@Asyas_illos Yes, I would like to speed up the process or rather I want to eliminate all the procrastinating and things that slow down the process, but still keep some reflection along the way, and respect for the process. I think my biggest draw back(no pun intended) is using digital to draw, I am happy to do painting on the image that I have already drawn and coloured, but drawing images from scratch still feels odd. I am not sure I want to lose that feeling. Maybe you get used to drawing with the I pad?

@lizardillo Yes, that image deserves it. It is excellent. Congratulations. Blow your own trumpet.

@Kristen-Lango Yes for sure I am so happy to help and share, and learn also!

@lizardillo beautiful! I would love to see those. I’ve seen several in Croatia and in Marseille.

@Larue Good points. I think him looking surprised and still being in position to be beheaded and the crowd looking surprised would have been more effective. Thank you for your feed back!

Hey all,
I've been quite for a while and haven't been doing much drawing but I have been working on my digital 3D work and trying to improve that. I started learning to do digital 3D back in September and wanted to share some of my work with you guys. Please let me know what you think. I posted them in order from oldest to newest.

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This is the base model for the image above:
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@Asyas_illos Thanks and well done for submitting 4 pieces, your efficiency gave me the push to enter 2 even though my second piece was literally made from Friday to Saturday! I hope I can aim for at least 2 next month, maybe 3 entries!

Thanks for all of the feedback!

Just saw this post! Here’s a piece a did for earth day
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Hello! I'm new here so my apologies if I posted this in the wrong spot!
I am a freelance illustrator from Atlanta. I work mostly with self-publishers but I hope to be agented and working with traditional publishers one day.
Since starting my freelance journey, I have become quite isolated, so I'm looking for communities to become a part of. So I'm starting here!

Here is my portfolio:
https://www.dishmon-caraballo.com/

I am itching to get out of the self-publishers space. Do you think this portfolio is enough to start contacting agents? Or is there still much to be desired?

@patricialamas Thanks for such a thorough and interesting reply. I agree with you about the transition from traditional to digital, and I think traditional artists have the advantage as they know what they want and they know about application of paint and have existing skills that easily transfer. I agree about the length of time getting quicker, for my image I used watercolour and pencils which took about 2 hours after the ideas stage, and then I photographed the image and repainted certain parts and cleaned up the line work etc, this took me about 7-8 hours. I use the digital process like a clean up process as I don't have much experience, but I found my first and second digital images were satisfactory because I already knew how to paint first.

@Kristen-Lango Thank you for your feedback. Good comments and I definitely have some changes to make. Thanks again!

@AlliFaith Thank you!!! 🧡

@Griffin Thank you for the draw over! I do think the exaggerated shapes help it a lot. I tend to let everything hang out around the same size. I think I got a bit lost with this one so I started a completely different one with better shape language.

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Here is my French Rococo version of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. It took me about 11 hours to make it, and I am very happy with how it turned out! Would love to know what you guys think.

@Griffin Cool, thanks for your feedback. I like the visual hierarchy list. It will give me some structure for my illustrations. Thank you.

@Blitz55 this is so absolutely true. I definitely need to be more mindful about simplifying my compositions. Thank you for the help!

Hey everyone!

This is an illustration that I want to add to my portfolio, but I need some feedback that will help me with the last 20%

It also needs to match up with other pieces in my portfolio, which you can view here at www.elimiko.com

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Thanks in advance!

@phoenix-yip I think in front would be cool, or even disappearing into him somehow... 🤔