@Barryrousedraws Nice! I like the gentle animation you've got here. It reminds me of how boats move: the gentle bobbing up and down after each passing wave. Good stuff!

@ajillustrates Yeah i can really see how a piece like this would have tested your resolve, plenty of people have probably attempted something like this then quit on day 3 when the enormity of the task becomes apparent. But to just say you stuck with it doesnt do you justice. Its so well executed. The whole thing holds together as one shape, there's levels of contrast, depth, everywhere you look theres something cool going on. Its hypnotic. This should be used as an example to people on how to approach inktober, rather than forcing themselves to produce a pile of throwaway tat for a month. I notice you said initially you were planning on painting it, i dont think anyone would blame you if you left it as it is, indeed it may well not even need painting. If you do paint it up though, you should definately get some prints made up, this is quality.

honestly I am kind of bummed that the blogpost for this never got shared through any of the SVS social media channels. 😞

Inktober is over and done!!

I must say, this was the best so far.
I went for the official prompt list.

Had lot of ideas for most of the prompts, and while some were narrowing down my concepts, others made me come up with pretty interesting concepts.
Also went the digital way, because that was the domain I wanted to get better at, since it s my main tool when working.
Speed was a big big thing that I wanted to improve.

Tried so many new stuff that otherwise someone d have to commission me to do them(ehem, comfort zone) and had real fun overall.

How did your inktober go?What will you do next??
Feel free to post your full collection here,compilation of all 31 days!
Also include your handles,so others can see you!

You can find close ups of my Inktober pieces at
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/g.chris.artwork/?hl=el
SVSforum post days1-15 : https://forum.svslearn.com/topic/10220/sharing-inktober-all-month-say-your-opinions/10
SVSforum post days16-31 : https://forum.svslearn.com/topic/10272/inktober-day-15-31-critiques-are-welcome/18

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I coloured in the street scene to make is less floaty. Funny how looking at an illustration with a fresh set of eyes can reveal things!

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This is beautiful and awesome and very original ! 🙂 Great work !

@Nyrryl-Cadiz Nice one. I'm looking forward to slowing down and just making one piece this month. Are you making something for Slowvember?

@burvantill I share the same opinion. Unless the artists have explicitly stated they don't allow repost, sharing their works should be ok as long as you credit the work to the artist and it is for personal use only 🙂

Wow! Congrats on finishing all 31 drawings! I liked the Dizzy Fairy in particular. simple but cute 😃

@Michael-Angelo-Go i actually thought those orange orbs were Santilmos

DAY 20: Chef
We used to play this mario game where you had to flip and catch food until it was cooked. I was addicted XD

DAY 21: Sleep
Classic Alice in Wonderland. Honestly never been a fan of the story (too nonsensical even for my 8 year old brain 😂) but it fit the brief 😝

DAY 22: Rip
We used to play a game with my dad called “Westling in Manila” so I wanted to shoe horn muscles somewhere :)) I didn’t feel like drawing wrestling costumes though so I went with Popeyes. We used to watch this A LOT 😂

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Congrats to everyone for finishing/ doing Inktober! I might continue this until 31 drawings. It would be a waste to quit after going 80% with it.

Will continue to post my progress, will definitely need help with the writing portion, so hope you guys don’t mind.

Callin' it done!

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Thanks so much guys! Pointing out the more 3D elements vs flat was something I couldn’t pinpoint but was struggling with. And concept/story has been my biggest struggle. But it’s good to know the other elements I have been focusing on (composition, value and rendering) are working.

Watching everyone else’s critiques was helpful too.

I definitely hope to see more of this style of critique if y’all have the time for them 😄

Hello, I have failed to create 31 characters... However to improve my mood about it, I have created this animation. It's one of my first attempts and I am proud of it 🙂
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@blamillo said in Seeking Critique on a concept piece:

Hi Jules. Couple of things come to mind for me. Some of this mightn’t apply depending on what you’re going for with style, but for what it’s worth:

The way you’ve drawn the lamp, it should project a cone of light, and only on the foreground. For now it looks like the angle is too wide. Everything outside of that cone will only receive reflected light, so they’ll appear desaturated and low contrast. If you’d like to draw attention to the illustrations in the background, it may be best to do that with warm local colours. Or, you could bring the lamp forward a bit and point it away from the camera, so the back wall receives direct warm light. Also, that lamp light: it’s a very saturated RGB yellow right now. And just blending on Normal mode? I’d bump it towards red a bit, tone the saturation WAY down, and use either Screen or Colour Dodge. It should probably be one of the last things you do, after getting the rest of your values right. The warm/cool light effect only makes sense if there’s a secondary source of ambient blue light. You could do that with moonlight through an unseen window, but the value it gives will be much darker and desaturated than what you’ve got. Skin behaves very differently to matte surfaces because of its translucency - I think you won’t see any cool hues in the shadows on it.

Hope that’s helpful!

@blamillo This is perfect!! Thanks so much for taking time to give me feedback 😄. I’ve been a little lost on what to do when it comes to the light, shadow, and lamp angle 😅

@Gary-Wilkinson I missed this month somehow and all your dinos. Love them! ❤

@Heather-Boyd Thanks Heather! Really appreciate your feedback. Yeah I'm having fun with stuff like rim lighting; it's not perfect and I'm a bit inconsistent with it, but to paraphrase the SVS guys, it's okay to do what works even if it's not exactly right 🙂

HI @ambiirae One thing I noticed is that the reflections are lighter in value than the mountains. In reality this is almost never the case. It would be reversed. Less light is reflected back into the atmosphere.

Prompt: Outpost

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Here are some further revisions to skirt lengths, shadows, and Edmund's perspective and how he's holding his hands in his pockets.

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