NOVEMBER CONTEST: SLOWVEMBER

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!

anya.macleod · 27 Nov 2019, 09:54

@SFischer I love the colours and the silhouette of the ape!

deborah Haagenson · 27 Nov 2019, 17:15

Hello! This is my first post to an SVSLearn contest. Thank you to Lee, Jake and Will for providing this opportunity for us to learn from them. I am having so much fun!!

peteolczyk · 27 Nov 2019, 17:29

@SFischer brilliant

ZeeZeeMonster · 27 Nov 2019, 20:45

@SFischer I love this one! The creativity behind it and the action are great. Made me laugh out loud.

deborah Haagenson · 27 Nov 2019, 21:25

@Connie-Resch hi connie. I love your background hills, trees and colors in the sky. I live in a cold climate and I get the feeling of a cool winter late afternoon when I look at it,

Jenny Lindqvist · 28 Nov 2019, 05:37

Hi! First time I'm joining a challenge here at svs This is the illustration I have be working on this month.

Lucelfo · 28 Nov 2019, 23:04

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franksandovalart · 4 Dec 2019, 18:52

Hi everyone!

This is my first time posting here in SVS Forum, there's a lot of amazing artist here.
I've wanted to enter in one of the art contest for a long time now, just haven't had the time to actually participate in any SVS art contest, i feel that the Slowvember challenge works perfectly for my current situation, currently looking for work an trying to provide for my family.

SVS courses are very cool and i found the courses to be very well done, learned allot about how to do Children books art and character and story development. all on which i am very interested in.

This illustration is called:
Kurtoise & Harry
The
Xerocole investigation

www.franksandovalart.com

https://www.instagram.com/franksandovalart/

Nathalie Kranich · 29 Nov 2019, 15:30

I too haven't had much time to take slowvember really slow this month, but I am still happy to say I spend a fair bit more time developing and working this one out. I needed bookcover examples for my portfolio, and this is gonna be one of them!
Hope you like it. Lots of great work this month!