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

Hi! It has been an excessive while since I've posted on the forums but when I got invited to participate in the November prompt finalists... well I figured I should do something....

I have been having a super hard time with burn out lately and haven't felt like drawing much or making much of anything. And feeling quite overwhelmed when I do.. lots of self doubt and apathy.

But I'm actually feeling kind of excited to make something again so I'm hoping this will bring me out of my burn out.

I do not have a ground breaking idea here... since I procrastinated for so long I don't have much time.

But! I recently found this old worn our toy chair and decided to rebuild it and based my idea completely off of that.

Here is the original chair

And how I've updated it!

My idea is simple - a bear poppop reading to his little cubbos

And I've started making the bears

Again, nothing crazy. But I figure sometimes you just do it, and move on. It doesn't always have to be "your best work ever."

Let me know if you folks have any questions. If you saw my other process thread you know how much I'm happy to discuss how I do things!!

Looking forward to all your work

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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One more update of the night!

All the bears have recieved their claws (very important for bears, you know. )

These are done by dipping the loose wool into hot wax and then quickly, and stickily, rolling the wool until it forms a nice little point.

And now, here is a bear show.

These little ones are waiting patiently for their pjs which are still drying from the tea bath and need to be cut and fitted.

I'm open to names for the little ones! Poppops name is Mr. Harold Bruninson.

Night folks!

Gooood morning!

The Cubs Pjs have been started this morning.

Learning how to do things quicker and dirtier is great!

So the pjs are being cut and glued together rather than trying to stitch... which I have no idea why I always insisted on stitching the tiny clothes that no one would see on camera but here I am just now learning to glue fabric........

I also recently inherited a bunch of old wooden doll furniture- I have a lot of plans in the future to paint/update/repair the furniture but for now I'm excited for a couple of the pieces to use in this scene!

There are even some empty frames that I'll be painting tiny bear portraits for

So far - I have spent a day on this project.. working as fast as possible to get as much done as I can so I can finish in time. Wish me luck!

More updates later.

Ok detailing detailing detailing!

Here is where I make the Christmas tree and begin some decorations!

These are little plastic eyeballs that I am painting with metallic paint.

The Christmas tree is made entirely out of green pipe cleaners, an absolute TON of hot glue, and then I painted over it with some darker green paint.

I've stuck the little copper eyeballs into the tree and am working on some more decor.

Such as this garland of copper 🥰

Getting pretty close to sharing the final set up.

@ArlMon thank you! I'm always excited to share my process - most of it is so off the cuff Haha

@powsupermum thank you! Yes feeling inspired finalllllyyyyyyy 🥰🥰

Quick little update. Haven't had much time to work on this so I'm scrambling a little. But here are a couple test shots as I decide on wall paper and floor. I'm thinking I'll go with the darker of both. Next up is building the fireplace and some other goodies!! Must move faster. rush rush!

I'm also testing out the viewing through the window which I've begun to detail.. but I may abandon it because I'm not sure I like the shot through it as much as I thought I would.....

@demotlj aw thank you!

@aska This is called Needle Felting. Fair warning, it can be highly addicting, rewarding, and painful.
You take a long barbed needle, some loose wool, and you stab it into shape. Fingers tend to get in the way often.

There are youtube videos you can watch!

Alrighty today I experimented a bit. I'm thinking that we shall be seeing the little bears as though we are "outside" catching a glimpse of their happy moment.

So I began making a window.

I'm not sure how well this will work but! That is what experimenting is for

Currently it is just cardboard and hot glue. I'll be detailing it to look like a tree trunk.

Then I made some paintings to hang on the bear family wall, here you'll see Granny Bear's portrait. I just realized I did a similar thing in another my illustrations where I had the main "old male figure" with his wife's portrait hanging on the wall (Mr. McGillicuddy)... let's not dive into a psychological evaluation but I'm guessing it has to do with some mother issues here

Aaannnndddd last but not least. Some bear Cubs in pajamas because

@gavpartridge thank you!! I have had a few people suggest that but I have yet to figure out a good method of taking photos or videos.... I have looked into some set ups but I haven't found one that seems cheap and easy to build!!

Gooood morning!

The Cubs Pjs have been started this morning.

Learning how to do things quicker and dirtier is great!

So the pjs are being cut and glued together rather than trying to stitch... which I have no idea why I always insisted on stitching the tiny clothes that no one would see on camera but here I am just now learning to glue fabric........

I also recently inherited a bunch of old wooden doll furniture- I have a lot of plans in the future to paint/update/repair the furniture but for now I'm excited for a couple of the pieces to use in this scene!

There are even some empty frames that I'll be painting tiny bear portraits for

So far - I have spent a day on this project.. working as fast as possible to get as much done as I can so I can finish in time. Wish me luck!

More updates later.

@ruth Thank you! I'm so glad you like them - the bear on the pillow is definitely my favorite too.