A first entry..I'm sure I'll do better next month!

Three dragonflies carefully carrying their human babies on a high flying adventure! I want to be the one peeking over the side..why does everyone want to fly?

This is also my first time committing to Inktober..semi committing Likely will only do a few of them. I'm really lame with traditional ink, so went digital. Some might say, nope. Still lame. But giving it a go, mainly to support Inktober this crazy year.

Wow, so much talent at SVS. I wasn't going to participate this month, but then realized it's way more fun if my entry is in the mix. Good luck everyone!

Wow, so many great entries...good luck everyone! Now that I'm finished I see so many areas I should go back and try again, but I'm a work in progress. I learn something with each one.

I've been doing little snowmen scenes! Two different skies on the first. I had used a portion of a watercolor painting layered underneath of the darker toned one but it's not working I don't think. So changed it out ..I'm still using a layer of traditional medium for the sky portion, but I think it's more 'opened up' and I kind of prefer it.

and this one:

I deleted a previous image.. I rushed the submission. I puttered some more which resulted in a better [to my eye]image. Lesson learned. Put it away and look with fresh eyes in the morning before submitting it as 'finished'

Cropped the image and worked some more with the value. Much better and that's it.. Finished, not perfect.

I'm not going to do every single day, so put together days 6 & 7 and came up with a couple of fancy rodents indulging in afternoon tea!

This really does get more frustrating daily. Maybe I'm naive but I tend to think this may be as simple as professional jealousy! The climate of the world right now is not in Jake's favor either, I think that's another unspoken factor.
I used to work with glass..I made glass beads and at least once a year there would be one artist call out another for copying a design. It's the same sort of thing. There are only so many ways can you design a bead without there being some sameness going on. But the perceived wronged one was so passionately indignant that they would stir up a noisy crowd for several days. Then of course, it would die down until the next time. We all want to be a star. An original star. and the thing is, there really is room for all of us. The success of Jake's book would not hurt the success of Alphonso's book. What a terrible waste of energy and I really hope that Jake can continue to just keep rising above it all.

I've been a member for a little while without a post of my own. So I guess today is the day I share. The talent in here is amazing and quite intimidating.

I've been a glass artist [my own glass beads for jewelry] for years but did do watercolors for several years before the glass. Earlier last year, I fell into illustrating [2 so far] childrens books for a brand new publishing company and just enjoyed it so much, the glass is put away for now. One of the books will be out next month and I'm in the midst of working on the other at the moment.
This is a watercolor I did of my grandson scanned into photoshop and worked on very minimally [this is not from either book or even the same style] and although Im not really looking for critiques, Im always wanting to learn and improve so if you feel so inclined, I won't be offended. I know there are many flaws..but it is, at the moment, a personal best.
Im just learning digital art..a brand new language for me and I'm so so so excited to have stumbled upon SVS, a WEALTH of information that I'm trying my best to drink up and apply to my work. I can't seem to sketch right in photoshop..its easier for me to start with a scan. I played with some brushes to see if I could improve upon my little boy..and I think I did. I do love this new to me medium and see where if I can improve upon this now with my extremely limited digital skills, it might get pretty exciting in the future!

Thanks so much for looking and any words of wisdom/advice you might have. I love the vibe at SVS..I feel like I can do this little show and tell without too much anxiety!

I've also posted some of my work there. I like to pin and will pin my travel photos as well. I also love to use it as a giant recipe box and pin any great recipe I come across..either on the Pinterest site itself, or random food sites.
You do that by adding the Pin app to your browser..I've had a lot of fun with it, but have really noticed an influx of scummy ad videos lately.

I am a grandmother x 4 @LauraA
I always enjoy the podcasts, but especially this one. I very easily slide into negative self-talk that involves..'why on earth are you even trying to get into this children's book industry, you are so far behind!' So it was really good to hear this discussion.
I recognized myself in the comment that you tend to lock into the art style of your day. I need to somehow contemporize..is that a word? my style. That's the goal for 2021!

@LauraA Now that you mention it!

@JDRpictures Wow, great job!.. Is this traditional? it almost looks like chalk.

That was so courageous.. I wish you all the best this year. I think it takes several months before we start to feel like we fit in a new place, but everyone's different. I love your yeti. Can't wait to see your finished piece and welcome back

@JoshuaDages I'm so impressed with these 50 things illustrations. Yours is really outstanding! Your tight detailed rendering is so well done and complete. I struggle with that. This makes me want to go and finish that class.

@RajSolankiArt That is so great...Big congratulations!

Personally, I think I'd be a little more forthcoming rather than tactful and tell them in your opinion WHY it doesn't work. Foreground background rules..whatever. Sometimes its your honest passion that sells your idea. I've been in your shoes and I did win out in the end. I don't know that it was a win because I didn't care for the entire book..lol. But at least in the instance that I took a stand on, they listened to me. Good luck and congrats on a decent deal.

@David-starfas He's so cute..the hiked up pants just make me laugh.

Wow, so many great entries...good luck everyone! Now that I'm finished I see so many areas I should go back and try again, but I'm a work in progress. I learn something with each one.