We have decided to make a change to the schedule for the monthly featured student posts. This means that we are going to move the due date for submissions to the last day before the month in question (for example, the February featured student entries will be due by the 31st of January). It is amazing to see all of the great work that you keep sharing each month, and it is soo hard to select just one entry. 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 January. 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 January 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.

Good luck with your submissions this month!
Austin

If you were selected for the Featured Student: Inktober edition, you can still keep post for chance to be featured. Can't wait to see what everyone submits!

Heres another chance to get your work featured on the SVSLearn homepage! We have been having so many great submissions that it is really hard to just pick one. If you have posted in the past and not been selected PLEASE consider posting again (even if it is the same images 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 January. 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 5th of January 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.

I can't wait to see what everyone posts this month!
Austin

Thank you to everyone that has submitted something so far! It is a lot of fun seeing how each of you approached Inktober this year.

We have decided to do something a little different for October's featured student. To help celebrate Inktober we are going to be featuring a group of 5 students that participate in the challenge! Anyone that participates in Inktober this year is invited to post some of the ink drawings they do to this post before October 25 (UPDATE) October 29th. We will then reach out to those that are selected with a short Inktober themed Q&A that will be posted in November.

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 November. To be considered share 1-2 of your best Inktober pieces (they need to be from 2019) on this forum post. Make sure to share your image by the 25th of October to be considered. Also, make sure your images are at least 800 pixels on the shortest side and do not exceed 1mb in size.
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?

Ink: Was it created using ink (either digitally or traditionally)?

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 a few questions for a Q&A blog post that will be shared on the SVSLearn blog.

I can't wait to see what everyone posts this year!
Austin

@Amanda-Bancroft thank you for sharing your illustrations! The text on the halloween piece is fine because they are part of the scene or object in the design and not text added over top (like on your second image or in a picture book). While greeting cards are not long-form stories, they still contain story elements so they still qualify for this opportunity. I hope that makes sense!

@Sean_H thank you for sharing this piece! I really like all of the movement in your illustration.

@Aleksey I really like the fun details and characters on the second one too! Great work!

@StudioLooong these look great! I really love the fun frogs on the first image!

@burvantill I fixed the link to your website on the blog post. Thank you for letting me know about the typo! I'm happy this has been such a positive experience for you. You have some great work.
Thanks for the great interview!