Our SVS Virtual Studio FEBRUARY 2022

[Griffin McPherson]

A Tron inspired piece I’ve been finishing up.

[Griffin McPherson]

@braydin-hawlette love the very subtle graininess/texture in this. Is it just the brushes you use or do you do overlays or something similar for textures?

[braden H]

@griffin Little of column A, little of column B

[Pamela Fraley]

@griffin I immediately thought of Tron when I saw that! Nice job!

[Pamela Fraley]

@chrisaakins my son wants a t-shirt of this. He thinks it’s hilarious. ️

[chrisaakins]

@pamela-fraley That's hilarious, too. I am trying to imagine how you could turn this into a vector and yeah I don't think that's possible. Way too much texture.

[Sminthy]

I teach tech lab (1:1 iPads at my school) and this week the students needed a break, so I gave them some free time to explore our district’s educational apps. Which meant I needed something to do myself. I started working on a series of frogs while I sat with them, and this one made my K-2 kids go “EWWWW” so I guess that’s… good?

Now I just need to figure out how to draw ground coverage. I tried a bunch of leaves since this is a Costa Rican poison dart frog, but it didn’t look right.

[Pamela Fraley]

@chrisaakins maybe a line art version? I don’t know. ‍️

[KevinTreaccar]

Right now, while also doing 12x12 this year (where you write 12 picture book manuscripts in 12 months), I’m trying to launch a weekly comic strip.

3 posted so far. Art complete on 5. Stories written for about 30.

Posting them on my Instagram, my Twitter and my website.

[kylebeaudette]

Needed a new profile pic for social medias that was done traditionally, and was more to the style I'm working in now.

[Jeremy Ross]

More studies…

[lizardillo]

I’m loving seeing what everyone is working on.

I have a very rough WIP I’m working on. I’m attempting a black and white DPS for a chapter book. I need to practise humans, composition, settings, emotions and black and white. I’m trying to combine all these into one.

The concept is a gang of pirates with a captain that keeps getting things wrong. I’ve added a bit of dummy text but I’m no copywriter! Can you even say ‘shucks’ in a kids book?

Looking forward to adding hair, clothes and an elaborate treasure chest and being freeeeeee from the challenge of colour. I would like to do a colour book cover to go with this but it’s needed for Wednesday and I’m going to just have to go for it just to get this done! Eeeeek

[Griffin McPherson]

@griffin Does anyone know why my images show up blurry when posted in a thread? If I click on it to expand it it’s fine but otherwise it’s blurry.

[carlianne]

@griffin maybe it's too large of a file? Try uploading a smaller resolution

[Griffin McPherson]

@carlianne I’ve tried smaller images (1200 px on longest side) and 72 dpi. I’ve also tried jpeg vs png but to no avail.

[braden H]

cover colour thumb!

[Pamela Fraley]

@kylebeaudette I love this!!

[Jeremy Ross]

Made a mock-up book cover from one of my Submissions from the Star Monthly contest.

It’s fun to see “what if” this existed outside the digital realm…

[kylebeaudette]

[demotlj]

I went to Lake Placid, NY (site of two winter Olympics) for some decidedly non-Olympic standard cross-country skiing. They offer dog sled rides on the frozen lake and I loved watching the joy and enthusiasm of the dogs pulling the sled. I did this piece when I got home.