@smoke cool but also cute!

Either wake up an hour earlier or don't watch tv or something on a night and set aside one hour every day to create and after a couple of weeks you'll be in a habit and your brain will get used to creating and you won't be as tired/ If you can't manage an hour, start with 15-20 minutes and work up.

Not sure what else to offer other than the use of the word rupture was pretty awesome. Good word.

Ace

The refinement in your painting has definitely increased - I love the reflections, the droplets in the water, and the soft lighting.. Though I also love the sheet rain and the contrast in values in the first one...both very nice pieces 🙂

very nice job!

😮 ohhhhhh very good price! Thanks for sharing!!!

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Hi guys!

So I'm doing another illustration for my portfolio. I decided to do another witch drawing to show consistency in style and character design.

In this illustration she is mixing some potions and her brew just exploded on her. I haven't added the explosion and the smoke yet because I wanted to work on the composition first. The stuff that is in grey will all be part of the background. I added it so it would be easier to see.

I would love to hear your comments and suggestions!

Thank you Marsha. I didn't want to go too realistic with the colour and wanted a painterly feel to it. It was basically just a test of what the iPad Pro could do.

Ace

@lonelycatpress those updates are wonderful. They really add to this piece and add to that magical wonderment the bear has with the fireflies!

Don't forget when pricing it all depends on what rights the client is acquiring and how the art will be used.

Who owns the original artwork?

Kill fee?

First rights or all rights?

Copyright?

Publication?

Changes/client alterations?

It's not just about the time and skill involved but also about future monetization as well.

lonelycatpress wrote: who has got space for 15 years worth of sketch books?!

Hence the problem! Except it is not 15 years of sketchbooks. It is all my sketch books going back to when I was a kid in the 70's as well as thousands of loose drawings.

I cleared out hundreds and hundreds of loose drawings and paintings about 10 years when they were returned to me by a licensing company. But, they are all building up again.

Hi Sougat, Working on a good portfolio is the best thing you can do. Here's some advice from svs-faculty instructor @Lee-White:

Show three images from the same story. Try to highlight character
interaction and get a sense of emotion and story.

Show 2 images that highlight environment. You can have some characters
in there, but make sure the environment is the main thing. Will does
this extremely well so poke around his website for inspiration.

For the remaining 5, try to vary the stories and how you show the
story. Be specific to the type of work you want to get.

Leave room for text in at least 75% of the work. I typically put the
text in there. It shows art directors that you understand the business
that we are in.

Have fun! Don't put too much pressure to get 10 perfect images right
away. Shoot for painting 20 or 30 and then picking the best 10 out of
that.

Hope it helps!

It runs lightweight because it is for recording your gameplay and records in good quality. There are no other effects or tools like mouse clicks and highlighting though. Look up how to use geforce shadow play on youtube for exact instructions.

Thanks for the feedback. I can see what you mean about peter being so much bigger and losing the lost boys. That's a really good suggestion. What do you think about the colors? Santa seems pretty small too. Something besides flying? I'll have to think about that though. Peter is, after all know for his flying skills 🙂 Maybe I'll do more sketches fo different scenarios to post for more feedback. Thanks so much! I'm not really happy with it at this point.

@Charlie-Eve-Ryan Thank you for the feedback, I will fix that arm 🙂
@Chip-Valecek Thank you, I will check that out!

Oh, okay, that makes sense. Maybe I'll try out next Inktober 🙂 Thank you!

Well, I've decided to go forward with the sketch as it is now. Normally for a competition piece I would like to spend a bit more time, but Thanksgiving is getting in the way so I'm just going to work with what I have and do my best in the time that is available to me, which frankly isn't much. Still, I'd rather get something in rather than just say, "Oh well, too bad."

Since I'm going to be traveling and busy, I may not be able to post the rest of my progress here, so I just wanted to come back and thank everyone for their help! I think I really got a good sketch through your suggestions.

Bye until December!

It sounds like you have plenty of ideas! I also agree with with not over-thinking it. Ask what does your gut instinct say, what do you really fancy drawing? If you are excited by it, then that will naturally shine through in your work...

They are working on getting one together soon. I went through and made myself a syllabus starting with the fundamental courses. 🙂

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen said:

@Naroth-Kean Thank you! That's just what I needed explained. Thank yo so much! I'll go do that now.

Hi Marsha - glad it worked for you (btw, I am Nancy Gormezano, not Naroth Kean). I tried your link but it brought me to a login page - I think you want to use this link instead for your signature:

https://marshaottumowen.wordpress.com/

@Will-Terry Thanks! 🙂 , your totally right, the caracters pops from the canvas on your example, big improvement, i still got alot to learn, i am very grateful you opend my eyes on a few details on that one piece so i can take it to consideration to apply this new point of view on the other pieces!! Realy Thank you 😃