Gee, the sketch is so awfully cute that I want to save it! I love your roly-poly fennec and bear designs! But I admit I am having a hard time following the story without extra cues, so maybe it needs tweaking a bit.

If you go with a fennec, maybe make it comically obvious that he's just arrived from warmer climes? Maybe he's dressed for summer and has a suitcase?

Also, @carolinedrawing has a good point: A desert fox's tracks in the sand wouldn't be so completely different from snow tracks as to be shocking. But some other animal's might be.

I think you've got a good start here, but it just needs some more thought. Sorry, I know that means hard work for you. For me, digging for a concept that works with the prompt is the hardest part! But your idea is a good one, and your sketch looks very promising, so it will be worth it!

Thank you for a nice picture!!)) I agree with these words, our dreams are always with us!! You remind me this, thanks!))

Hi guys!

I keep hearing of how lovely the community here is and I can really use some fresh eyes on my piece below. What I think it could benefit from is depth and possibly adding some greys as it seems a bit too saturated perhaps?

A little backstory - I started the year with a resolution to illustrate my own Tarot deck. This one is the Devil. I follow the symbology of the traditional cards but also changed up some things to suit my taste. The general feedback I got was that it doesn't look scary - which it shouldn`t. The devil in tarot represents lust so he needs to have a handsome aura. I hope at least that is coming through?

Anyway, let me know what you think could be improved and how to push it further?

Cheers!

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I thought in the past the posting deadline was the 10th of every month. Oh well, no biggie. I'll post here in the off-chance that they'll still take submissions.

The first one is from the Dec 2019 SVS contest, and the second one is just something I came up with that I ended up using in my SCBWI conference portfolio.

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@Lee-White is there a slight problem with how the figures fill the space between the desk and the blackboard? It's as if Malcolm is standing alongside Mandela, both of them filling the gap between the desk and blackboard completely, but also simultaneously next to and behind Obama, who should also fill the gap between board and desk.

@deborah-Haagenson Thanks! Yeah in hindsight I don't really know why I put the spoon there 😂 Think I was just drawing kitchen clutter!

@demotlj Thank you 😄 I agree I think the cake fits better than the pie!

@Nyrryl-Cadiz Thank you:smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

@Kalimostlypaints thank you i really appreciate that, glad im making progress cause composition is very hard for me

Hello SVS people! 🖐

In the late 2019 I had an amazing opportunity to be in Nathan Fowke's Pictorial Compostion class on Schoolism and I though that sharing all the stuff I did in the class may be a cool idea.

The course was 9 intense weeks of work that really have pushed my skills to the limit. Hopefully you'll find this artwork fun.

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week 1 assignment:
We were supossed to create studies of other people's artwork. There were three studies to be done for each artwork. A simple three value statement, a simplified value study and a color study.
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I had problems when it came to simplifying the value structures. The teacher pointed out to me that I pay too much attention to details that are unnecessary for the "simple study". I made a follow up with another illustration, trying to apply the teacher's feedback here.

Yes, I absolutely adore those Jonny Duddle's Harry Potter covers!

The artist's you can see here are:
Jonny Duddle,
Jorge Corona
and Tim Kamiński.

Check 'em out!
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Week 2:
We were told to create our own compositions. Had tons of fun with them. I still struggled with staying simple which is VERY visible when you look at the bears and the fox character images. I am slowly getting it though.

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week 3:
That was an INTENSE ride. I had a week to make ten different images. On top of that, we were supossed to make sure that each image is different. You know, variety of value ranges, subjects, camera angles etc.
Hard but soo satisfying.

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week 4:
More comps! This time we've got some color in here.
The bottom picture was a fun experiment that I did. I tried to paint a picture with ONLY two values in it and shade it only with color changes... It looks wrong, but I am glad I tried! 😄

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Here's a little follow up. Nathan pointed out that my character composition worked but it was too simple. A pale face with dark hair and dark glasses will always stand out...so I tried making this more complex and texture filled.

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A little behind the scenes pic! I see this view everytime I take out trash in the evening so I used it to inspire me... Muse can be found everywhere, friends!

There is TONS of artwork I've done in this course. Five more weeks of artwork to be shared! However, I'll stop here. This post is long enough.

Give me your thoughts, share opinions and tell me if you'd like to see the rest of the images. I am not sure if that will interest anybody 😂
Creating this post kinda feels like I am bragging, ya know? 😕

How comfortable are you with composition?

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Finally finish this one!

Happy new year everyone!

https://www.instagram.com/franksandovalart/

Thank you so much! I'll keep this in mind

@TessaW cool idea! I do find the border distracting from your artwork. But I like your word placement, especially "the" trapped in the web.

Fun! It reads clearly to me (I think). Godzilla tromping through the snow to go destroy the city? I'd suggest sketching out a few different options for both the pose and the overall shape of the smoke. I think these two elements have a lot of potential to affect the impact of the piece, and it's worth trying out a few options to fine tune things.

Great job, and a fun interpretation of the prompt. 🙂

I think your inking is improving as you go. 🙂 It’s an inspiration to see you take on such a challenge!

@demotlj said in December contest WIP as is tradition. Feedback always appreciated 🙂:

I don't know why you always say that you have difficulty with color because I think you do a great job with it!

It's still a roll of the dice or the flip of a coin whether my colours will work out or not. I need better odds than that 🙂

Definitely 1. The moons is just well framed in that one.

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I will do a bit more work on this later but family committments are calling now 🙂

The text feels redundant because I think you did a really good job at communicating what the birds are thinking.

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Overlaid some color, and slapped the text back on. Going to submit even though Im not 100% happy with it. Would still be nice to possibly get some feedback on at least the composition, feel, etc. I actually think the monotone adds to the sadness a bit.

@Braden-Hallett Thank you! =)x Time to go do some light and color homework 😃😜