Our SVS Virtual Studio AUGUST🌻2019

[Coley]

@Braden-Hallett this is awesome

[Erin.Cortese]

@Braden-Hallett This is SO good! Your work was really good when I joined SVS last November, but over the past couple of months it seems like your style and skills have really evolved. Inspiring work!

[braden H]

@BichonBistro @demotlj @coley thanks! :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

@Erin-Cortese Thanks! Everyone always forgets (or doesn't realize it at the time) but skill acquisition and learning isn't always linear. I think a few switches flicked or puzzle pieces clicked

[Erin.Cortese]

@Braden-Hallett I needed to hear that, thank you. I fell into that trap, or rather expectation of linear progress. It’s incredibly unhelpful because it makes me feel like I am digressing instead of learning. Each time I focus on a new skill, it seems like my other skills (which are still developing) get worse. Waiting for that ‘click’ when my skills begin to play nicely with one another

[Judy Elizabeth Wilson]

Another of Santa's helpers collecting magic for next Christmas! Today I had a difficult challenge with the colours, the jungle was green now it's pink!

[MissMushy]

Reworked piece for assignment on another site. Really pushed myself to draw characters multiple times. Character has become younger since my first iteration and am trying a looser style. Also, love playing with symmetry tool in Procreate so been creating these silly bugs (?) before bed to relax.

[braden H]

Trin'' to put the inking course to work I think this is the first time I've done an honest to god spread, too.

[Heather Boyd]

@Braden-Hallett

And its an environment design -everything is coming together.

[xin li]

I fiddled a bit with watercolor, gouach, color pencil and a box of kid crayon. I often think of the illustrations I produce digitally are somehow mimicing traditonal watercolor and color pencil. So I decide to play a bit more with these tools traditionally for a change. Anyone has tips working with mixed media, especially watercolor and colored pencil combination?

[braden H]

@Heather-Boyd Very true

I did do a lot of silhouettes to figure it out :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

[Coley]

@Braden-Hallett love!

[Coley]

so in keeping with limiting oneself to one thing at a time in terms of focusing on to make progress, I am ....
practicing inking
working two different photoshop pieces
watching a photoshop tutorial repeatedly that I downloaded
drawing hundreds of sketches of head and feet and hands and beans etc etc
trying to complete two oil painting pet portrait commissions
and I just started writing my own ideas for a kid's book

lol!!!!!!
I need to take a little break, eyes are getting tired...........have kids to look after too so breaks are built in lol
I am trying to finish another photoshop piece which will be my fifth (fourth is the dream bedroom wip which keeps getting put aside!) . I am really playing around with this, edges are rough and not sure on colors at all etc, everything may change but it's a learning piece anyhow! trying to figure out brushes, gradients. color adjustment tools and various layers such as screens etc etc............always learning a teensy bit each day so I'm going with that 1% better each day goal!

[braden H]

I was depressed that it was taking a while, and then remembered that it's basically two pages in one :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

[chrisaakins]

@Braden-Hallett I would so buy and read this book to my granddaughter. You must finish it! Maybe it could be one of those progressively insane "...said the...". We used to play this game with my son. "What does the dog say?" "woof!" "What does the camel say?" "Ppbthbbfth!!!" (With lots of spitting) throw in a camel and I will buy two copies in advance!

[Heather Boyd]

@xin-li

I like a solid watercolour colour and shade it in with pencil crayon, must get back to the traditional soon.

[braden H]

@chrisaakins I'm plannin' on tossing together a book dummy at some point :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

[Erin.Cortese]

@Braden-Hallett I was thinking my 7 year old would love this if it were a graphic novel. Sadly he judges very strongly on illustrations and will not even give a book a chance if he doesn’t like the look of it. This would pass his test for sure!

[braden H]

@Erin-Cortese That's good to hear

[braden H]

Callin' it done.

Now I just need to do this 60-70 more times.

[demotlj]

Here’s the actual cow I was doing before @Braden-Hallett blew me away with his cow and chicken on a spaceship. The composition isn’t great because I was doing it just to practice some line and wash but it’s a cow, or actually it’s a bull....and a calf, a woodchuck, a baby woodchuck instead of a chicken, and he is drinking coffee not eating cheese, and they are on a farm not on a spaceship, and there are no banjos in sight, but other than that it’s just like Braden’s painting