Hey Everyone,

@Lee-White kickstarter for his gorgeous book art is so close to hitting its first funding goal. Lee is always so helpful here in the forums and has been an awesome mentor to us here at SVS. Let's help him out by backing and especially sharing his project on our social media.

Here is the link: goo.gl/2pMi3M

Check it out!! It is stunning!

Cheers,
Charlie

@amberwingart
Thank you, Savina, I am glad you liked them!
You are right her arms do look awkward, I will have to work on that.
I appreciate your feedback. 🙂

@amberwingart Unfortunately there are those who don't value what we do but I'm glad I was able to help!

Just because Inktober is over doesn't mean you have to stop! Here is a great November Art Challenge to try! (I know I'm 2 days behind but I love color and this looks super fun!)

More Info HERE: http://huevember.tumblr.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/huevember/

Happy Arting!
❤ GG

PS: Also, for writers, it's nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)! Even if you aren't writing a novel there are some great activities/ advice for getting your storytelling juices going! http://nanowrimo.org/about
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Awesome 🙂 Love that bright red against the browns 🙂

Very nice!

@bharris These are wonderful!! Congratulations!

Wow! Amazing story. Very simple yet captivating!
You reminded me of a storybook I had when I was little, of a young Chinese boy who finds a magic brush and every finished painting of his will come to life.
I would love to see more work like this!

@smceccarelli Thank you! Those are all the places I get mine (with the exception of Pinterest - I'll have to look there!). I guess everyone else is just better at finding stuff than I am, haha!

@lmrush I remember Will Terry talking about the colour of snow during the very early stages of the Color and Light class...he had a picture of a snowy scene up on the screen and was using the colour picker to choose areas in the snow, then colouring that colour beside the picture - mainly shades of grey - his main point being that you think snow is 'just white' but actually it's almost never white when you analyse colours in a photo. That was really interesting, it made you think about the values and saving the white just for the brightest highlights.

I'd agree with @Kevin-Longueil that Will has done some really lovely snow scenes worth studying, and they never look dark even though they have all so many colours in them apart from white.

Sounds like SVS should do a createspace how to video, wink wink!

@Jiří-Kůs Thanks! I have plans to go back and color many of these with Copics later, but my main goal for this year is to get more comfortable with the brush pen 🙂

Update- I have added foreground and background now, I wish I could draw the whole sketch first as svs teaches my life would be so much easier!
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I found this tutorial on how to make a realistic oil brush for Photoshop...if you follow the directions you get a really nice brush...I was able to use the same tutorial and make a nice square brush and a blender as well,. http://orig13.deviantart.net/83c0/f/2013/215/8/8/custom_traditional_media_brushes_in_photoshop_by_gjaldir-d6gfrpr.pdf

I agree it's a lot better - really nice work! Love the textures and the colours 🙂

Thank you so much @Joy-Heyer @Dulcie @evilrobot @Krister for all this information, so so appreciated!

I started the final for my other sketch...but this time I did a different technique, inspired by the way Cory Godbey treats his linework. In my Fall Critique, Will Terry suggested that I study how several artists treat linework, including Lee White and Cory Codbey - and it has been such a great suggestion. So, I got Cory's video demo, which is really good...and this my first effort at trying to do things similarly - though, I have barely scratched the surface of all the things he does in his process.

But, it's a start, anyway. At the moment I'm not sure whether this is finished, or if I should polish more (any critique welcome as always)

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Love the blocks and stick horse! I think you are right, it is a bit too dark. Just don't lose the contrast. The face is sweet. I love the mouth. Those are very cute teeth! The iris of his left eye isn't right...he looks cross-eyed. We wouldn't see the whites of his eye on the far right of the image. Make sense? Lovely scene!

This looks like a great piece. @smceccarelli. This kind of environment is always a challenge and you have done a great job .