hi everyone! i have done my lamp...made it a bit flatter so it looks more of a lamp and less of a jug. truth to be told, its not really how i imagined the outcome to look like, what do you all think?
iv taken out the inlaid pearls or whatever those designs were meant to be. Too complicated. besides, its being a background prop and not a hero prop. and also, i think its just being in a regular Persian persons house, not the king....
its the first time i designed something, as well as almost my first time renedering a piece digitally so please please give feedback coz thats really the best way to grow!

thanks to all!

here is my drawing so far of the oil lamp. the top right one is the structure drawing of the lamp with a three quarter top view, the rest are these quick orthographic sketches. i want to perfect the structure drawing of the lamp a little more before rendering it, it still needs a bit of work but i was just so impatient to upload it already! will do that shortly and show you the finished one soon hopefully.

delighted to recive feedback and critiques.
thanks

hi everyone! hope everyone is safe and doing well.
this is my demo assignment from lee whites class on light and shadow. any comments would be soo appreciated
mine are all the circled/ squared pictures.

now that im finished all the courses from level one of the curriculum, im going to now spend about a week or so, maybe longer, before starting level 2, by drawing objects from lots of different angles and POVs and perspectives , and ill be taking the best of each object and adding tone, shadow and light as i learned to do in Lee's course! ill be including my own drawings of an interior, an exterior and robot of my own, as well as other things.

if anyone has ideas of other excersices i can do to further my skills, please let me know, im still quite a beginner and i really want to be able to draw like all you guys

cant wait to update you all on my progress in doing these drawings!

thanks all

CANT wait to do this!!
thats better

im actually wondering if illustrators with published books will be making money on royalties during this time? while on one hand people are trying to budget more than normal and not buy things that are non-essential, I feel like now that in many countries schools are out and the kids are home, and home all day due to self-isolating or quarantine, then parents will be buying books to keep them all occupied!
is my theory right?

hi everyone! just want to, first of all, say hi, its my first time saying anything on the forum, iv been with svs a few months and i also read other people's posts on here but iv been too shy to say anything!

anyway, im just in the middle of my final assignment of David Hohns basic perspective course, i just would be so happy if ppl could comment on here whether the perspective looks right or if its a bit off?
my next step will be to add tone to the image, and then to add more detail. i was planning to make this a childs bedroom, and use a low eye-line, a child's point of view, that its a child looking in his or her own bedroom, but im not sure what happened but this is not really a childs point of view!

also i hope everyone loves my ellipse!!! it took me so many tries to create an ellipse in perpective. its really not perfect but this is the best i could make it. im using a wacom Intuos, so im drawing on my tablet and looking on my screen so its a bit difficult to reach all the tangents and also make it nice and round but im practising, im practising....

wow those are so cool! i cant wait until im up to there

hi jake!
just want to say, tho I'm not sure if its too late, you may have your list already, i would love to see Cory Godbey on the list, i really enjoy his work.

Also, being jewish and growing up on jewish kids books, an illustrator who i really love his stuff is Gadi Pollack, he is Russian/Israeli but i think he does speak English and i would really love to see him at the summit if he does and you manage to contact him!
then there is also Chani Judowitz who has some really great stuff too. would be great to see her on here if she is available.

thanks! im really looking forward to this

@Braden-Hallett
wow i love this its great!!

oh i just realised im not even finished! must add in the desk

hi everyone! i have done my lamp...made it a bit flatter so it looks more of a lamp and less of a jug. truth to be told, its not really how i imagined the outcome to look like, what do you all think?
iv taken out the inlaid pearls or whatever those designs were meant to be. Too complicated. besides, its being a background prop and not a hero prop. and also, i think its just being in a regular Persian persons house, not the king....
its the first time i designed something, as well as almost my first time renedering a piece digitally so please please give feedback coz thats really the best way to grow!

thanks to all!

here is my drawing so far of the oil lamp. the top right one is the structure drawing of the lamp with a three quarter top view, the rest are these quick orthographic sketches. i want to perfect the structure drawing of the lamp a little more before rendering it, it still needs a bit of work but i was just so impatient to upload it already! will do that shortly and show you the finished one soon hopefully.

delighted to recive feedback and critiques.
thanks

well hi there fellow students!
im also in the middle of this class. im going pretty slowly as im busy with other things too, so dont rely on me a full-bodied classmate, but i will be glad to post some of what im here too! what a wonderful idea this is.
so the idea i had was to go a few years back---quite a few. im attempting to design props that would have been in ancient Persian times, in the kings palace.
so the lamp that im starting off with is one of those clay oil lamp thingies. i was actually thinking of doing the assignments twice, as it is really my first time designing anything, and i could do with the practise!! the idea i had for the next design was to maybe do something that would have been in the Titanic, but i may have hit upon a new idea for round two by the tim i reach that.
will try to post tomorrow the silhouettes i did and the sketches iv done so far.

so is it still not working?
its not going on yet but thats not just me is it?

welcome rochelle!!!

hi everybody! hope your all keeping healthy and well!!
 im a bit shy so please everyone be nice to me!
 i just wanted a little advice from all you pros out there... i have sometimes posted things iv done, on the forum but never really introduced myself properly.....
 so, im a 20 year old Briton, a real beginner in drawing, but its something i always loved to do-which is why im on SVS!
im jewish and my goal and hope is to eventually, hopefully, draw for jewish children's books, comics and magazines. About a year ago i started looking into learning illustration, and i heard about SVS, which sounded like the best option for me, and i sighed up in October. however, due to working a full day i didnt have so much time, untill now with lockdown, i have more time thankfully. i have done all the classes in Level one of the curriculum, but i want to do a bit more practice before jumping into level 2.

i noticed on the forum that some people have mentioned Drawabox.com, and i have actually started that and im now in the middle of the 250 box challenge. the problem is...before starting SVS, i thought i was great at drawing, but now i have changed my mind! because, before this, my artwork was for my high school level certificate, my art GCSE, a lot of which was copying pictures, either of artists paintings, or copying a photo of mine. now that im drawing things not from a picture (and using a Wacom tablet which was also hard to get used to), but drawing things from my head, its very different, when im not copying something, that only exists in my imagination! and it just doesnt seem to work as well....

i hope that drawabox will help me in this area, im wondering if anyone has had a good experinece with drawabox? did it help your artwork to improve a lot?
what other things can i do? do you think its a good idea to do master copies of artists that i like their illustrations? i know it will for sure help me to  learn to render and color,  but what is the best way to go about learning to draw well-and i mean really well- in the fastest way possible?
thanks everyone!! i would really appreaaciate it if people can respond to me with any advice and ideas!

@Lee-White
thanks Lee for checking it out! that was a great class, which has taught me lots!

hi everyone! hope everyone is safe and doing well.
this is my demo assignment from lee whites class on light and shadow. any comments would be soo appreciated
mine are all the circled/ squared pictures.

now that im finished all the courses from level one of the curriculum, im going to now spend about a week or so, maybe longer, before starting level 2, by drawing objects from lots of different angles and POVs and perspectives , and ill be taking the best of each object and adding tone, shadow and light as i learned to do in Lee's course! ill be including my own drawings of an interior, an exterior and robot of my own, as well as other things.

if anyone has ideas of other excersices i can do to further my skills, please let me know, im still quite a beginner and i really want to be able to draw like all you guys

cant wait to update you all on my progress in doing these drawings!

thanks all

hey everyone! hope everyone is keeping well. wondering if anyone has any advice for me....

it seems that whichever video i want to watch will refuse to play! anyone had the before??
i decided few days ago to go back to the first course in the curriculum, How To Draw Anything , as i wanted to redo the exercises and assignments digitally but i couldn't get a single video to play!
then this evening i went back to the course i was doing, Will Terry's Visualising in Perspective, and I'm up to the last video, which just refused to play, altho the second to last video was working fine...i waited a while, tried again but it wouldnt start. the videos on How To Draw Anything were also not working
i was getting a bit frustrated, i even made a new 30 day free account using another email address to see what would happen..but again the same videos that would load would, and the ones that wouldn't before, again wouldn't! i ran a internet speed test which said its fast,
i opened my account on a another laptop..but nothing. so its anyway pretty late here in UK for me now, so I'm going to go to bed now, and try again tomorrow but I'm wondering if this has been happening to anyone.. my theories are: maybe do to everyone having more time on their hands, SVS has more traffic than usual so its slower, maybe due to the whole internet being slower or maybe G-D wants me to go to bed now and it will work tomorrow.. not sure..
but if this has ever happened to people please let me know and what they did!

sorry about the rambling, this is what happens to me late at night

thanks to all!

sorry i dont think i uploaded that correctly
there we go