February 2024 Submissions - How To Fix Your Art

[AustinShurtliff]

Please upload your submissions to the February How To Fix Your Art Livestream here by February 1st. Post only finished pieces here (create your own WIP thread if you would like feedback). Anyone can submit work!

CHANGE: Please include your first and last name in the file name before uploading your illustration.

Before beginning, please read the whole prompt by visiting SVSLearn.com/fixyourart or the How To Fix Your Art course shell.

Only submit if you are OK with our judges potentially critiquing and altering your work during a public livestream on YouTube, which will be recorded and added to our website.

We do not own the rights to your work, you do! But we reserve the right to publish your work on our online platform SVSLearn.com, and its associated email list and social media.

[amaryllis]

@AustinShurtliff

My idea for the Feb 2024 HTFYA based on the prompt "trapped."

[Tash]

Super excited to submit to How To Fix Your Art for the first time! I created this piece with Ohuhu marker and ballpoint pen.

[Ambika Vohra]

@AustinShurtliff

[Elina Bronstein]

[Mandy Forte]

Trapped in sticky slime!
Mandy Forte @mandyink.illo

[alice2023]

@AustinShurtliff Here's my submission for Trapped.

[MarcRobinson]

I've been leaning into doing some book covers recently and I thought TRAPPED fit into the Hobbit quite well. So why not attempt to kill two birds with one stone!? I'm massively inspired by the artist Justin Gerrard and tried to mix elements of his style with some of the existing Hobbit book cover compositions I've seen. There is always something to fix, and I'm looking forward to hearing any advice from the guys. (note: I've left out the book cover text for this version of the illustration)

[Elina Bronstein]

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[stayhomejoe]

@AustinShurtliff
I was thinking what is the difference between a trick and a trap. This picture was the idea of where do the rabbits come from when they are pulled from a hat? The magicians never tell you where the rabbits come from. What if the trick is a trap. I’m new to digital art and I need to learn more about working efficiently need pointers to help me achieve these goal. I am a fan of htfya and love their feedback !!

[amaryllis]

@stayhomejoe Love the idea!

[Fey Realme]

@stayhomejoe this is really interesting! I love how bizarre it is!

[Karen Hobart]

@AustinShurtliff

[Fey Realme]

Imagine a world, where How To Fix Your Art monthly livestream evolved into
dun dun duuuuun

HAVE You Fixed Your Art!?

Imagine if they began the live stream by reciting the artist's prayer, found in the holy text of SVS curriculum, the mantra every excellent self-aware artist follows:

(In the name of the Lee, the Will, and the Parker, amen)

And then imagine, they go through the submissions for the month's prompt (mostly in order of submission like what they did for the Flight prompt and the Rock fortress prompt) with the artist's prayer pulled up on the screen and they paused at each one for a moment and said what stages they conquered

I can hear it now, "Well Timmy, I find your concept and your characters very intriguing, very well done! That is the hardest part, the next rung on the ladder is a stronger composition and lay out. so, you keep taking those svs classes and studying that HTFYA handbook, and come back next time to hear us ask "HAVE YOU FIXED YOUR ART next month!
Now on to Fey-- Ooo it looks like you started with the rendering--trying to go up the ladder backwards eh? very beautiful, I think youve got it down until about perspective where it gets a bit wonky, but hey youve got four of the 8 down, way to go! keep up the good work!
Now Jabert! love the name bro. it seems like youve done mostly a perspective study here, and I have got to say that I like it a lot. YOU my friend are well on your way to conquering perspective."

And so they work with good speed down the line, making everyone's day, and encouraging everyone to keep participating in the prompts, and keep subscribing to svs and keep saying the artist's prayer to become excellent self aware artists.
I can see it now, more and more people participate every month because at HAVE you fixed your art, everyone is a winner because everyone is trying and everyone is seen.

And of course, they save the best for last. They still do a redraw or crit reinforcing their congregation in their understanding of the principles of the gospel of art. The short crit is on the image(s) they show last, so even the people who get correction feel uplifted and constructed.

in this manner, people ACTUALLY get rewarded for doing the work to fix their own art, because they get the "you're going in the right direction, you're improving!" that they can't get from instagram or a recorded class or critique arena, or HTFYA--which is why people participate at the end of the day.

(i do not claim any ownership of Have you fixed your art, and would be simply overjoyed if they adopted this model, and would not seek any compensation.)

I really love the podcast and I want to love the community--i am here really craving connection with other artists-- but I just struggle to feel like there is a place for me because I want to be excellent and I haven't found anyone 5 years ahead of me. I graduated with a degree in art, and I need something that isn't here, but it could be here. I have nowhere else to go, so I'll keep trying and hope it can evolve.

[Elina Bronstein]

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[Annika Wenzel]

"Trapped"

[Tom Harshberger]

@MarcRobinson Love this! Justin Gerrard is one of my favorites as well.

[MarcRobinson]

@Tom-Harshberger cheers mate. Yeah he is a master. My artwork took a massive leap forward after watching a digital painting tutorial of his a couple of years ago.

[rebeccamarie]

[Jeremy Ross]

I had this idea all month and thought it would be really cool to make it into a book cover mockup.