Our SVS Virtual Studio 🎄DECEMBER 2020🎄

[MissMushy]

Continuing to practice pet portrait pieces. This one in watercolour. Background is a bit of a mess tho but that's life
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[Cayleen]

I'm chipping away at illustrating a story my friend wrote (which involves princesses with big hair styles). This has been fantastic practice for me. I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing, but I just keep going ahead with everything I can do.

[Cayleen]

I've also been having some fun with felting tiny creations in walnut shells:

[krish iyer]

@Heather-Boyd thanks so much!
this helps a lot!
I've been a listener of the svs podcast for over a year now and I've been hearing so many great things about this forum so I'm really happy to finally have bit the bullet and joined in. Looking forward to more interactions here!

[txels]

My challenge this December is to finish my 4-page comic project, that's been dragging for a while. It's a "comic-clip", a song put into comic. I chose "Sultans of Swing" from the Dire Straits, one of my favourite bands from my youth.

Here are the two finished pages (photos from my mobile, not good quality). The technique is sepia color pencil (Caran D'Ache Prismalo).

Page 1 (hmm this is not the fully finished product, I have since completed the tree):

Page 3:

This is WiP pencil for page 2:

And these are thumbnails for page 4. On the left one version of the full page, on the right a rework of the bottom part of the page that I like much better.

[txels]

@jdubz fire underwater... what an intriguing concept

[Nyrryl Cadiz]

@Annabishop beautiful

[Nyrryl Cadiz]

@Gary-Wilkinson adorable

[burvantill]

@krish-iyer welcome!

[burvantill]

@Cayleen oh my gosh those are adorable.

[Cayleen]

@burvantill Lol, thank you!

[txels]

@Jeremiahbrown this yeti's face is amazing, it has a lot of personality. Why aim for cute?

[krish iyer]

@burvantill thank you :)))

[krish iyer]

Also I wanted to share some work of my own too
I've been experimenting getting textures and finishes using shadows and highlights
On this particular one, I experimented trying to make different colors look fitting as either skin or some sort of bionic finish on this cyborg character.

I gotta say, I'm pretty happy with how this experiment turned out although there's loads of room for improvement!

Are there any other ways I can experiment with getting texture on skin and making colored skin tones?
let me know!

[Melissa Eckstrom]

I made this Christmas card for my friend that owns camels:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIq7UTXpgbx/

[kylebeaudette]

I made this thing this week 

[ambiirae]

Continuing with landscape work for now but still very much enjoying it

[Coreyartus]

Having a bit too much fun with the Smoke brush in Procreate... hehe...

[Jeremiahbrown]

@txels Thank you, that's very encouraging! I might stick with it and forgo the "cute" route.

[jdubz]

@txels It always came back to Spongebob.... they ignored literally every rule of being underwater, so I figured why not lol