Another tough one this month. This time its coming from @Jake-Parker

Design a book cover for the Wizard of Oz:

You have been contacted by an art director and they are wanting YOU to design a new cover of an edition of The Wizard of OZ that they will be publishing.

You must make it eye catching and representative of the story. You have creative freedom in style, character design, scenery, and moment.

The cover must be 5.4 inches wide x 8 inches tall with a .25 inch bleed.

Included is a template that you can use to create on. Feel free to use the title design on the template. Or you can come up with your own title design if you want.

That's it, good luck! Excited to see where you all take this!

Jake

Here are some more details:

The contest is open to anyone. But the winners and runners up will only be selected from active SVS members.

Post only finished pieces here. Post WIP projects in their own thread.

Put your real name and forum name on the image somewhere (can be on a border if you like).

Click the link to download the template. If you have any issues trying to download this template you can email me at cvalecek@gmail.com and I will send you the template.

OZCoverSVSTemplate.PSD

All I can say is WOW!! 97 entries this month. The most ever for a contest. Here is the link to enjoy them all http://cshellmedia.com/clients/svs/

@Lee-White are you going to do a crit on all 97 LOL you better get a lot of water cause you are going to lose your voice for sure.

A lot of great pieces. It really shows that taken it slow will produce some great work!

http://cshellmedia.com/clients/svs/

After I cleaned up a few of the images that were duplicates the final total I had was 108 submissions. That is pretty impressive. So many great pieces. Here is the slide show for you all to enjoy:

http://cshellmedia.com/clients/svs/

November's prompt is: Together.

This one is from @Lee-White .

This time we are doing something a little different. We are gonna do TWO critique arenas, our traditional one and an all star one. Same prompt for both.

All the same rules and procedures apply for the traditional one, EXCEPT that all the previous winners of 2020 will not take part. Instead, the previous winners will be invited to the all star contest, and will battle for cash prizes.

For those competing in the traditional critique arena, that means better chances at getting a critique and winning a seat, as our previous winners will not be part of the competition.

For those competing in the all star critique arena, that means a chance at winning cash money! The top 3 win cash, $100 for 3rd, $200 for 2nd and $300 for 1st.The contest is open to anyone. But the winners and runners up will only be selected from active SVS members.

Post only finished pieces here. Post WIP projects in their own thread.

Put your real name and forum name on the image somewhere (can be on a border if you like). If you are an all star please also email your image to cvalecek@gmail.com so I can create the slide show for just the All Stars.

Ever since I started working digital, I never really used the tools to try and mimic traditional media. Well this weekend I said I am going to learn. So using the 100 somethings challenge, I will do 100 paintings of horror icons. Here are my first 4.

I will be helping out with getting the topics posted each month for @Lee-White. No worries he is still running the contests and is the judge for them. I will still continue to create the slideshows each month and I will help getting the topic posted at the first of the month.

So with that being said, here it is. This months topic "Fall". Its that time of year so lets get into the mood of fall. Lets see what you all can come up with.

As always, create your own thread for WIPs and post your final image here. Don't forget to add your name and SVS username to the image to make it easier to tell who its from.

Here is my submission for this month. A different take on the Piped Piper.

Here is my submission, you know the saying Never trust a fish by it's tail.

You guys out did yourselves again! 120 submissions. That broke that last record of 111 submissions. Could it have been because we were all isolated for the month?

Here is the slideshow for you to enjoy: http://cshellmedia.com/clients/svs/

@Kevin-Longueil Thank You!!!

This months prompt comes from @Will-Terry

"Yeti cooked with flare and secret spices as the aroma wafted through the air!"

Couple of details:
The entrees should be in the form of SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS

Spot illustrations are small, simple illustrations that highlight a moment in a story, usually without a full background. They are meant to break up text and add visual interest to a page.

For the purposes of this contest, we are looking for 2 key attributes:

1. an irregular border that does not go to the edge of the canvas

2. an element of storytelling

We'll be getting to full page spreads later on!

The contest is open to anyone. But the winners and runners up will only be selected from active SVS members.

Post only finished pieces here. Post WIP projects in their own thread.

Put your real name and forum name on the image somewhere (can be on a border if you like).

Good luck everyone!

Putting this slide show together made me feel like I was looking to buy a new house again. LOL So many great ideas. Here is the link to view them all together....

http://cshellmedia.com/clients/svs/

@Frost-Drive yes it is. They will do the critique arena for these submissions next month.

Yeti for more??

Last month the challenge was to design a Yeti character and make it your own.

This month we are going to build on that and design a home for our Yeti! What does home sweet home look like for our abominable friend?

It must be an exterior 3/4 view and needs to include:

• An entrance
• A mailbox
• A chimney
• Some kind of vegetation
• Some personal effects (objects that show the personality of the resident)

Post only finished pieces here. Post WIP projects in their own thread.

Put your real name and forum name on the image somewhere (can be on a border if you like).

Ok team, let’s do this!

@notfitkid I removed it from the slide show.

It was a xmas miracle that I got all my files back from the hack I experienced the past few weeks. While getting everything back I was able to get the slide show created for the Yeti's. So many great character designs. I really enjoyed putting this one together to see all the fun ideas.

Enjoy: http://cshellmedia.com/clients/svs/

@Nyrryl-Cadiz I don't think they have an idea and it is more of a high scale attack (ransomware). At this point I am out of the loop while they restore all the important work stuff. My stuff is not important to the company which makes sense right now. Hopefully was they restore everything at work they can save my files.

@jdubz I was able to restore my one drive, google drive, and creative cloud files. As of right now I have lost all of the PSD files, local website files from contract work, and photos/videos of my kids from the past two years. Everything else was backed up on a different hard drive. I am slowly getting everything installed again and back up and running.

@Nyrryl-Cadiz This was an attack on the company I work for and it ran through the network. I work pretty much day and night so I usually do not disconnect from work network. I also left my SD card which has all of my PSD art files on it in that computer and my external hard drive I use to store all my photo/movies and website stuff. When it hit my computer through the network, it hit all of those as well. But it also went through my google drive, one drive, dropbox, and creative cloud. It has been a mess and I am still waiting to find out if they guys at work will be able to recover and decrypt all the files. I think my new years resolution will be to do more traditional art.