Thank you @Heather-Boyd and @LauraA for the tips! I definitely took them into account when painting the first panel and will do for the following ones!

Here's my entry! My slowvember was so slow that I only painted one of the four panels that make the book spread ...but I learned so much from it!!

Haven't fixed the drawings yet (I will do I once I get ready to paint the final in traditional media) but since they weren't big changes, I thought I would go ahead and do values and color studies, trying to make the illustrations part of the same world yet different. Note: color fills are not always super precise cause I had to work with my trackpad (waiting for a new cable for my tablet) but hopefully you'll get the idea

@LauraA thank you! such a small world (vorrà dire che magari capiterà di incontrarci!! )

I agree with previous comments, 10 is the most interesting. One question: is the kid in a higher position than the other character? He looks like he's on a tree or wall or something. It could be interesting to leverage this and show where he actually is more explicitly. Looking forward to seeing your next steps!

@theprairiefox gotcha, will fix it!

@theprairiefox thank you for the feedback, super helpful!

Agree with you, the glasses are a little distracting, maybe they can be resting on his head on just in a normal position, I'll try out a couple options.

I had also thought at some point that one plant growing into the other could be kind of weird, the fact that you see it too gives me a clear direction!

Regarding the house, do you mean the window of the last one near the tree or the edge of the one in front (or potentially both, now that I think about it...)?

Good luck to you too! My current mindset is: even if I don't finish by the end of the month, better to stay true to the spirit of Slowvember, go slow and get the most out of it

I am still a little behind, but I'm hopeful I'll make it. Here is my current progress: I picked spread number 2 in the end, the part of the story where the plant comes to life and did a bunch of thumbnails to test different narrative approaches. The four illustrations I landed on will be closer together in the end (2 per page, forming a large spread). I am ready to move to value studies, where I'll have to figure out how to make the plant glow in the dark. I would still love to hear some feedback regarding composition or storytelling. Side note: I am thinking that this spread could be accompanied by a simple line of text that says something like: "But overnight..."

What I have done so far was setting a list of priorities for myself, based on where I felt that I needed more training (based on my goal, which is creating a first portfolio that can get me some kind of work). I literally made a list of illustration skills (core drawing skills, storytelling, process ...) and assigned myself a score, trying to look at the work of PROs I look up to. Items with lower scores got the highest priority and I turned them into self-given assignments.

I like your character, he's really cute and it makes me want to see more of the story. Just a couple tiny tweaks I would make: I would enhance the gesture of the hand (maybe 5 fingers or more variation in the length of the fingers can make it more explicit that he's trying to grab the little animal like a ball) and I would perhaps sketch out the volumes of the trunk/branch a little bit more, just to make shapes look more solid. Definitely not a must, but I like the character so much that I would love to see more of his equipment or other bugs he has captured! Keep it up, great work! I also love your latest style studies!