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    Mary Toth

    @Mary Toth

    Hello there! I am a self taught illustrator working mainly in watercolor, pencil, and digital media. I've always loved drawing and started considering the possibility of illustrating professionally a few year ago. Since then I've been juggling normal life with my art life and hope to continue to publish work and get better. It's my dream to write and illustrate my own children's books.

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    • RE: SEPTEMBER CONTEST: Ink Fairy

      Here is my entry this month 🙂 so. much. crosshatch. so much.

      ink fairy svs.jpg

      posted in Announcements
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: JUNE CONTEST: A very different kind of prompt!

      Happy I finished this time (and with time to spare! woo!) It's done entirely in watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and pen for the eyes.

      monkey svs final.jpg

      posted in Announcements
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: AUGUST CONTEST: Dragonfly

      Here is my entry 🙂 Done in watercolor, colored pencil and gouache.
      svs-dragonfly-August.jpg

      posted in Announcements
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio AUGUST 2020😎

      Not really related to kids books (except maybe the style is) but due to high demand I've started creating some pet/poodle portraits lol. Here is one I created that I quite like (it didn't scan well so I'm currently pressing the paper between two cutting boards with some heavy weights on top - if anyone knows of a good tip on how to flatten paper for scanning please share! I'm begging). I made another for a friend based off the poodle one but forgot to scan it before mailing it off. I have a picture of it though that I snapped on my phone. It was of a dog she fostered. I love animals so making these was very fun. (I'll add my first one too. I made it mostly just to test out a white charcoal pencil I bought tbh)
      rainbow poodle-small blurry.jpg

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      posted in Artwork
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: JULY CONTEST: Design a book cover for the Wizard of Oz

      Done! and with six days to spare *pats self on back *

      side note: haven't checked this feed in a little while and oh my gosh such amazing work!

      the wonderful wizard of oz.2.0.jpg

      posted in Announcements
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio SEPTEMBER 🎨 2020

      I've been working on more web design-y stuff this month so I've had less time for illustration but here are a few little things I've been working on.

      I've been testing out illustrating digitally with watercolor brushes in procreate:
      image1.jpeg

      I've also been practicing digitally coloring ink images. This one I made for inktober but decided to try coloring it in digitally just for fun:
      Untitled_Artwork.jpg

      And then recently I started working on some spot illustrations for a restaurant. This one didn't make the final cut but I think he turned out pretty cute and I love being able to work in this line-art style.
      image0 (2).jpeg

      posted in Artwork
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: Inktober 2020 - Week 1

      dang this thread is super long already! Here are the two I've done so far but will probably take today off
      Screen Shot 2020-10-03 at 5.59.28 PM.png Screen Shot 2020-10-03 at 5.59.40 PM.png

      posted in Artwork
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: APRIL CONTEST: Lisa's robot invention worked great, until it did this...

      Welp I didn't completely finish it but I spent too long on it not to post so here we go 😃

      Untitled_Artwork (11).jpg

      posted in Announcements
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: Featured Student for September

      Here are my entries. Made them a while ago but I still like them so why not 🙂 Hopefully will have some new ones to enter next month too!

      Jolly ol St Nick postcard.jpg

      sharkship - small - under 1mb.jpg

      posted in Artwork
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • Help me get better plz :) - April WIP

      Hello creative people! So I was hoping I could get some constructive feedback on my April WIP. Do you think the composition works? Is there anything you think would make it more interesting or anything that you think should be removed? I'm open to any feedback 🙂 My husband said that the concept is too "out there"... but he also thinks it's ok to put the toilet paper roll on backwards so I can't really trust his judgement. I need feedback from other creative minds. :)! Do you think the concept makes sense without words to help it? And if no how do think I should real it back in? (...Lisa is a very advanced robot-maker in my version lol)

      April robot Clean Sketch2 small.jpg

      posted in General Discussion
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth

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    • RE: WIP advice needed - Final product not living up to my hopes/expectations... Opinions/Discussion Welcome :)

      @Matthew-Oberdier Oh true! good point - thank you!!

      posted in Questions & Comments
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      Mary Toth
    • RE: First 3 videos live on Youtube!

      I'm really excited about this lol I'm always looking for more illustration channels. woop woop! thanks for sharing your wisdom.

      posted in General Discussion
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • WIP advice needed - Final product not living up to my hopes/expectations... Opinions/Discussion Welcome :)

      Hi everyone,

      I find that I have a bad habit of being very unsatisfied with my work at times. I can't pinpoint if it is simply because I'm creating an image that I'm not passionate about or because the image is actually not very good. I'm creating this painting for a book cover for someone I've worked with multiple times. They always like what I produce but there are definitely times where I feel the work is not good enough to be on a book cover and I kind of feel bad about being paid for it by the end. Does anyone else ever feel this way?

      I've been moving more towards digital art lately because I find the process smoother/easier/cheaper/quicker than traditional. But I had already made one cover for a client in watercolor so they wanted this next book to be in the same media/style.

      Anyways, I created a sketch which I liked but now that I'm creating the final painting there is something I just don't like about it and I can't put my finger on it. This often happens with traditional paintings for me since they are so much harder to edit and change colors once they're on the paper. I'm not sure if it's just that I don't have as good of a handle on the media or if my color choices are off/not meshing as well as they did in my head. It makes me wonder if the traditional paintings that I create and end up liking are just a fluke. It shakes my confidence in my work for sure and I just am wondering at what stage of your careers did you face this challenge (or maybe you never faced this)? Do you have any constructive tips, feedback, or advice?

      Constructive criticism for the painting itself is also welcome. I'm a little embarrassed to be sharing it at all but I figure this can only help me improve. I'm probably 90% finished with it.

      Thank you all! This community is the best ❤

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      posted in Questions & Comments
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: Inktober 2020 - Week 1

      dang this thread is super long already! Here are the two I've done so far but will probably take today off
      Screen Shot 2020-10-03 at 5.59.28 PM.png Screen Shot 2020-10-03 at 5.59.40 PM.png

      posted in Artwork
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: September WIP | Squid Ink Fairy | Requesting Feedback

      @miranda-hoover omg I am in love with this! I can't wait to see the final image!

      posted in Contest
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: Share some humor...

      Ooo love me a good brain teaser! So far I'm thinking "hey, girl. How you doin'?" lol is that the phrase? 😹

      posted in Artwork
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: SEPTEMBER CONTEST: Ink Fairy

      @Rachel-Horne thank you! 🙂

      posted in Announcements
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: SEPTEMBER CONTEST: Ink Fairy

      Here is my entry this month 🙂 so. much. crosshatch. so much.

      ink fairy svs.jpg

      posted in Announcements
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: I made a book trailer for my first published children's book

      That trailer is so cute 🙂 You did a great job with the video! I'd love to learn how to make a video like that. Congrats on your first published book!

      posted in Projects
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth
    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio SEPTEMBER 🎨 2020

      @Braden-Hallett I love your style and also I love how soft this looks. Did you make your own brushes for it or which ones did you use to get that texture?

      posted in Artwork
      Mary Toth
      Mary Toth