@Chip-Valecek So many great entries!!! good luck everyone and thank you for your help!

@Chip-Valecek Out of time!! Thanks for all of the help everyone! So many great entries!

"and there stepped from behind the large rocks the strangest man the travelers had ever seen. He was quite short and stout, standing no more than three feet high and had a big, oversized head, which was smooth on the top and as flat as a hammer. The head was supported by a thick, long, fat neck full of many layers of wrinkles. But the body had no arms at all, not even stubs."

Still working on Oz portrait redo's when i can - the Hammer-Head has come a long way from the original sketch but you can still see the resemblance - there have been a few iterations before this but i think i have finally got something worth keeping with this one - i feel like this may be a new best for me - maybe work on the scarecrow next..thanks for looking!

A bunch left to do but i'm worried i will miss the deadline if i don't post now(if i get a chance before midnight i'll tweak a few things) - Thank you so much to everyone who helped me along the way!! " finished not perfect" as someone said earlier - good luck everyone

Calling the new Dorothy done - i am so glad i restarted her - Thank you all for your help! I appreciate All of the feedback i received, it has made it a better piece for sure!

I made it Finished not perfect for sure - so many great pieces here!!

Out of time Good luck everyone! so many great pieces here

so much detail lost.....

Yup...another Wizard of Oz piece ... i'm getting there though This is a work in progress - this one really gave me trouble at first but i finally hit on this composition this weekend and i'm liking it - i composed it so that they are facing to left in contrast to most of the other Oz pieces - my idea is that the crow is noticing Dorothy and crew coming toward the trees - curious if the composition is working for folks? Still lots of work to do - any feedback always appreciated

@lee-white - I think these might be the two best for me

So many incredible mermaid pieces so far!! Here is what i've come up with - calling it finished not perfect

@Lee-White well this is good news...New content at a much better price than i was imagining ... also it is so difficult for me to take "in person" classes with my schedule (ironically because i'm a teacher) so i am very excited to hear that i can purchase the class and go at my own pace!... and... i believe i may need a new portfolio

@Patrickedward Maybe @LisaF or @Chip-Valecek might know if we are skipping this month's prompt?...my guess is that the SVS crew are super busy right now.

@RachelArmington My feeling is that SVS has shared pretty much Everything we could possibly hope for already through the classes and the podcast...i think "amazing secrets and strategies" is true if someone is not an SVS'r...so the marketing does seem a bit...off ...but i think we are not the target audience really? As a teacher i am hoping for a Course Content and Outcome Guide of some kind. What is the content of the class, how will we be able to apply what we learn in the class, are the outcomes measurable, how will the outcomes be assessed? Is this class really for everyone? If i need to work on some of the basics of image making will i still benefit from this class? If this is really a mentorship of some kind i would be pretty excited about that... a mentorship with any of the three(four?) would be pretty awesome.

@Asyas_illos my guess is next Thursday ...they did do last month’s on the 8th which was early in the month but was still the second week ... I’m thinking we would have heard by now if it was going to be this week..?..but you never know...so many great entries!

Does anyone else check the forum 100 times a day until the new monthly prompt shows up?

@Janette Wow.. looks like you are already there with the quality of your work! super nice... you are looking for website feedback so i thought i would share what i just heard in one of the Storytelleracademy classes taught by someone that was the design editor for children's book at Chronicle Books for 20 years. She wants to see 10 to 15 (i think that was it... it was a low number...maybe 12?..anyways...) of your best pieces. That is it... should be no clicking to see the work if possible. She said this shows respect for people's time. I think landing on a page full of your awesome art would be the way to go and let people click to find the other stuff if they want to...but make sure we see the art first. That is what i got out if it. ( I currently have a landing page with a mini slideshow, you have to click to see more and i am thinking maybe i should change that) I think it is important to only display the type of work you really want to do also.. she mentioned that if an editor likes your work that they will ask to see more if what they are specifically looking for is not represented on your site. I'm definitely Not a pro but thought i'd chime in anyways with what i had heard

@aska The Niel Gaiman class was great!

@Matthew-Oberdier i agree - moving the neck to the left would help for sure

@Matthew-Oberdier Great rendering in my opinion! The only thing that feels off to me is the foreshortening of the girl's body and her left arm. The legs and torso recede in a very forced perspective on a ground plane that seems too low for the rest of the composition. It almost feel like the vanishing point would be on the page for this setup. I painted out the body in a quick draw over and it showed me that the angle of the neck is really anchoring the pose in opposition the rest of the body. When the torso and legs are gone it looks very much like she is at the edge of a table petting the kitty. But maybe i am wrong...the area below her chin reads as neck to me...so it makes her looks very vertical like she is standing or that here ribcage is curving impossibly...but maybe it is not supposed to be the neck? I think making her legs much larger and not forcing the one on our right into the composition if it is blocked by her head might be good to try maybe?...her leg on our right looks longer than her other to me because of the perspective.. lastly her left arm (on our right) seems like a super difficult position to get into... for it to work, her upper arm would have to go almost straight to the side and back a bit and the forearm would double back which would make the angle for the handle super difficult and not relaxed.. we would see much more of her shoulder on that side too i think - anyways... i could be wrong on this stuff of course i really like the style of this and think the made up lighting looks very believable.

@demotlj Awesome!