Our SVS Virtual Studio OCTOBER 2🎃2🎃

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.

Elliot

@Heather-Boyd Thanks! I’m making good progress

Coreyartus

Made a fun little Mummy phone wallpaper this AM and sent it out to my friends/family on FB and Twitter. Happy Halloween!

jdubz

@Heather-Boyd Good advice thanks! And appreciate the feedback on which one you liked. I'll try and do that in Nov!

jdubz

Happy Halloween everyone! Did this guy this morning in Procreate. Hope everyone stays safe!

donnamakesart

@Jade-Vaughan this... is a complex scene haha. Take your time! Keep us posted

donnamakesart

@Heather-Boyd super cute! I’ve also wanted to explore stylizations of things. Like the colorful patterns ~~~

donnamakesart

Finishing up my inktober booklet project. I’m quite happy how they turned out

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Also trying to put together a portfolio for children’s book. Here’s my spreads for an anthology contribution:

You could follow @pandekmink2020ph on instagram to see more works from the other artists. We’re pretty stoked with what we’ve been able to come up with haha.

burvantill

@Heather-Boyd I think it’s generally ok as long as you state your purpose and credit the original artist. You’re not making a profit from it and you would be helping others by sharing your process so I say go for it. Just my opinion

donnamakesart

@burvantill I share the same opinion. Unless the artists have explicitly stated they don't allow repost, sharing their works should be ok as long as you credit the work to the artist and it is for personal use only