Hi all! I'm Johan Schneider and I aspire to become an illustrator some day. I began subscribing to SVS today and will begin the fundamentals The plan is to master my craft in the upcoming 2 years and then go from there!

I'm currently working as a Graphic designer and have been drawing ALOT through my life. I never had any formal art education which is something that I have somewhat felt bad for, that I never REALLY pursued my passion for drawing.

Anyhow... I will try to get in at least 2-4 hours a day of course work and practise between being at work and on parental leave. And keep that up as best as I can during this first year. I will try to share my progress as I go^^

Wish me luck folks! Have a great day/evening/morning (timezones heh)

Hi people I've been away from painting in Photoshop for a long time, then this last week I did this T-Rex thing, just to get me into painting again and to have some kind of benchmark to improve upon. This was purely a piece to practice my craft on and I know the concept is a bit boring

Well... I was wondering if you would be so kind to give me some kind of feedback to work off of. Some kind of notes to take into the next thing would be very appreciated!

Cheers!

Hi SVS! I would love to get any and all kinds of critique on this one

I tend to not be able to take the opinions of people close to me seriously because I have a fear they might take pity and say nice things about the stuff just to not make me sad hehe... Really frustrating feeling I would love to just have some unbiased eyes looking at this

Have a great day everyone! Cheers

Thank you so much everyone for the notes and the kind words I agree with all of them actually. The snail I added because I wanted to have a little something extra to find in the image, I'll see if I can add some more contrast to it to make it stand out a little more. And the draw-over was very helpful @Katie-Kordesh ! thanks for taking the time Great point also @Melanie-Ortins with the composition!

I'm going to try doing some of these changes and then post it it again here if you guys are curious

Again, cheers to you all for taking your time, very helpful

@demotlj Great, thanks for the reply! I'll join in on you guys, so see you there!

Thank you so much everyone for the notes and the kind words I agree with all of them actually. The snail I added because I wanted to have a little something extra to find in the image, I'll see if I can add some more contrast to it to make it stand out a little more. And the draw-over was very helpful @Katie-Kordesh ! thanks for taking the time Great point also @Melanie-Ortins with the composition!

I'm going to try doing some of these changes and then post it it again here if you guys are curious

Again, cheers to you all for taking your time, very helpful

Thank you for the critique! Great points

Hi SVS! I would love to get any and all kinds of critique on this one

I tend to not be able to take the opinions of people close to me seriously because I have a fear they might take pity and say nice things about the stuff just to not make me sad hehe... Really frustrating feeling I would love to just have some unbiased eyes looking at this

Have a great day everyone! Cheers

Thanks you guys! Those are some great points

Thanks for the reply! I agree with your notes. Will think of these things going into other paintings

Hi people I've been away from painting in Photoshop for a long time, then this last week I did this T-Rex thing, just to get me into painting again and to have some kind of benchmark to improve upon. This was purely a piece to practice my craft on and I know the concept is a bit boring

Well... I was wondering if you would be so kind to give me some kind of feedback to work off of. Some kind of notes to take into the next thing would be very appreciated!

Cheers!

@demotlj Great, thanks for the reply! I'll join in on you guys, so see you there!

@StudioLooong Cool! Great to know there are more of us

Hi! I want to start learning to ink to improve my line work and I want to begin a course. However i'm now sure which one to pick of the two, or if I should just do both. Is 2.0 an updated version or is it more like a continuation of the first one?

Anyway, I'm super stoked to begin the courses

Cheers!

@swedishbear Welcome to Sweden! I hope you're doing well here, I know we swedes can be a little weird

Good luck to you as well! Enjoy the city and stop by Liseberg if you have time, really magical place^^