"Everything was rattling, falling apart and breaking. Buzz started rethinking his life choices."

I was already working on this piece for a project, but thought it might (loosely) fit the theme?
Still struggling with aspects of this piece, might make some changes.

This looks fun, so much exciting art on this thread.
I've been working on evolving my style lately, by experimenting with a variety of digital brushes and attempting to bring a rougher and simplified look to my work, less line art and more selling the image with shapes, light and textures. Still learning but hopefully getting better, looking forward to taking some SVS classes to improve. I've always struggled with colour and light and used to be all about just colouring inside my own linework, but am trying to change and improve.

https://www.instagram.com/mattbakerfineart/
https://mattbakerart.com

'Lower your expenses' rather than working more to make more money. Excellent wisdom from Lee; so simple and so generally ignored in our culture. Thanks for that gold piece of advice.

Hey Chris, yeah graphic novels and comics are a great genre!
My all time favourite graphic novel is the Bone series by Jeff Smith.
As a teenager I thought all I wanted to do when I grew up was either draw comics or be an animator.

I've seen comic book influences in a lot of those kids chapter books these days, which is cool. Working on an idea for one myself.

For a long time my own style was influenced mainly by American superhero comics, and that can still be seen in a lot of my work, for better or worse, but these days I'm more influenced by art outside of the comics genres, although I feel like there are some absolutely incredible comic book artists still around of course.

My top three mainstream comic artists at the moment would have to be Stuart Immonen, Pepe Larraz and Olivier Coipel.

I'm no expert but I'm happy to swap tips and tricks!

Here's an inked drawing of the potential lead character in my book:

Got inspired by the guys talking about their methods, so I'm trying something slightly different on my latest WIP. Jake was talking about colouring with the generic Photoshop swatches and then desaturating and adjusting colour balance, so I'm trying that with this one. It's a piece for a chapter book by author Jason Matheson for 9-12 yr old boys mainly, and I can only describe it as an insane dystopic insect fantasy with a dab of Mad Max thrown in. There's a lot left to go on this pic; lighting, tonal values, background, textures, but thought I'd share my progress if that's okay? (If I'm not supposed to post this here I'll delete it with apologies.)

@burvantill Beautiful work! Love your layout, colour, style, storytelling, the whole thing.

Thanks for the great thread, @burvantill, looking forward to following more cool and inspirational artists
Mine are @mattybake and @mattbakerfineart

https://www.instagram.com/mattybake/
https://www.instagram.com/mattbakerfineart/

@TessaW Holy Moly, these are looking amazing, I would buy this book just for the illustrations alone. Thanks so much for sharing your process and talent.

@burvantill Oh wow, that is true dedication!!

Wow, big challenge! I like pose 2, can't wait to see what happens!

@Braden-Hallett that worked, thanks heaps bro.

@Braden-Hallett hmmm yeah same again, it also says "The link you followed may have expired, or the Page may only be visible to an audience that you aren't in." Bummer.

Pure gravy so far, dude

Hi Braden, that Facebook link isn't working for me for some reason, mate. By the way, congrats on your win in the March contest!

Hey @Braden-Hallett , not that you haven't done enough already (I'm guessing you don't sleep), but would you be able to give us some pointers on how to actually run the Zoom and set it all up to show screen etc. for when it's our turn to share? Thank you in advance!

I'd find a friend who has an iPad Pro, ask if I could borrow it for a night or two, download ProCreate (inexpensive) and play with it. If after that you feel it's gonna change your life, buy an iPad Pro

This situation sucks. I've been guilt-tripped but never had people been rude to me that much yet.

My go-to response is the old 'You wouldn't ask a doctor, a plumber, or an electrician to work for free (unless you're helping people in the slums or something charitable). You also wouldn't say to a builder "Do this job for free and if I'm happy with it I'll use you for future jobs", and other such rubbish comments that are used on artists. I politely try to educate them to see illustration as a valued skill worth paying for, and if that doesn't work I insult them about whatever work they do, haha kidding.

Utterly gorgeous, I think it reads perfectly.