AUGUST CONTEST: Dragonfly

[Cody Markelz]

For those still looking for some inspiration...BioBus youtube presentation on Dragonflies by two Dragonfly researchers Thursday 8/20 1 PM EST. https://www.biobus.org/townhall/

[K.Flagg]

Here is my entry for this month! Great entries so far, I can’t wait to see all the awesome WIP’s get posted.

[aprilshin]

@Jordi-Ventura Aahhh I love how you executed the dragonfly! And your character is adorable! Absolutely loving the textures as well. Well done!

[mamadraw]

Already so many great takes on this! It was kinda inevitable I would be going down the meganeura (giant prehistoric dragonfly type insect) route on this one - I have two young kids who are in that real intense prehistory/dinosaur phase! So I ended up thinking Jurassic Park for insects, mashed up with a vintage travel poster for said destination...and here we are. If you look closely you’ll see that the near future for our tourists looks similarly...uh...exciting...to the original...!

I don’t know why the quality appears so bad on the preview of the image in this post, I guess maybe it is just too big and condensed down, but if you click on it you can see it at a higher quality!

Laura Rowan @mamadraw

[Mandy Forte]

I am trying a early chapter book genre for this month.

[StudioLooong]

Here is my entry!

[alicia]

Zoe had never seen a fire breathing dragonfly before.
Updated- The coloring was bothering me so I touched it up.

[Lisa Pickard]

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[Lisa Pickard]

*Updated post. I wasn't happy with the main character's wings so I did a bit of adjusting.
Here's my entry for Dragonfly. A shameful overuse of textures but it's my first illustration practising Procreate on an iPad 4 - so please go easy on me!

[chrisaakins]

@StudioLooong this looks so good. Your lighting looks wonderful. Makes for a nice silhouette.

[StudioLooong]

@chrisaakins thanks

[cynthia bowman]

Wearing a mask during this pandemic also keeps dragonflies from sewing your mouth shut when telling lies!

[cynthia bowman]

@cynthia-bowman

[Carmanda]

Originally had a whole different thing going for this and got about 3/4 of the way through when at some mysterious point the top three layers merged (a problem for my overpaint-and-clean-it-later approach). I took it as a sign to pivot to the new concept my brain tossed out mid-shading on the old piece and ended up here.

[chrisaakins]

@cynthia-bowman great concept! Looks good too.

[fpichel]

Just curious as to why nearly every illustration seems developed for children or a children's market? Is SVS specifically aimed at illustration for children? Did I miss that? Thanks!

[blackcrane]

Dragonfly Island
@blackcrane

[Cayleen]

Dragonfly's Revenge!

[jdubz]

Here's my entry... thanks for everyone for the feedback! I struggled a bit on how exactly to crop it. This seemed to feel the best to me personally of the 2-3 different crops on the original.

[Chris Perry 0]

Instagram@Chrisperry.draws, www.chrisperrydraw.com.

This illustration depicts Clara Driscoll, the designer behind the Tiffany Lamp, sketching in Central Park. LC Tiffany was a decorative artist in the 1900's Art Nouveau style. Mucha, another artist of that era, inspired my color choices. The sketches in the foreground are based on drawings she made to create the famous Dragonfly Tiffany Lamp.