Featured Student for May

[AustinShurtliff]

We are halfway through another month! Thank you again for sharing all of your amazing work each month. PLEASE consider posting again if you were not chosen for a previous month (even if it is the same image as before). If you have any thoughts or suggestions about this opportunity please feel free to share them as a comment or to send me a message!

Instructions:
This post is a place to share work if you want to get a chance to be featured in the Student Art Gallery on the SVSLearn.com homepage for April. To be considered, share 1-2 of your best pieces (you can re-share an image you posted previously, but this is also a great opportunity to push yourself and add a new piece to your portfolio) on this forum post. Make sure to share your image by the last day of April to be considered. Also, make sure your images are at least 800 pixels on the shortest side and do not exceed 1mb in size. If your illustration includes text on it please post a copy with and without the text on it.
Work will be selected based off of how well the work uses the following:

Concept: how well does your illustration convey a clear concept/story. Is it a unique approach? Does it make me want to know more about what is happening in the illustration?

Technique: How is the composition working? Does it have good use of lighting, rendering, mark making, etc.? Does the technique compliment the concept?

If you are selected, we will be emailing you using the email indicated on your forum account. Besides your art being displayed on the homepage, you will also be sent some questions for a Q&A blog post that will be shared on the SVSLearn blog.

Staying safe!
Austin

[Jeremy Ross]

Hi @AustinShurtliff, you can’t win if you don’t play!

[chrisaakins]

@AustinShurtliff When do we hear who was selected for April? Has the student been selected?

[ArtofAleksey]

Technically these have text but they are titles (made up) and part of the image so I thought I would leave it.

[Wen Sylvestre]

@AustinShurtliff hi, I'm "self taught" (with the help of youtube and such), new to the forum and I just started the curriculum at SVS. These illustrations below are done last year, before I joined SVS. Now I'm learning about the structure of shapes, perspective, etc and a whole new way of working opens up to me. A much more solid approach, so I can't wait to see where that's going to take me!

First piece, with and without text: The wolf got bigger....

Second image, an idea for a counting book:

[SpencerT]

Am I doing this right? hahaha

[Heather Boyd]

@Wen-Sylvestre

Just lovely, no doubt your work will grow.

[Wen Sylvestre]

@Heather-Boyd Thank you so much Heather for your kind words, that is really encouraging! I just had a look at your instagram feed and I really love the style of the newer posts. Did you use pencils and watercolour?

[Heather Boyd]

@Wen-Sylvestre

The two friends (boys) I used thin layer of gouache and then pencil crayon. Thank you for looking at my work I appreciate it very much. I prefer to go the "Benji Davies" route with more selective details on top of flat applied paint. I just bought his "The Storm Whale" 2 books.

[Wen Sylvestre]

@Heather-Boyd I see now that you tell about your process in the descriptions of your images on instagram. I love that! It's so nice to see what kind of materials are being used, thank you
I have the first storm whale book and absolutely love it. Beautiful story and beautiful illustrations.

[andreazupcsan]

I always forget about this, I need to make a point to push myself for next month!

[A Former User]

Why not try. Here is one of my illustrations.

[Kaela McCoy]

It's worth a shot! Here's "Cloud Gardening"!

[AustinShurtliff]

@chrisaakins yes they were selected the first week of April. They will be announced when the blog post with their Q&A goes up next week. I will post about it on the form as an announcement too.

[AustinShurtliff]

@Jeremy-Ross too sure. Thanks for participating agin! I really like the concept in your first piece.

[AustinShurtliff]

@Wen-Sylvestre Thats great! Thank you for sharing your work. The new curriculum is pretty cool. I would love to hear more about your experience with the curriculum.

[Dima Eichhorn]

@AustinShurtliff Here's my entry! Good luck everyone!

[Dima Eichhorn]

@SpencerT You should post this wonderful image in "APRIL CONTEST: Lisa's robot invention worked great, until it did this..." Good luck!

[SpencerT]

@Dima-Eichhorn I did. Thank you!

[chrisaakins]