@Arthur-Campling
Thanks for the detailed response! I love my pencil sketches but they lose their “life” when I redraw over them in procreate. I’ll be rethinking my process.

@Geoffrey-Mégardon
Took your advice! I think I’m happy with where the piece is at now but if you have any other feedback I’d love to hear it.
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@AngelinaKizz thanks, I’ll check it out!

@Abigail-Hookham This is so cute, and the bottles definitely stand out more now.

@stayhomejoe one thing I noticed with all the heads, remember that skulls stick out a bit in the back to make room for the brain. So make sure that your heads are the same way. Using a reference can help.
"Sam Does Art" is a super helpful youtube channel and he often does critiques and mentions using his skull prop, calling it "the skull of his enemies" haha

@Georgios-Christopoulos In fact I liked the first image you posted best, as it looked cleaner and really comic book.

I'm not getting any Godzilla vibes, looks great to me! 🙂 My only other thought is that she could be holding her head in a kind of exasperated way? But I like the way her paws fill the space and lead you into the scene, so probably perfect as it is. 🐯 Good luck! Looking forward to seeing the finished piece.

@larue hmmm...maybe...I'll but some thought into fixing for sure. Thank you for your feedback!!!!! I'm looking forward to seeing it in color too. 😃

@Abigail-Hookham The changes definitely made this a stronger image. Thanks for sharing the updates.

@Georgios-Christopoulos looks nice! I cant wait to see the rest of the journey!

Hello everyone.
After 3 or 4 months going around the fundamentals on level 1, I gave the step to level 2 and started the prop design course.

For my lamp, and because I clearly hate myself so I go for a super complex thing right on, I went for a portable magical lamp. A quick resume of the idea is that it is a lamp made by the magicians engineers (think fantasy world, with magical technology, kind of a mix between fantasy and steampunk), and it's used for explorations purposes, like mines, dungeons, stuff like that. Its on and off switch is with magic, so if you are not a magical person, you are out of luck with these, sorry.

A note is that is not intended to be specifically for children's books, so regarding style, that's not important for me.

So I made my silhouettes:
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And then chose one idea, made 2 thumbnails, and a quick sketch:
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I know I should have probably try a simpler lamp to start, but hey, it's learning. Wether I end up being able to pull it off and all the struggle will teach me a lot, or I am not and will learn a ton from that too, and then try again with a simpler concept.

One of my major concerns at this point is the 1/2 vs 1/3 rule. When I got to the end I realised I didn't really thought of that, and since it is a somehow symmetrical design, am wondering if something should/needs to be done relating that?

I also know that in here, I may not being able yet to show the entire concept on how each part is exactly, but basically, imagine a glass ball, but in this case is more of an egg shape (and is more of a magic crystal than glass). Then the top, bottom and those lines on the wingy shapes are a metal structure that keeps it all together. Was this more or less clear for you just by looking at the image, or were you so lost that you couldn't even understand how this could be a lamp?

Thank you.

@ajillustrates Haha...I'll try it! Lighting is not my strong suit so I'm unsure I'll pull it off. Worth experimenting with though - thanks!

@lizardillo My brain kept telling me the same thing about the honey, but I told it to shut up and enjoy the art 😉

Alright,I m calling this done!
In the journey of searching and avenging the shark goblins who have Josephs underwater village under capture, some mistakes were made by the young at heart Dominic.
He stays fierce though,no problem at all!!
Always having a blast with full illustrations!!

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@lizardillo or is that bad beehive-yer. 😉

Sorry about the delay but I just wanted to say thank you for the help and support with this. It’s my first time posting a WIP and figure/face design is something I really need to work on which I why I took on the brief as a personal challenge. I actually decided to give up on this at one point because I was struggling a lot. The feedback helped me to decide to go for it at the last minute (and finished at 3.30am UK time to hit the MST time zone deadline). Thank you, I really appreciate it.

@HeatherBouteneff Oh awesome! Let me know if I get the official Mira seal of approval from her!

Final Version!!
Winslow is in trouble!!

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I agree, 1 and 4 are great. love the eyebrows and the dragging hands.

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