SVS Virtual Studio FEBRUARY 2023

[Sarah VanDam]

@ArtistErin Erin, sorry it took me so long to get back to you! Thank you, thank you for the draw-over—That was awesome of you to do for me, and I’ve been thinking about it for a while, considering if I want to digitally edit the piece to match your vision. Ultimately, I DO agree that the upper leg was slightly too long, so I moved it slightly in the digital version now, but I don’t think it is by much if you account for where her rib cage and pelvis are, which can be hard to see with her dress. Here are my sketched draw-overs of her anatomy from your version and mine:

Essentially, we just assumed different things about her proportions.

I think you highlighted to me that the story I’m trying to tell with the piece might be a little too obscure, but I still kind of like it myself—I want to show that impossible moment that you still imagine as a kid where you launch yourself up over the bar of the the swingset and you’re about to come around full circle. Never done before, but I still wanted to show what that might look like. So, I think I’ll remember this for future images, and maybe ask for feedback on storytelling earlier in the process, but for this piece, I think I’ll stick mainly with what I have.

Also, I just took an up-close photograph of this with my iPad with sunlight hitting it indirectly. Seemed to work!

[MimiHecher]

I'm working on some character designs to then do some illustrations for a "middle grad books" portfolio. This young witch will get a funny cover, a character design sheet and some spot illustrations, like I did it for a "real" story.

The cat and the shoes are not finished yet.

[Jeremy Ross]

I’m enjoying making these and creating Timelapse videos.

[Lisa Clark]

A picture that I made for friends this Christmas. My kids wanted me to add funny details because they thought they would love it. I really enjoyed that part.

[Mimi Simon]

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Sketch chaos! This has been a long road of drawing and redrawing but I'm glad to say I think I'm finally ready for colour...

[ArtistErin]

@Sarah-VanDam YES!! Awesome! I love your approach here and I am so glad I could help somehow. I do see how your vision works and conveying that incredible feeling of launching into the sky on a swing, I totally know this intention. I used to have flying dreams as a kid and often tried to recreate that feeling on the swings at school!

Post your progress! I'd love to see how this piece evolves..

[ArtMelC]

Enjoying traditional watercolour again

[A Former User]

@ArtMelC So lovely!

[ArtMelC]

@Stephanie-H thank you

[Mimi Simon]

Color version!

[Chantal Goetheer]

@Sarah-VanDam it reminds me of my four year old son on the swing saying 'look mommy im flying like an airplane... No like a rocket'.

[Chantal Goetheer]

@ArtMelC Iove your diary!!

[von_Nimmermehr]

colored just another page in my sketchbook. The sketch was lying around for some days now, i really like the result, but i want to work on my backgrounds though.

[Asyas_illos]

This lil bear sprout is all I got for now

[MirkaH]

@ArtMelC Love that little illo and tracker. Storystorm is a big highlight for me every year.

[Blitz55]

Some trolls I’ve been working on lately. I’ve got a lot of these kinds of creatures jumping out of my pencil, I think I’d like to start putting a story around them

[von_Nimmermehr]

@Blitz55 they look so so cool!

[Blitz55]

@von_Nimmermehr said in SVS Virtual Studio FEBRUARY 2023:

@Blitz55 they look so so cool!

Thank you! I'm really liking them as well. Always good when you like what you're creating haha. Sometimes it's more of a struggle to get there.

[AnumC]

@Sarah-VanDam this are beautiful! I LOVE the one on the right.

[AnumC]

@Mia-Clarke The composition is great! amazing work!