Our SVS Virtual Studio MAY 2019

[Jason Bowen]

I'm working on my environment design at the moment.

[burvantill]

@Jason-Bowen thats really cool.

[burvantill]

Postcard 1 finished.

If anyone is interested, here is a link to a great resource for postcard information. Lots of illustrator interviews specifically about their mailings.

[demotlj]

I’m glad you started a new thread, Lisa @burvantill The studio thread is such a great place to see what people are working on and where we can post stuff that doesn’t really need an entire thread to itself but that is still fun to share.

Here is the current piece I’m working on. The caption will be something like: “Chepi was lucky Lex the Lion had just started a diet that morning.” (I’m using reference from the Algonquin area of Canada so I chose an Algonquin name for the squirrel.) Next, a value study.

[Jason Bowen]

@burvantill thanks

[A Former User]

How have I only just come across these Studio threads, this is a great idea! I love seeing what people are working on.
I'm currently working on a portfolio piece from a story idea that I've got called 'Puffin Island', still working on the details of the story but it's basically set on an small island off the coast of Scotland in which Sophie McTavish, her Uncle Ned (or her Dad, not decided yet) and the dog, Rupert, live in and man the lighthouse for the island. I've got story ideas which include merpeople, a seaweed monster, a giant octopus etc but I'm just trying to finally write it all down as a whole story rather than bits and bobs, and maybe they'll turn into a few different stories
There's actually an island off Anglesey, North Wales (where I live in the UK) called Puffin Island, but sadly there aren't any actual Puffins on it but I've always loved the idea, so each illustration I do for the story will have several Puffins included somehow

[Chip Valecek]

Here is a lil cutie I finished up last night. Mothers Day is around the corner so ya know go say Hi to Mom.

[Heather Boyd]

@hannahmccaffery Love your characters their adorable

[burvantill]

Postcard number two finished.

[chrisaakins]

Working on a wedding pic.

[Erin.Cortese]

@Chip-Valecek The mole is adorable

[kylebeaudette]

The Hound

[Nathalie Kranich]

I'm working on a painting inspired by the Wisteria vines I saw so many of in Germany recently. They;ve become one of my favourite flowers! The man's gonna stay faceless, like a faded memory. I've been reading Murakami.

[evilrobot]

Painted over this sketch.

[braden H]

Redid one of my old prompts for a maybe postcard.

Onward, noble steed.

[A Former User]

@Heather-Boyd Thank you

[A Former User]

@Braden-Hallett This is brilliant, that dogs face really made me chuckle!

[Chip Valecek]

@evilrobot that paint over is epic

[Amber Lynn Benton]

I just completed my very first master copy. Original by J.P. Miller.

My copy done in watercolor, gouache and colored pencil. No digital edits other than getting scanned colors to accurately depict the original and healing a couple of colored pencil crumbs. My colors are slightly off IRL. My printer slightly cropped the original which is why my clouds are cut off.

I had quite a bit of trouble placing the eye - I should have done a quick value even on the ipad before painting and I would have seen the issue beforehand. I also had no drybrush experience - I like it!

Thinks I learned - I rely more on line work in my work than shape - something to pay attention to. Also, stop when you get tired. It's obvious in the detail work that I was running out of steam. If I was fresh I would have tested my mark making and perhaps have been more accurate.

Things like markmaking and whiskers that are spontaneous linework are very difficult to copy!

I think the next thing I want to do is go into my sketches and pick out one of my original rabbits and place it in a scene reminiscent of this one and complete it in a similar style.

[Heather Boyd]

@Amber-Lynn-Benton

Sorry which one is yours?
I like both I think you did a nice job. How do you find drawing pencil crayon over top of gouache and watercolour?