Our SVS Virtual Studio APRIL 2021🐰

[Cayleen]

Still posting simple garden art (slowly working towards a "draw 50 things" piece) while I work on a MG novel. These garden pics keep me studying and learning, but they're pretty simple pictures, so I have a lot of space to work on my writing while still posting to social media. I try to study the 'thing' for a few pictures, like bees or strawberries, and then turn them into a character for fun. Here is a sample:

[emergingeden]

Doing last months prompt right now

To everyone who asked, I’m doing pretty well considering but I probably have to stay in the hospital a few more weeks. Just to land back on my feet. Thank you for your consideration

Lots of time to draw though! I think I forgot to have fun a little before

About the character: meant to be a preteen, doing a menial job at the railway, she has limited resources so she chose to travel in a job! I thought that was a nice little twist. She’s quite jolly and chirpy, maybe even a little bit on the naive side. And of course her hair never does what she wants haha

[K.Flagg]

I finally finished this beast. It's pretty big and I didn't realize how much of a challenge it was going to be to paint fire with gouache, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

[SheerArt]

[SheerArt]

Electric whip

[Tiffany Thomas]

@K-Flagg it looks amazing!!!! I love all the unicorns in the wave, I totally didn't notice them at first! Really beautifully done.

[SheerArt]

Got to draw a picture for my drinking club
On-on!

[K.Flagg]

@Tiffany-Thomas Thank you!

[demotlj]

I got sidetracked playing with Nomad Sculpt on my iPad. I did this model of a bear cub in a tree which isn’t fabulous but it enables me to turn it around to see it at different angles which I can’t do in my head. I did two quick paintings from them to see how it would work for reference.

[zkkowalska]

@demotlj That looks great! What do you think about Nomad Sculpt? I’ve never tried sculpting before, is it quite intuitive?

[Jeremiahbrown]

@SheerArt Hehe, she's so likeable

[demotlj]

@zkkowalska I had never done digital sculpting so the language took a while to get my head around but Nomad is fun because you can at least create some simple sculpts of heads and things without having to understand too much. There are also more and more tutorials being made which helps when you want to start doing more. Basically, for the price, it's amazing what it can do.

[zkkowalska]

@demotlj thanks! I’m gonna try

[amlilui]

I am starting to figure out my coloring process for the first book I'm illustrating this year. It's got a lot of "real" places depicted, but it's a fictional story, so I'm wrestling with the combination of reality and cartoonish fun

[Diana Shevchenko]

@burvantill said in Our SVS Virtual Studio APRIL 2021:

HELLO!!!
Spring is in the air, snow is melting, flowers are blooming, the south east is flooding and the south west is gearing up for another dry summer. What are we going to do about it? What we do best, DRAW!!!

What’s everyone working on right now?

Imagine you are walking through a studio silently looking over people’s shoulders at their work. This is NOT a place for critiques. You may applaud, encourage, ooh and ah only.

[Georgios Christopoulos]

Working on a lot of covers lately for buiding some portfolio variety.
What do you think??
Is it passable?

[Heather Boyd]

@burvantill that's a good challenge and I would love to participate in. I have had to postpone my svs classes due to being unwell since mid-feb. I know your challenge will produce some great work.

[Heather Boyd]

@Georgios-Christopoulos These characters look like they were fun to make!

[burvantill]

@Heather-Boyd Welcome welcome!! I'm excited to see what you come up with.

[Heather Boyd]

@burvantill I am so sorry, I did mean to say I couldn't do it but would love too. So now I feel bad but I did do a character design early February that is in a comic style that I love. I profusely apologies because I cannot join as I'd like to but I will share this little girl to smooth the misunderstanding over.

The orange colouring is a lot more yellow but I can't seem to edit the colour properly in my Corel Essentials program.