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

Erichousel · 30 Nov 2022, 23:26

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 · 1 Dec 2022, 00:11

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 · 1 Dec 2022, 00:15

@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 · 1 Dec 2022, 00:20

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

AngelinaKizz · 1 Dec 2022, 00:35

I got one more in.

Katherine · 1 Dec 2022, 00:49

@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 · 3 Dec 2022, 23:43

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 · 1 Dec 2022, 01:27

@Katherine thanks I’ll keep an eye out!

Jeremy Ross · 1 Dec 2022, 01:58

Thank you for the recommendation @Katherine!

Kim Rosenlof · 1 Dec 2022, 04:34

@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 · 1 Dec 2022, 05:56

@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 · 1 Dec 2022, 06:12

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 · 1 Dec 2022, 06:13

@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 · 2 Dec 2022, 22:11

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 · 1 Dec 2022, 07:08

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!

Chantal Goetheer · 1 Dec 2022, 07:52

@Sarah-VanDam this turned out really great!

Sarah VanDam · 1 Dec 2022, 08:24

@Chantal-Goetheer Thank you!!!

marek.halko · 1 Dec 2022, 09:40

Hi, here is my picture for this month.

Bibi Senthi · 1 Dec 2022, 10:27

Hi everyone, I just recently joined SVS after binging on 3point perspective podcasts and the SVS YouTube channel. Got through the whole lot in just over a week!

It's my first critique arena, and I'm now fully regretting my choice of character, as it is so miniscule! I had to take some liberties with scale after my brain exploded trying to get the scale right! And obviously I didn't account for the strip at the bottom till the end, so the shadow gets cut off at a weird place... But I got something in!

Lorna H · 1 Dec 2022, 10:33

@marek-halko - you are truly a genius! Such a simple and perfect concept for a prompt that made my brains scrambled! Well done! Love it