Woot, Congrats! Great read!

@brettb_draws thank you. We are quite into bird spotting and nature so I like drawing the subject. The bird at the bottom trying to hold them up is a Goldcrest, the UK’s smallest bird. I’m going to look into getting a short print run done professionally. I think would probably have to sell unframed as the frames are quite heavy and bulky to post.

@Braden-Hallett Hi, could I also get the link? I am very interested in watching your demonstration.

@Asyas_illos Me too. Praying that it's going to be affordable!

Having answered the question, ‘what does augment mean?’ let us bring it into the context of augmented reality. Following our definition, to augment reality would simply be to ‘make reality greater by adding to it.’ Is this what augmented reality does? Oh, yes! It is a technology that ‘augments’ our ‘reality.’ What that means is that it enhances what we know as reality, that is, our real-world objects and environments.

Started work on the Voldemort character and my original plan was to have him hold a flower that was falling apart to refer to his wand in the last movie. However, it doesnt feel like it fits the painting well and doesnt have much in common with the Harry painting. Im thinking to perhaps take out the flower and add a hose pipe that is spraying water. Any thoughts on that and the color choices for the painting?

This poor kid has mixed feelings about his little mermaid. I’m concerned about the placement of the mermaid against the boys face but I wanted her silhouetted, thoughts?

@Tom-Burchell said in WIP 3 bears lighting pass happy wheels: Next stop colour woooo! Love it!

Eagerly awaiting the next prompt!

@jdubz I love this loosey goose styled grumpy mermay’d

@Jeremy-Ross No worries! Thought it might just be phrasing issue.

@Isabel-Reyes-Feeney Yep, what @Kevintreaccar said! The next Critique Arena will be May 13 at 2pm mountain time, we'll be announcing on social media soon

@Athenahoros-P Woah, thanks a lot!!

@Jacy13 Thank you for the kind words!

Update! The last week was much busier than I expected (plus I think I'm being overly cautious because this is the first time I'm finishing a piece in graphite in forever), but I finally got some time this morning to focus. I've finished lightly sketching in the the main forms/details over an even lighter sketch of the underlying structure. I've been using a dulled HB pencil to keep myself from going too dark and definitive too early. Next step will be going over this darker and sharper to get the line work down.

@Chip-Valecek LOL I dunno! I've seen people around here wearing shorts while shoveling snow! Hardcore Wisconsinites!

@ruth Thank you

How did I miss you guys live today on instagram?! Oh yeah I fell asleep watching creative environment design. You guys should do that more often! unfortunatly I can watch about four minutes before it cuts out

Hey SVS people! I decided to do MerMay this year and am wondering if any of you are doing it too? This is my first ever monthly challenge and I'll be proud of myself if I can make it all the way. Would love to check out everyone else's progress!

@carolinebautista I've been applying to various types of firms that I can find on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, sometimes Google. I don't particularly choose a specific size or what area of architecture they specialize in because I have mostly worked as a drafter using Revit, AutoCAD, etc. as opposed to a design architectural firm. I got my first internship because my high school teacher was an architect and he let me work for him for a year. Then I got two rather poor internships through ads I found while I went to college. I got a BIM coordinator position (completely different thing) through LinkedIn. One of the employers I found through the school ads was working with a firm, and he got me hired with them. I tried going back to them, but they're looking for someone with more experience. I have 3 years of professional work experience, but I'm not getting hired because I don't have enough experience apparently to get hired. My peers didn't have much issue finding jobs, but I did however when they graduated into the pandemic, for some reason.