@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!
The featured student for August is Lisa Burvant! The Q&A with Lisa (@burvantill) is up on the blog. Below is an introduction to the Q&A that Kathryn Adebayo (@KATHRYNADEBAYO) conducted with Lisa:
"This month's featured artist fuels the fire within herself and other members of the SVSLearn community with a tenacious dedication to her craft. If you've been perusing the SVSLearn forums lately, you may know her! Here's a chance to learn from, and about, children's illustrator Lisa Burvant."
Read the whole Q&A on the blog.
Want to be featured on the homepage? Submit your art to this post by August 10th for a chance to be featured for September!
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 September. To be considered share 1-2 of your best pieces (you can re-share an image you posted last month, 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 10th of August to be considered for September. 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 everyone for your amazing submissions! If you didn't get chosen for August's featured student PLEASE consider submitting for next months! You can submit the same images you have already posted or include new ones (or both). It is so fun getting to see everyone's amazing work each month!
Here is a link to the new post!
@StudioLooong I love your character's expressions (especially the raccoon's), and the wonderful concept from your section image!
@burvantill I really like the way the first illustration turned out. Is it traditionally painted?