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  Newest Sketchbook Pictures
  • Judy Elizabeth Wilson  

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  I love drawing dogs, especially chihuahuas, I have a little red chibaby and she is so cute. This idea for the unicorn hair came from looking at lots of cool abstract artists.
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  10,000 bad drawings (200/10000)
  • Shyam Sailus  

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  CARSSSSS.....
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  My Journey of Creating a Book
  • Gary Wilkinson  

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  This is fantastic! Your characters and colors are delightful. I especially love seeing all the process work and alternate directions along the way. I work as a designer professionally and agree the typography has a classic look. I don't think that is a bad thing at all given the amount of text you have on each page. I have seen some children's books that try to get too cutesy with the typography and end up making the words harder to follow and identify for early readers. One thought on the cooking/mixing bowl illustration: There are a lot of ingredients floating in the margins, but not a lot of motion in the composition. Maybe the ingredients form more of a spiral, swirling out of the bowl? Nothing extreme, just a bit more dynamic, and give the eye an obvious path through the illustration. Nice work! I look forward to following your progress on this!
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  Copy covers for practice
  • Jeremy Ross  

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  Hi all, As a Mexican American, my family celebrates Day of the Dead in honor of our lost loved ones. I painted the cover of The Art of Coco as a master copy since I absolutely love the movie and the art. I did this master copy last night. I didn’t copy the cover exactly, but just stayed very loose. This was done in procreate with no after effect filters. I’m proud of this study.
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  PhannyPhun
  • Jason Sakuwa  

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  Today, I began designing characters for a picture book. My thought process was that rounder and softer shapes would be more suitable for a picture book. I would greatly appreciate any advice about the character design, or how to make characters seem like they come from the same universe (which is quite specific indeed...). I hope that your days are as enjoyable as when you are drawing!
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  I absolutely love Lee's new inking class.
  • xin li  

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  Wow I think this will look so good painted in that way, I can see it already! Have fun!
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  Robot Ink Drawing Feedback Request
  drawing characterdesign ink robot • • Jonathan Malski  

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  @miranda-hoover Thank you for the feedback! I showed the drawing to a few family members and, from a distance, they couldn't make out where his arm was either; I think I need to put more effort into making sure the design remains visible/readable throughout the image, as all the small details of his arm really make it congested in certain areas, I think. Thanks again!
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  Feedback welcome on my character design
  feedback characterdesign character desig • • story.paint  

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  @story-paint This is really cute! It sounds like this story will be a good one I like the simplicity and cute factor of these designs. I think they will work really nicely for a comic
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  Pam Sketches
  • Pamela Fraley  

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  Our towns Tardis. We do actually have one. The made up element in this picture is the girl on the bike. I Decided to move my plein air painting challenge back here so I don’t take over the September studio feed. Here’s number 3. The purpose of these is 1. To challenge myself to grow In some basic observational art skills. Most of the time I draw from reference. And, sometimes I spend so much time on reference that I don’t get to the drawing. I’m practicing setting aside a Small chunk of time (30 to 40 minutes) to draw what is in front of me, and then I let myself fix it up a bit later. 2. I want to work on composition and lighting. 3. I decided to try an add some bit of storytelling or a character to these so that they aren’t just illustrated landscapes. I will probably have to make up most of these elements which is good for me. 4. Practice putting images out into the world that are “finished not perfect.” It’s not easy!
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  The Inktember Fairy thumbnails
  • Gabby Correia  

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  I like your ink fairy design in # 4. It’s so cute being a bug-like creature and I like the white eye lashes The layout for #2 seems clearest but the silhouette for #1 is appealing too. I’d love to see the #4 fairy in whatever you end up with.
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  Developing a 'graphic novel' style
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  Akins sketchbook
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  I finished it up...
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  Feedback on these character lineup? Opinions on making them more interesting?
  feedback artwork characterdesign comics drawing • • Georgios Christopoulos  

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  Hello Georgios! These characters are so cool~! It looks like they'd have a ton of fun adventure. The one thing that stood out to me was the character on the far left. His head is significantly larger than everyone else's, and though I get that he's a big character, I think if you made the head size a little smaller, he would fit a little more with the rest of the group. Right now it looks like if he was scaled down, he would have the same proportions as the character to the right of him. If you made the head smaller, it would make the rest of his body look bigger in proportion, similar to what you did with the character on the far right. Just my two cents! Thanks for sharing this fun cast of characters with us!
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  Dragonfly WIP and trouble joining SVSLEARN
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  @kylebeaudette, I like your dragonfly fella. He looks kinda like a nice dad dragonfly. I can appreciate that. As for the separate logins, yes, i have two logins as well. I think the idea is that the forum and classes are two separate sites. You don't necessarily have to be a member of the classes to join the forum and talk about things. At least that's the way I understand it.
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  WIP "The Crazy DogLady"
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  @Jonathon-B-Baker-0 let me know if you find a good one.
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  Not Sure How to Make This Better
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  @Eric-Droke I see what you mean~ in my mind I was placing them randomly, but now I see that I did not push it nearly far enough, haha. Thank you for the feedback! I’ll see if I can group them in a more interesting way. @idid I was actually thinking about whether I should differentiate them a bit more. I wanted them to be simple and took inspiration from the below image, but maybe the simplicity and sameness only works in Princess Mononoke because there are other varied characters within the movie. I wasn’t sure how to keep the simplicity of my ghosts without making them look too similar/boring. This is something I’ll have to spend more time thinking/exploring. Thanks so much for the feedback! It pushes me to be a better artist, which I really appreciate!
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  Dragonfly WIP - Composition and value - Feedback welcomed!
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  @ruth Yes! Its definately one of those! I do agree with the comments about the tail, it is sort of what makes a dragon fly look unique, but ill take a bit of artistic license with it. Just got to try and paint it well now, i think its gonna take a while.
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  Running away from an explosion - critiques wanted
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  Movement looks good, and the tiger's face reads much better now. If you want to break up the white space on the bottom half of the image, I'd suggest doing the shading like you have in the second image, but in the lower right corner instead of right under the explosion, to do more for the light. Maybe even a little shading on the interior of the characters to increase the illusion of rim lighting. Something like this maybe:
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  Effective Vehicle Design class with Shane Hunt
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  I'm still in the middle of the class but I'm having a lot of fun with it ! I chose Death as my character for the high form/ high function exercise and the sketches were terrible but hilarious. here's my boat combo sketch - a combo of a Junk and a Longboat. I know that perspective is way off and I would have made it longer but the constraints of physical media are what they are. (I'm without photoshop while I wait for a new computer to come to me via fedex so It's pen and paper for the forseeable future) Also - ignore that redwine stain at the bottom of the page !
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  Looking for some feedback
  • Jewels  

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  Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. I've already taken the picture into procreate and started playing around a bit. I'll post the updates here for anyone who might interested.