SVS Virtual Studio JUNE 2022🌞

ArtMelC

Every monday I committed the first hour or more till lunch time to "Creative Hour": make something that isn't an existing project. Sometimes it happens on my journal. This time it's on iPad.

I wrote a newsletter article about it on substack which I try to publish weekly. The gist of this week's article is that your stars can't align if they don't exist in the first place. Here's the illo I made to go with it

Jeremy Ross

Another study!

Did I mention I love Art of books?

Heather Boyd

@Jeremy-Ross I do too. But there expensive so I just have Up and Brave!

Jeremy Ross

Totally agree @Heather-Boyd!

In the spirit of transparency, I don’t have all these Art Of books, I just look at the covers online, lol.

I do own a few though.

chrisaakins

@Melissa_Bailey Penelope was hilarious. I wonder if he used a brush pen and scanned the drawings in. It looks pretty digital to me.

Melissa_Bailey

@chrisaakins I think the textures were created traditionally and then colored digitally. If you look closely at the illustrations, you'll see that some textures are used again and again but are colored differently.

Here are the remaining character designs for my children's book series. Manuscript and book dummy for the first book will be going to the publisher soon, fingers crossed!

Process sketches:
https://tanjunqi.art/portfolio/2022-09-06-ms-water-monitor-character-design
https://tanjunqi.art/portfolio/2022-09-06-big-brother-myna-character-design
https://tanjunqi.art/portfolio/2022-06-15-little-sister-kitty-character-design

ArtMelC

@JQ Wow you're fast! Looking good. Is this for the LKY bilingualism call for proposal in August?
I've only started designing my main character. Need to pick up my speed!

Coreyartus

I'm working on a series of alphabetized postcards in a series I'm calling "Journey of the Imagination". They're for a class on Skillshare, but they've been my personal project for a while now as I've slowly cranked them out over the last couple of months. I still have half the alphabet to go. I"m having a lot of fun! Here's the latest four.

Larue

@kylebeaudette said in SVS Virtual Studio JUNE 2022:

Gosh I love your stuff, so funny and relaxed. My work is so tight...arg!

kirsten-mcg

@Mary-Toth Your designs are so much fun! I use watercolor and colored pencils too, but I always use the colored pencils on top of the watercolor. I'm going to give your technique a try sometime! I love the look you achieved with it. And your gouache art is gorgeous too. Love the colors.

chrisaakins

One more wing to go. This is so slow going.

patricialamas

Working on a gag gift for my brother, who facetiously tells people he follows the Cleveland Browns to get them to quit asking if he watched the Seahawks game.

@Melissa-Candrasaputra Yup! Are you applying for it too? All the best for it, hope you'll be able to share some of that work on the forums too

Asyas_illos

@patricialamas nice lettering!

patricialamas

@Asyas_illos Thanks!

kylebeaudette

PenAndrew

@kylebeaudette Did you draw this with dip pen and ink?

Kristen Lango

@kylebeaudette I love his personality

Asyas_illos

Sketching a concept for my regional masthead entry