Hi! This is my entry. I had a lot of fun! I wanted to push myself out into more characters, and their interactions, along with pushing gesture with shapes. I hope you like it.

However can someone help me -when I try to resize my canvas/image to upload it here, my image becomes very blurry. How can I get around this? I also had to scan so the image is not as it should be (value/pencil and colour) but I hope to get proper lights in the future.

“Everyone was having a great time at the Halloween feast until Mr. Wolf splattered pumpkin pie onto Mr. Pig. Mrs. Wolf was not happy! Mr. Pig laughed.” -Heather Boyd

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Ginkgo Overcomes Godzilla

Edited and thanks to everyone who helped. My computer screen still looks better than my Ipad -what can you do (shrug).

Isolation comes in many different forms. and for all submissions.

LOVE is completed. lols But real love keeps on going.
I hope you guys enjoy - I learned not to fight against myself - I like outlines -so I will pursue this route in the future.

This reindeer is one of those types of friends that will go to many lengths to love and enjoy the company of his friends.
After pulling along his hedgehog friends, he sinks down into the snow to rest.

I am very proud of this short 2 day work, especially when the candy cane looks like I could eat it. I had not intended to go realistic but when I add shadow and light it always seem to turn out that way. I just love looking at it and it reminds me of drinking it up. And I saw those bubbles and I just had to try and paint them.

I have been waiting for February virtual studio to post my prop class assignment because I made characters and story for it (though a book and a drink got replace by a plant lols). And now that it's here, I can check it off my list so thank you, thank you and hugs for your new year @burvantill .

Irish Superstition: To stave off sorrow a solo magpie brings to its passerby, another brings joy.

I am very happy how this turned out. The subject matter is very close to my heart this past year. I hope you like it.

So this is what I have been up to. With the aid of Shapes 2D, Drawing Fundamentals with Dave Malan. I have used a single reference but it is for practise. 6 animals and working on 6 objects this week. I plan to do 6 people/portraits and 6 environments. Then I will move on to Shapes 3D and repeat.

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Heather B.

This was done in carbon paper transfer, watercolour and pencil (and only digital to adjust colour/contrast issue because my image was larger than my scanner, so it didn't scan exactly). I have become so accustomed to digital in being able to zoom in and add detail that I was unprepared to design this way, however thanks to @demotlj and @burvantill who so kindly helped me out, I was able to adjust things at the end. I still have lots of improving to go.

This work was inspired by the thought that only from earth's perspective do stars fall across the heavens. Also I wanted to tell a story about this adventurer kid who imagines steering his sights to the greater unknown.

The first sheet of daily shapes - roughly one a day. Pencil and pencil crayons.

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@Coley Not this year unfortunately. I know it will be a good chat. Maybe next year!

@SheerArt The cat and the fish bottle are cute!

@Kevin-Longueil I like the fox/wolf -it's a destination but anyways, you do you.

@Kevin-Longueil Maybe then have the text 1/3 down the page just below where you placed "and the secret spices" that way it isn't seen right away.

@Kevin-Longueil I feel like they are more like vignettes then spot illustrations but I could be wrong on that (but it has so much more background included, even for the first I'd cut out the blue sky). But I do like how one leads to the other however I feel that seeing the Yeti words right next to the wolf spoils the story for me a bit. It's like giving away the ending at the beginning. Perhaps instead of a vertical sensory experience do a horizontal one with the yeti and the beginning of the story text together and the wolf to the right (now though I can see how this may be boring but you could have the aroma wafting "journey" meeting other things or creatures that are interested or not at all (I do realize this is a lot more work) or you could maybe have stuff in waft (smoke) that may give clues to the wolf whose eventually going to snuff it out). Anyways, I have gone off on tangent. I look forward to your work progressing and very happy to see you return and participate.

@KayPotter thank you -it's been a long time coming.

@K-Flagg lols I have too many spot illustrations in my portfolio so I am passing but I am sure you could make something, just simplify and make sure all the important parts of your story is in it. I hope you change your mind.

@LisaF I have been doing spot illustrations so I'll pass on this one. Is there a vignette in the works? Then I might start to plan a design for a yeti, since I haven't participated as of yet.

@donnamakesart I like the first one because the colours help it stand out and the edges look more refined.

@PieterVanDerBeek These are great! The second one is my favorite, he's got such swag.