Oh, and I forgot to share my favorite piece that I worked on this year. It was this Adventureland poster, because it let me define a new detailed, retro style for myself in vector, while limiting myself to 7 colors. Also hippos.

Painted this piece for an exhibition this coming weekend at a local gallery in Dallas. Love working traditionally, and I'm focused on finding more avenues to do so this year.

Playing with Spectrum Noir and Copic markers this morning.

Here's my first time posting to the forums! I made this little big guy in response to the "breakable" prompt for Inktober. I had a blast getting away from the computer and getting my hands on real ink and watercolors.

Finally able to get to a project where I need to create groups of animals for 9 posters, and just completed the first group tonight. Also, I think sometimes you just have to illustrate a happy pig.

Final defeated the Inktober 52 color month!

Back into the contest after a year! Gonna try to do this every month moving forward to build up my portfolio.

Here's what I did for the second month of Inktober 52. What did everyone else come up with?

Week 5: Balloon

Week 6: Hammer

Week 7: Dinner

Week 8: Spider

Going to start development on a sci-fi graphic novel, so I painted Skull Chaser as a warmup exercise to get me in the right mindset.

For the day job, I've been tasked with making weekly coloring pages this summer. My art direction was, "Do whatevery you want!" So, I'm making fairy tale type illustrations, which I'll finish as watercolor paintings at some point to fill out my portfolio. Here are the two I've drawn so far.

@Pamela-Fraley My vote is for D for the reasons already listed in previous comments, but it's also the only composition where the characters are moving forward, rather than receding. That, combinded with the low angle shot, empowers the image.

@Heather-Boyd Thank you!

@holleywilliamson Totally agree with @NessIllustration - if you warm up the sky (and in the final reflect that warmth in the lighting of the characters), the water's coloring won't feel weird at all.

@Laurel-Aylesworth At work, I have one of those convertible to standup desks that my computer is on, but I never remember to use it. But I also have a hydraulic drawing board, and I do use that to stand and draw and ink on, which is great to relieve pressure on my back.

@Eelwick I really like the line work and where this is heading! My one note for the composition is that the tree on the right’s line creates a tangent with flying birds wing.

Though not strictly illustration, here's something that an illustration turned into. I took a sketch of the White Rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland" that I did earlier this month and sculpted a maquette based on it. I'm thinking of doing this for characters when starting long form projects (like picture books or graphic novels) to improved character consistency. I can already see with this one that sculpting him improved some of the proportions and design from the drawing, so I'm excited about working this into my creavite process moving forward.

@Mairin-Kareli Thank you! I've been focusing on improving my brush pen work with these pieces.

Two more coloring pages to close out the month!

@baileymvidler Thank you so much!

For the day job, I've been tasked with making weekly coloring pages this summer. My art direction was, "Do whatevery you want!" So, I'm making fairy tale type illustrations, which I'll finish as watercolor paintings at some point to fill out my portfolio. Here are the two I've drawn so far.