Hope you enjoy!

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer and their projects.thanks for all the great critiques!

Went with the moment of anticipation. Much Love and God bless! ONE!

Okay I am trying this again...can anyone see my post. If you cannot then I must find the right way to collect the url address.

A "Big" initiative. Hope you enjoy!

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Original Book by Verna Aardema

Hope you enjoy. Traditional mixed media. Much love and God bless!

Traditional art: pencil, inks, watercolor. Hope you enjoy. Much love and God bless!

Good morning, I pray everything is well with everyone. I just would like to share what I am currently working on. I crossed a video on YouTube that had an artist talking about a challenge he hit with. He was challenged to choose something and draw one a day for a year. I started out on that journey 21 days ago. Not sure if I will finish but I’m just having fun with drawing cheetahs. Here are a few of my preferred ones. Disclaimer: these may not be finished, I’m still in search of my style, and it may not be much like the other children’s book illustrations. I’m still trying to figure that all out. Thank you for allowing me to share. Much love!

@Chip-Valecek praying this works.

“Lisa’s robot invention worked great, until it had to monitor detention.”

I hope you all enjoy. Much love and God bless!

@Chip-Valecek thank you!

@chrisaakins wow this is stunning!

I pray everything is well with everyone. This class is a joy throughout my day. I figured I’d go ahead and post my first two assignments. The era is 1600-1730 and I thought it would be cool to move the beast onto a pirate ship, make him a pirate bound to his ship, and changing the wolf like beast to a sea creature beast.

What will be challenging would be to avoid the image of Daley Jones from the pirates of the Caribbean.

The first image is assignment #1 reference gathering. I really dig these picture, however I recognize that I could run into a problem using concept art and not actual references.

The second image is assignment number #2. This was my first time actually doing this haha I know that’s . It was a load of fun.

Update: assignment three proportion both head and body

I hope you enjoy. Thank you for allowing me to share my work. Much love.

Thank you for sharing you work. I would like to share what I have to remind myself but often forget.

Enjoy the process and the right people will enjoy it with you. Thank you again for sharing your beautiful work. Much love!

@burvantill @Lorna-H thank you for the kind words and time taken to share them. Also thank you for allowing me to share. The challenge will get boring but that will be the moment when your creativity will be able to flourish....some days it’s just a doodle and it really is disgusting to look at. However, I love that about looking at all the work. Thanks again for your time and encouragement. Much love!

Good morning, I pray everything is well with everyone. I just would like to share what I am currently working on. I crossed a video on YouTube that had an artist talking about a challenge he hit with. He was challenged to choose something and draw one a day for a year. I started out on that journey 21 days ago. Not sure if I will finish but I’m just having fun with drawing cheetahs. Here are a few of my preferred ones. Disclaimer: these may not be finished, I’m still in search of my style, and it may not be much like the other children’s book illustrations. I’m still trying to figure that all out. Thank you for allowing me to share. Much love!

@TessaW Awesome! Thank-you for that 2 cents. I will value it greatly. I was going for a more symbolic approach and was considering background images.

Your comment is a great reminder for me to do more planning. I actually progressed and made thumb nails this time. One of the tornado and Dorthy and the other of the witch overlooking oz. SN: I still have so much to learn. You are spot on about the arms. As the artist is just didn’t see it which is why i love hearing the feedback. When i look at it I’m drawn to an area but cannot pinpoint what it is exactly that i do not like. Hearing it from others helps me see it better.

As for thumb nails I’ll check but I think i deleted them to give me more layer space.

Thanks again for your honesty and insight. Much love and respect!

@carolinebautista Much respect! Thank you thank you thank you for your time and patience. I am in much gratitude. To share a little bit about me for the last 2 years i have been working on anatomy and the technical approach to art. I believe i am missing a lot of the other side of art. Like: the language of the poses, the emotion behind the art, the emotions and composition of the piece.

There is no need to apologize though i am grateful for your compassion. I did not give any perimeters to the critique mainly because I always am searching for the honesty from people that isn’t influenced by my words.

Even you reaction carried good insights and lessons for me to learn. In addition, your response. I am beyond happy no matter how tough it can appear. Can you really have the easy with out the tough? Anyways...over the internet is always difficult to understand other. Like is said in the other post it is how i take what you say.

I cannot thank you enough. Though I considering being less cryptic and more open to what I am looking for. I know i need to make a better transition from comic fan art to children’s book art. I agree that there could be a wiser approach to this image for parents to sit down and read this to their children.

Those of the things i need to learn to consider in my creating process, which is another reason I am grateful for your honest response and reaction.

It’s all love from me. Much love! ONE!

@Aisleen These are some cool ideas. I can see the potential in all of them. I like one. I’m excited to see how you tackle whichever one you choose. Much love.

@TessaW Those are awesome. thank you for your time and patience. Thank you for being patient with me responding. I just happen to not even see the notification for when you did comment. Yeah I should have done something with the eye and the lettering. I might have naturally fixed the nose focused in my submission. I really enjoy honest feedback and enjoy reading critiques throughout the forum to learn what i can. Thank you. Much love. ONE!