Our SVS Virtual Studio February❤️2020

[burvantill]

@StudioLooong don’t get discouraged. Back in October for the Penny challenge I didn’t make the top 16 and I was really really REALLY bummed because I thought I did a good job, so I took two months off, and then I came back and did the January prompt and I am a winner!
Use the emotion your feeling to come back harder!

[Katie Kordesh]

hoping to finish these turn arounds and expression sheets by monday

[braden H]

@StudioLooong @burvantill I felt similar for January's prompt. I spent soooooooo much time on December's prompt but didn't make it in, either. Sometimes your concept lands, and sometimes it doesn't

Workin' on a book dummy is also a good thing to do. Whatever keeps you making more content, right?

[burvantill]

I’m going with this thumbnail. Nightfall & Secret Admirer.
BTW, it’s still called procrastination when you work on something, and you SHOULD BE working on something else. I’m trying to trick myself, but I’m not stupid, I know what I’m doing. I’m avoiding, that’s what. I’m still doing it! BAH!

[Aaron_T]

Got to do a superhero doodle of a coworker who retired this week. She loves cooking and is famous around here for her albondigas soup. This was printed at 4’X3’ on foam core, then cut with a jig saw. Then, at the event I was asked to do a caricature of someone else I don’t even know who is retiring next week. It’s funny because I’ve never felt like I could do caricatures, and know some really talented artists who do it for a living. I think people just like to see themselves as cartoons

[braden H]

Whoof.

[braden H]

gigabunny ranch.

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett

[Coley]

@StudioLooong your piece for the January contest was really strong. I totally remember it and I have forgotten a lot of them or who did them. I thought it was awesome. This was the first time I ever made the cut and I do remember feeling disappointed on the other occasions I didn't make the cut. Especially one time. Then I just figured best to keep on keeping on and not feel bad. It will happen in time! Just like @burvantill said!
That being said I think it's totally normal to feel frustrated and disappointed. It's the ones who keep coming back who rock it in the end.

[Coley]

Working on two wizard lamps for props course. Hey, also my first project on procreate .
Today I ordered my new iPad case and some of those paper like screen protectors. Super excited. Oh the nerdiness!

[carlianne]

Can't share anything I'm working on, but I took a short break and made some VDay cards for our work exchange.

[burvantill]

@carlianne these are cute.

[burvantill]

Rough sketch

Value study.

Yep, still procrastinating.

[carlianne]

@carlianne lololol thanks! I did like 10 of them and then thought it was funny I took a break from drawing to draw :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

[Coley]

@burvantill nice comp! You’re going to be the master of circular comps!

[Coley]

More work on a lamp for props course. Trying to work out the structure in perspective from 3/4 and above on the one on the left. The one on the right is my earlier version.

[burvantill]

@Coley Lol. Thanx!

[Julia]

@demotlj I love the 2nd one better : it gives a softness that the ink work does not have. The pencil you used seems just fine! But I let the pros to assess it. Have you tried doing the lines in watercolour pencils? It could be nice as well.

[demotlj]

@Julia I went over the pencil one again using a brown color pencil instead of a 4B pencil and like it better. I think I will try the watercolor pencils too. So many choices!

[Coreyartus]

I didn't post anything earlier this month (I usually try to get something up on the 2nd day) as I didn't really have anything to contribute. But tonight I just let go and blissfully doodled. I used a reference pic off Pixabay, and sorta just meandered my stylus across the surface of my iPad until I thought it was done. I probably followed the reference image too closely, as it was sorta just copying, but I think sometimes there's a value to using drawing to just let go... It was very zen, actually. No pressure, no plan, no precision, no procedures, no purpose--just playing. I love to draw while listening to some of my favorite drawing music or a movie I've seen a million times so it isn't distracting and play it in the background. I can't listen to tutorials or books or things that require too much attention. This was relaxing for me tonight. Thought I'd share.