19 Sept 2018, 22:04

Hello all,

I have recently joined the forum and posted a painting to the Music contest, so I thought I should also properly introduce myself. My name is Polona, I live in Switzerland, and I am a neuroscientist. Since I know I’ve been drawing or painting, and it’s probably after the birth of my son that I started gravitating towards children illustration with a wish to create my own book one day.

For the moment I don’t have any solid plan to change my science career for illustration (although would love to), but I’m determined to continue improving my skills, and try to squeeze out a bit of time every day to draw. I’ve read the @Sas post and I can really relate to it. In a way it is very comforting knowing there are quite some other scientist who are also (inspiring) illustrators. Hello to all of you here !☺ Also, the interview with @smceccarelli is just so damn inspiring and helpful!

I’m very happy I found SVS, it’s really amazing, the quality and amount of information you guys put in the courses. I got myself a month subscription to try it out and I binge watched your classes. So I did a bit of a break to give myself time to actually implement what I learned so far, but I am definitely getting the yearly subscription.
I totally agree with @Sas, the work that you post on this forum is truly mind blowing. Just reading the feedbacks on the posted art here has already challenged me to try to push my work further. I will try my best to be active here on the forum. I feel there’s so much to share and learn from you.

And for the end, I would like to share what I’m working on at the moment, a piece for the Fall contest. I’m really sorry to not include thumbnails and sketches, but my process was just all over the place. I would love to hear your comments on it.

Thank you!
Polona

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