NOVEMBER CONTEST: SLOWVEMBER

chrisaakins · 24 Nov 2019, 13:17

@peteolczyk there is so much about this I love. I love the rendering with a the moving lines and textures. Such a great job. A winner for sure!

peteolczyk · 24 Nov 2019, 18:18

@chrisaakins cheers Chris, love your mice too, you have great set of characters there.

braden H · 24 Nov 2019, 23:42

@peteolczyk said in NOVEMBER CONTEST: SLOWVEMBER:

I wanted an excuse to play around with textures and a less polished looking drawing style.

That was obviously a really good idea. This turned out really REALLY awesome!

avfarrar · 25 Nov 2019, 05:12

@anya-macleod wow! I just love the colors you picked for this! It make the picture seem dreamy and cold yet warm and cozy. Love it!

anya.macleod · 25 Nov 2019, 08:23

@avfarrar thankyou that means a lot because I always struggle with picking colours!

peteolczyk · 25 Nov 2019, 08:47

@Braden-Hallett cheers Braden, you’ve got a great portfolio of work from this slowvember.

ZeeZeeMonster · 25 Nov 2019, 13:47

@peteolczyk your piece is wonderful. I love the action and tje gesture in the character

aprilshin · 26 Nov 2019, 02:45

@peteolczyk wowowow~ love the movement and the mood in this! Really awesome work!

karammitchell · 1 Dec 2019, 03:57

This is the first time I've entered the SVS contest. Here's to new goals! I've had this image in mind for a while. Being from Oklahoma, we studied the bison quite a bit. It's our state mammal. When I was in grade school, the species was endangered, and now we are eating them again. I think that's a triumph, right? (Incidentally, the bird is a scissor-tailed flycatcher and is the Oklahoma state bird. Ironically, it is becoming endangered.) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!! image url)

Heather Boyd · 3 Dec 2019, 21:13

@Tom-Shannon you have taken the ghost concept into a very sensitive perspective. I like that it has made me think.

Heather Boyd · 26 Nov 2019, 17:36

Welcome to the contest!

@karammitchell not certain if what I am going to say was intentional for you but I like how the mountain shape has been repeated through the hump of your bison (don't you just want to hug him, lols) and even the top of your scissor-tailed flycatcher's head - it helps bring unity to your image (I think that at least). Also seen in the clouds I forgot to mention.

karammitchell · 26 Nov 2019, 17:47

@Heather-Boyd Thank you! I'm glad those kinds of decisions are coming through!

Jenny Lindqvist · 26 Nov 2019, 19:23

Hi! I’m new here at this forum and I would like to join the contest this month. I’m not quite sure how to. Do I post an illustration directly here in this thread?

chrisaakins · 26 Nov 2019, 19:39

@Jenny-Lindqvist yes. Just make sure it's less than 500kb. I didn't know that for a long time.

Jenny Lindqvist · 26 Nov 2019, 19:58

@chrisaakins ah, okay! Thank you

SFischer · 26 Nov 2019, 22:00

Hey everyone! I'm going on a long Thanksgiving vacation through the end of the month so I have to stop working on this and just submit it!

Huge shoutout to everyone who gave me a critique when I was stuck. I printed out all of your comments and considered them one by one. Can't tell you how much you helped!

PS: I can't figure out this file size biz. Is this too large?

Happy Thanksgiving!

karammitchell · 26 Nov 2019, 22:11

@SFischer OH, my Gracious! This is so dynamic and exciting! And that color!!

Heather Boyd · 26 Nov 2019, 22:42

@SFischer Fabulous colour, texture, lighting, composition, character, expressions and mood! You should be mighty pleased with yourself -more like this please.

ArtofJoseGalue · 27 Nov 2019, 00:53

@SFischer Have a great vacation, you really made this piece pop!

Connie Resch · 27 Nov 2019, 05:01

Hi everyone! So this is my very first time submitting to a svs challenge. I'm pretty new and only in the past month or so started getting into children's book illustration, even signed up for a local (in person!!) workshop on children's book illustration starting in Jan so I'm excited about that. I'm still working on finding my style, I work traditionally and I love to draw in mostly pencil/ink/watercolour but I decided to bust out the acrylics on this one with a little digital fine-tuning at the end. I'm not super happy with how I couldn't get the details that I wanted with the brush.
So is my Canadianness showing?? My original idea was a girl with braids playing hockey but decided it would be more fun with friends...this is very intimidating I might add thanks for looking!