SVS Virtual Studio MAY 2022

[Coreyartus]

Today I finished the first image in my big summer project: A Little Red Calendar.

I've previously made a bird calendar, but friends from different directions suggested I put one together that was a bit more story-based. I'm very interested in putting Little Red in contexts that are outside the normal scope of the story--seasons, holidays, interacting with the other characters in ways that show things happening "in the margins".

If I can keep this up, and still have time to read the plethora of books I want to tackle, too, I might have a good chunk of it done by the time school starts back up again in the fall. 11 months more, and a cover. Whew! My husband will be doing the calendar formatting later (I don't know inDesign worth crap) as he did on my last calendar. And it's going to be another 11x17" double-sided flip-top with a coil binding because that's what I can assemble at home. I may do a smaller size this time, too, but we'll see. I'm also making phone wallpaper versions of each of these images (without the calendar part) so that takes a bit of reformatting, too.

[PenAndrew]

@lpetiti That is surely a great incentive towards art! I teach and I like it but would love to teach less.

[Kristen Lango]

[Solomon Designs]

Im working on the word generator assignment. Mine was lizard-painting-show. I did a successful bearded dragon child painter who's under alot of pressure for the art show but has a creative block.

[PenAndrew]

@Solomon-Designs I would really like to see what a dragon paints.

[Solomon Designs]

@PenAndrew lol maybe the next one will be him getting through his creative block.

[Jeremiahbrown]

[Valerie Light]

As a treat to myself, I sat on the floor at a local benefit dog show last weekend. I greeted and sketched as many friendly dogs as I could, and then went home and cleaned up the sketches in my studio. It was an absolute blast.

[demotlj]

@Valerie-Light I love this. So much fun and so well done.

[ArtMelC]

A small editorial piece i did for an independent publication. The article title is "Japan is not high tech". I think editorial illos can be really fun with the right articles and a good working relationship!

[phoenix yip]

@Griffin dude that’s sick, I love the reflective lighting really nice job

[phoenix yip]

Self portraits

[Blitz55]

Some head studies.

[kylebeaudette]

Rat Band

[PenAndrew]

@kylebeaudette Do you know there used to be a band -The Boomtown Rats! Ha ha. I love these rats.

[chrisaakins]

Working on a couple of things for a children’s activity book.

[kylebeaudette]

Playing with the ai tech called midjourney. Very cool!

[burvantill]

@kylebeaudette That last one of the trooper reminds me of Scott Wetterschneider's stuff he's ben posting on IG recently. Very fantastically creepy.

[AngelinaKizz]

May was a stupidly busy month for me. I wrote and submitted 3 stories to the Canadian version of SCBWI, I’ve been working in the salon long hours to compensate for taking the whole month of April off (due to being hella sick with covid), a started my second term of university, and I’ve been getting myself back into colored pencil portraits. So here’s a piece I finished on the weekend. It’s done in luminance colored pencils, on strathmore 400 series toned grey.

[Melissa_Bailey]

@AngelinaKizz lovely portrait!

Whew! I'm tired just reading all that you've crammed into one month!

Got a question for you: are the Luminance pencils more opaque? I also just did a colored pencil test on the Strathmore 400 toned gray and found that many of my colored pencils struggled to show up against the gray. The Lyra polycolor and Polychromos especially did not have the opacity needed for the paper. The Derwent Lightfasts mostly were okay but the yellows did struggle a bit.

Recently I've been considering treating myself to a set of Luminance -- I have 3 pencils: white, black, and crimson aubergine, and I really like them. Slowly, I've been replacing my Polychromos as they're used up (they're good pencils but just not right for me as they lack opacity and I hate the gold lettering on the barrel!). Luminance seem to be more opaque, which is what I'm looking for -- the only white colored pencil that I've found to be more opaque is the Holbein soft white.

Anywho ... long ramble to just get your thoughts on the Luminance. You've got a lot of experience using them!