SVS JUNE CONTEST: MUSHROOM VILLAGE

[Gillian Howden]

I wanted to do a piece that would be a small step towards one of my larger goals: make my own comic book. I still have a lot to learn and practice, but it was a lot of fun making this little comic page. Hopefully y'all get a small laugh from it in some way!
The dialogue was added in photoshop, and the rest was just done traditionally and then scanned. If you want, please leave some feedback about what I could have done better and/or your overall thoughts (don't be shy, give me some tough-love! I'll only get better from it). Thanks!

[chrisaakins]

Here is my interpretation. Chris Van Allsburg is a hero of mine so I thought I would try and emulate his style. !

[chrisaakins]

@chrisaakins I couldn't get the graphite to photo well but oh well! This is a first time to enter a contest on SVS and I am a newbie at illustration. I look forward to it! Thanks for any input you may provide.

[Heather Boyd]

So here’s my mushroom village prompt. Would have like to gone digital however I suffer from chronic headaches so I did try out my new water brushes with watercolour. I wanted to depict so many types of mushrooms. The Story is about the suffering of a mushroom. He is never really alone, his mushroom family is all around.

SVS Contest June Mushroom Village 2018
Heather Boyd

[drawnbyshawn]

Here's my mushroom village.

[Corina]

Thanks for the fun prompt!

[bnewman]

@mattdyedraws Crisp and colourful! Nice work.

[bnewman]

@drawnbyshawn I looked at this one for awhile. Lots of great action here. Nice style as well.

[bnewman]

@chip-valecek Thank you! This is quality weirdness.

[bnewman]

@sweta-roy-choudhury This is lovely. Such a nice idea.

[Eli]

@corina magical!!

[Corina]

@eli Thank you!

[bnewman]

Well, I'm no closer to honing in on a signature style but I quite liked the way this turned out. If I had more time, I'd paint out the line work, or at least reduce it. Anyway, I'm just happy to have something to submit.

[Eli]

@chip-valecek love how this turned out

[drawnbyshawn]

@bnewman Thanks! Definitely one of the busier drawings I've done. It was a fun challenge.

[emmsy]

@chip-valecek so good!!

[lferrara]

@bnewman Looks great, Brad!

[sweta roy choudhury]

@bnewman Thank you

[A Former User]

I'm calling it done, I could keep working on this, but I think I hear somebody calling. I would just like to say, Ovals are a bitch! I don't care who you are, I was determined to have a breakthrough with using ovals in perspective, oh and then I got the idea of putting the village in water with little boat taxi's running around. It ended up looking like a mushroom water amusement park. So heres my submission. Chris

[lei]

@c-davies it’s gorgeous, love how it feels simple yet there’s so much detail and those overlapping ripples are