My favorite piece of the year is the one on the left (I am still struggling with the scanned version, because the colors are off... I am much more proud of the real one :)), while this month I am working on a few finished illustrations that I am uploading on Society 6. It's a total experiment and I don't know where it will take me, but I am having fun with it!
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 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.
