Our SVS Virtual Studio JULY💥2019

burvantill · 2 Jul 2019, 00:51

Hello my fellow illustrators!
It’s July! Challenges abound. Prompts galore. What is everyone working on this month?

Imagine you are walking through a studio silently looking over people’s shoulders at their work. This is NOT a place for critiques. You may applaud, encourage, ooh and ah only.

StudioLooong · 2 Jul 2019, 04:30

My friend Hayden has revamped and relaunched his character design challenge and is putting out one character description a week, this is my take on the first one; Ozmo, leader of the merchant guild. Adding color later this week! if you want to join follow @cqprompts on twitter or instagram.

MichaelaH · 2 Jul 2019, 05:29

Daily shapes

burvantill · 2 Jul 2019, 14:25

@StudioLooong Thanx for sharing!

Chip Valecek · 2 Jul 2019, 14:59

My studio has been a bathroom remodel. Doing all the work myself. No I am not a handy man, but just like art I watch tons of youtube videos to learn from. Here are a few before and during demo. I will post final results when I am done.

ThisKateCreates · 2 Jul 2019, 15:57

Trying to make a set of three paintings with the same "look" as an exercise.

MichaelaH · 2 Jul 2019, 17:35

Daily shapes, this time ithe first two were difficult...

ShannonBiondi · 2 Jul 2019, 17:38

@MichaelaH So sweet!!

MichaelaH · 2 Jul 2019, 17:39

@ShannonBiondi Thank You

Heather Boyd · 2 Jul 2019, 18:52

The first sheet of daily shapes - roughly one a day. Pencil and pencil crayons.

Thanks

Coreyartus · 2 Jul 2019, 19:25

I just completed a series of animal portraits that I'd been working on. I'm imagining these as a collection of small posters for for preschool-1st grade students. They were all done in Procreate. I learned a lot!! It was an opportunity to practice some different types of fur and play with Procreate's symmetry tool. I also got to dabble with Will Terry's "glow effect black color dodge layer", which was fun.

Amanda Bancroft · 2 Jul 2019, 19:59

Here's a photo of my sketchbook - currently I'm studying Botanical Illustration in colored pencil, and doing one drawing every day in July. The first was an orange day lily using a reference photo I took in a field of flowers. July 2nd (today) was "Dancing Cherries" from a tutorial by Ann Swan. Generally to do a good drawing in realism, I should spend a week on it (or longer). But this is just to practice daily discipline, so the challenge is to draw these faster but not uglier, and to still learn how to create better drawings, which is working for me in this challenge. Yay!

demotlj · 2 Jul 2019, 21:10

@Chip-Valecek Very impressive. I’ve done a lot of home renovation over the years and finally decided to pay people to do anything involving plumbing! I’m looking forward to seeing the finished work.

demotlj · 2 Jul 2019, 21:14

I posted my linework for this piece based on a herd of Highland cattle in the June thread so here is my “color study.” I put that in quotes because it was only intended to be a study for the traditional line and wash I started today but if the line and wash turns out horribly, I’ll be okay with this one. Highland cattle are really adorable.

jakecrowe · 2 Jul 2019, 22:41

Hi, I'm Jake. I'm new here to SVS and thought this would be a good place to say hello! Professionally I'm a graphic designer out of Boston, MA but Illustration is my passion. I'd like to steer my career in that direction. I'm still floating on where I should focus. I feel like children's books is where I would like to go, though I lean toward the gross a lot of the time so I don't think my current portfolio represents that.

I'm starting my month (well, end of June) with color. Like a dope, I skipped color theory in college. Last week I took Will Terry's 'Magic of Color' class and have been practicing my color on my Inktober drawings from last year. I've also started a new Instagram account as I have recently become a dad and felt the need to separate my family from my work.

For the rest of themonth I plan continuing color practice and blowing out my new IG account with my colored Inktobers from last year. I'd also like to start a portfolio that more represents the Illustrator I'd like to be!

Heather Boyd · 3 Jul 2019, 01:13

@jakecrowe

Hello and welcome -can you share your IG account (the new one you started) and or a website with your current work to see how we can help you get to your children’s illustration from how did you say the gross lols.

jakecrowe · 3 Jul 2019, 00:09

@Heather-Boyd

Certainly!

IG: thejakecrowe

Website: jakecrowe.com

I’ll gladly start a new thread this week if this isn’t the appropriate place to post.

Heather Boyd · 3 Jul 2019, 01:23

@jakecrowe

Start a new thread if you want to answer question or receive feedback, this is purely like walking into a gallery and observing with some niceties lols.

I like your photography-landscape and the wood trunk. And also your chickens but I do agree for the most part your portfolio is not children friendly. But I think as a new dad - children inspiration will come.

I just found this illustrator - I really am entertained by his stories of his kids growing up and his style.

http://naranjasyzapatos.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-02-09T11:19:00%2B01:00&max-results=30

Where was that landscape photograph taken -last photograph on your design page?

If I don’t get back to you I will be returning from a trip in 2 weeks.

burvantill · 3 Jul 2019, 01:51

@MichaelaH I saw these on discord. So fluffy cute.

burvantill · 3 Jul 2019, 04:21

I’m ready to ink this. It goes with my previous Little Red Cap illustration, but it’s actually the page before the other. I did the other as part of an assignment for the Visual Storytelling Techniques class. Then Lee assigned another, saying to use the same story. Since I had already illustrated the END of the story I had to work backwards.
I’m hoping these will look good together my portfolio. Sequence and illustrative continuity. I’m also loving the clothes patterns. It’s quite relaxing to draw pattern. No wonder Zentangle was such a hit.