Our SVS Virtual Studio AUGUST 2021🌻

[Tiffany Thomas]

@Janette Thank you so much!!!

[Tiffany Thomas]

@Katie-Carling Haha, thanks. Not sure if that's how you're 'supposed' to do watercolor, but I was an oil painter first so it's a habit I carried over. It really helps me to figure out the value of things before I work on the color and I love the way the sienna mixes in and influences the other colors.

[Tiffany Thomas]

@Judy-Elizabeth-Wilson haha, I'm a crazy dog lady so I know exactly what you mean ;). I can never resist a big, toothy grin.

[kylebeaudette]

Fox Park. Drew this in pen and then coloured with watercolour. Bit of a tightrope act.

[Tiffany Thomas]

@kylebeaudette Hahahahaha, poor bird!!!! I love it!!! All the character interactions are fantastic, so much storytelling and humor.

[kylebeaudette]

@Tiffany-Thomas thank you!!

[burvantill]

What's your favorite surf and turf dinner?
I'm partial to steak and crab, hold the bear.
Okay, Colin.
31 animals August challenge Day 12

[Judy Elizabeth Wilson]

Sketchbook unicorns! Just drawing for fun.

[kylebeaudette]

Rat Party

[Jeremy Ross]

Faster than the speed of light, it’s Super Apple!

[Judy Elizabeth Wilson]

@kylebeaudette This is so fun!

[burvantill]

Are you Oscar or Felix?
If you don't know who they are, Google it and edumacate yo' self. Hint: The Odd Couple.
Okay, Colin.
Day 14

[chrisaakins]

Painting from real life to keep up my observation skills.

[braden H]

Hallo fallow hoo-mans!

[demotlj]

“Be careful not to leave your tractor in the weeds. The Lawn Ness Monster is always lurking.”

I complain that I don’t have enough time to paint but manage to find enough time to do this

[kylebeaudette]

[Jeremy Ross]

Hilarious @demotlj! There’s always time for fun!

[Alzamon]

Hey everyone, after spending a grueling 33.5 hours on this (according to the Procreate time counter) of which about 10 hours were spent on a false start (see WIP picture below) I'll rather call this done and move on.

Some background: These kids are Elias and Daniel, part of my original cast of characters I've been doodling on and off over the last 25 years. I have done some limited run comics with them but nothing too special yet, and here I wanted to go further into developing the universe they should live in. In this case here we see Daniel's room — as messy as any normal 9-year old kid's room should be. In fact it should be messier, but drawing and painting all that mess takes a lot of time. Just for comparison I'm attaching the initial coloring draft which after some good advice was changed to its final form.

Also: Is it normal to spend 20+ hours in a piece like this? I always wish I could work faster so I could have more things to show and post on social media. But speed isn't one of my virtues...

[Fey Realme]

@Tiffany-Thomas said in Our SVS Virtual Studio AUGUST 2021:

I do an underpainting first, usually with Burnt Sienna. Then I build layers of color on top and use White Gouache for the highlights. Here's a snapshot of the underpainting for one of the images.

@Tiffany-Thomas wow what a cool way to work! I'm not a watercolorist, but it think I will try out that method! it think it will work well with the way my brain works.

[Heather Boyd]

@Braden-Hallett Boy needs to hold on to more than that lols.