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!

Hi all! If you are into picture books, you might want to check out our first ever picture book breakdown on May 27!

This is where we pick a favorite picture book and analyze the storytelling from the illustrator point of view

@davidhohn has been doing these for years as a teacher, so he will be walking us through this time.

We'll be reviewing the Caldecott-winning “The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend” by Dan Santat.

The LIVE event kicks off at 2pm MST on Thursday, May 27. We’ll be emailing the event link to subscribers on May 26 or 27.

If you haven't received an event link email, shoot us an email, or look for it in the Jump Into the Studio class

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

@NicolaSchofield sweet!

@DaveLeekArt Emailed!

Hi all! We'll be convening Critique Arena soon, hope you can make it! If you didn't get an event link, shoot me an email

Hope y'all had a great Labor Day weekend! (Or regular weekend, if you're not from the US )

Just a heads up that we'll be convening Critique Arena this Thursday, Sept 9! We'll get started at the usual time of 2pm MDT (check here for other time zones).

We'll be emailing the event links soon. Can't wait to see who takes the title this time!

Hey all!

Well, that's a wrap for the Albert prompts! This month we are kicking off a new series of prompts

Since Inktober is just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to start prepping for the 31-day challenge with an ink-inspired prompt.

So the challenge is to design a character for Inktober! The idea is to design a main character that would star in your Inktober drawings.

Every entry must have 5 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

Also, be sure to include some “traits” about your character. Such as name? Age? Favorite pastimes? Show us how these traits drive their character design.

And since it’s Inktober, here’s a few extra requirements just to get in the spirit of things:
•Must be ink, or look like ink.
•Must be black and white.

Be sure to upload your entry on the Critique Arena website to officially enter the contest, but post here too so we can all see and comment on your awesome work! As always, please keep this thread for final images only

Good luck everyone!!

Uh oh! It's crunch time!

Welcome back @ArtofAleksey!!

@keithryanstudio yup, @Jeremy-Ross is right! You created the art, you own it, it's yours to do with as you please If you wanted to make a book of your art, have at it! Sure we'd love credit, but it's totally up to you Welcome!

@Jeremy-Ross and @RachelArmington thanks for the heads up! That will help us troubleshoot...

Sorry all! The links went out on a different platform this time, so the sender info is different than normal. It should be showing as Society of Visual S. from noreply@notify.thinkific.com