June 2024 Submissions - How To Fix Your Art

[AustinShurtliff]

Please upload your submissions for the June How To Fix Your Art Livestream here by June 1st. Post only finished pieces here (create your own WIP thread if you would like feedback). Please include your first and last name in the file name before uploading your illustration. Anyone can submit work!

Before beginning, please read the whole prompt by visiting SVSLearn.com/fixyourart or the How To Fix Your Art course shell.

Only submit if you are OK with our judges potentially critiquing and altering your work during a public livestream on YouTube, which will be recorded and added to our website.

We do not own the rights to your work, you do! But we reserve the right to publish your work on our online platform SVSLearn.com, and its associated email list and social media.

[Jason Crowley]

Here's my submission for June's HTFYA:

[MarcRobinson]

@Jason-Crowley nailed it mate.

[kayleenartlover]

@Jason-Crowley Do you have any tips to share for learning hand-lettering typography?

[Jason Crowley]

@kayleenartlover I haven't really done hand lettering here except for the 'Godzilla' text but a good place to start would be asking the question: is hand lettering needed to solve the problem? Can an existing font get across the feeling you want?

If you have Creative Cloud then you have access to loads of fonts. I used fonts for 'Robzilla' and 'Words & pictures by.' I traced over 'Robzilla' to give it a more hand-crafted feel. So a simple approach would be: trace over fonts by hand to give them a bit of a wobbly feel.

Another approach would be take a font that's close to what you want, then adjust it, or copy it by hand and tweak it. This will give you quicker results than starting from scratch.

If I was to do more bespoke hand lettering I'd study and analyze artists that tend to do a lot of that in their work, Melissa Castrillon is a great example of this.

Hope that helps. Hopefully SVS do a course on that soon!

[kayleenartlover]

@Jason-Crowley Thanks! And yes, I've been eagerly waiting for the class since Lee brought it up on a livestream months ago

[kayleenartlover]

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[scotthigginsart]

My June HTFYA submission, I can't wait to see every ones!

[Julia Hegetusch]

@Tom-Shannon love this

[Zachary Schrage]

Submission for June HTFYA:

[Jason Crowley]

@Zachary-Schrage Amazing! Catnip for Jake

[kayleenartlover]

@Zachary-Schrage oooooooh I love this type of ink art style, like old illustrations like Wizard of Oz

[J. Morgan Looney]

@Zachary-Schrage this reminds me of Chris Van Allsberg. Love it.

[evka8D]

I am sending my picture. This was quite different from stuff I usually would do but it was fun.

[Sara_C]

@Zachary-Schrage Wow! Absolutely sensational!

[Sara_C]

@evka8D So cute, I love your little Godzilla's expression!

[Yiming Wu]

@Zachary-Schrage This is some awesome hatching you got there! Very Bernie Wrightson esque

[tiffatsea]

I originally had a sketch that was “Chicken Soup for the Kaiju Soul,” full of uplifting stories of Godzilla having killed all his enemies, but I reread the prompt that said this was a children’s book (which is why I’m here in the first place, haha).

I’m not sure how to render very well. I am really impressed with everyone on this forum. I feel like I’m staring at what I made for days and not really being that satisfied but not knowing how to fix it. I’m looking forward to the critique if this makes it!

[Zachary Schrage]

@Jason-Crowley haha thankyou!