SVS Virtual Studio JUNE 2022🌞

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

kylebeaudette

@PenAndrew microns and watercolour

Russ Van Dine

@patricialamas you really have some skills!

PenAndrew

@kylebeaudette Oh I love microns but they are a recent discovery, i have the Micron PN and the Pigma brush pen and one 0.5, that's good to know. I like these pens a lot.

Mary Toth

@kirsten-mcg Thank you!! I find that starting with some pencil shading helps me keep more dramatic values. I hope you have fun with it! I'd love to see what you create

Mary Toth

@PenAndrew Thank you I used to use mainly colored pencils with harder leads but I have been loving the softer prismacolor leads as of late. They leave a nice texture on cold and softpress watercolor papers. I especially love using their pinks to add some rosy cheeks as a final touch to characters. I hope you have fun with experimenting!

Mary Toth

@HollyOakley omg yes! I love doing that. I haven't used that technique lately for some reason but it's amazing how smooth the blending is. I used to use that technique alot for realistic colored pencil drawings on hotpress paper (which I haven't done in a while mainly bc they end up taking soo long - very relaxing process tho)

Mary Toth

@demotlj By textured paper I mean watercolor paper that has some tooth. There's a few different types of watercolor paper. The ones I mainly use are hotpress (smooth/no texture), cold press (rough-ish texture), and softpress (sort of rough but not as much as cold press). Cold and hotpress papers are more common and you can probably find them in most craft stores. I buy Fabriano softpress paper online. I find it's my favorite because it allows for easy watercolor blending like coldpress but also fine colored pencil details like hotpress (since I usually prefer to paint small the coldpress paper texture can make it hard to draw fine lines in colored pencil). Anyways I'd recommend testing them out. I think I got a watercolor paper sample pack off Jerrry's artarama a couple years ago and that's how I first discovered softpress - otherwise I would have never known it existed since I've never seen it sold in an art store before.

You mention you use ink - have you ever tried inktense pencils? I rarely use them (mainly because I forget I have some) but they are veryy fun to use. They'd probably be right up your ally since you use watercolor, ink, and pencil.

Mary Toth

@patricialamas This sort of painting blows my mind. It's soo perfectt. Great job!