I love looking at improvement comparisons ,this is so much better,and good for you for taking a shelter dog.

@Lee-White Oh, that's good to know! I am also trying to keep a limited palette. I am actually wearing myself out doing a 30 day watercolor challenge. I thin I'm going to have to take a vacation and tehn work on the book again! 🙂

I am enjoying the first illustration with all the text, very fun and a great deal of potential!

@Lee-White and @Jake-Parker Thank you for your replies. I really do appreciate your attentions on the matter. It would be easier if the text is considered as part of the budget and process for every video, instead of tacking them on to do later. The same concern given to sound editing ought also be given to text -- if it is considered as essential then it will not look as "troublesome" to do.

As someone who produces videos periodically, I do understand, and it's good to see that you're bumping it up in priority. I can't afford to pay to wait, so I have to hold my subscription in the meantime, but I am eagerly watching for updates. Again, thank you for taking the time to respond!

How nice! I am working on a 'firefly' piece aswel. Its hard putting in the right colors because night time is deceiving. The 'croc?' in the background is attracting much attention, perhaps tone him down a bit? Scott certainly has given it a push, perhaps you can use his suggestions? Good luck!

@QuietYell We use Basecamp for SVS stuff.

I keep track of all my projects on paper in my calendar. But I'm up for trying new stuff.

I should have spent more time on getting the proportions right. The eye is way too small, etc. but I really like how the colors turned out. The challenge for today was to paint an insect. I loved teh colors o this one 🙂 Should have looke at what it's called.....

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@K.-W. said in cartoonish style ?:

This class would be an excellent next step for you: Stylizing Human Characters taught by Jake Parker.

Have fun! 🙂

thanks 🙂 this one will help me :)) for now

I'm re-posting this hopefully this time the picture will load. Sorry about the last one. This is my first picture using Procreate. Thanks Will for the great information.
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@Eric-Castleman Sounds like you are painting like Peter Stapleton does here: https://youtu.be/6ocGms3cElg (He adds color to the b&w painting at 01:01:10 into the video)

You can definitely do an underpainting and then paint in low opacity or “roughly” on top so that the underpainting shows/peeks through the lesser opacity areas or the “holes” created by painterly brush strokes. I have found this difficult to do digitally due to the way I have tended to paint; however, it is something I am starting to experiment with to find "my way" to do it.

another approach you can do—if you are wanting a tint of color to permeate the entirety of the piece—is to paint everything according to whatever values/colors they have then above all of that, create a layer that is flood filled with whatever the tint color is to be, change the layer type from "Normal" to "Color" and reduce the opacity (likely reduced way down). You can even do multiple different colored layers at differing opacities if you need to give color nuances, and/or mask out areas of the color layer (whether a harsh shape or a gradation from one color adjustment layer to the other(s))

This will give an overall tone to the piece, but it isn’t quite the same as what Will was showing, since the tone would be even rather than peeking out here and there. Though, I suppose you could do apply some sort of texture mask or paint out/in according to where you want the tint to go or be hidden…

Basically, this other option I’m sharing is the inverse process of what Will was doing, by adding the tint on top rather than it being on bottom like in real-life painting. One advantage is that you can turn the tint layer(s) off or change them to another kind of tint…

Just a thought to share 🙂

(btw, I just skimmed the video to see that section; haven’t had time to watch this particular video yet)

@Jake-Parker Oh I forgot about Toonboom! Thanks!

I've never heard the term "beat boards" but per your mentioning & a quick Google Search, I think I've seen them all the time on Pinterest & Instagram from concept artists. Also, I think you showed "Horton Hears A Who!" ones before, right?

Yeah, a day rate sounds better than the per frame that I've seen suggested online, particularly when changes are sure to come.

Those animatics were funny. I was just watching the animatics of Tangled this weekend in their dvd extras. I really enjoyed seeing the animatic options in light of what the final ended up being. Similar with other movie animatics I've seen.

Thank you so much for your response - Very helpful!

nice! feeling hungry now!

Thanks for the feedback guys.

We are going to have the content for purchased classes be downloadable, so there is no issue there.

@Charlie-Eve-Ryan you don't have to memorize what you had. You guys just need to email aaron and let him know what your login email was and if you paid with stripe or paypal. We can look up the purchases that way.

Super fun concept (I love steampunk-y dirigibles, I have one in my portfolio too 😉 and it looks like you already have some great feedback. These forums are a great place for getting critiques, and its especially awesome when one of the instructors drops in 😉 lucky you! My only comment is your linework seems a little big inconsistent to me--its definitely all there on your dirigible and the dad and the house, but in places like the backpack and the bushes it looks more rendered. Variation in line work can be OK as long as there is some consistency and rhyme and reason to why things are different, which I'm not seeing in the way you have it right now.

Thanks, I like the mustache 😉

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This was from my own head after doing the other one from a photo reference. I actually like it the best. Maybe because I had a practice round 🙂 I'll have to do day 2 and 3 on Thursday because I won't be home tomorrow.

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Charley Harper is classic. I LOVE his work. You wouldn't know it by looking at mine though ;-). Well, not my illustrations at least, though some of my craft stuff is more geometric.

Its so fun discovering new (to you) artists, but sometimes it makes me feel a bit inadequate as well.

I just have to keep reminding myself--nobody is better at being me than ME. I can't draw their style as well as they can, but nobody can draw my style as well as I can. (Now, the job is just getting my work to the level that someone would actually WANT to emulate my style ;-).

Thank you All!! @Sarah-LuAnn @Chip-Valecek @Rich-Green @evilrobot @smceccarelli @aska @DOTTYP @mattramsey @Lynn-Larson (and upvoters 🙂

And thanks to @Lee-White and everyone else that helped me develop this piece !!