Our SVS Virtual Studio AUGUST 2021🌻

[chrisaakins]

Painting from real life to keep up my observation skills.

[braden H]

Hallo fallow hoo-mans!

[demotlj]

“Be careful not to leave your tractor in the weeds. The Lawn Ness Monster is always lurking.”

I complain that I don’t have enough time to paint but manage to find enough time to do this

[kylebeaudette]

[Jeremy Ross]

Hilarious @demotlj! There’s always time for fun!

[Alzamon]

Hey everyone, after spending a grueling 33.5 hours on this (according to the Procreate time counter) of which about 10 hours were spent on a false start (see WIP picture below) I'll rather call this done and move on.

Some background: These kids are Elias and Daniel, part of my original cast of characters I've been doodling on and off over the last 25 years. I have done some limited run comics with them but nothing too special yet, and here I wanted to go further into developing the universe they should live in. In this case here we see Daniel's room — as messy as any normal 9-year old kid's room should be. In fact it should be messier, but drawing and painting all that mess takes a lot of time. Just for comparison I'm attaching the initial coloring draft which after some good advice was changed to its final form.

Also: Is it normal to spend 20+ hours in a piece like this? I always wish I could work faster so I could have more things to show and post on social media. But speed isn't one of my virtues...

[Fey Realme]

@Tiffany-Thomas said in Our SVS Virtual Studio AUGUST 2021:

I do an underpainting first, usually with Burnt Sienna. Then I build layers of color on top and use White Gouache for the highlights. Here's a snapshot of the underpainting for one of the images.

@Tiffany-Thomas wow what a cool way to work! I'm not a watercolorist, but it think I will try out that method! it think it will work well with the way my brain works.

[Heather Boyd]

@Braden-Hallett Boy needs to hold on to more than that lols.

[Judy Elizabeth Wilson]

Drawing from life, and thinking about children's illustration at the same time.

[kylebeaudette]

Messenger mice bring a letter to a rat guard tower. Fanart for Larry MacDougall's'Gwelf', but with a little of my own style in there.

[braden H]

@Heather-Boyd said in Our SVS Virtual Studio AUGUST 2021:

@Braden-Hallett Boy needs to hold on to more than that lols.

This would involve slowing down. Or stopping. Ain't gonna happen!

[keithryanstudio]

Sketching for fun, and to learn in procreate. Characters are from a frame in a black and white Star Wars comic

[Tristan Lapetz]

@keithryanstudio Very cool!

[keithryanstudio]

@Tristan-Lapetz thank you!

[burvantill]

Okay, Colin August challenge. Days 15-19

[chrisaakins]

Working on some characters for a preschool curriculum. They are adventure cubs.

Not my usual style but I like it. In hindsight maybe if this had been my Alfred I might have gotten into the sweet 16. He’s kinda cute.

[Janette]

Been working on a character version of a client for her to use on her marketing. Its been a while since I did vector stuff in Illustrator.

[chrisaakins]

And here is the other cub.

[SheerArt]

Making stickers for my running group

[chrisaakins]

Teaching value on grey-toned paper to my drawing kids. Thought I would try with pen and ink myself. Used a pentel brush pen. Then I took it into procreate and add an ink wash and some fine white lines.