I think you did a good job of making the garage look trashed, and you have a lot of items as evidence of making the robot.

I agree that it's confusing why one hand was left behind.

I noticed the boy on top of the robot (plus the huge hand), so I think the scale is clear. But it wouldn't hurt to add some trees, too.

I didn't notice the footprints at all (inside or outside). But now that you point them out, it seems off. The legs & hips of the robot (what we can see) are about the same thickness as the arms. The footprints on the hill seem only slightly bigger, but the footprint in the garage seems larger than the ones outside. Also, why is the foot just a circle when the hand is so detailed? My suggestion is to just take out the footprints. Although, you can leave the one in the garage, since it just looks like part of the mess to me, and not left by anything in particular.

I don't think you need to worry about the debris. Whether or not the roof is intact doesn't seem very important to me. I would make sure that the inside of the garage is darker than outside; to emphasize that we are inside a building, since you can only barely see the edges of the walls.

@jthomas The submission criteria listed on the job posting is very accommodating to those novice to the industry. Normally a company would want to see only Visual Development related material (background characters, vehicles, props, etc). But, according to the posting, they want to see one's range in art education and sensibilities in the online portfolio and social media accounts. So, I’d recommend have the Viz Dev stuff as the main portfolio, storyboards as a secondary link.

You might want to try out Affinity Designer (which is similar to Adobe Illustrator). https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
With Designer, you can create vector shapes, and apply raster textures or brushes.

"Switch between full featured vector and raster workspaces ... Add raster brush texture to your illustrations, ... mask and add grain to your crisp vectors"

I can't remember for sure (since I have both), but you might need to get Affinity Photo as well as Affinity Designer in order to use the raster features in Designer.

I was very excited when I saw that you can work with vector & raster in the same program. I'm just a beginner with this, but you can check out their website for examples.
At the website above, scroll down to "Vector or raster, you decide" & you can toggle the raster effects on & off to see the difference on a vector illustration.
Here's a short demo video that shows how you can paint raster images, or apply a raster texture to a vector shape in Designer: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/designer/desktop/video/338830412/

Affinity can export as (save as) all the major file types, including .psd — I haven't personally tried sending a .psd file to someone who uses Photoshop, so I can't vouch for it, but I really like the Affinity programs.

@von_Nimmermehr is right. I got an email from the SVS tech and the bar is included in the measurement.

@von_nimmermehr yeah I deactivated my account last night. Didn’t take long for me to realize it wasn’t where I wanted to be. I’m trying to spend more time creating and less time on social media but maybe I just need to let it be what it is. I’ll keep posting Instagram and work on building my own website. If I have some free time I might check out art station.

I just came a crossed this job posting for Netflix. It's 2 different jobs. My question is what kind of curated portfolio would you guys think best fit these positions? Or anyone that may have gone through it already.

https://sites.google.com/netflix.com/animationstoryfaq/overview
https://www.netflixanimation.com/jobs/178008593

Maybe all storyboards and character designs for animation?
What do the big 3 think? @Jake-Parker @Will-Terry @Lee-White ?

Thanks!

@holumpa Good to know. My thought about the car was thinking of how to show it's a garage but also gonna be a pain to clean up. I probably won't include it unless I have a parent's reaction to seeing the project but also seeing the mess. I might try having the scene be when they get home from the science fair...

Thank you for commenting. ♥ 🙏 I really appreciate hearing feedback, because I couldn't tell if it was worth continuing but I was also didn't like any other ideas that I came up with since making that post. I feel much better about it now. I will definitely post an update this weekend!

@jimsz Yes, I totally agree with you. No offence taken 🙂 In fact, I'm one of those artists that do not grasp digital sizing, in relation to printing. It seems to be missing from a lot of art curriculums. All I keep seeing is that to be print-ready it needs to be 300dpi. I've actually found it quite difficult to find comprehensive information on this issue, so if you know of any online resources then I'd be very grateful to hear about them.

Thanks very much!

@griffin I'll be honest I got cheap. I went to Michaels and got the smooth styrofoam shapes and covered plastic cubs from the store in paint. I agree, they're difficult to find. Most of the teachers I've worked with have had these shapes for ages already; I don't even know if you can find them in art stores!

@matthew-oberdier ha! my pleasure. Hope it helps clarify things. : )

@sonja-müller Thanks very much! Yes I agree I think adding more life would make it a lot more interesting, and having the boy hug his tiger a little tighter. Excited to start adding stuff!

@lee-white

Thankyou so much Lee! I knew it was one of your classes, but using the search function didn’t bring anything up except the perspective class. I appreciate the help!

@emily_elizabeth > Can you not use photoshop on the ipad?

Not really yet. They keep improving it, but I think Adobe is still not quite sure how to approach the different workflows. The amount of tools available I think start to make process issues on the iPad where on a PC it's not as much of a setback. Without the keyboard it's kinda rough.

Affinity is trying to also break into that market, and in my opinion has been a bit more successful.

Fresco was an app they built specifically for painting, but it isn't super good either.

Probably the best app that's on both platforms is Clip Studio.

I guess the advice I am seeking is, can I accomplish the same things on an ipad as I can on a cintiq (using photoshop)? Thank you all so much!

I'm going to say yes, but with a caveat.

You can 100% accomplish the same illustration related things on the iPad. Personally I like Procreate better than PS for the actual drawing process. The issue is going to be more on the process side, like color correcting, formatting, resizing, cropping, etc. People you work with might send you PSD files to work with and you won't be able to work with them all that well. Or maybe a publisher sends you a file to work within so you have all the margins correct. Since Photoshop is the industry standard, everyone is going to assume you have it and can work within it.

I would venture to guess if you asked pro illustrators that work 100% in procreate, they will probably also have photoshop for manipulation.

@jeremy-ross I went with a very simple kind of composition and didn't have a lot of details, and sometimes that helps, but I guess I was too subtle with the rendering of my tiger... It was kinda hard to gauge people's opinions on it. I'm not gonna change it or redo it though, I'm just gonna move forward.
Since the next prompt is more specific and meant to have more detail, I'm hoping that my next submission will be an improvement compared to my January illustration. I'm still in the thumbnail/composition-planning phase, since mistakes in perspective are gonna be very easy to notice, potentially.

@carlianne All helpful advice! Thanks a lot, Carlianne

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Thank you everyone for your assistance.

@reelynn I relate with you a lot. My answer is 1. We’re all getting older anyway. If you want to spend some of that time working at your craft, do it! 2. I don’t consider myself “good enough” yet, but thats not my reason to quit. Its my reason to work at it. If you want to learn French you don’t start by saying, “Well, what do you guys think, I don’t actually know any French yet, should I even attempt it?” There are so many stories of people who weren’t “good enough” to even get into art school, who worked till they were, and are now professionals. You’re always going to have doubts and obstacles, but if thats what you want to do, you just need to find a way around them. I have had teachers tell me I “ wasn’t worth their time”. My spouse also doubted whether my art was going to “go anywhere”. Doesn’t matter. I don’t think he has a career in disc golf either, but I still encourage him to do it because he loves it. 3. You don’t have to go all in or not at all. You can grow your craft a little at a time and see where it goes.
Sorry for the long response. 😀

@griffin Hello, thank you for sharing your sketch. I really love the feel of the room. In your updated version, your work to align the stairs and the wall helps, but as David Hohn's example shows well, the wall, the stairs, and the floor should all flow to the same vanishing point. As it is, it looks like the floor is tilting down. Best wishes!

@griffin Hi Griffin, good question!

Re your point about struggling with consistent looking characters, do you mean consistent design for the same character - so the viewer can tell it's the same character across multiple images? Or do you mean consistency in your style?

If it's the latter, I've found that just using the same features on a couple of anatomical points can enhance consistency. For example, Marco Bucci often paints his children with thin limbs and almost rugby-ball shaped heads. Even that shows consistency/recognisability of design, yet allows him to push the design in other anatomical areas to make for variety/interest.

Not sure if that helps.

Best wishes,
Adam

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