Hi everyone, here is my entry for the June contest: A very different kind of prompt!
Starting with a set story plot and defined characters was very exciting and challenging in a positive way, had to do some research about where do monkeys and alligators coexist, and decided to go with the Nile River Baboon and Alligator for Bongo and Clyde.
I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!
Praise God!!!
Hi everyone!
Here is my illustration for this April contest, Lisa's Robot P3T-STTR
Lots of great work posted, can't wait to see the rest of the finished art illustrations.
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Hi everyone!
This is my first time posting here in SVS Forum, there's a lot of amazing artist here.
I've wanted to enter in one of the art contest for a long time now, just haven't had the time to actually participate in any SVS art contest, i feel that the Slowvember challenge works perfectly for my current situation, currently looking for work an trying to provide for my family.
SVS courses are very cool and i found the courses to be very well done, learned allot about how to do Children books art and character and story development. all on which i am very interested in.
This illustration is called:
Kurtoise & Harry
The
Xerocole investigation
Lots of great illustrations posted already, can't wait to see the rest
Good luck everyone!
Zed realizing his dream of complete Isolation, memories of tragic past long gone, Happily recording his exploration on the Red Planet!
Character story link
https://forum.svslearn.com/topic/9461/character-story-for-may-isolation
Name:
No.26 before adopted
Renamed "Zed" British for the letter Z
"Z" the twenty-sixth letter of the alphabet
Born Location:
Liberia's Monkey Island
Primary Mission:
To test out the latest space technology and find out if Mars is suitable for human life
Parents:
- Father:
Alpha Chimpanzee
Died at the laboratory
- Mother:
Was one of many chimps used for experiments in a lab, later abandoned to die on an island called "Liberia's monkey island"
she received an injection of an unknown chemical while being pregnant with Zed
She died a month after giving birth, to an unknown illness
Background:
Zed became an orphan at a very young age left to defend for himself, the lac of food and absence of his mother helped develop high intellectual skills rare for the primate species
Life in Monkey Island was very harsh, lacking both potable water and good food sources, chimps that lived there rely solely on human caregivers to bring food to the island
chaotic surroundings and bullied by bigger chimps, life for a small orphan chimp was not easy
longing for isolation and a place to be free to explore other horizons, Zed began to explore the island to find a way out, developing tools to catch fish to eat and shelter to hide from bullies.
Zed special qualities did not go unnoticed a Neuroscientist named Robert, observing the Chimps saw Zed using one of his tools to catch a fish, Robert grew very fond of Zen and adopted him
One day Robert went to work, to meet one of his good friends who was undergoing a candidacy training program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston,
taking Zed with him, Robert didn't go anywhere without Zed
Zed showed a lot of interest in all the training equipment, Robert was very good friends with the head of the training program who grew fond of Zed
allowing Zed to participate in the candidacy training program apart of the human candidates just for fun, astonish by Zed training results, what started as fun and games
Zed stats were outperforming allot of the human candidates.
The Head of the training program showed his supervisors the results of Zed performance, baffled, decided to examine Zed further
Zed exceeded expectations
Thrilled by the possibility to save billions of dollars, the administrator of the space program decided to send Zed to trailblaze a secret mission to find out if Mars is suitable for human life.
Illustration:
Zed realizing his dream of complete Isolation, memories of tragic past long gone, Happily recording his exploration on the Red Planet!
Hi everyone!
This month i am working on a Spider-man, Peter Parker Illustration fan art, its been a while since i've drawn Spider-man.
One of my favorite characters from the marvel universe.
Still working on it, here's where i am today.
Finally finish this one!
Happy new year everyone!
Hi Jeremy!
There is a lot of cool designs in this illustration.
I really like the Robot design and the overall concept idea.
I did a paint over to try and help with the composition maybe give the characters more space.
They are not in order 
Updated the Canvas space of the scene
Centered the main characters, Lisa and the Robot
simplified the environment more so the focus stays on the main characters, I did that by using Atmospheric Perspective in photoshop I use a
Lighten layer with an aqua color similar to the sky in the scene
Simplified the shrubs in the background by rounding shapes and using small medium and large shapes.
rounded the grass hill
Centered the Text and enlarged it a bid
foreshorten one of the Robot's ear and Face
fliped the robot and Lisa
Moved Lisa closer to the robot where she overlapped the robot, though it will help sell the confrontational look
Spaced out the back characters and shrunk them down. to show more depth and distance.
Used Gaussian blur to blur the back characters individually
to finish I did some color adjustments by using the - Adjustments Layers.
Hue/Saturation - move the Hue a bit to the right to +13
Made a Vignette using another Hue/Saturation layers, by using an alpha mask
Photo Filter - Warming Filter (85) Density: at 25%
Levels - Moved the wires a lil to the left and the blacks a lil to the right
I really hope this wasn't confusing, hope I could help in some way, at least show you another composition idea!
since I didn't record the process, I put together this Gif with some screenshots of the Character, to try and explain how I rendered this illustration.
Paint darker local colors as if the lights were off on the scene
' Paint as if it was an overcast day, using form and Ambient Occlusion
AO/ Ambient Occlusion / contact shadow
' Areas where there's less light-hitting, these areas would be darker
Shadow on character
' Adjustment layer, Hue/Saturation check on colorize
' Used a Multiply layer with a cool saturated color
' Used a mask alpha to paint on
Add light source / directional light
' Here is where you add the true local color on the lighted side
' I like to use an adjustment layer for this
' Hue/Saturation check on colorize, on an Overlay layer, here you add the color of the main light source, example the sun, I would use a bright orange-yellow color
' Used a mask alpha to paint on
Add sky fill color
' This is the light on the shadow side, usually the skylight, or any other light source that is not the main direct light. in this case, I use a rich blue color, you could also use magenta depending on the art style or time of day.
' Used a mask alpha to paint on
Bounce light
' This is the warmer more saturated color on the shadow side
' I like to use the adjustment layers to have more control, selecting a warm color, orange/reds, in Hue/Saturation check on colorize, increase the saturation and then darken until u get the desired color, the cool thing about using this method is that u can adjust and see the changes live on your illustration.
' Used a mask alpha to paint on
Lights on the space backpack
' Painted the saturated colors of the lights and then added another layer under with a blur brush using Overlay
Levels Adjustment to increase the brightness
Added finished details, Paint over
Finished the illustration by painting atmosphere
' I used a reddish-brown color using the airbrush
' Overlay and Lighten layers to give it a bit of an Instagram effect.
Hope this was helpful
God bless you!
Thank you!
Here is my 2cents
I really like the concept of your illustration, I agree with a lot of the constructive critic given already, I am a visual person so I thought I would do paint over of some ideas that could help you express your idea.
I hope it helps you in any way. I hope it doesn't bother you that I did a paint over of you cool illustration
Thank you
@gavpartridge
If you are still interested i now have video tutorials explaining my process for Procreate, the methods use also apply for Photoshop.
Thank you!
You can find it here:
https://franksandovalart.com/store
@Nyrryl-Cadiz very nice color pallets
We'll organize website
Good job!!!
@NessIllustration the book looks great!
Congratulations!!!
@nadyart said in Yay, I have an agent!:
updated my portfolio.
Congratulations!!
That's exciting news!!
@Gary-Wilkinson
So much awesomeness!!!
I really like this character!
I agree with a lot been said here already, here is my two cents
I did a paint-over using the first cover idea, increased the size of the character, updated the contrast of the character and background, added water splash on the character to help the character silhouette stand out more and have better readability from a distance, some atmospheric perspective to separate the front leaves from the hill and character
mess around with the title changing color and adding stroke lines
I hope this helps give you more ideas for your cover and finish with a product that both you and your publisher could enjoy.
Thank you!!
@Lorna-H
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Great work on the Taxy alligator, so original!
@cszoltan
Great work so far!
The only thing that got my attention, Clyde's position, feels like he is to close to the dirt edge, feels more like he is in a pool than a river, you could fix that by moving Clyde up and back some more strait in to Bongo's sight, it will help with the composition, you might have to move the second crocodile or get rid of it, its up to you.
That's my two cents, hope it helps!!
@Eric-Droke
Thank's for your kind words
Great storytelling on your illustration, I really like your Bongo character
