Research & Development
Some Slowvember Notes for Raven Life, Habitat, Behavior, etc.

Re: Jennyanns Sketchbook...

This time I made a list of my favorite Artists and Illustrators and grabbed images from that list. This worked better. Plus a few images are from the same Illustrator.

@Heather-Boyd

Re: Slovember Sketchbook 2019

Re: Slovember Sketchbook 2019

So, this week I realized after reading, watching documentaries, sketching, and studying Ravens that my Slovember piece wants to go into my Arts Licensing Portfolio, not my Children's Book Portfolio. So, that's the plan.

Then, yesterday after listening to 3 Point Perspective "The best Illustration Assignments." I decided to draw 50 Ravens to help me understand movement, gesture, etc. It worked. I plan to do this again, but to render them a bit more.

My next steps are to do my thumbnails and do my top three.

Ideas and comments are welcome, especially around gestures and poses.

Thanks !

This year I'm committing to a 100 Somethings Project called 100 Ravens, and I'm growing my creative bank by going on 50 Artists Dates or outing by myself. I'm also taking classes here on SVS and on creatureartteacher.com with Aaron Blaise.
This Month I'm working on Anatomy with Aaron Blaises Class, in February. I'll be completing the SVS Perspective Classes and in March I'll be completing the Light and Shadow Class on SVS. I work in 3 Month Blocks. So in the last week of March. I'll be planning more for the next 3 Months.

Here's a link to my 100 Ravens Thread here in the forum.

This is my first time making digital drawings. I don't have a tablet or a pen yet, but I do have a touch laptop. So I found this online drawing pad called sketch.io, and made these.

I took the drawing animals mammal edition class, and these are some practice sketches of bears. Practice! Practice! Practice!

Re: [100 Ravens- WIP Updates](/topic/8686/100-ravens-wip-updat

This was the start of this illustration. My beginning sketch.


Then fast forward to some color studies. At this stage, I realized that I wasn't really feeling the position of this Raven. So I went back to the drawing board.

   

Then I discovered the dune grass brush.

Lastly, I added some light and texture, and finally completed this Raven # 3

Just saw this section. So reposting here.

I had a week of technology fails last week. Issues with my cellphone and then my computer. Cellphone is resolved, next is the computer. As soon as I receive the new computer I ordered. I'm going to start posting all of my work and progress here.

More Soon~

Jennyann Carthern

@Shawn and @sigross Thanks for the help. I got my sisters to help to check all of your suggestions. All systems were good. However, she discovered that my Cintiq wasn't being read or connected. Instead, it was working through a windows paint program. After realizing this, we figured out how to reconnect the Cintiq again. Then it said that the drivers needed to be updated.

So it's working better again. Hopefully, it stays that way. Thanks again, for jump-starting my troubleshooting.

I'm still working out my Slowvember Project. I still wasn't happy with the composition. However, I'm happy I went a step further.

@Coreyartus Thanks for sharing. Yay!

@sigross Thanks for the information. I never thought of my Pen/ Ink being forged and I definitely have never heard of using metadata. This is awesome!

@xin-li Yeah, it makes sense. I hadn't really thought of the emotional impact, but it's good to hear going forward. My main focus was mostly on the Raven, that's where most of that decision fell upon after observing Ravens and seeing how they move in the real world. I noticed that the first posture wasn't something they did in real life. So, I pulled back. It's probably a matter of finding that middle ground between reality and exaggeration. Something I'll focus on in Raven #4. I'll also play with the tilt a little more to experiment. As soon as I figure out how to do that. LOL! Would love to hear from others. Feedback is always helpful.

@chrisaakins
I'm still learning too. Mostly through trial and error, and looking up how to do things on youtube.

@chrisaakins Hi Chris, I used photoshop. I discovered a brush called the dune brush and fell in love with the texture. It looks like it's for grass, but I used it throughout, by making it smaller. I want to try making a brush preset of it to make multiple shapes later as well.

Re: [100 Ravens- WIP Updates](/topic/8686/100-ravens-wip-updat

This was the start of this illustration. My beginning sketch.


Then fast forward to some color studies. At this stage, I realized that I wasn't really feeling the position of this Raven. So I went back to the drawing board.

   

Then I discovered the dune grass brush.

Lastly, I added some light and texture, and finally completed this Raven # 3

@Coreyartus Thanks for the feedback, this helps a lot. I also love the notion of hiding something or someone important in the work. Thanks for sharing.

@burvantill Thank You!

Hi everyone, I know this sounds like a silly question, but I'm curious to know how you sign your digital art? I'm still getting used to it as a tool. A few artists told me not to sign the digital if I'm going to offer signed prints because then there would be two signatures. But if I post work for sale online or on social media, would I need to sign it for copyright purposes. Plus, if you do sign your art, do you copy the signature and use it over and over again?

Gratitude!

@Shawn and @sigross Thanks for the help. I got my sisters to help to check all of your suggestions. All systems were good. However, she discovered that my Cintiq wasn't being read or connected. Instead, it was working through a windows paint program. After realizing this, we figured out how to reconnect the Cintiq again. Then it said that the drivers needed to be updated.

So it's working better again. Hopefully, it stays that way. Thanks again, for jump-starting my troubleshooting.