My first post here.
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@art-of-b It's not that I want to quit teaching, I just want to also do this. Did you quit teaching to illustrate? Maybe not a crazy idea in this current climate...
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Oh, I'm not suggesting that you quit teaching. It's a good gig (depending on where you are, I suppose).
As for me, I quit teaching because I wanted to quit teaching. The occasional illustration gig was a happy accident.
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Hello fellow Canadian! Welcome to the forum! Look forward to seeing more of your work.
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I'd like to start a sketchbook on here, but that doesn't seem to be an option when I try to post? I'm having some overall difficulty navigating the site, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. Should I just post pictures I draw in this post?
Anyways, here's something I drew today. Some more of one of the characters I'm working on. This picture is just a few expressions. I'm playing around with drawing shapes, and going with whatever emotion I think of when I see the shape. Thanks for the feedback so far! This forum seems great, lots of Canadians too
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I'm enjoying seeing the progress. I like the ink/watercolour effect background. Is that a scanned texture?
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@ians Thanks! No it's just me doing a quick inksplotch texture brush on a background layer with a bunch of colors. I just wanted something for the colors to play off of instead of white. Here's some more face studies of the boy character..
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Man, interiors are a whole new thing to try and wrap my brain around. I've never really had to draw scenery. Maybe I'll take an SVS course on the subject.
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I added some more things into the room, some lighting and shadows.
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Hi @kylebeaudette I just joined the forums yesterday and also just recently started listening to the 3point perspective podcasts, it’s really inspiring! These sketches are great! I have to agree with @Chip-Valecek however, about the inconsistencies. You can fix it by trying to draw the characters in different angles : front, 3 quarters left and right and profiles so that you get an overall understanding as a 3D form. That’s what I would do I think. I hope it helps. Keep going!
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@abbylucero The characters look different because these are sketches. I'm trying to find a look that I like and then will do turnarounds.
Thanks for looking
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@kylebeaudette oh cool! It’s pretty good so far though. I’d love to see how the characters look later on.
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Just got a job illustrating a local magazine, kind of freaking out about it as I would consider myself very new at this. I'm practicing some editorial things now, it's going to be about the fall/winter season in my area.
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More crazy character work.
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Man discovers fire
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@kylebeaudette said in My first post here.:
Just got a job illustrating a local magazine, kind of freaking out about it as I would consider myself very new at this. I'm practicing some editorial things now, it's going to be about the fall/winter season in my area.
Did you just search around for a job like that or do you send in your work to the magazine, "post cards" is the term I think the 3PP guys use?
One man's crap is another man's manure...or something like that
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@leothejediartist No, my wife knows the editor and they saw my instagram and contacted me. We are a small city, 47,000. Not a lot of artists, I guess.
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Welcome! I am Canadian too. Great work thanks for sharing, you are going to love it here!
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@kylebeaudette well that's pretty sweet. Congratulations
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We have a Fall art show around my area, I'm thinking of printing off some prints. Not sure how to do that or where to go for high quality printout on semi thick paper?
Might print these two and some other stuff.
