Coming in here like a soggy lamb.

Hey! Here is Skullchaser that I have drawn by doing the upside down drawing exercise that is early on in the how to draw everything course. I had a lot of fun doing this and toned it following the light and shadow for illustrators course. Any and all feedback is welcome :). Also what image dimensions are good for uploading onto the forum?

Hi everyone! I'm starting to put together a shop to sell prints and such, and am trying to find some good examples to look at! Anyone got a shop I could look at? Anyone have any advice, like the most important thing you did that you think got the ball rolling for you? Thank you so much! Excited to see your shop!

Have you ever tried selling art commissions, and had disappointing results? It's not because your art sucks, friend! Selling commissions, like anything else, actually requires some marketing tactics. It's actually quite simple to fix up your offering to start seeing improvements in your sales right away. On my YouTube channel this week, I'm telling you all my secrets for offering commissions that sell out like hot cakes, and I hope it might help some of you! Head here to check out my art commission secrets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVHn8POrO1o&list=PLcDSaDyKmuWltxtrzdSI5EbZHMuXx8dZK

WIP for the Yeti Barbie. I'm taking the title maybe more literally than intended I thought that an intrepid, but unlucky explorer might have succumbed to the elements and our clever Yeti managed to work out how to use the flare gun to heat the back of a stop sign to provide instant reflected heat for his meaty snack.! I'll hopefully find time to complete the colouring over the next few days. Good luck all.

Hi all, Random question but I'm finding my screen flickers whilst im drawing in Photoshop, when I'm drawing not when its static, Doesn't matter if Im zoomed in or out and its really starting to get on my nerves! Ive tried googling the answer and nothing (well only the big black and white screen flicker, which isn't what im experiencing) anyone else come across this and resolved it. Its a year old Mac with Wacom cintiq 16 running 2020 photoshop.... thanks for your help!

Re: FEBRUARY CONTEST: YETI COOKING

Hi there! I just wanted to share that I'll be doing a radio show for the next several weeks! Every Wednesday from 9-10 MST me and a buddy will be taking over an art show called Art Matters on our local radio. It's no "3 Point Perspective" but it'll be nice background noise while you draw. I would love it if people from SVS tuned in. You can listed every Wed from 9-10 (staring tomorrow) at http://www.radiorethink.com/listen/KHEN/ Also we're looking for topics and questions so feel free to send some my way! Hope you enjoy! @Lee-White @Jake-Parker @Will-Terry

Hi everyone, I don’t think there’s a general chat around here but I wanted to share a thing I’ve been doing for the past couple of months. It’s called Art Smackdown, it’s a Twitch.tv art game show that happens every Monday night at 10pm EST. The premise is that you have 20 minutes to complete a “commission” by a guest judge every week. It’s silly and fun and skills range all over the place. I have no affiliation with the show, it’s just something I’ve enjoyed doing and think other artists will too. It being only 20 minutes really puts you into the “finished not perfect” mindset. I’ve taken some of the skills of the 20-minute-make-or-break piece and brought it into my concepting. It’s really helped me stop second guessing myself and just keep designing. You’d be surprised what you can come up with when you get a silly prompt and just go for it! There are no real prizes. Every week there is an audience champion who has the option of coming on screen as the next weeks challenger. I’d love to see some of you there. My username is: crowebot Twitch.tv/artsmackdown

Hello everybody! I just finished the Prop Design class. I went with a set of objects meant for a character that is an alchemist and somewhat of a hermit. Their furniture is stuff they could make themselves, living in the woods. The lamp is a cross between a bonsai tree and a mushroom growing out of stone. The alchemist chiseled the stone out of the ground and polished the underneath side to resemble a pot, and left the top as the natural rock surface. Some mixture of elements stimulates the plant to emit bioluminescent light. Reading material is a book of alchemical recipes. At first, I thought I had aimed way too high for my current skill level. The organic forms of the plant were really difficult and I found myself considering dropping it for something more rigid and easily defined. But I stuck with it and I ended up really liking what I came up with. I really tried to focus on the perspective of the objects for this image. I wanted to test my ability to place objects at different angles and appear to believably rest on the same plane. I am curious if anyone has suggestions on making an image with mostly dull, non-reflective textures pop a little more. It seems to me that adding highlights really seems to give some life to images, but my chosen subject matter didn't really call for it. I am including my detail sketch of the lamp because it is easily the coolest sketch I've ever done and I just want to share. It has a lot more detail than the version in the final image. Any feedback is much appreciated. I have thick skin, so don't hold back. If anyone is interested, I can post the silhouettes/thumbnails as well.

Hello everyone! One place I'm struggling in the realm of contest submissions is in the most frustratingly practical sense. I don't know how to get my image to be 500kb or less without shrinking the image to be tiny or lowering the quality of the image so much that it doesn't look good anymore. Is there a program that people like to use for this that is Mac friendly? I am sure this will come in handy in the future for lots of things. Thank you so much for your time Alice

Hi team of SVS! @Will-Terry @Jake-Parker I tried to find a class for how to design an organic environment. The course "Creative Environment Design" helped a bit, but I had to go to YouTube to find what I was looking for. As it looks like you guys are working on this topic right now for the curriculum, here is a question: Could you try to acquire Phil Dimitriadis for teaching about creating organic environments? On his YouTube channel, I've already found very good videos on drawing organics. Now, for creating a hilly forest environment I watched this: Drawing Organic Environments. Very good stuff! But I had to dig it out. There's a lot of construction going on on straight plains and with cubic or round objects, but it's so hard to find a guide to organicly shaped environment. How's the new courses going? When can we expect them to be out? Thank you!