Our SVS Virtual Studio MARCH 🍀 2020 🐭😬

[Amanda Bancroft]

It's great to see so many mice in March! haha which reminds me I have not yet done mice for the new art "key" notebook I started last month. This month I've been working on filling it in. Since I work traditionally, this key helps me remember which medium and which color and the process I used to create results, so when I take artwork to finish, I don't have to remember, I just look things up in the key notebook. Does anyone else do this?

[demotlj]

@Heather-Boyd My sympathies on the scanning issues. I've tried so many things to get the colors/white balance on my watercolors right and have found that photographing it (even with just my iPhone) works better than scanning it. I usually photograph it several times during the day with natural light coming through the window because the color cast will be different at different times of day, and I have even waited for the sun to be overcast to get a better photo. (I live in a gloomy area so the wait is never long!) Even then, I have to adjust it, but it generally starts from a better place than a scan does. Hotpress paper also photographs better than coldpress because the texture of the cold press can cast shadows but painting on coldpress is easier so that's a balancing act too. All in all, it's the worst part of painting traditionally

[Heather Boyd]

@demotlj

Because I work in the basement and the area has no natural light the actual image come out bright in the scan. So I will concede and just continue to adjust for now. But on another upsetting issue my posting on Instagram is cutting the head or at least trimming this guy’s nose off. I believe it’s in part due to me painting really close to the edge. I tried to adjust by cropping in and did increase more of his nose but, I don’t like my images after all the work with frames cutting my critters head off. Any suggestions? Thanks,

[Jeremy Ross]

Proud to be part of this community!

Did this for my daughter.

[demotlj]

@Heather-Boyd Have you tried the setting on Instagram that you can click before posting that will shrink your picture a little to let it fit in Instagram's square frame? It looks sort of like a crop icon on the left hand part of the menu choices.

If that doesn't work, I use an app called "Square" that adds white space around my picture so that it will fit into Instagram.

[Gillian Howden]

Skywhale Sighting
I originally came up with the scuba diver for another piece, but his design was too busy and didn’t work well. Still, I really liked him overall and built this Illustration to give him a place in my portfolio.

[Heather Boyd]

@demotlj oh fantastic thank you, I tried crop for the first fox but it cropped it off none the less. I’ll try that app. Thank you thank you,

[Coreyartus]

Finished up the swamp image a couple days ago, based on the thumbnail I shared on the 2nd. Thought I'd complete the circle.

[burvantill]

@Heather-Boyd I use Snapseed to expand the borders of my photo when I have a wonky sized image. It’s free and I loooove it.

Like this.
Of course I now realize that you probably can’t see the difference since background it white. LOL
I do this only for IG because i think it reduces the image size.

[APHOTICMOTH]

A lot of things, but thinking about finishing these two sketches this month.

[baileyvidler]

@Gillian-Howden I love this! Very surreal.

[braden H]

Been a very VERY long time since I've done any fanart, so I'm usin' the opportunity to explore the liquid ink brushes in Corel Painter.

[Neha Rawat]

@CLCanadyArts These are sooo coool!! I love the kitty kats

[Gillian Howden]

@baileymvidler Thank you!!

[xin li]

@chrisaakins sorry. It seems this is the month everyone paints mice. Here is mine.

[chrisaakins]

@xin-li Hahaha! No worries. I love your mice. I just like to give @Braden-Hallett a hard time. He is so good at this, that he needs self-appointed trouble makers like me to keep him humble.

[braden H]

@chrisaakins said in Our SVS Virtual Studio MARCH 2020 :

@xin-li Hahaha! No worries. I love your mice. I just like to give @Braden-Hallett a hard time. He is so good at this, that he needs self-appointed trouble makers like me to keep him humble.

I am SUPER tempted to draw nothing but mice for the rest of the month

[braden H]

Hvin' fun figuring out old webcomic settings. Officer quarters aboard the MDV Grimalkin. Bein' the captain's kid has its perks Rest of the crew gets the racks.

[Coley]

@Braden-Hallett @chrisaakins @xin-li we should start a mice in march hashtag on Instagram what a cute hashtag that would be to see!

[EliaMurrayArt]

@Braden-Hallett @chrisaakins @xin-li @Coley - I support this and want to participate.