decided to be on the ball and enter early! I'm a bit confused on what size the image should be though..........?I know there was a post a while back but I can't find it now.

Making myself a bit crazy with last minute changes so I am posting so I can go have a life lol!

@ruth , your characters are too freaking cute!

Bad ole horsie bot

I wanted to combine adding a portfolio piece that used one of my previous characters with the contest this month, so here is the return of my little mouse from the Nightfall contest in February. I started sketching this mouse character last September for the inktober prompt ring.
Have a great day everyone.

I polished an illustration I did last fall now that I understand photoshop a bit better ! Getting ready to have a website going

also was working on losing the linework a bit. I'm not very good at linework and I like working on edges so am learning to lean into that a little

Ok, done! This is actually early for me, haha. Usually I’m right up to the deadline lol.

my mousie in the wedding band

calling it done and moving on

Art drop sounds fun. I wasn’t aware of it and I live in the boonies lol, so maybe a squirrel might find it haha. Have fun with yours.

I’m working on doing a sketch everyday I. September ( too many days I don’t actually draw). Upping my game at being regular about drawing.

Day 1

I did this in procreate, forgetting I needed to give myself time to work on it in photoshop live and learn! It loses something in translation.
Anyhoo, I made it the deadline so I am very proud of that because it’s been hard to focus.

everyone who made the deadline should be proud of themselves, and anyone who didn’t should cut themselves a lot of slack. No big deal. It’s been a rough month.

Stay safe everyone! Hugs too!

@Whitney-Simms mostly the people who commission me are friends or Facebook friends at least. I have been painting pets for maybe 6 years off and on and I post them on my Facebook when I'm done (usually). I have a Facebook art page as well but mostly I guess word of mouth/Facebook history over the years. Often I get commissioned when a pet passes away. The other day I passed on my condolences on a pet's passing and almost immediately they contacted me for a large commission. I wasn't trying to hit them up! I really felt sad about it. Anyhow I think people just know now that I do it and have it tucked away in their minds until they decide they're Ready. I'm sure yours will grow over the years too!

@NessIllustration omg, this is adorable! It's raining dog portraits lately ha Ha

@Whitney-Simms I got swamped in dog portraits too, I had to actually start telling people I couldn't finish them by Christmas. I didn't even advertise but I've done a few for Christmas for probably the last 5: years or so so I guess this year people thought of it. Super cool. I'm actually making some decent income from them too which is a first lol

I like the last one best! It has more interesting detail and shapes,and I agree the first one looks like a speech bubble from the building LoL. But I think you're on a good track with it for sure. Excited to see what you do from here!

@Heather-Boyd I'm busy with kid stuff atm but will take a look and respond a little later tonight

@Carmanda thanks, so good to have fresh eyes on it! I’m going to be busy testing out some of these things on it tonight.

@Neha-Rawat thank you so much for those thoughts. I'll definitely try this stuff out!

Toning down the hearts and shadows and amped up the snow. I don't know if it's too much snow. I kind of like the softness of it all

@chrisaakins yes. I was looking for sort of a bas-relief type effect. Maybe it’s too much. Someone else asked me that same question. So maybe it’s a bit over-cooked.....hmmmm. I’m still playing around and the shadows are are in a separate later so I could lose them or fade them. I’d be interested to hear what others think. Because maybe right now it looks like I made shadow mistakes hahaha

@EliaMurrayArt oh. My. Gawd. Those little portraits are gonna be so cute!