SVS Virtual Studio JUNE 2022🌞

HeatherB

@mcschweitzer thank you! It’s not a ‘real’ one but a clients self published still is a job! They are pushing on my deadline though so I am behind on my Animal Alphabet. I have sketches for it though, I absolutely am going to finish that series

kylebeaudette

Excuse me

Melissa_Bailey

@HeatherB a self-published book is still a "real" book. It will be published and you'll be considered a published illustrator. Yes, it won't be published traditionally by the big 4, but it's still real.

Jeremy Ross

Very cool @Kristen-Lango

PenAndrew

@Melissa_Bailey @HeatherB Yes, and I was unable to find that piece of news heather and just wanted to agree with Melissa and saying well done.
Every step forward is to be celebrated, accept your success and don't put yourself down. As long as you have done your best it is something.
When you look back in the history of illustration and comics there was a lot of amazing work but there was also a lot of poor work and some in between. If you look at some of the early marvel comics some of the drawings were quite bad to our current standards!

This is like the philosophical question-What is art! What is a published book? And really it just comes down to, What is valued? and what is valued is work of a high standard, first and foremost and crafts men and women that dedicate their life to honing their craft.

Here is a vector art piece based on the June Inkscape Challenge, for which the prompt was "ice cream".

It's Shan Shan and her friends (my children's book characters) enjoying some dessert at the beach. The dessert they're ogling at is the delicious Southeast Asian shaved ice dessert, cendol, topped with a scoop of coconut ice cream (of course!)

Cendol (also spelt chendol) is a dessert made out of shaved ice topped with the eponymous green pandan-flavoured jelly, sweet red beans, gula melaka (coconut palm sugar, which is a rich brown color) and coconut milk. It's delicious enough on its own but ice-cream is always a plus

Painting is definitely still more intuitive for me than vector art but this was a fun challenge!

PenAndrew

@JQ I really like this style.

Kristen Lango

@Jeremy-Ross Thank you!

burvantill

@Valerie-Light I agree, digital plein air is great. I especially like it because landscapes are my kryptonite and digital allows me to focus on the picture and not worry about mixing paint. These are nice. I like the sunlight on the head stones, and the dappled light on the path. Well done.

Solomon Designs

@ajillustrates I really love this. Excellent job!