@aska The likes are nice, but critiques are better. ☺️ I need critiques to improve. Which is why I posted it in the forums and not just on Instagram. I was actually wondering if we were supposed to tag finished assignments with anything specific so we could get feedback... @Will-Terry is there a specific place or tag we are supposed to use on school assignments?

Ahhhh I've missed these forums!

I'm venturing into new territory: printables! I grew up homeschooled, and I'm around a lot of homeschoolers where I live. It's a largely Christian group, and lots of people have told me how hard it is to find high-quality coloring pages (of religious-specific stuff) to print. I've hesitated getting into it myself because spending a few hours on nice linework, only to sell it for a buck or two sounds like a bad idea.

But I've been doing more research into people who sell printables on Etsy, and it looks like it's "a thing." Not like a "quit your day job" thing (because art), but a decent market. While I could only sell my images for like $3, I would only do the work once. No printing, no shipping, no stocking. If I could sell a $3 drawing of a cute angel 15 times in a month, I'd be pretty pleased, to be honest.

In addition to the printables, I want my store to carry the original ink line art (significantly more expensive) as well as watercolor paintings based on the image. It's a weird new direction for me, but I'm pretty pumped about the support and interest I've received from various Christian/homeschool groups. Fingers crossed!

This is a sample of what I'll be selling. After I draw the lineart, I clean it up in Photoshop, and then livetrace it in Adobe Illustrator, so I have a resizable vector file.
To be honest, this looks like the first page of a 'guardian angel' comic, which I kinda want to do now XD Still some tweaking to do, but overall, this is what I'm going for. Does my study of vintage book illustration show?
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Anyways, I just wanted to share in case anybody else might be interested. I'm hoping to launch my store Dec 3, so I'll let you know how I fare!
I also started a separate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlebeadsillustration/

@eli Thank you! I'm trying to get all the images designed before I paint the final versions, so hopefully I'll get a breakthrough and make two more in the next couple days

Hi everyone! I'm slowly working my way through slowvember and finally have this composition ready. I was hoping to get some critiques or advice? Thanks!!

I also like the first one. Looks great.

@bennyschmidt12 Thank you 🙂 I've heard of that book and wondered about buying it for a while, so I will do so.

Hey everyone, I've done a few more little tweaks to the ghost image and think I'm going to call it done on that one resists strong urge to go back and keep editing it till the end of time. I've also been rendering another few of pages from the book- On the "wheeze" page, looking at it now, I think it would have been better to have him looking like he's actually trying to roar rather than just shivering so I might go back and edit that little bit.

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@kevin-longueil thanks so much homie! I completely agree with what you are saying. love the changes you did as well looks dope ! thanks sooo much.

@laurel-aylesworth

Hey Laurel, sorry it took so long to get back to you on this. I was looking over your composition again and I’m probably taking your darker tone too literally, like I think it won’t be so dramatic as a darker green for example compared to what you have going on in the lighter tones. It’s probably just the dark gray scale that threw me off. I was going to suggest maybe a more slender a tree but after thinking on that, you kind of need a bigger tree to balance out the left side.

Sorry I’m not very helpful on this, I’ll revisit if I️ can think of anything.
-Kali

@MF-James

They’re all so cute! I like the third best because it’s family snuggle time, so the focus seems more on family bond than on each member’s focus decorating different parts of the tree or snowman. Even tho they’re looking at the book you’ve got the little one snuggling up to dad and one very in sync focus on the book page. Also like this one because it seems more candid, looking through the fort door into their space.

I agree more Christmas focus for the fort tho, liked the suggestion on red and green lights, cookies/milk, maybe a Christmas pattern somewhere, matching pjs or Santa hats, maybe just think about how you dec your own place and put something personal to your family like an heirloom ornament or something recognizable to family and friends who visit your home.

Nice work!
-Kali

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Ok So I changed the composition to feature more diagonal lines, showing the chaos, made one goose the main focus and grandma a second read, and changed her water gun to a gun that catapaults tiny yappy dogs( this came about when I got input from the family 😜)

Notes on add’l changes:
-move the mailbox(right bottom corner?)

replace cure t mailbox w Front end of a car incorporate just a little more house on top
-apply rule of thirds to main goose so maybe crop right side or rework shot/sidewalk
-change the goose in the top right corner to be flying out to the right. redistribute group of three goose on left so middle one is running off the page show a dog hopping up onto grandma’s gun

Looking to get feedback on what does and doesn’t work.

Thank you everyone for your time and input!

-Kali

@bennyschmidt12 lol! thanks man!

Hey what's up guys! I would really appreciate some feedback on my artwork. Things I could improve upon,things that aren't working or maybe things you would have done differently. Thanks so much peace out and always remember to stay creative!

@jajajulie Hi! Yes. I do think adding another ball to the snowman's body would help a lot. I can't wait to see your final piece.

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen thanks for your feedback, I’ll keep that in mind

@smceccarelli Love it! Your lighting is so good. Everything.....

 Hey,

This is the drawing i made recently, !its messed up and i will make it better, but want to ask what you think so far?

Be honest...

Hi, Everybody! Here's my final illustration. Here, I added texture to the hair by making some cross-hatching using adobe. I also added shadows on the character especially on her right arm to emphasize that it is under the hood/cape. I removed the cast shadow on her skirt to avoid confusion. That shadow wasn't created by her hand but by the bending of the fabric. then I changed the color of the basket to add contrast with the midground. I was going to change the color of the mushrooms but I decided not to. I like the piece as it already is. I hope you guys love it. Again, thank you for all your feedback. Thank you for helping me polish this piece. I'll be uploading it to my portfolio shortly. If you want to view it please click on this link https://nyrrylcadiz.wixsite.com/portfolio
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This is shaping up nicely. I think the characters are fine where they are so long as you make sure the contrast and saturation on them make them the focal point if that's your goal. I agree with the above comment about the stairs. To me it looks like they need to be pushed back to line up with the entrance.

Lastly, I think adding something big and close on the lower left, and maybe even overlapping the machine some, would make the image even more dynamic as if we're peeking over random shop items or tools, like we are in the adventure with the kids and they were caught but we were not. Now I want to see what happens next!

Hi,

I've recently started a blog and as I am not a professional and don't have any assignments, I am trying to look for different ideas to post about (BTW: my blog is about me learning to draw). So mainly I am trying to get ideas from what i do everyday. Recently I have posted sketches from family travel to Legoland in Denmark (https://mugaska.com/2017/11/08/lego-szal-w-danii/). At this moment i am working on a series of posts about my dog's friends. So first one is called Łapa, which in English means Paw. In a meantime, I have been painting fish for local fish shop .. but thats for another time 😉 I am experimenting with some loose, messy sketching and I am curious what you think about it.

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