This is the first time I have done a character from so many angles. It was challenging, but a good experience. Mine is Grumpyeti. He is grumpy, but has a soft side hiding inside. I think there are so many clever takes on the Yeti for this contest. It is fun to see everyone's ideas.

I am hoping that this fits the spot illustration criteria. Seeing all the entries make me wish that I had my own Yeti chef. Great job everyone! This is done for now. I want to make some revisions and repost later, but am not sure I will have time this week. Here it is just in case:

Here is my entry this month. I was hoping to make two, but not sure if that is going to happen or not. It was a fun prompt! I love seeing all the different ideas!

First time forum poster, but a long-time forum reader. Here is my entry. There are so many great ideas for isolation

Here's my entry. Love seeing all the entries!

I combined Slovember, Will Terry's draw 50 things (included this after hearing Will Terry say during the 3 Point Perspective podcast that Slovember was a good time to do it) , and the Inktober prompt "storm" for the Together prompt this month. I am not done yet, but time has run out to turn this in. There are a lot of great illustrations, can't wait to see the slideshow!

Here's this month's entry. I have to admit that there are some Yetis' homes that I think would be cool to live in myself. Great job everyone!

Here is my entry. It is fun to see everyone's take on the book!

This was a fun prompt! I did a twist on the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale: What if Hansel and Gretel got lost while trick-or-treating? "Everyone was having a great time at the Halloween feast until the witch showed up."

Here is my entry. I loved seeing all the different ideas that everyone came up with! I especially loved to see how people used ink traditionally or digitally; there are so many great techniques!

I am not sure about book covers, but I know that Lauren Hom does hand-lettering and is well-known in that area. She has classes on Skillshare. I think Jamie Zollars said that she has done hand-lettering on some of her book covers too. Jessica Hische also hand-letters book covers. I have never taken classes from them, but I follow their Instagram accounts and have done a little bit of hand-lettering from what I have seen others doing. There are a lot of hand-lettering artists on Instagram. I wonder if maybe some hand-lettering artists get asked by companies to do the book covers when art directors see that they are good at what they do.

I am not sure why Juniper and Pip didn't make it to the final 16, but it did make honorable mention, so that is good. I like the color on both your pieces. They aquatic one is nice, but maybe it didn't feel like a traveller as much as Juniper does. When Juniper is running, her arms should be the opposite of her legs. Her left arm should be going back if her left leg is forward. I think maybe the running gesture if slightly off because of that.
I think there were just a lot of more unexpected characters and just more characters for them to choose from this time. Sometimes the ones I think will get picked, get picked, and sometimes they don't.

I looked at your stuff and really liked the story behind Ezio and I also liked the little unicorn that he is trying to feed. As far as something you could work on, I noticed that the bears and the rabbits that are jumping and fighting feel stiff and there doesn't seem to be a lot of action in their gestures. If you work on gestures, that may help some in your illustrations. I would even suggest that you could go research how successful animators have had their characters jump or fight something just to get a better gesture for your characters. You could also try to vary the width of the lines that you make, such as go from thick to thin.

It is https://www.critiquearena.com/ . I copied and pasted the link so hopefully that will work for you.

@Joni-Elizabeth Thank you! It was a fun illustration project.

@Larue Thank you! I thought about making the hair black, but the red hair just looked better when I was testing different colors.

@ValD I love your character! Very clever!

These are all great options!

This looks really great! I love all the sketches you added to show different aspects of the story and character.

@Fay This is looking great. I like the mouse and costume!