Our SVS Virtual Studio February❤️2020

StudioLooong · 12 Feb 2020, 14:41

@Braden-Hallett the background in this is great, those looming chairs have so much personality!

braden H · 12 Feb 2020, 14:55

@StudioLooong All parents need living room thrones

braden H · 12 Feb 2020, 15:36

Finding examples of soft light to paint is challenging for some reason.

braden H · 12 Feb 2020, 23:44

I know I'm posting a lot, but I really really like this one First half of a full spread for a book dummy.

burvantill · 13 Feb 2020, 01:38

@Braden-Hallett Post away! We love your work.

braden H · 13 Feb 2020, 15:37

Rim light study

ArtofJoseGalue · 13 Feb 2020, 20:35

I ended up convincing my client to let me do an illustration for a "kids cooking" event. Worth saying that my client is a country club and it is hard to mix my style with their membership.

braden H · 13 Feb 2020, 20:41

Chase, or no chase?

mikorad · 13 Feb 2020, 23:51

@Braden-Hallett Such a fun composition, so much story to be inferred! THISis goalz for me.

deborah Haagenson · 13 Feb 2020, 23:56

@Braden-Hallett Great line work! You are so good. I love to look at what you create.

burvantill · 14 Feb 2020, 00:22

@Braden-Hallett Oh most definitely CHASE. LOL

jwing · 14 Feb 2020, 01:20

Painted some chocolates for St. Valentine's Day! :^)

braden H · 14 Feb 2020, 15:08

Most reference for rays of light I can find are in forested very leafy areas. I've found something I need to work on, lol.

braden H · 14 Feb 2020, 15:48

Gonna enter the SCBWI 'draw this' contest. The prompt is 'secret admirer'. They seem to often go for kinda cliche images (though I'm sure they have their own criteria) so I'm goin' with a classic pairing.

burvantill · 14 Feb 2020, 16:08

@Braden-Hallett I’m doing that one too. I’m trying to combine Nightfall AND Secret admirer. Lol. Two birds with one stone kinda thing. Good luck!

StudioLooong · 14 Feb 2020, 16:29

@burvantill I was thumb-nailing ideas for doing that yesterday too. Not sure if I'll finish anything since Draw This is due on the 20th... I'm also debating whether it would be better for me to stop doing all these prompts and start concentrating on a book dummy. I'm feeling a little discouraged with the whole art contest thing. It never seems to work out for me.

Heather Boyd · 14 Feb 2020, 20:26

@Braden-Hallett your line-less studies are cool.

Yesterday night I burned out a lot, but started this morning with cleaning up and moved to sketching character studies -below. I like the volume created in the skirt in Salu B. C by Kevin Roulland was a favourite to draw -she’s got an exaggerated expression and gesture (brings out her spunk, edge and sass) along with those beautiful angles. And D by Ciara Nina -I left out her face and put in my own eyes and mouth, D makes me so happy to look at.

I’m working on watercolour soon and I will be putting in some elements that I like that I have been hesitating to try.

Thanks guys,

braden H · 14 Feb 2020, 21:50

@Heather-Boyd said in Our SVS Virtual Studio February️2020:

your line-less studies are cool.

They are helping SO much

braden H · 14 Feb 2020, 21:56

Now with more mousey reaction and sense of scale. Also, what the heck was the mouse hiding behind before? Now a flaring table foot.

burvantill · 14 Feb 2020, 22:15

@StudioLooong don’t get discouraged. Back in October for the Penny challenge I didn’t make the top 16 and I was really really REALLY bummed because I thought I did a good job, so I took two months off, and then I came back and did the January prompt and I am a winner!
Use the emotion your feeling to come back harder!