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).

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.

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 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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@jenn yes! and thanks -I am trying to be more deliberate especially with shapes.

@PieterVanDerBeek Congrats and so cute your work; your shapes are uber cute!

@burvantill @Braden-Hallett what a SHOCK lols. Good on all the others for trying to match up with him.

@NessIllustration I'll just go with my favorite two. I have been doing class work so I won't really have new work for some time. This would help me out during the down time. I can only post these (svs sizes). If you do end up choosing mine -just message me so I can give you normal size if you want.

@Emilia-Varga I have seen comic designs without words. There are even some wordless picture books.

I struggled to design weak and strong at first because I struggled to draw a car which I haven't done for a few years. So I tried Jake Parker's car and then the assignment. What I am showing here (red car page) is my second attempt.

@jenn It's certainly tricky business. I'll probably have mine up next week for this part of the assignment. I did more 4 angle (ish) for the plane and 2 for the cargo ship because I need the practice. lols

@Emilia-Varga First impression was wow! Your work is very rich in setting, I feel like I am in it with them and I love it. I also like how you've set up your board; the pages of the book mixing in with reality -we are sort of experiencing reality with fiction (you could add that element to the finish work-the boarder in number 1 and even in number 2 (the bottom 'draw throughs'). I really like the unfinished number 5 design with the creature in the back (but in the forward ground for us). Number 3 has a good perspective. Number 6 makes me laugh, number 5 is a bit of awe.

What final product are you interested in? Comic/graphic novel? If you kept the line work possibly. It reads like "the art of...." books. Reminds me of "the art of up".

Your story telling isn't bad at all lols. You have a really rich story and you've started out real well. I just need help with what you want to make this into? And then I can go from there. I hope you are not too disappointed with my answer, I think you have a lot going for you.

@Lisa-Clark Lols I think he's right -unless it was anchor on a rock and it was partly for decoration. Keep on playing with the idea (proportions and placement) and see what you can come up with!

@jenn Hi! It's great you've joined in on this thread, so thank you.

For the pontoon portion I started with long rectangles like I think you did but I only added a triangle down (if that makes sense). I left the top portion flat. Also your wings look like they are a v shape, like there's a bend in the wings going across.

I will post some more (slowly) now that other's have joined in.

@Lisa-Clark Thanks for posting and sorry I haven't been on to check since now lols. I struggle in this area (vehicles) so I understand -I did multiple angles for part 3 of angles assignment 1. And I am drawing a car (from a book on cars) to practice building a car from blocks in perspective. I haven't got as far as you. When I do I'll see if I can help you or if I will struggle in the same ways as you. But from a little environment design class I took and we did silhouettes -perhaps keep yours to simpler recognizable shapes and if you struggle in 3pp keep your designs flat and then after you sketch them out, work out the perspective.