Our SVS virtual studio

[burvantill]

I picked up this bad boy for $5 this weekend at the thrift store. Woot! No more standing at the window to trace my art.

[Eli]

@burvantill So jealous!! Ha! I have always wished one would appear when I'm out thrifting, but no luck so far. Enjoy it!

[burvantill]

@eli I know! I’ve been trying for years to get an old one from a buddy who works at a school. It was a total lucky fluke.

[burvantill]

I'm starting a little late on this. This is going to be a two birds with one stone piece. The SVS Learn November contest, "Slow", and the SCBWI November contest, "Ritual". I'm at the value stage...obviously.
Since my art table is being monopolized by my book dummy project, I'm going to try and do this whole thing in Procreate .

[smceccarelli]

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[Adrian K]

Sometimes it’s good to let a picture breath a bit, then come to it with fresh eyes. Sometimes what is needed is quite obvious, other times not. Anyway, revisited Samwise and Shelob.

[kaitlinmakes]

@burvantill what a great deal and a great tool! Reminds me of highschool - tracing this way must be so much fun

[burvantill]

@kaitlinmakes it’s actually very hot. . After a couple of minutes I have to back up and cool off
This can’t be a permanent solution but it’s okay for now.

[kaitlinmakes]

@burvantill
Hahaha that's hilarious

[MissMushy]

Practising digital sketching and drawing some dogs using shapes. Finally found a brush that feels ok and seeing some improvement (I think ?)

[burvantill]

@missmushy Cute! Do you have a pressure sensitive stylus? If so, what do you think about it?

[MissMushy]

@burvantill yes, I am using Apple Pencil on IPad Pro. I love it. I had tried other options before but nothing felt natural to me.

[burvantill]

@missmushy I tried a couple out at the Apple store the other day and I had to push hard to get them to respond. It made for a very unstable line. Do you find that you have to push down harder? In hindsight I was wondering if it was because they were not laying on a firm surface. They were propped up with the flimsy covers.

[MissMushy]

@burvantill no don’t have to push hard at all. Not sure why that might be. Unless the settings in store pencil were weird for some reason.

[demotlj]

@burvantill I've been using an Apple pencil with my iPad Pro for over a year and find it very responsive. I did eventually get a screen protector that had some tooth to it in order to make it feel more like I'm drawing on paper instead of glass but that was only $10. I don't remember the brand now but there is a discussion about the best screen protectors emulating the feel of paper somewhere in the forum.

[smceccarelli]

I miss sharing stuff on the forum...but at the moment all projects I'm working on are under wraps and I don't have time for personal stuff...Anyhow, this is a section of a spread I'm working on that I particularly like - sometimes I think that working under harsh deadline brings out my best work in that it limits my over-rendering tendencies...

[burvantill]

@smceccarelli Wow. I love those book shelves. The simplicity, yet so full. Wonderful.

[MissMushy]

@smceccarelli love the texture on the chair. How is this done? With a textured brush or?

[smceccarelli]

@missmushy No, it's just a normal digital pencil held by a patient hand
I like to work in digital as I would work traditionally - only with super-powers. I find too many shortcuts make the art look "plastic".

[MissMushy]

Spent the last few days messing around with Procreate’s brushes and blending modes/liquify thingy. Tossed away trying to draw first and just plonked down random abstract strokes and saw what things started to emerge out of the mess. Here are a few of those weird things: