Featured Student for September

[StudioLooong]

Here are two of my newest pieces:

[ArtofAleksey]

I really liked doing the inking by hand with the top one, and loved the silliness of the bottom one.

[Sean_H]

Worth a shot! Wonderful work everyone.

[Amanda Bancroft]

I've loved seeing the work of past featured students, especially Shinji Fujioka and Judy Wilson.

I don't know if my work qualifies for this thread? I'm primarily a greeting card artist so storytelling isn't the main consideration in that industry - but - the reason I'm a subscriber to SVS is actually because my greeting card customers kept saying "Oh, you should be illustrating children's books, this card could be turned into a story!" and finally one of them hired me to do their book in 2016, so here I am learning and loving SVS!

I don't know how to remove the text from "Trick or Treat" because it's inked on paper (drawn by hand) but I got such helpful feedback from the forum community that I wanted to include it. Sorry, does the text also disqualify me? Thanks!

[hakepe]

Here are a couple of paintings for a childrens book.

[AustinShurtliff]

@StudioLooong these look great! I really love the fun frogs on the first image!

[AustinShurtliff]

@Aleksey I really like the fun details and characters on the second one too! Great work!

[AustinShurtliff]

@Sean_H thank you for sharing this piece! I really like all of the movement in your illustration.

[AustinShurtliff]

@Amanda-Bancroft thank you for sharing your illustrations! The text on the halloween piece is fine because they are part of the scene or object in the design and not text added over top (like on your second image or in a picture book). While greeting cards are not long-form stories, they still contain story elements so they still qualify for this opportunity. I hope that makes sense!

[Amanda Bancroft]

@AustinShurtliff Thank you! I'm so glad, because I want to create more greeting cards that are more illustrative as I try to "level up" with SVS. Thanks!