- How have you improved this year thanks to SVSLearn?
I found SVSLearn about a year ago when I was feeling really lost as an artist. I had been working professionally for a while, but I didn't I feel like I enjoyed the work I was making and didn't know who I was as an artist, or what my style was. The classes and community at SVSLearn helped me to rediscover my love of illustration and helped me find my personal voice as an illustrator. As a double bonus, following the advice in the Social Media class and the 3 Point perspective podcast, I grew my Instagram from 100 to 14,000 followers! I am so grateful that I found SVS, it really saved me as an artist.
- How did SVSLearn impact the creation of this piece?
At the beginning of 2020 I was lucky enough to grab one of the personal critique sessions with Will Terry. He was extremely helpful in helping me figure out the path I wanted to walk on and how to focus my time and energy. One of his suggestions was to explore a broader value range in my illustrations (which I had been avoiding). To tackle his suggestion I took the light and shadow courses as well as the color courses and then used the monthly contest as the prompt to develop this piece. I really felt this piece was a moment of "leveling up" which is all thanks to SVSLearn.