Our SVS Virtual Studio FEBRUARY 2022

[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.

[aurelia]

After watching Marco Bucci's digital painting Demo, I allow myself to have some fun with painting. Just remember to be child like in doing art.

[Kim Rosenlof]

@aurelia This looks really good!

[aurelia]

@kim-rosenlof Thank you! I was trying the oil painting brush in PS, it was great fun!

[demotlj]

Another sketch from my trip to Lake Placid for cross-country skiing (or in this case, walking.) I keep hoping that one day these sketches will turn into great backgrounds for an illustration but so far the SVS prompts haven't lined up. I need a prompt like, "Riley decided caution was the better part of valor."

[Lisa Clark]

So happy I finally finished a full page illustration. It's been a while.

[kayleenartlover]

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Tried posting this the other day, didn't work for some reason. Here's a character I finished this week. A frog as a science teacher. I have a not-so-fond memory of dissecting frogs in middle school.

[kayleenartlover]

@demotlj I am such a sucker for ink drawings. It's been a bit since I did a drawing in pen. I have my very first ink brush pens on the way from amazon though! Mwahaha!

[kayleenartlover]

@kayleenartlover I cannot believe it took me 3 days to realize that I drew the hand (holding the scissors) backwards. Whyyyyy?!