Our SVS Virtual Studio MARCH 🍀 2020 🐭😬

[Jon Anderson]

I’m still working on flash cards for my kids.

[NicolaSchofield]

@demotlj @Coley @Aaron_T definitely more interesting than a regular life drawing class! Though I keep meaning to find one of those somewhere nearby too.

[Heather Boyd]

The first of my four foxes.

I am still struggling with making enough of one colour and extending it without it drying up. I am however really loving adding pencil work. So for future style/work I know now to have white paper visible, and pencil (description, shading and mark making and also work solely pencil which I plan to do for the upcoming March contest). Thanks,

Note I'm also working out scanning - because my colours aren't as strong as they should be.

[FloR]

@Rachel-Horne Cool! Your work reminds me a little bot of the spontaneous work of Beatriz Alemagna! Keep up the good work!

[braden H]

Keepin' on them colour stoodies

Mice are always awesome

[Rachel Horne]

@FloR thanks so much. I’m going to be doing this one again, hopefully better this time since I’ve noticed a few flaws with the composition.

[chrisaakins]

@Braden-Hallett seriously, dude??? Um @Coley and I claim mice. @ArtofAleksey has his gnomes, @burvantill has balloons. And you have have space kids and cow kids and murderous genius dog lovers. Back off!!!

[TessaW]

March. The month of mice.

@Coley - Beautiful pet portrait! It's gorgeous.

[Judy Elizabeth Wilson]

Working on finishing my cute fairy colouring book. Hopefully this month.

[Heather Boyd]

@chrisaakins basically @Braden-Hallett it's like this:

The two of them searched and clawed at the ground, sweat streamed down their faces and their palms were both clammy and dirty. At last they came upon the mighty gold mouse with jewels in her eyes, gleaming in the sun light. They co-claimed the gold mouse, decided to build a sand wall and moat around her with a flag claiming ownership. The heat was beating down on them so they decided to take a dip in the ocean. Out of no where (really out of the sky, you came in on a alien ship) seeing the glittering shine all the way from outer space came down and landed near by. Once out you raced over, sand flying, water splashed into your face, you picked up the flag and waved it in the air. You signalled to your friends in the water and shouted "GUYS LOOK, LOOK WHAT I FOUND just LAYING AROUND OVER HERE".

Sorry I couldn't resist. No hard feelings. much love

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett @chrisaakins @Coley @TessaW
I thought Tessa was onto something so I edited the thread title.

[Coley]

@chrisaakins kins too funny! Yes @Braden-Hallett can keep his murderous children and we're keeping the mice Ha ha. Only because I know he'll do them best and that's no fair lol!!!!

[Coley]

Thanks @TessaW I'm really happy with my last couple pet portraits. I'm really surprised how my focus on illustration is improving my oil painting! I think I was missing fundamentals before and now that I'm working on that it's helping me paint and solve painting problems more easily. Whew.

@burvantill that's cute

[braden H]

@chrisaakins MOUSE WAAAAAAAAR!

I get to keep the mice that are the size of ponies, how about that

@Heather-Boyd lol

@Coley They're not ALL murderous

[Neha Rawat]

A returning client of mine was planning to write and self publish a children’s book and commissioned me to illustrate it. The pay isn’t much but I still took it up as a good practice project. I definitely spent way too much time on it but I don’t regret it. I finally finished it earlier this month and submitted it.

This Is the last spread of the book from the rough sketch, to line art to final.

[Neha Rawat]

I’m also trying to get work with other Indian children’s book publishers. But most of them look for very typical Indian settings which I realised I don’t have many example of. So this month I’m planning to create some more art with that in mind. This is a rough example of it. It’s very common to see kids play badminton in whatever open space they can find without proper nets etc. I’m not sure if I’ll submit this to any publisher but I was just trying to get my mind working on common sights.

[Neha Rawat]

I do have a potential offer for illustrating a B&W chapter book. They’ve asked for the main character sketches before signing the contract (is that common with other publishers as well?)

I mailed them this based on their brief character descriptions and am awaiting a reply from them. Fingers crossed!

[burvantill]

@Neha-Rawat Gorgeous

[braden H]

Direct light study that also involves a whole bunch of other hard to paint things, lol

[Heather Boyd]

The second of four foxes (same fox slightly altered with a background addition):
Scanning results the same so I adjust it digitally with light, contrast and colour to have it look like the original. Also need to adjust getting it's head in the Instagram post frame not chopped off, poor little headless fox lols. Thanks,