Our SVS Virtual Studio February❤️2020

[braden H]

Finding examples of soft light to paint is challenging for some reason.

[braden H]

I know I'm posting a lot, but I really really like this one First half of a full spread for a book dummy.

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett Post away! We love your work.

[braden H]

Rim light study

[ArtofJoseGalue]

I ended up convincing my client to let me do an illustration for a "kids cooking" event. Worth saying that my client is a country club and it is hard to mix my style with their membership.

[braden H]

Chase, or no chase?

[mikorad]

@Braden-Hallett Such a fun composition, so much story to be inferred! THISis goalz for me.

[deborah Haagenson]

@Braden-Hallett Great line work! You are so good. I love to look at what you create.

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett Oh most definitely CHASE. LOL

[jwing]

Painted some chocolates for St. Valentine's Day! :^)

[braden H]

Most reference for rays of light I can find are in forested very leafy areas. I've found something I need to work on, lol.

[braden H]

Gonna enter the SCBWI 'draw this' contest. The prompt is 'secret admirer'. They seem to often go for kinda cliche images (though I'm sure they have their own criteria) so I'm goin' with a classic pairing.

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett I’m doing that one too. I’m trying to combine Nightfall AND Secret admirer. Lol. Two birds with one stone kinda thing. Good luck!

[StudioLooong]

@burvantill I was thumb-nailing ideas for doing that yesterday too. Not sure if I'll finish anything since Draw This is due on the 20th... I'm also debating whether it would be better for me to stop doing all these prompts and start concentrating on a book dummy. I'm feeling a little discouraged with the whole art contest thing. It never seems to work out for me.

[Heather Boyd]

@Braden-Hallett your line-less studies are cool.

Yesterday night I burned out a lot, but started this morning with cleaning up and moved to sketching character studies -below. I like the volume created in the skirt in Salu B. C by Kevin Roulland was a favourite to draw -she’s got an exaggerated expression and gesture (brings out her spunk, edge and sass) along with those beautiful angles. And D by Ciara Nina -I left out her face and put in my own eyes and mouth, D makes me so happy to look at.

I’m working on watercolour soon and I will be putting in some elements that I like that I have been hesitating to try.

Thanks guys,

[braden H]

@Heather-Boyd said in Our SVS Virtual Studio February️2020:

your line-less studies are cool.

They are helping SO much

[braden H]

Now with more mousey reaction and sense of scale. Also, what the heck was the mouse hiding behind before? Now a flaring table foot.

[burvantill]

@StudioLooong don’t get discouraged. Back in October for the Penny challenge I didn’t make the top 16 and I was really really REALLY bummed because I thought I did a good job, so I took two months off, and then I came back and did the January prompt and I am a winner!
Use the emotion your feeling to come back harder!

[Katie Kordesh]

hoping to finish these turn arounds and expression sheets by monday

[braden H]

@StudioLooong @burvantill I felt similar for January's prompt. I spent soooooooo much time on December's prompt but didn't make it in, either. Sometimes your concept lands, and sometimes it doesn't

Workin' on a book dummy is also a good thing to do. Whatever keeps you making more content, right?