June 2024 Submissions - How To Fix Your Art
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@jahn
For this prompt, I started with reading about the history of the Godzilla character, and after seeing that he was rooted in the Japanese response to being nuclear bombed, I thought there would need to be a bit more serious destruction theme to the book. I thumbnailed out several ideas, trying to come up with images that implied Godzilla rather than showing him directly. For example, one idea was to show the "aftermath" where a little girl was kneeling on the ground next to a large crater in the shape of the monsters foot, and the surrounding neighborhood was destroyed. Another idea was to show a child in a car seat looking out the window as the family flees the city, with a silhouette of the monster destroying the city skyline. These two ideas seemed overly complicated visually, so I thought through simpler ideas. I landed on this one, where Godzilla's size and montrousness is implied by his hand, and the airplane is clearly trying to escape destruction. I picked the bright colors to bring more appeal to a younger audience, and fortunately since this is just a cover I didn't have to decide what kind of content would be in the book and how to portray destruction in a way that kids could understand and accept. -
@Jason-Crowley i got my money on Rob. This looks fantastic Jason!
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Hey Everyone, I am loving the Godzilla Illustrations on here! Even though I always back King Kong in the fights
Great prompt this month!With this one I imagined Godzilla causing mayhem and he bumps into a little girl who tells him off and teaches him it's important to clean up after himself. They then work together to clean up the city, under her instruction of course.
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Here is my submission for June. Everyone’s’ submissions look amazing!!
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@pmxart Rob is pretty fearsome!
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@Megan-Majewski I would love this on a t shirt!
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@AustinShurtliff Hi, Austin; I think I'm finally on the forum. I can read the posts, and I hope you get this reply. As a newbie, I do not see how to upload my HTFYA prompt. Perhaps it's closed? I did email you the jpeg, but I can't see anywhere that says upload.
I will go back to the YouTube channel and look for the live stream on this prompt...
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My June HTFYA - and my first one!
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@Zachary-Schrage
Fantastic! You've made him a loveable character! Line work is incredible. You definitely have a recognizable style. -
@Larue I was going to add that electric fire from his/her/thing mouth and get the sign edge burning up, but I thought it crossed the midpoint and was making the whole thing too busy...
Thanks for the comment. This is my first submission, and I'm keen to see how this works. I really like the SVS education and pod/videocasts.
Cheers
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@MarcRobinson
Love this.You're really good at giving everything weight. Your shadows really make the Dad and Godzilla "sit" in their chairs. Good job of use of buzy carpet not looking busy and over powering the piece.
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@Larue thank you that's very kind feedback. I usually do a traditional pencil drawing then paint in Photoshop. But with this one I was very short on time so it's done fully in PS.
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I only found out about this prompt yesterday. I know I missed the deadline, but it was too fun of a prompt to pass up!
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This isn't a submission but I just finished a book recently for a publisher and the idea was based on Godzilla as a picture book!
Originally the author/publisher wanted him in a city but I thought it would be cool to have a Godzilla like character roaming through a New England town (which is where I grew up)
I would show more but they haven't announced the book yet so I'll just add these cropped images here.
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@Dan-Tavis These are great!! Also, please allow me to fan-boy out a bit over all your work in general. Your stuff has been a BIG influence on my entrance into the Kid-Lit world. Keep up the great work!
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Hey Mark, there's no better compliment than knowing my work has inspired other artists
Thank you for your comment!
