Lisa thought that her calculations were correct this time. The robot was responding correctly, its movements were stable, everything was working great... Except for one, tiny, insignificant crack in the robots body. Lisa grabbed her blow torch, thinking, What's the harm in a quick fix....

The sun sank low on the horizon and the heat of the day began to ebb as the old man walked through the homes of the departed. Gulls screeched in the sky, crying out for the mans fish. He held the bucket tighter as his steps disappeared into the drifting sand.

lovely work everyone.

Mr. Herbert McGillicuddy knew something peculiar was going to happen when he sat down for his afternoon tea. He knew, because his wife was never late and was always in her chair by 4pm. He sipped his tea as his eyes watched the clock tick slowly past 3:59.

Suddenly, everything was rattling, falling apart and breaking! Mr. Herbert thought perhaps it was a good thing his wife was no where to be seen... or was she?

Monochrome Month Prompt for today was Giant in the Garden. Reminded me of some of @Braden-Hallett work. So I went with some Megafauna and thought about some of the lessons/tips from his live stream! Another big thank you, Braden!

If you didn’t get a chance to see it live I recommend watching it when he posts it

Hey all! Long time no post haha but I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in following along with me on my build for the SVS podcast illustration.

For a recap - I won in April with my Lisa Dimensional illustration and will be building my podcast illustration in a similar way (though with much much less stuff).

Some of you expressed a lot of interest in following along with the Lisa project so I wanted to see if there was interest in following this shorter project for SVS learn.

Hope you're all well!

Here she is!!! And I loooovvveeeeee her!!! It was painful at first but once I saw her turning into the little unsuccessful inventor I was excited to "mess her up."

Super excited to finish this! I'm hoping the rest of this goes by a little faster and I finish in time

Ok so I’m beginning the April WIP... I’m going to try to keep it pretty simple because my hope is that I can.... wait for it......

Build it.
Eep!

So after commenting on Will’s post about our dreams I thought long and hard about all the excuses I’ve been making about why I am not putting some of my dreams into action. So here we go. Baby steps. I’m hoping I can accomplish a dimensional illustration for this months prompt.

Here are my two compositions- again staying very simple because... sculpture lol but let me know what you guys think. Either of these work? Or back to the drawing board.

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March on fellow artists!

🥰🥰 progress!

Working on the hands next. Sigh I am feeling doubtful I can finish this by the end of the month. But I will do my very best!!!

He may not have many repeat clients... but I've heard he gives amazing life advice.

Just popping in to say I love this t-rex. He reminds me of a gummy bear and that makes him the best kind of t-rex ever. I want a stuffed version of him to hug, since he looks like he needs one.

Excited to see the finished cover! (I like #1 the best, layout font, etc. It is a quick read, gets the point across. Though I think to get the "Hex" part across maybe a BIG crack of lightening could be flashing in the background.)

Something else I'd like to suggest is that currently the texture used across the whole piece is very even/all over. This means that the wonderful texture on the dragon, is actually feeling kind of lost because the same texture is found everywhere else.

I also feel that you could push the value structure much more. Where is the light coming from? If you figured out where your light source was you could really make some great lighting for this scene. Right now there's no strong focal point/Direction for the viewers eyes. If you turn this black and white the values are all pretty even in the background and the foreground. So figured out what you want the viewer to look at... Is it the dragons eye? The girl? What do you want the viewer to see first, and what do you want them to see second?

vs.

Or something likewise.

Just play around until you get something that feels right for the story

@Frost-Drive Haha thanks! I started each of them based specifically on one shape. Glad it came across.

I actually lean towards 1 too because I find it to be the most clear... but I think I need to play around more and push and pull things because 1 is also the most generic... My worry with #4, though I like the concept, is it might get kind of confusing if I don't pull it off right.

But! That's the challenge right?

@bofrese That is so cool - I was looking for an app like this but couldn't find anything that felt right. I look forward to checking it out!!

Thanks all!

I really appreciate the feed back and will definitely look at pushing and pulling the crystal ball cover to see what I can squeeze out of it.

Thumbnails Round 1!

I'm excited for this. I was just beginning to read the Magical Monarch of Mo and thinking about doing some work based on that book after playing with some Wizard of Oz characters.

So I'm really excited to work on this cover.
This is just round 1 of roughs. I think I'll make quite a few before deciding which direction I want to go with.

I'd love some thoughts!

ohhhh this is so exciting! I was just doing some Oz sketches and reading about the other works written by Baum.

So here is my start.
From the top of my rabbits head to the bottom of his feet is 6 inches, a little taller than I wanted but I figure he will squash a bit.

I measured out a length of wire from toe to tip of ear and then doubled it - which came out to 24" of wire, folded in half to about 12 inches and then shaped. I made two of these which will create the spine, and the legs.

Then I wrapped the whole thing in pipe cleaners and added arms.

Now, this is heavy duty. You do not need to do this much wire. You could easily do half as much wire but I wanted my guy to be pretty sturdy.

Wool: Nice soft wool, great smooth colors.
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Wool: Very textured - GREAT core wool, beautiful colors.
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Wool: Great short fiber wool for super fast felting. Tiny amounts of wool, but they go a long way.
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Needles:
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@Mara-Price That's a tough question... Personally I have bought about 1lb of core wool, because I know I'll use it and because it can be less expensive when you purchase more. For the bunny itself - it won't take that much wool. I wish I could give you more precise measurements.

The amount of colorful wool is hard to determine because sometimes you need to layer a lot, sometimes you need only a little of certain colors. Like I know I need a bunch of red, but I also am going to use a little blue, some yellow perhaps, but only small amounts of those.

I am going to be making my rabbit about 3-4 inches tall. So not very big, but it may be easier for you starting out to work a little larger so you can work in more details if you'd like! Small works great if you don't want to worry about details and just overall shape.

I'll be using the wire armature so that I can pose and bend my rabbit.

I'm going to link some shops I use in a moment!