In these days I am trying to use watercolor and fountain pen as medium and I hope I will be better artist day by day:) Below portrait sketch for legendary soccer player Andrea Pirlo

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@myss Thanks for the help! Will keep your image for future reference as well.

You know... I tried a line of action a few times, but just could not get what I was after. Even tried to find some reference, but I guess my keywords weren't clear enough for what I was after. Like both you and @gubhart show, having his shoulder up and a leg bent is the key here. Thanks, again!

@lmrush Thank you so much Lisa!

Hopefully I'll slide in under the deadline tomorrow! Painting in Procreate. 0_1498793215127_image.jpg

My friend in Provo has been begging me to come up and fish, so this would give me a good excuse to make the drive.

Fantastic!:)

@katrina-fowler one more thing, can you email me the original image so I can test a few things with it. cvalecek@gmail.com

That's great, I love the water, and the subtle white swirls in the water and sky. Very nice!

@chris-perry said in WIP #50:

@chris-perry Thanks for up-voting me Will. Thanks for all the views SVS Learn. Spoiler alert... I created another #50. This time with @circus and an elephant with evil step sisters.

Sounds exciting!

so i've been digging this forum for a while and noticed some of you have been published or illustrated books. and i'm interested to hear some exciting stories about how did you get there, how long did it take until you got your first book job, or maybe your feeling when you see your book printed etc. would you share yours? 😊

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen Its cool, pls proceed 😉 Did you write your text?

@aska Thanks!

@laurel-aylesworth Make sure you order the right one, I have ordered one from apple, that did not fit. Now I use StarTec. Good luck and have fun with your Cintiq

I've been doing a lot of soul searching lately and the forums here have been helping me. I've been stalling somewhat because I was trapped with the idea of becoming a freelance Illustrator or wondering if I should be a concept artist just to try and pay the bills, but I have come to the decision that I don't really want to do freelance commercial or editorial Illustration at least for now anyway because I want to work on my own projects which I've been putting off time and time again due to stress about "getting a real admin type job", which I've never had much success or interest in and I can't really do anyway because of back and health problems. I had so many bad experiences doing freelance work when I did website design I still have a stigma about working with clients I have to sort out. As well as this my sister's friend and boss (for her colour work on his graphic novels) mr Doug TenNapel visited us the other day (he's just on holiday in the UK) and he told me I should work on my own story based projects and just finish something. He said the first thing will be crap, but it's important you finish it and prove to yourself you can do it, then do another one, and another one.... So that's my task. I've got to stop trying to come up with a logical reason to do it and just do it.

0_1498612866025_SVS Learn Tree House 2.jpg Re: JUNE ILLUSTRATION CONTEST: TREEHOUSE

Hi Everyone, I have enjoyed seeing everyones post, here is mine. The story behind it is a little girl walking down a path and happening upon an enchanted part of the forest. She is surprised to see a talking bunny, the little witch in the treehouse is surprised to see her.

@withlinesofink That's a really good solution!

@charlie-eve-ryan thank you! Just trying to keep up with you all 😉