Our SVS Virtual Studio OCTOBER 2🎃2🎃

[braden H]

@burvantill said in Our SVS Virtual Studio OCTOBER 22:

@Braden-Hallett i realized today that I don’t have to wait until Christmas for an easel to relieve my neck pain when drawing. I’ve had an easel in my art room for 30 years!!

Nice! Can't hurt, might help! Though your arm may get tired of the new drawing position for the first little while

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett said in Our SVS Virtual Studio OCTOBER 22:

Though your arm may get tired of the new drawing position for the first little while

Nope. All good. I use the big easel from time to time for large format loose sketching, which is why it’s so ridiculous that it didn’t occur to me to put the iPad on it. FACE PALM!

[ajillustrates]

Had to take a break from Inktober to sketch a zombie.

[djlambson]

I've been doing little snowmen scenes! Two different skies on the first. I had used a portion of a watercolor painting layered underneath of the darker toned one but it's not working I don't think. So changed it out ..I'm still using a layer of traditional medium for the sky portion, but I think it's more 'opened up' and I kind of prefer it.

and this one:

[burvantill]

These are my entries for the SCBWI Narrative Art Awards contest. I wasn’t going to enter this year because I am working on a personal project and I was very conflicted. When I saw some other artists entries it got me excited to do it anyway. Unfortunately a lot of time had passed and I only had a couple weeks left to get my entries in. I made the deadline but it was too close and not enjoyable worrying about not finishing in time while trying to make something good enough to compete with. I don’t recommend it.

[Gary Wilkinson]

Trying to do something a little different without losing too much of my style.

[Elliot]

@Gary-Wilkinson This looks awesome!

[Gary Wilkinson]

@Elliot thank you! There is more that I would like to explore with this style and would like to test it out on a mini book project

[deborah Haagenson]

My focus in addition to Inktober this month is Character Design. I am working on a killer clown character that I had hoped to use in the SVS contest this month, but time has gotten away from me, so I won't be participating in that this month. This character is also being done for an outside of SVS class I'm taking. My character will be in an orange jump suit. My ref for shoes is on the 1st sheet. I took a photo of my own hands, drowning a plaster bust of Ceasar. My character was going to be drowning someone bobbing for apples.

[ajillustrates]

I didn't work on these this month (actually finished this project in February), but these two t-shirt/poster designs/illustrations were FINALLY released today!

[ajillustrates]

Things have finally calmed down at work long enough for me to return to the animal friends series of posters that's been hanging around since last year. It's a huge relief to start getting these proofs out again.

[Heather Boyd]

Hi so I wanted to share one of the things that helped me create this months contest entry. The others were making thumbnails of my characters and colour studies.

I do have a question and didn't want to make my own thread for this; I want to share this process (will post image below) of how I went about working on a master study on Instagram. I emailed the illustrator to ask permission because I would be reposting one of her works and giving credit to her; just showing my "process" and am still awaiting a reply. I thought I'd wait a month and then if no reply post on Instagram anyways because she may be too busy to answer. I would prefer of course her to say one way or the other. Or of she doesn't message me back should I just avoid an issue and not post this because I did ask for her permission and don't want to go back on it. I don't normally post master studies of other artist's work on my Instagram. Is this something that's acceptable? I know we post them on here. Anyways let me know or pm me so I don't take up too much of this thread with a discussion. Thanks,

[Mairin Kareli]

[Mairin Kareli]

[erinrew]

October has had me lost in Inktober land and virtual school. I really haven’t had much time to work on anything else. Proud I stuck it out, but definitely feeling the burnout!

[jdubz]

Man, this month has flown by! I kinda took the last several weeks and I've just been trying a lot of different things and experimenting to help broaden my horizons. So this is kind of an image dump lol. Some of these flow into my style but I'm trying to do some total departures.

One thing I'm trying to work on putting together some consistent themes rather than just a bunch of random. I think November's going to be a planning month for me. I think for me November will be:

• I REALLY need to do is dedicate some time to environments. Maybe I'll do that until the end of the year.
• I gotta finish a book dummy. There's like 3 different ideas I have but I just need to pick one and go with it. I think I want to at least get the storyboard outlined and maybe one illustration done by the end of the year.
• Maybe I'll put together some themes and get some feedback from people on what seems the most fun and I'll explore that more in detail.

I'm feeling a bit lost on what to do because everything seems a bit chaotic right now, and since I don't have any themes I'm really working on as a project, I've just been churning out random stuff. I did a couple frog pieces, but I think I might end up redoing those. I liked the characters and the style, so maybe that would be the right one to start with?

[ajillustrates]

Just finished my Opposite Friends set with the bold/crazy pink and green color scheme.

[Elliot]

Not sure if I will finish in time, but this is my progress for the October prompt. The inktober critique was really timely and helpful! I am applying what I learned already (mostly in my hidden sketch layers though)

[Heather Boyd]

@Elliot I hope you finish -looking good.

[Heather Boyd]

@jdubz If you have difficulty choosing between 3 stories, maybe put a poll up in a new thread and see what people are compelled towards. My favorite of these are the rock troll (I had intended to a series about one too lols), the critters on the log and the last studies in charcoal. Keep to your style when you improve your environments and if something catches your eye just try one different thing at a time.