Lydia's stuff

Lydia M

Messing around with my cintiq. This was inspired by an artist names Hayley Mitchell. One of her paintings is there in the corner. I made her into some kind of empress of color.

Pixby

@gimmehummus Ha. I actually live in Ottawa, IL. Surprising to find someone so close on here.

Stephanie Hider

I like yours better hers is nice but very graphic/flat yours has much more dimenstion ot it.

Lydia M

Thanks. I love Hayley's paintings because of all the color.

@Pixby Yay Illinois!

Rich Green

@Pixby - Joliet, IL here! So neat to find that there are a few of us from this general area! Along with @gimmehummus and myself, @Chip-Valecek is also from the area!

Lydia M

@Pixby @Rich-Green @Chip-Valecek Illinois folks - do you participate in any local illustration groups? I know SCWBI has a chapter in IL but I don't have the funds right now to be a member

Rich Green

@gimmehummus - Actually the local SCBWI Illustrators network meetings are open to the public. I am a member but I just confirmed this with the two ladies who run this chapter and they asked me to please extend an invitation for you to join in future meetings.

You can find some details on the following page: http://illinois.scbwi.org/illinois-networks/

The Chicago-Area Illustrators Network has meetings on one Saturday a month up at the Des Plaines public library.

I started going to them just about two years ago and I really LOVE it. I have met some really great people and learned all kinds of things. Each month they cover a different topic, or have a guest speaker etc. And there is time available at the end of each meeting to allow for critiques of projects/portfolios whatever anyone attending wants to share.

They have not yet posted the dates for Jan/Feb/March but they will get added to the site I sent the link too. I believe the one in January is going to be on the 16th (they usually run from 9:30-Noon) but I can send you an update/confirmation on that as soon as they send the details out to the group.

Rich

Lydia M

@Rich-Green Awesome! Glad I asked about it. Thank you!

Kendra Minadeo

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Kendra Minadeo

This is lovely

@gimmehummus said:

Big fluffy purple clouds over Shorewood, IL as I got on Rt 80 this afternoon.

Rich Green

@gimmehummus - they just sent out the following info for the upcoming meetings of the SCBWI Chicago Area Illustrators Network!

Jan 23, 9:30-Noon: Tricks and Techniques. Have you found an art supply or digital trick that you can’t live without? Come share it with your illustrator friends and expand our collective wisdom. Whether it’s a pen, paper, paint, or Photoshop filter, curious minds want to know! Mini-demos would be much appreciated. For digital artists, we’ll have a Mac loaded with Photoshop and Illustrator & projector available.

Feb 20, noon - 2:30pm (note time change): Art Director, Jordan Kost, Jordan Kost, art director at Albert Whitman will be on board to discuss the process of publishing children’s books. Come for what’s sure to be an enlightening look into how books are made at Albert Whitman, and what an illustrator brings to the table.

March 26 - TBA

Pixby

@gimmehummus You know, I hadn't even considered it, or knew something like that existed. Pretty cool idea, though. I'll have to think more about it.

Pixby

@Rich-Green Yes, so surprising. I just recently happened upon SVS after searching for videos on YouTube regarding illustration, started watching Will Terry's stuff, came here, and was amazed to see somewhere near the Illini Valley referenced in maybe the third post I read. I grew up in Marseilles, but have lived lots of different places in IL. Charleston, Champaign, Chicago, DeKalb, Aurora. Haha. I've never lived in Joliet, but close

Pixby

@gimmehummus This empress is actually really cute. I love the colors. She is opulent, yet tribal all the same. The style is very appealing. If I were you, I wouldn't hesitate to develop it more with future illustrations.

Lydia M

Thank you @Pixby. I really love pastels so I think I'll keep working with it.

Lydia M

Merry Christmas!

Lydia M

I'd like to do a little drawing every day. Piper Thibodeau does a daily paint on twitter so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Dulcie

That is really cute! Love the texture in it too...

Lydia M

The job search has me feeling like...

Pixby

Hang in there. Become good enough at something, and someone will pay you to do it. Simple equation, but oh so true.