SVS Virtual Studio OCTOBER 2023

Robyn Hepburn · 10 Oct 2023, 15:47

Hello!
Feels like I haven't been here for ages. (It's ok, I won't be offended if you haven't missed me.)
I've been having a lot more fun with my drawing this month: taking part in artists' play dates, warming up with scribbles, blobbing ink around, and throwing perspective and proportion out the window as much as I can.

Here's a close-up of the most disturbing cats I've ever drawn:

I've also challenged myself to draw a pageful of animals every weekday for a year. Here's most of day 3:

Happy October everyone. I hope you get to do loads of fun drawing this month.

Filip Draskovic · 13 Oct 2023, 08:27

MarcRobinson · 15 Oct 2023, 19:16

Hi guys. My agent has suggested that I broaden my portfolio offering. So it appears I'm drawing a virus character! This is currently a work in progress. I start with a traditional pencil drawing that I slowly render in Photoshop. Do any of you guys work that way?

Larue · 16 Oct 2023, 04:39

Love this virus dude…very fun, and scary. In answer to your question I always start with pencil and scan in and then paint over it in PS.

MarcRobinson · 16 Oct 2023, 16:41

@Larue thank you. Good to hear someone else uses the same methods.

Jeremy Ross · 16 Oct 2023, 19:50

Bathroom humor…

MarcRobinson · 17 Oct 2023, 09:21

I managed to get my virus character finished yesterday. It's been slow-going recently, with the new baby, emotional toddler, and the usual colds and illness, but we got it done! ha.

Heather Boyd · 18 Oct 2023, 20:13

@cory-jensen Hey, glad you're interested in receiving feedback, that's great! Make a New Topic and ask for help there.

Jeremy Ross · 23 Oct 2023, 19:38

With Poem:

Amy found a friendly cat.
She picked it up without a spat.
“A Skunk, you see”, her friends could tell.
It reeked, it reeked an awful smell!

Jeremy Ross · 25 Oct 2023, 03:07

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Tom Harshberger · 25 Oct 2023, 13:48

Been a busy month, Inktober came and went. I wanted to pick a prompt I could use for a portfolio piece. Ended up posting this one for today's prompt: "Dangerous."

Jeremy Ross · 26 Oct 2023, 01:57

Bugs make the greatest music!

MarcRobinson · 26 Oct 2023, 08:56

I was advised by my agent that it would be a good idea to add some dinosaurs to my portfolio, so I've been working on this T-rex illustration. I'm planning to add some text at the top and maybe at the bottom too. You can still see the traditional pencil drawing on the background, and I cant wait to paint over it. Still lots to do, especially with the colour/lighting, but it's been really fun trying my hand at a dinosaur for a change.

MerryMary · 26 Oct 2023, 11:32

@MarcRobinson he is so cute, I love him!

Jamie Seroogy · 26 Oct 2023, 20:34

Hey all - I haven't gotten very far in SVSLearn yet, but I did work on this portrait the other day. It was a sketch in one of my sketchbooks and I decided to digitize it. Her neck is def too long but I like how she turned out otherwise. I haven't taken time to figure out how to draw hair yet hence this isnt entirely finished but I decided to be done with it and move on.

Still working on setting up a schedule for learning in SVSLearn and in another course where I make patterns and working a full time design job lol But illustration is where I would LOVE to land someday!

AustinShurtliff · 26 Oct 2023, 22:11

@Jamie-Seroogy, great work! Good luck getting your schedule planned out. It can be hard making time to work on your art, but it is worth it (even if it is just a little at a time).

MarcRobinson · 27 Oct 2023, 09:22

@MerryMary hey thank you!

Jeremy Ross · 27 Oct 2023, 22:09

Trying to vary my shapes and design based on tips from the amazing book, “Picture This” from Molly Bang.

Coreyartus · 1 Nov 2023, 17:41

Achievement unlocked! Today I completed my "100 Birds" project that I've been working on since the beginning of summer.

I'll be making greeting cards, merch, bookmarks, notepads, and potentially a coffee table book. I already have a 2024 Art Calendar out.

I did this project based on Jake's "100 Things" advice, and I'm really happy with it! Each bird took between 1.5-3 hours to draw and paint in Procreate, and many of them I did for my livestreams. I learned a lot and my process evolved and got more specific, regular, and repeatable as I went on. I'm now much more familiar with how to achieve what I want.

I'd recommend the "100 Things" experience for everyone. This was the second time I tried to accomplish it, having failed at 70-something (?) with a series of "Hands of Family & Friends" that I just got too bored with... Birds had more variety and I felt I had the opportunity to be much more expressive, and I'd finally developed the drive (need?) to really want to get at least one set of something actually done. This worked out for me.

I've been able to give the birds away as phone wallpapers on my social media accounts as they're completed, as well as advertise the available prints further down the road, so each image has paid off twice. Lots of adjusting for print applications, though, so if you do something that has a lot of light/dark contrast and intense dark color, be aware you're going to have to adjust things a lot.

Whew! Onward!

Robyn Hepburn · 30 Oct 2023, 11:28

@Coreyartus Ooh! Aah! They are utterly beautiful. Many congratulations on reaching 100 of them, and on making them sellable in many ways.