Great image! Love the perspective!

Would love to see the more bananas version, and some cast shadows to ground them (along with the other aforementioned adjustments to them)

Also, maybe differentiate some of the texturing. I kind of feel like the noise that is permeating the image is overwhelming as it is affecting every surface.

I tried trying the sketchy inky look that is working for my mice in a comic book form, adding lots of texture and using a muted pallet. I like it. I like how it looks like a color pencil sketch on toned paper.
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I got the legs wrong so I didn't finish them.

Congrats on your huge accomplishment! Looking forward to your 4th!

I think the Octopus and Diver works so well with your inking style. Love them all otherwise 🚀

@Elena-Marengoni haha thanks im glad you enjoyed this. I will definitely submit the cover

Thank you so much! This helps a lot! i will definitely try that

@theprairiefox Thank you for the detailed explanation - I've done a tiny bit of lino cutting in the past but never this type of printing - fascinating!

@TessaW I thought so too about the bruising. I was trying a different technique than I normally use with color pencils. I layered in the values first with sepia and ultramarine but they made mud with the peaches and pinks. Lesson learned. I think if I do this again I will reserve my light values and not use the sepia and ultramarine to make my very lightest grey tones. Or maybe I need to improve my blending. The colorless blender dragged the pigment of the darker areas into the lighter ones and then I was stuck with it because you can't erase or undo color pencil.

I did really enjoy building up the layers. I am normally too impatient and try to go dark too soon.

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And this marks the end of my third Inktober in a row! This year was definitely more challenging.. with life happening in other areas.. but I'm glad to have reached the end and be able to complete this fun challenge nonetheless. A lot has been learnt!

Thank you for your encouragement & support! 🙂

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@Kevin-Longueil Took a bit time to answer, sorry! Thank you Kevin, this is helpful! Critique is always welcome 🙂 I am going to redraw her completely and post her here. Yes, everything was slightly squeezed, which I noticed when I mirrored her. I gave more space to the ear in the bottom drawing already. It was based on a really fast sketch.
Warmer skin tone in dark areas - this is interesting to me, because I used to choose a colder tone for shaded areas as this was what I learned to see. (reflection of blue sky light). I will experiment with that. Making the eyes pop = 👌

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just checked out your Instagram - some really nice stuff!

Thank you!

I think this works better with the boy in the top frame. The word on the bottom is also more descriptive in leading up to the next scene.! Thanks for the feedback! 19_Left_8x10 2.jpg

@Miriam Thanks for the tips! I'm still trying to navigate as I go along

@chrisaakins @charitymunoz This is basically what I did this Inktober. I'd just like to not that there is ink, which dissolves in water once dried; and indian ink which stays as it is. For this technique you need indian ink, otherwise you wash away your drawing or painting with every new layer.
Chris, I saw both of your coloring techniques. And liked more the copic version. Good thing about the digitally colored illustrations is that you don't loose color information with fotography. If it is better when looking cleaner, or less clean, is a question of taste and the story you want to tell, I guess.

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@TessaW thanks! I love what you did as well especially that girl and the moon.

I used to do both cover and main illustrations in original size. But the picture book I've made ended up to be illustrated smaller then the printed version of it. This was due to the publisher who liked much more of my thumbnails then my finished illustrations (!), so that I was using a process of increasing size of small drawings on the computer, printing them on proper paper and then colorize them. I've never heard of anyone illustrating a book like this before :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: Wasn't my choice either. The paper had to fit my inkjet printer, but I had a very good scanner so the increasment of size was no problem. (Here's the cover.)

So, basically it depends on your equipment if you can increase the size afterwards. Some scanners just interpolate the image if you go over a certain value of dpi. You could try by just scanning any of your images with 900dpi, and print it three times the size of the original to see if you remain the quality.

@LauraA The pattern is lovely. It would be fun to see a texture overlay on top of the pattern, so it intergrates to the rest of the image even more.

🎃Happy Halloween. Thanks for all the advice, support, critiques, comments and fun conversations here on the SVS forum, I'm really thankful to be part of the gang.👽👻
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Callin' it done!

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Here is my progress! I feel like the feedback I got helped me a lot to make this better...so thank you all for sending your suggestions! What's missing now is just fine-tuning some values in the scanned version....maybe still not perfect as I imagined it, but I am happy about the journey and the things I have learned! 🙂

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@jwing the inspiration is from the Bible, yes. 😊