HOT off the presses!! The prompt for December is here!

Hope you a ready for a challenge, because this one is a doozy

It comes to us from @Jake-Parker :

"This month we are doing a character design challenge!

Your assignment is to design the fabled monster of the Himalayas, the YETI.

You've seen them show up everywhere from theme park rides (Disneyland's Matterhorn) to cable TV specials, and most recently a rash of animated films (Abominable, Smallfoot, and Missing Link).

What we want from you is a character design sheet with your own take on the Yeti.

Every entry must have 5 color drawings on ONE page:

1 neutral pose front, 3/4 view
1 neutral post back, 3/4 view
1 walking or running pose
1 sitting pose (ground or chair)
1 close up of face

What can you do to make the character stand out from ALL the other designs you've seen? Think of the character's background, personality, wants, and needs. All of these attributes will play an important role in the creativity of your design.

Allright, good luck!"

Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience! We haven’t done a big live event in a while, so we are still working out the glitches :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

So to answer your question YES, we’ll be posting the video from the live crit in the subscription next week, we’ll send out notification when it’s out

As for subscribers who didn’t receive the email with the live link, there were a variety of reasons why you may not have received the email:

•if you have opted out of our email newsletter, you will not receive any emails (except for progress notifications, these are auto generated by a different system)

•if you have a yahoo address, our email platform is experiencing issues sending email to yahoo, and many of these are bouncing

•if you cancelled your monthly subscription and moved to an annual subscription, our system may not have recognized the switch

•if you subscribed very recently, our system may not have caught up yet

•if you cancelled recently, our system sees you as cancelled even though you may still access through the end of the month

•various individual scenarios like expired credit cards and such

Our apologies if you did not get the email! Anyone who contacted me via email before the event, I was able to resend a link to.

Just fyi, Will, Lee and Jake want to do more of these kinds of events for our subscribers, so we are gonna try doing live crits on the first Thursday of the month for a while to see if there’s interest. What do you guys think?

Hello everyone! Just want to let you know we are doing a live event with @will-terry-art starting tomorrow! It's coming together very quickly, so we're still nailing down some of the details. But we'll be sending out links tomorrow!

Here's the plan: you'll be able to join in and ask questions as Will colors a brand new illustration! (Hint: it's called The Corona Session) He'll show you his coloring process step-by-step, so you can see it up close and personal.

The event will be over 3 days (Wed/Thu/Fri), for about an hour each, starting at 2pm MDT.

Stay tuned for details!

Just in case you are unfamiliar with spot illustrations, they often have broken edges, and little to no background. In case you need one, here's an example of a spot illustration, from one of Lee's books:

Posting on behalf of James Toogood (This made the deadline btw, but there were some technical difficulties uploading)

Wow everybody, great stuff!!

Just want to let you know that we are planning a live event to announce the winners, and yes, Tom Bancroft is gonna be there!

We're still working out the details, but we hope to email the details to our subscribers early next week, so be on the look out

We are shooting for June 6, so if you are a subscriber and haven't gotten an email by then, do let me know!

And here's what we are gonna end up with!

These are really spooktacular! This is going to be a tough one for the judges Thanks everyone for submitting!

We'll be convening our next Critique Arena on Nov 12. We'll have more details about that soon!

And, we are working on the November prompt, it's going to be a little different this time, we'll have more details about that soon too!

Just to clarify: don't worry if you haven't submitted in the previous Yeti contests, you can still do this prompt! Just treat it as if it's a stand alone prompt.

So, if you don't already have a Yeti character, just create one. And by the same token, if you already created a Yeti character, but would like to change it, go right ahead!

We thought it would be fun to give you the option to create all the makings of a children's book, but it's not a requirement

OMG!! We totally forgot to mention that this is supposed to be a SPOT ILLUSTRATION Sorry we missed that bit!

Spot illustrations are small, simple illustrations that highlight a moment in a story, usually without a full background. They are meant to break up text and add visual interest to a page.

We'll be getting to full page spreads later on!

@jaepereira yep! What @Kevintreaccar said!

@Robert-Maine Per Jake: "OOOOH, if it’s a good cutaway they will get bonus points from me."

@Asyas_illos Yes! Multiple entries allowed

We got so many cool Fairy Tale Travelers for the March contest, we thought it would be fun to keep it going!

For April, Jake wants you to design an inn or tavern for our traveler to bed for the night. Our brave young traveler is weary from a long day trekking through the hinterlands and needs a safe place to rest. It just so happens that there is a village nearby…

For this challenge, we want JUST the building design, no background! Building should be on white, and at a 3/4 angle.

If you haven't already heard, we have a brand new website for Critique Arena! Since we are still fine-tuning it, it's up to you how you would like to submit for the April contest. (We'll probably switch to the Critique Arena website only for the May contest).

You can submit your final piece in this contest thread like usual, or you can submit through the Critique Arena website. We are accepting submissions either way!

Also, if you want to give it a go, try using the new template when you submit, we are testing it out. Follow the instructions in the file to insert your artwork.

As always, the contest is open to anyone. But the winners and runners up will only be selected from active SVS members.

Post only finished pieces in this thread. Post WIP projects in their own thread.

Be sure to put your name and forum name on the image somewhere (can be on a border if you like). Or, if you use the template, don't forget to add your name / handle on the bottom.

OK, good luck everyone, can't wait to see what you come up with!

@ACPetullo Hi! We're still finetuning the Critique Arena website, so you can do it either way for the April contest

If you are not a current subscriber, you can still watch on our Youtube! You can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobHCQ1Oe1Q

@CLCanadyArts Yep, I sent it!

Wow, we got 110 entries this time! Thanks everybody! We'll be convening Critique Arena today, hope y'all can make it We'll get started at 2 pm MST, check here for event times around the world. See ya soon!

Hi all! Critique Arena is TODAY! We'll get started at 2pm MST. Emails with the event links have gone out, let me know if you didn't get one!

Thanks for your patience everyone! The recording is uploaded now You can find it in the subscription, it's the last chapter in this class. Enjoy!