@carlianne ok thanks a lot! i knew the door looked wrong, but i wasn't sure how to fix it. that was helpful!

Hey guys! I wanted to share some more of my MerMay artwork. Feel free to drop yours below in the comments below! Hope you guys like:)
I'd also be down for following some more artists so also feel free to leave your IG handles too!

Mine is @chrisconnorartist.

These were prompted from the list provided by the official website.
Here you have
Day 4: Star Wars
Day 6: Sunday
Day 7: Provocative
Day 11: Frustration

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@ruth Thank you 🙂

@miranda-hoover thank you!! And yes!. I came up with that illustration from the prompt “Milky Way”

@Casual-T Thanks a lot!` Appreciate the opinion!
@Jacy13 Thanks a lot Jacy!
@Kevin-Longueil Thanks Kevin!Oh I see! I ll check the post about the contest!
@Melissa-Bailey-0 Thanks a lot Melissa! Noted!!!

Hi Chris

I think it looks really nice though there are three elements that are about the same size and all are craving for attention making the eyes jump all over the place and not knowing where to focus on.

I'm guessing the blue mushroom on the front is your focal point so the character next to it could be a bit smaller (since it's about the same size) and/or less bright so it doesn't compete with the mushroom's light (something like the smaller blue character on the far right would work better on him). Or you could make the yellow character be the main focus so removing some of the brightness on the blue mushroom would make him stand out much more.
I would also try making the mushroom house much smaller so it looks farther away and also making it less bright as well, also could be positioned a bit more to the right so it kind of balances the scene a bit more.
The water looks really nice but I would also add some darker shading the farther it is from the main mushroom.

One trick you can use is to add a new layer in multiply mode on top and paint with a 15% dark blue on most parts as to add some ambience and reducing the lighting on most of the objects (minus the main focus one).

Hope something of this is helpfull to you 😛 .

@TheArtBard @Nathalie-Kranich @LouD @Adam-Thornton-0

Hi everyone, it's been a while. I've pretty much redone most of image 1. I wanted to make it cleaner with the painting style as it was kinda messy. I've taken into account all your notes and applied them to it so I hope you see an improvement.
I could write out everything that's been changed but you should be able to see for yourself 🙂

I'm personally really happy with how this has turned out. I took way more time to pay more attention to detail and I think it's paid off. I just now need to match the rest of the illustrations to this 😳(11 so far...and that's only half of the planned amount).

I have a question actually.
What dimensions do you generally go for when illustrating for a picture book? In pixels and/or inches...
I've been illustrating at a much higher pixel dimension as I like to really zoom in and go into detail but it obviously increases the file size quite significantly and too often makes the app crash on my tablet.
I've played around with making the canvas properties smaller of the existing illustration, but because it was originally done in a much higher resolution, it distorts the pencil lines a lot.
Or do you know of a way to compress the file size without losing picture quality?

Would love to hear your thoughts!

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@Nyrryl-Cadiz Nice one. I'm looking forward to slowing down and just making one piece this month. Are you making something for Slowvember?

Hello Georgios! These characters are so cool~! It looks like they'd have a ton of fun adventure. The one thing that stood out to me was the character on the far left. His head is significantly larger than everyone else's, and though I get that he's a big character, I think if you made the head size a little smaller, he would fit a little more with the rest of the group. Right now it looks like if he was scaled down, he would have the same proportions as the character to the right of him. If you made the head smaller, it would make the rest of his body look bigger in proportion, similar to what you did with the character on the far right. Just my two cents! Thanks for sharing this fun cast of characters with us!

@ina thank you so much I do need to remember to think of it as "I grow each time"

Hi guys!

I m currently working on a step to step timelapse video for my followers on IG ,
regarding the stages I go through when making a digital illustration.

I upload a step every day ,and I answer questions regarding that step.
Figured I d share this here if anyone is interested to see another approach to art , and also to get feedback and critiques.

Here is the first four steps I made , rough concept-sketch-inks-colour blocked.
If you have any questions, feel free to share!

Cheers!
G-Chris

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@Jeremy-Ross just checked it out! It s wonderful! Thanks for the feedback my friend!!

@LauraA thats true!here in Greece schools closed yesterday.hope you are safe and healthy!

@burvantill thanks a lot!I m happy for you.stay safe.

Great post! Cheers to the women in this group! Happy International Women’s Day!

@Chip-Valecek Thanks so much for the words my friend!! I hope my creations will one day reach your kids 🙂

@peteolczyk thanks Pete - they’re really good ideas, I’ll try them 🙂 🙂

@Ashton-H Aw, this took me by surprise! Thank you, and it's equally inspiring to me that you're working on your own self-published art books. Keep going! 🌻

@davidhohn Great advice but I can only get males to pose for me so my ladies will look like wrestlers😀

Like them a lot, great movement and joy that comes from this picture! I like the 3rd one the most because the children jump out more. Really love it!

Excellent! I am feeling that a lot more now!