SVS Virtual Studio JUNE 2022🌞

Kristen Lango

Hey guys! I thought I'd share this mural project that I've just finished for my hometown

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Valerie Light

@Asyas_illos I started following some digital plein air hashtags on Insta, including #warriorpainters, and it's so inspiring! Who cares if it's frowned upon, it's super portable and great practice!

PenAndrew

@Valerie-Light Yes, being creative should never be frowned upon! At least artists are putting something positive into the world other than frowns! Ha ha.

@Valerie-Light those are lovely

ArtMelC

@Asyas_illos not really frowned upon but it's hard to see the colours on your screen under the bright sunlight

AngelinaKizz

We've come down with a nasty bug, oh the joys of having kids in school lol. Haven't had much get up and go , but did these sketches.

My cross hatch game is weak, but it was fun none the less.

Asyas_illos

@ArtMelC true I hadn’t th out of that, maybe an umbrella would help?

Eliana Bastidas

@ArtMelC This is so true .
@Asyas_illos This may really work! I had tried to go outside to paint but had this issue with my ipad so I had to stay close to a tree. An umbrella sounds like a good idea, but it may bother a bit because you usually use both hands to use the hand gestures on the ipad while you paint and it may make it lose the point of the iPad being "something portable to paint".
If somebody has figure out an idea to fix this and keep it "portable" please enlight me!

mcschweitzer

@HeatherB Congrats on a book deal! I love these little critters! When the project is complete, it would make a cute nursery poster/ print to sell if your contract allows.

PenAndrew

@AngelinaKizz Haha ha, Angelina what is your low end game to others is high end! I mean when you are low and think you perform low(maybe you are not really saying this!) You create great work.

ajillustrates

Work's been a bit draining in the last couple months, but I found some time to do some fan art to relax.

@ajillustrates wow! how did you make this?

ajillustrates

@JQ Super Sculpey clay over a wire and armature. Mixed some craft sand and glued that and some rocks from the backyard onto the wooden base. And Gary’s shell was taken from a beach centerpiece I’ve had around the house for years.

ajillustrates

@ajillustrates wire and foil armature

HeatherB

@mcschweitzer thank you! It’s not a ‘real’ one but a clients self published still is a job! They are pushing on my deadline though so I am behind on my Animal Alphabet. I have sketches for it though, I absolutely am going to finish that series

kylebeaudette

Excuse me

Melissa_Bailey

@HeatherB a self-published book is still a "real" book. It will be published and you'll be considered a published illustrator. Yes, it won't be published traditionally by the big 4, but it's still real.

Jeremy Ross

Very cool @Kristen-Lango

PenAndrew

@Melissa_Bailey @HeatherB Yes, and I was unable to find that piece of news heather and just wanted to agree with Melissa and saying well done.
Every step forward is to be celebrated, accept your success and don't put yourself down. As long as you have done your best it is something.
When you look back in the history of illustration and comics there was a lot of amazing work but there was also a lot of poor work and some in between. If you look at some of the early marvel comics some of the drawings were quite bad to our current standards!

This is like the philosophical question-What is art! What is a published book? And really it just comes down to, What is valued? and what is valued is work of a high standard, first and foremost and crafts men and women that dedicate their life to honing their craft.

Here is a vector art piece based on the June Inkscape Challenge, for which the prompt was "ice cream".

It's Shan Shan and her friends (my children's book characters) enjoying some dessert at the beach. The dessert they're ogling at is the delicious Southeast Asian shaved ice dessert, cendol, topped with a scoop of coconut ice cream (of course!)

Cendol (also spelt chendol) is a dessert made out of shaved ice topped with the eponymous green pandan-flavoured jelly, sweet red beans, gula melaka (coconut palm sugar, which is a rich brown color) and coconut milk. It's delicious enough on its own but ice-cream is always a plus

Painting is definitely still more intuitive for me than vector art but this was a fun challenge!