SVS Virtual Studio DECEMBER 2023
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Hi guys, I hope everyone is having a really great festive season. It's been a very challenging month for my family, and as a result I've not been at the drawing table much since the beginning of November. But as things settle down a bit, I've started working on some stuff. This is a work in progress of a painting I'm doing of The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. For 2024 I'm planning to double down on my fantasy illustrations, as I think I was starting to spread myself too thin by trying to do EVERY type of artwork.
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This is a rough composition sketch I'm working on for my first book dummy (text goes in the blank area at the top).
Hopefully you can tell that it's a birds-eye view of an Indian marketplace.
I've still got to work on the character design for the woman and the cow, who are main characters in the story.
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Taking reference from Pinterest and creating some character study
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More drawings!
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Filling the last page of my sketchbook at a rather chilly café in Glastonbury. The woman on the left with the glasses was very loud and had a vocabulary consisting mainly of swearwords, but the guy with the plait in his beard was having an interesting conversation about Japan.
I think I should go to cafés with worse acoustics from now on.
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I'm participating in a monthly challenge with friends on Instagram. Here's an endangered bird : a Bali Starling. It was a timed drawing, but I quite liked drawing him, using negative space.
@julie_rossini_lib
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@Robyn-Hepburn Eavesdropping and drawing is definitely one of my favourite activities. Crossed conversations are so funny, aren't they ? I am currently going quite often to the same cafe at the same time of the day just to get a chance to "catch up" on a local group of retired people and they crack me up ! Plus, the ladies often wear hats, so they're good practice.
@julie_rossini_lib
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This is very lovely @Robyn-Hepburn. I can’t believe the lady was swearing with a kid at the table!
This looks like a full spread in a Picturebook! Well done ensuring nothing was lost in the gutter.
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Hi @Adam-Thornton-0 , looking good! I can tell it’s top down view; however, I’m sure the colors and rendering will highlight that bits an Indian market place.
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@Julie
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@Julie Haha! That's a brilliant idea. I do know of a café nearby that's frequented by retired folk - I do hope they wear hats!
I love your negative-space bird. Timed drawings are great, hey? Especially together with other people. -
@Jeremy-Ross Thanks! I was trying to just ignore the gutter, but then that lady was slipping into it too much so I did scooch her over a little bit.
Ah, no, thankfully there were no kids around - that tiny human was just from a table further on the left but I wanted to squeeze her in! (I liked her hat.)
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@jvartandillustration Beautiful! I love how you've drawn the village, and how tired Joseph looks.
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@Robyn-Hepburn Thank you!
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@Ayesha-Masood Here goes !
Those two are from last week. Funny because it's quite the fancy side of the neighbourhood, and it's a betting place as well, so I get it all : workers having a beer - or two, or three - instead of a lunch, old men who have better days who come and bet on horses, people coming in for a chat, and those posh ladies who come for a very proper coffee, or a glass of wine. It makes for fun eavesdropping. Boy, these ladies are fierce. I wouldn't like to be one of their friends and be talked about when I leave !@julie_rossini_lib
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@Robyn-Hepburn Thanks, Yes, I've learnt a lot by doing that ! and everyday too. @blueshineart has a live everyday and it's definitely made me realise that I "can" draw even if I can't, you know... I'm fearless now
No matter how bad the result is. I'm still having fun.@julie_rossini_lib
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@Julie awesome sketches Julie. Hahaha… staying clear of these ladies would be the best
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@Ayesha-Masood Yeah, I'm better off making friends with the betting guys I'm sure
