Our SVS Virtual Studio 2019!

burvantill

My entry in the SCBWI Draw This monthly contest. Prompt is Muddy. How much trouble do you think they are in?

JerrySketchyArt

@burvantill Love it! Good luck.

Buddy Skelton

Had a chance to traditionally paint my cats a few nights ago. I think it turned out better than I was expecting.

braden H

@burvantill I've gotta get my rear in gear and do an entry for that prompt...

I love all the muddy smeared paw prints

braden H

Newest comic page! Mayb next chapter I'll try flat cel shading.

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burvantill

@SketchyArtish @Braden-Hallett , thanx guys!

LauraA

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Just trying to produce more finished work so I can evaluate it and have it evaluated online. This is a waiter I saw in a (coffee) bar in a tiny mountain hamlet near Aosta, Italy. He looked fierce and eccentric and I thought he might make a good character. I am always torn, though, between whether to exaggerate for comic effect or whether to keep things relatively realistic.

I didn't have much time to be on the forums while I was taking the Backgrounds course, but now I'll try to start posting and commenting again ️.

cuquetafera

I'm working on some illustrations for a doula who is doing some parenting workshops.

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burvantill

@Braden-Hallett I am so impressed by your work volume. You seem to produce more than one great thing a day. I’m curious, do you have a day job or school? I’m trying to decide if I’m just a slacker or not in comparison .

braden H

@burvantill Thanks I don't have a day job right now. I spent a few years saving up some runway so for the past year and the next year I'm just gonna be drawing (apart from small, random freelance work)

So no, you're not a slacker I just draw all day.

burvantill

@Braden-Hallett Bravo! I’m so jealous .

JerrySketchyArt

@Braden-Hallett You're going to get grilled now, because I decided last night to ask you some questions too.

I noticed that you said those are for warm up. Your characters look pretty well worked out. Do you set a time limit, or do you just go until you're happy?
Are those prompts from a random generator, or are you following some sort of public challenge?

The most recent 3 Point Perspective podcast made me think about focusing better on things that are relevant to my goals (which is art for my games). Character creation is a huge part of that, so what you are doing with those prompts seems right up my alley. Think I'm going to do a sub-par version of this to get the creative juices flowing each morning. Thanks for the inspiration!

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Sas

@Braden-Hallett Such luxury! (Don't take notice of this little jealous monkey.) This is so cool to hear that you just took a break from everything to go with your passion! You're my hero of the day.

burvantill

@LauraA I think this is wonderful!

RJWoodworth

@Braden-Hallett Your color choice is always amazing! You have a very personal and unique style. This happens whenever I leave my nephews to play alone. By the time I get back some one is in a head lock, haha!

RJWoodworth

This month I have been studying how to draw the head. A few of these are studies from life, others are studies from Andrew Loomis' book "Drawing the Head and Hands"

Sketches of the character "Dr. Void"

Head Studies

braden H

@SketchyArtish yay! Grilling!

1.) I have a set amount of time (2 hours) in the morning that I use for practice linework, a random character (or colour/texture study, I kinda waffle between the two) and work on a comic page. So I DO have a time limit, but it's kind of a loose limit, if you get what I mean?

2.)The prompts are from a random genny. Art prompts. I don't they update their site much anymore, though, which is too bad All kinda of neat prompts though for characters, monsters, environments, etc.

Glad I could help Targeted art practice is HARD. Another neat place to get character concepts it the character drawing subreddit. Lots of neat dnd characters n stuff.

braden H

@Sas @RJWoodworth Thanks!

JerrySketchyArt

@Braden-Hallett Thanks for the info. Art prompts is where I got the idea for today. That site and Something to Draw are great for randomness. Went to Reddit and I'm already subbed to that one. I need to login to my art account more often!

There is just soooo much to learn with art. It really is tough not to chase squirrels and stay focused.

LauraA

@Braden-Hallett I'm impressed with your volume even knowing that you "just draw all day." As a person with a perfection paralysis/volume problem, I'm totally inspired to follow in your footsteps! This week's podcast also helped.