November Contest: This was the end of the road for Kamari...

[Cayleen]

[A Former User]

[lisachow]

Finally found time to watch October's Critique Arena and am SO pleasantly surprised to find myself as an honorable mention. After a hectic November, here's my entry.

[kirsten-mcg]

This was a tough one for sure, but it ended up being one of my favorite pieces I've done to date. Thanks so much to everyone who helped me with all the concept and design and color decisions I had to make! It's way better than it would have been without you.

[Anna Lindsay]

[Erichousel]

Hi all! Final submission for the year! Here's my take on our "Kamari" prompt. I've only done a few contests, and its been fun. Seeing so much great art is bonus for sure. THIS prompt is no different! Hope to see you all in the ARENA. I look forward to improving my art, and storytelling in 2023... where it will be a new beginning.

[Katherine]

Here's my take on the Kamari prompt — I went through more concepts and roughs than I ever have on any other illustration for this prompt! It was doing my head in!

[Katherine]

@Jeremy-Ross Such a poignant theme for a child, Jeremy. There's a beautiful book on the subject of moving house you might enjoy — "Claire’s Goodbye", by Libby Gleeson.

[Katherine]

@MarcRobinson My mind is blown how quickly you made this illustration, Marc! You're a machine!

[AngelinaKizz]

I got one more in.

[Katherine]

@Asyas_illos Last year we were told to email our submission to them directly and not use the website but it might be different this year. But check your email — they should've sent you instructions when they invited you to submit to the All Stars comp.

[Jean Watson]

First ever Critique Arena submission plus new to digital illustration. Excited to see my style evolve in 2023 and looking forward to the next prompt!

[Asyas_illos]

@Katherine thanks I’ll keep an eye out!

[Jeremy Ross]

Thank you for the recommendation @Katherine!

[Kim Rosenlof]

@Asyas_illos I did receive an email at the end of October asking me if I was participating in All-Stars, but I haven't received any instructions beyond asking to respond if I was joining. It did say that we would have about five weeks to work on it, and it was sent on October 31st. I did submit an entry on the SVS Learn site tonight, and then also emailed support@svslearn.com with that entry and another one just in case it is due tonight.
I just double checked my email from last year, and we did submit them to @AustinShurtliff and not on the site. It was due Dec. 7th, so I messed up this year and should have not submitted mine on the website . Hopefully they will send instructions soon, but I understand that they are probably really busy, especially with two contests to run this next month.

[Asyas_illos]

@Kim-Rosenlof ok I did hear that we had another month to work on it when I responded to that email, so I wasn’t planning on submitting tonight, maybe I should just to be safe?

[mzameckaart]

I started drawing this after reading about the name 'Kamari', that it's an Arabic girl's name that means 'moon'. This inspired me to draw a girl who is the moon (moon godess?), travelling through the night sky until her journey is over with the sun rising. But for the world it is a new beginning - a beginning of a new day.
I wanted to draw this, even though while working on it I thought I won't submit it - it's again too much out there, too vague.
In the end I submitted it though, last minute

[Kim Rosenlof]

@Asyas_illos If they told you had longer, then I wouldn't worry about submitting tonight. I just had planned on submitting tonight because I hadn't heard one way or the other, and I didn't want it lingering over me into December (busy month). Tonight, when I looked at the email from last year's All-Stars, I realized that we had a bit more time last year than I remembered. If I am wrong, then you can reference this post to say that I told you wrong . I am sure that they will send out an email giving us more info.

[Sarah VanDam]

Just made it on this one! I did a full page spread (which I like better), but decided to crop it for the actual entry.

Thank you to those who gave me feedback! I know I didn’t apply all of it, but I was cutting it a little to close to really bounce other ideas off people.

[carrieannebrown]

Didn't have time to finish this off but wanted to submit something so here we are. I was made redundant on Monday from my in-house illustration job (that revolved around dogs) with no warning so I've had a horrible, depressing few days and couldn't look at another dog straight away, haha. Good luck everyone!

Here's to my future in freelance!