thought for a long time how I could make a pattern, initially I had no idea.Then I thought of Fractal Explorer, and to my surprise I quickly had results."

Be sure to check out Dochtersion's Renderosity gallery, here.

This piece is from kareldg on Renderosity.

"This image was made by PSP and a Redfield-plugin."

Be sure to check out kareldg's Renderosity gallery, here. 

This piece was submitted by artdreamer on Renderosity.

"I edited a photo of a rose and gave it a different color. Then I resized the image and pasted it into small blocks in photoshop and formed a pattern from it. I also used the rose pattern in Poser for the shirt of the woman in the picture and the rose pattern as the background as well."

This piece, "Evolution of a Chook," was submitted by APlusDesign.

Be sure to check out the rest of APlusDesign's Renderosity gallery here.  

I hope you enjoyed this challenge and you continue to follow up weekly. And, please, spread the word! You do not need to be a member of Renderosity to participate, and you do not need to submit your work if you do not wish to. This is a work in progress and the format may change as it grows.

Thank you, and have a creative week ahead! 

The Renderosity Magazine Weekly Art Challenge appears every Wednesday, in which I provide a prompt of sorts, whether a theme, word, or idea. There are no strict guidelines, and any tools or methods are acceptable. You can use any software you wish, or use traditional means. There are no limits to where the prompt might lead you. 

Each succesive week, I will talk about the previous week's challenge, show what I came up with, as well as the work of other participants, and provide the theme/idea for the next challenge.

There are no prizes for this weekly challenge at this time. This is just to get us all doing something creative, no matter the tools or methods.

Nick C Sorbin (Nick Charles) is a former Managing Editor of 9 years for Renderosity's CG Industry News. By day, a mild-mannered Certified Pharmacy Technician working in both home infusion and a hospital ER, contrasting creative outlets as a digital artist, sculptor, musician, singer/songwriter, and Staff Writer for Renderosity Magazine. Read his articles