Our SVS Virtual Studio MARCH 🍀 2020 🐭😬
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I've been working on my taxes. Yikes! Like most farms, my farm usually just gets along but I was a sub-contractor with my goats on a huge, federally funded, project last year. A gift from God. It came out of nowhere but luck favors the prepared. So this is the first time I've had to write those huge checks to the government, just as Lee describes in the life of a free-lance illustrator. Don't spend the windfall until you've paid the tab.
So now, I'm free to work on my illustrations. My first project is illustrations of my horse, Lucy, to give away as thank you gifts to people who donate to the cost of training Lucy to be a therapy horse. I'll post some pix when I have them. Cheers!
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Working on an entire series of water safety collateral for work. If I can swing it, I’m going to do the whole campaign in illustrations, so it should be fun. Concepting some kids before jumping into Adobe illustrator.
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@neschof How fun!
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@Coley beautiful! I love to do pet portraits. Haven't done one is years.
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@chrisaakins yes they’re usually Fun but sometimes stressful. The last couple went well. Us mouse drawing people are in general animal drawing people I guess
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I’m still working on flash cards for my kids.
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The first of my four foxes.
I am still struggling with making enough of one colour and extending it without it drying up. I am however really loving adding pencil work. So for future style/work I know now to have white paper visible, and pencil (description, shading and mark making and also work solely pencil which I plan to do for the upcoming March contest). Thanks,Note I'm also working out scanning - because my colours aren't as strong as they should be.
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@Rachel-Horne Cool! Your work reminds me a little bot of the spontaneous work of Beatriz Alemagna! Keep up the good work!
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Keepin' on them colour stoodies
Mice are always awesome
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@FloR thanks so much. I’m going to be doing this one again, hopefully better this time since I’ve noticed a few flaws with the composition.
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@Braden-Hallett seriously, dude??? Um @Coley and I claim mice. @ArtofAleksey has his gnomes, @burvantill has balloons. And you have have space kids and cow kids and murderous genius dog lovers. Back off!!!
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March. The month of mice.
@Coley - Beautiful pet portrait! It's gorgeous.
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Working on finishing my cute fairy colouring book. Hopefully this month.
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@chrisaakins basically @Braden-Hallett it's like this:
The two of them searched and clawed at the ground, sweat streamed down their faces and their palms were both clammy and dirty. At last they came upon the mighty gold mouse with jewels in her eyes, gleaming in the sun light. They co-claimed the gold mouse, decided to build a sand wall and moat around her with a flag claiming ownership. The heat was beating down on them so they decided to take a dip in the ocean. Out of no where (really out of the sky, you came in on a alien ship) seeing the glittering shine all the way from outer space came down and landed near by. Once out you raced over, sand flying, water splashed into your face, you picked up the flag and waved it in the air. You signalled to your friends in the water and shouted "GUYS LOOK, LOOK WHAT I FOUND just LAYING AROUND OVER HERE".
Sorry I couldn't resist. No hard feelings.
much love 
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@Braden-Hallett @chrisaakins @Coley @TessaW
I thought Tessa was onto something so I edited the thread title.
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@chrisaakins kins too funny! Yes @Braden-Hallett can keep his murderous children and we're keeping the mice Ha ha. Only because I know he'll do them best and that's no fair lol!!!!
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Thanks @TessaW I'm really happy with my last couple pet portraits. I'm really surprised how my focus on illustration is improving my oil painting! I think I was missing fundamentals before and now that I'm working on that it's helping me paint and solve painting problems more easily. Whew.
@burvantill that's cute
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@chrisaakins MOUSE WAAAAAAAAR!
I get to keep the mice that are the size of ponies, how about that
@Heather-Boyd lol
@Coley They're not ALL murderous
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A returning client of mine was planning to write and self publish a children’s book and commissioned me to illustrate it. The pay isn’t much but I still took it up as a good practice project. I definitely spent way too much time on it but I don’t regret it. I finally finished it earlier this month and submitted it.
This Is the last spread of the book from the rough sketch, to line art to final.
