@Kara_Bazley Hello! I love your watercolor and ink art style, and congrats on your first published book. That's so exciting. (:

Buenas! I lived in Tarcoles for 2 years and miss it so much. It's great to see a Tico on the forums Thanks for sharing your playful artwork. I'm looking forward to seeing more!

@Norman-Morana Thanks a lot for this Appreciate it!

@jdubz thank you for this, really 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

@ruth Thank you

she look so cute!! and just a little thing, but the ears in the first pose are a bit to high, also the left pocket on her backside is a bit to much to the right side. also I really love how you rendered her her at the last post! looks so fluffy and beautiful!

@RachelArmington i see. thanks for the advice!

I'm also aware there is a rogue whisker so ignore please ‍️

Hey! I'm getting offered a deal to illustrate a chapter book series. It would be a spot illustration with the chapter great, kinda what's going on in Harry Potter, and the covers. They're asking me what I charge and I have no idea! Anyone done anything like this before?

@fmb I’m so happy to hear that! Good luck ️️️

@AbbeyK thank you so much!

I wanted to do an original so if been working on this guy. It's been a nice change of pace to work something from my head.

@Ash-Lamb Oh ! sorry my bad (I didn't see the link there)! I'll go check it out !

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 .

@Abigail-Hookham lovely

@Michael-Angelo-Go Well done on getting your shop up and running. Ness is right about watermarks needing to cover the whole image. It's easy to remove them. Here's an example from the pic you posted. I just used the lasso and content aware button and used healing tool on the back paw. So that was the computer doing all the work. Took under a minute. I personally wouldn't bother with watermarks unless selling for stock images. They distract the eye from the image underneath. Signatures are best used on limited edition artwork or for selling originals (signed in pencil or paint). If it's an open edition I wouldn't sign it. Plus a digital signature can be lifted off and then placed on other art to pretend its made by you. For a digital signature, make sure it's not the same signature you sign cheques or credit cards with!

@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!

Final Version!! Winslow is in trouble!!

@Michael-Angelo-Go I actually love the original horizon line in terms of storytelling. To me, having the horizon line higher on the page and having the character facing the horizon makes it seem like the character is leaving behind a lot, taking a risk, or heading into the unknown (at least that's how I read it).