Our SVS Virtual Studio November 🍁 2019

[burvantill]

Hello Illustrators! The fast paced, inky, October is over, time to put some color back in our Instagram feeds.

What is everyone working on this month?

Imagine you are walking through a studio silently looking over people’s shoulders at their work. This is NOT a place for critiques. You may applaud, encourage, ooh and ah only.

[braden H]

Continuing the momentum from inktober. My new project is ranchland megafauna

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett Lol. Awesome! Please make a ginormous cow. Like huuuuuge. Lol. If you want

[braden H]

@burvantill But cows are already giant

[Inge Permentier]

how about a giant ant or ladybug?

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett I believe I said HUUUUGE. I’m thinking out of frame, part of the mountain landscape maybe too big to see. Or not. [gauntlet thrown]

[Heather Boyd]

@burvantill A planet shaped like a cow, or wait a universe shaped like a cow!

[LauraA]

@Braden-Hallett That's hilarious! And the bird in the ear is a nice touch.

[LauraA]

This drawing is, ironically considering it's Slowvember, an attempt to produce something quickly. It only took a few days' work off and on, which for me is unusually fast. It's based on a friend's son who likes to come home from preschool and dress up as Rapunzel. He's definitely a boy, but who doesn't like the idea of going around with swishy blonde hair now and then?

[Elena Marengoni]

I am working on a little personal challenge, drawing different emotions related to childhood (and practicing drawing kids in different poses too!). I'll make it my goal to post regularly on Instagram (every few days) and I will try to reach 10-15 at least!

In parallel, I will take advantage of 'Slowvember' to start working on a portfolio piece!

[Heather Boyd]

@Elena-Marengoni if you’d like because your drawing kids and poses you can post under our People and Character Studies November work thread @burvantill and me.

[Elena Marengoni]

@Heather-Boyd Sounds good, I will do that! I have seen your thread..definitely super interesting for me as well.

[Inge Permentier]

@Heather-Boyd and the milky way is a route you can take as an expressway throught the cow-shaped universe

[Heather Boyd]

@Inge-Permentier

[burvantill]

@Inge-Permentier @Heather-Boyd

[Coreyartus]

I am in the thick of costuming Next to Normal, our second undergrad show of the semester at USD, and simultaneously developing the design of the MFA program show The Visit by Durrenmatt, which will go up in March of 2020. We're making it contemporary instead of mid-1950s when it was originally written.

I am trying to get all my renderings done by Thanksgiving, and it's slow goin'... I've broken down and used a croquis to save time (one I found long ago on DeviantArt--thank-you OdduckOasis--and use it with my costume design students), and I have 78 costume changes to work through...

It's a cast of 14 portraying 37 named characters and additional "townspeople", most of which go through some form of costume shift as the play progresses... It's the definition of a "crap tonne" of work, and this is just the rudimentary discussion phase--there are potentially many adjustements to come as the director responds, and in the end I actually have to realize and mount it... So there will be weeks of pulling from costume stock, purchasing, fitting, returns, and alterations to complete. And of course a sea of quick rigging and costume changes to coordinate with student dressers... My budget is $1500, to include dry cleaning... Hehe...

I'm just trying to get the renderings done right now. One. Step. At. A. Time. I have 4 actors sorta "done". 10 more to go...

[braden H]

I don't know why but I imagine that huge mice would love corn.

[braden H]

[SFischer]

I colored a sketch of some salt water taffy as a pirate. Not my best work but I really like how weird it is!

[Heather Boyd]

@SFischer you got a nice taffy texture and the wrapping is spot on, knew what it was right away.