Hello everyone! I am choosing my art portfolio pieces to send off to college in a few days. I am planning to major in Illustration, hopefully children's book illustration. If anyone has any suggestions of which pieces I should include, I would love to hear your feedback. I have a general idea of which pieces i'll be including but an outside perspective would still be extremely helpful! The colleges that I am applying to require 12-20 pieces, but feel free to suggest as many or as few as you'd like. Here are all the pieces that I would consider adding to my portfolio: https://botheamelia.wixsite.com/pixus Thank you!!! : -)

Does anyone else have the problem of flipping the canvas SO often that you feel "blind" to both directions? I find myself having to rotate the canvas 90 degrees or flipping it upside down to get a fresh view on it, or else i need to step away from it for an entire 24 hours or more. I'm sure the solution to this would be restraint on flipping it so often haha, but i have yet to make myself exercise that restraint. I was just wondering if anyone else has had this kind of specific bad habit !

Hello everyone! Heres what i have been working on, right now im just blocking in the colors. Wondering if i should change the grey cat's arm positions, does it look as unnatural as i think it does? They are also supposed to be slightly caricatured, but i have had issues with making my slightly cartoony work read as intentionally non-realistic, if that makes sense. Any other critique is welcome as well, thank you!!!! everyone on this site always gives awesome tips

@chrisaakins i agree!! thank you for the critique!!

@Amanda-Bancroft ah, yes i remember, i love that one!! i'll have to rewatch it sometime soon, she is just so incredible

@Aaron_T @Nyrryl-Cadiz thank you so much for the critique! I have since workshopped the eyes and i think they look a bit better now, i agree they really weren't looking anywhere near the butterfly haha. I will work on that cast shadow!!

@Amanda-Bancroft thank you so much for the critique!! And im so glad to hear you like it so far as well. I am certainly very inspired by Therese Larsson and have watched all of her demos that i can find haha, does she have a class somewhere I can take?? :o

@Perrij thank you!! and WOW that looks a ton better. I will do something like this for sure! thank you so much for the paintover i really appreciate it!!!

Hi everyone! This is my newest illustration WIP, it's an Andean Mountain Cat. I wanted to work on fur and rock textures. I'm feeling okay about it but i'm unsure about the placement of the grasses, they don't look quite random enough maybe? Maybe it's just because they're not rendered yet. I'm also not quite in love with the colors, and i can't decide if it looks like the cat is looking at the butterfly haha. And does the background have too much contrast? Any advice is appreciated on these aspects or on any other part of the illustration!!! thank you!!!!!!!

@animatosoor @Coreyartus @IgorWoznicki here is the finished piece! thank you again for your tips!! feel free to critique this piece as a final version if you wish, although i don't plan on going back into it and making edits at this point in time. And @IgorWoznicki , my instagram is @pixus.art!