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My little traveler froglet, with his wanted poster hat and wish

Grateful for svs classes and contests this year, I feel like I’m finally developing a sustainable style that fits my personality

My April Inn. This was more fun than I expected tbh

I'm getting a graphic novel pitch finished up and doing a lot of the svs classes. I'm trying to use what I'm learning to do art for a picture book project in 12x12 as well as monthly illustration prompts like #scbwidrawthis

Oh, my friends, this is a difficult club to belong to!
I still struggle with this so much, both my kids are special needs and especially when I was a single Mom with my oldest who had the most sensory struggles when she was little- I cried so much because nobody could relate to how difficult it was. I felt like most people assumed I was "doing it wrong" either as a parent or regards to the system.
It's a little easier now that I've been doing it for over a decade, but when I easily lose an entire day because a sock is wrong- there's a part of me that has a pity party thinking I'll never get there because I can't put in the time that other artists can.
I always wanted people to be able to relate to that more, but not like this!!
I see you all, you are doing great, and it gets better!!

I ended up going tadpole because amphibians are the cutest to me and I had a book idea about him. I’m about 3/4 done I think? Any criticism welcome, still time to change a bit

I thought this might be inspirational to anyone stuck on their yeti home. We have a local house called the cave house and it would be perfect for a yeti that didn't mind really hot summers lol
https://cavehousetulsa.com/

My yeti may be too cute, he is kind of a miniature horse instead of a Clydesdale with his ice cube cabin and his mountain goat friends but I’m going to keep going for consistency!
I’m not sure which of these to go forward with though, or if they fit the bill...

My progress for today, it changed a lot! I want to finish the saddle a bit, and Ive been trying to figure out Will Terry’s color dodge layer trick. Ive seen it in so many videos now but I can’t quite figure it out for some reason.

I meant to ask for help in the beginning stages but after I scrapped my first one I just really got into it and didn't want to stop drawing. Any critiques on this one as I go? I wasn't quite sure how to make the chimney fit in so I made it like a bendy straw. I'm a new member so I didn't have a yeti, but mine is kind of a big fuzzy bean that wears long johns underneath ice cube overalls and raises goats in the mountains. I was inspired by Candy Land, Care Bears, and this absolutely ethereal unicorn sticker book I had in the 80's.

@Niels it was way wrong, I am so bad at cast shadows outdoors. I'm working through the svs class on shadows because of that. For some reason my brain goes all "math? NOPE" even though it's not math.
I had some feedback from a friend on twitter asking what this was for and I said I just wanted a better banner for twitter and my website, which kind of put into perspective what I should be doing with it. A lot of people didn't understand the little cat on his own horse either. So I ended up with this, although this copy of it became weirdly blurry and I don't know why. Maybe a procreate thing I need to learn.
The main thing I got from this is that I want to visit Arizona when things get better, or New Mexico!

I can’t decide to go with plain inn or with the mouse and his baking mishap

I had this idea a few years ago and I finally finished it lol

@Frost-Drive I think as long as there is appropriate motivation for the emotion, this is a theme that is actually encouraged lately in portfolios. When I went to the new england scbwi conference last... well last time there was a physical one? lol... one big feedback was that they are tired of seeing only happy children in portfolios.

I'm wrapping up a graphic novel pitch that I think I will have done in time for #pitmad March 4. My sample pages are all uncolored though with no text. I've been reaching out to some colorists and letterers, I'm willing to pay the money to have these sample pages done if necessary for overall pitching to agents. I don't want to do them myself because #1 I'm not that great at either and #2 I don't think I could do all of it for a full graphic novel in the timeframes that publishers want.
Getting those responses and having the work actually done though is a bit like herding cats when you aren't used to it or established in any way. I had a letterer lined up that I really liked but I told him I wanted to redo my sample pages first and in between that time he deleted his Twitter and isn't responding to emails
I guess graphic novels are still so new to the mainstream industry that research I've done into pitch packages to answer this question have been all over the place. Some have told me no, others have told me the sample pages are confusing without text.

@Cayleen I love the snowglobe feel of this!

These are amazing!! My favorite is Santa too, that fish leading the sleigh is just perfect in his bubble

Re: Light and Shadow for Illustrators Assignment files in Procreate?

I'm working on this course right now and I'm not able to import the assignment into procreate. I saw that @PieterVanDerBeek had a workaround at one point. Is there anything else I can do for this?

@K-Flagg love your lighting in this!