Our SVS Virtual Studio MAY 2019

Amber Lynn Benton

@Heather-Boyd J.P.Miller was an illustrator for Golden Books. I’m assuming he worked primarily in gouache of varying transparencies.

Amber Lynn Benton

Here’s a thumbnail for a piece I’m considering completing inspired by my master copy. The trees in the background will be blueberries. I’m feeling that the composition is likely too close to the original for comfort in my portfolio, though. Thoughts?

bnewman

@hannahmccaffery Nice work! I like your characters.

bnewman

@Braden-Hallett ha, nice one! I love all the little details in this.

bnewman

Working on my MerMay submission. The prompt is stretch, the mermaid is doing the mermaid pose which is an actual yoga pose. Thought that was a nice detail. I'm thinking of doing the bottom left version, you can see my sort of value study on the right. I also like sketch 1 in row 2. What do mermaids use as a yoga mat? A manta ray of course.

Whitney Simms

Going to turn this into a seemless repeat. I don’t know if I’ll do an entire collection to enter for mermay. But the scales were in my head and I just needed to get them out. I would like to do it in a few colors too. I would also love to do a pattern with my girls and two of my nieces as mermaids. Kinda like a toile. The ones with scenes. Doubt I’ll have time, but I may try and sneak it in!

mag

I'm working on a layout for one of my own picture book, trying to participate in mermay (but I've actually never ever draw a mermaid before, so it's freaking me out!), and working on sketches for a book with cute short rhymes for children - I'm very excited about this one, it looks I might get a few nice portfolio pieces out of this.

burvantill

@mag these little characters are so adorable. ️

Whitney Simms

@mag yep, I agree with @burvantill ! I love these little characters too. Can’t wait to see more of them. You have tapped into some serious cuteness!

evilrobot

Another painting I did over a sketch

Heather Boyd

Combining watercolour and pencil crayons. I really like, I think it’s dreamy. Need to work on the colour a bit more but it is in a dark patch.

JennyJones

@mag these are very sweet. I love your take on a mermaid. Submit to the contest. You have a good idea going.

Amber Lynn Benton

@Heather-Boyd nice experiments!! Are you also a Skillshare member by chance? If so there is a class that I would recommend.

Heather Boyd

@Amber-Lynn-Benton

Not as of yet but do suggest it none the less.

Amber Lynn Benton

@Heather-Boyd I'm a Skillshare addict!! I think you would enjoy the classes by Nina Rycroft. In particular she has a class called Illustration Masterclass in which you use one small vignette and di several versions each with a different media or stylization. It's a great class!!

burvantill

I’m working on some homework for Visual Storytelling Techniques. This is assignment 5, creative cropping. Illustrating a scene from the little red riding hood story. I found a version called Little Red Cap - Brothers Grimm, that has an alternate ending where a second wolf gets on the roof hoping to surprise attack Red on her way out, but Gma and Red fool the wolf into jumping into the large water trough thereby drowning. That’s what I’m illustrating here. These are my thumbnails and values.

mag

@JennyJones Thank you! I'm playing around with this character a little bit, try to find some story for her... But I definitely hope to post some picture with her for the contest. But since I've never drawn mermaids in my life, I'm super nervous, the more I sketch and draw this one, I see how complex creatures mermaids can be.

mag

@burvantill Good job on exploring all those ideas! I like last row the best.

@mag That fox is just the CUTEST! I want him haha! Your book sounds so exciting, i hope you'll post some sketches or WIP for it as I'd love to see!

burvantill

Chugging away on my mermay.
This is going to be a two fish with one line kind of thing since I am also using it for the SCBWI monthly contest, Alone.
WIP