What fantastic entries there are this month. Here's my effort! I hope I'm not too late either. As usual I was having trouble reducing my file size from Procreate without losing image quality. I need to master this for next month! I now notice there are a few other space themed entries, apologies, but I am far too slow a worker to change my image at the last moment! I am not speedy!

I'm uploading a second version of my picture because I finally managed to reduce it's file size! The one I posted previously was terrible quality as I had to resort to taking a photo of it on my ipad! Loving the fantastic entries this month, I'll now have a chance to enjoy looking at them all.

I absolutely love both these images. I agree with others that the version with the writing would be an excellent book cover. If you were going to use the version without text I also agree with @baileymvidler that you could perhaps add a little more of the splashing stars she mentioned falling on the ground as that is such a beautiful effect. It’s a beautiful piece either way! Well done!

Thank you @Braden-Hallett - I’m really looking forward to watching your recording. I feel similarly “clueless about digital art” @Coley so it’ll be great to get some pointers. However, your digital art looks amazing to me!

@Chip-Valecek - So sorry to take up your time with what are likely very obvious technological errors! I couldn’t find a way to reduce my image from Procreate to under 500kb without it being a PDF, please could you advise if there are ways to do this so I can send jpg or png (the file sizes were still too big when I converted to either of these formats). Thank you for your advice, it’s my first digital painting so I’m pretty clueless, apologies!

@alisa - these images are beautiful. I meant to give feedback on your falling tiger WIP images but my kids as usual needed something so I got sidetracked. I just wanted to say I love your style and the characters and effect with the black sky and stars are gorgeous.

@Chip-Valecek - thanks so much for your help posting my image. It’s so appreciated! The slideshow looks awesome, so many talented people!

@Braden-Hallett - I always love your style and this image is great. I just love the idea that the wee lad is in a world of his own tucked away from the chaos below. I’d like to be in his tree house just now! Nice unusual point of view too. Your work inspires me!

We’re living in Toronto just now but I’m from a tiny village in Scotland, so I’m kinda wishing I could hop back to my rural house in Scotland for the lockdown where there’s loads of empty space to roam!

@cynthia-bowman - I just saw your picture today and wanted to say how much I love it! The waves are so hypnotic. I love the way you’ve captured the storm. Just beautiful!

@eriberart - love your image, it’s your lovely distinctive style again that makes the picture so appealing.

@taislemos - what an original concept and so delicately rendered, just beautiful. Well done!

@Janna-Gomez - thanks so much for your kind comments. As usual it didn’t turn out as well as I saw it in my head I’m still really unsure how to translate the way I work traditionally into Procreate, I don’t feel at all at home or like I’ve found my style digitally yet, but I keep trying not to be too intimidated to enter the contests because I learn so much from finishing pieces then looking at other folks amazing work and hearing all the critiques each month. This is a really inspiring forum! So thank you for the encouragement, it means a lot!

@Janna-Gomez - I LOVE your picture, it is exactly how I feel at the moment!! So funny. The contrast between the chaos of the kids and the exhaustion of the Mom hiding in the closet is hilarious and so true to life! Well done!

What fantastic entries there are this month. Here's my effort! I hope I'm not too late either. As usual I was having trouble reducing my file size from Procreate without losing image quality. I need to master this for next month! I now notice there are a few other space themed entries, apologies, but I am far too slow a worker to change my image at the last moment! I am not speedy!

@EliaMurrayArt - I'm sorry as my week seems to have disappeared and I meant to say much earlier that WOW your image is OUTSTANDING!! I just love it! I really enjoyed watching all your WIP posts, so lovely of you to share all the steps involved and like others have said I think a book of this type of modelled image would be fantastic! I do appreciate that this would be an enormous ask time wise, but your end product is just superb! I just want to step into the picture and have a look around and touch all the objects! You are extremely talented, well done!!

@idid I’d be really interested too, although my book is pretty far from finished! I did an online “Write and Illustrate a picture book“ course with Curtis Brown Creative, so started a 32 page picture book rough but did more work on the writing than illustrations so would need to work a lot on the images before showing them

@Braden-Hallett - I always love your style and this image is great. I just love the idea that the wee lad is in a world of his own tucked away from the chaos below. I’d like to be in his tree house just now! Nice unusual point of view too. Your work inspires me!

We’re living in Toronto just now but I’m from a tiny village in Scotland, so I’m kinda wishing I could hop back to my rural house in Scotland for the lockdown where there’s loads of empty space to roam!

@artbytra - the colours on your painting are so beautiful, I couldn’t stop looking at all the gorgeous colours and details! I love how you manage to layer all your textures. Have you ever done a post on your process? I’d love to se how you go about constructing your image. Did you work solely digitally or use traditional mediums too when making this image? The colours are so vibrant. Awesome!