Hi, everyone's doing such great illustrations!
I'm currently going slowly through the Painting With Colour & Light course, trying to lift my game in that area,
A friend and I are currently collaborating on a comic book about the story of Samson, just for a fun project. It's more for teens/young adults, not for little kids. So here's our latest piece from it. Still got a lot to learn about colour and light but hopefully I'm improving I hope it's not too violent for this forum!

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

For this one I made a little story involving my kids, so if nothing else, they'll be amused
Attempted traditional media for the characters; watercolour base and prismacolor pencils over the top in places. Tonnes of room for improvement but I enjoyed the experiment.

"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

Making progress but dang, do I miss the Control-Z function!
Traditional can be SO much more frustrating than digital at times, am I right?
Starting to add some coloured pencil over the top of the watercolours. I'm going to do the background separately, because I'm too fearful that I'm going to murder the whole thing with the background. Playing it a little bit safe, you might say.

I STRUGGLE SO BAD WITH COLOUR & LIGHT, SO I'm doing the 'PAINTING COLOUR & LIGHT 2.0' course by Will Terry, which is excellenté, and trying to apply the concepts to some illustrations I'm doing for a friend's self-published insect fantasy (demographic 9-13 yr old boys). The front cover's been fun because he wanted it loosely styled on the poster art for the 1990's movie 'Army of Darkness', anyone remember that one? Might have gone a bit nuts with texture's and grit and FX, but I love all that stuff

This may end up looking like a total dog's breakfast.
I didn't think I'd have time to enter this month and I might still be right! However, thought I might use this month's challenge as an opportunity to get away from pixels and back to traditional for a second. Not only that, but also try some pencil on watercolour stuff, which I'd like to get (much, much) better at.
So here goes, here's my cleaned up linework that I've light boxed onto watercolour paper, and I'm just about to bust out my watercolours, erk! Wish me luck?
Oh, maybe I need to add a backpack in there.
Advice and pointers very much welcomed!

I'll totally buy your book, Gary.
Well, I illustrated Black Beauty for QED publishing quite a few years ago now, if you like the classics. Out of print now but still available if you want to check it out:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Classic-Collection-Black-Beauty-Anne-Rooney/9781781711118

'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.

@Jose-A-Nieto looks great, and sounds like an interesting book, too!

@Jeremy-Ross I'll second that.
It's looking awesome, Braden, hurry up and get a graphic novel finished so I can buy it and read it.

@LisaF Thanks, you're a legend! #thesystemworks

@LisaF has the link been emailed for the live event? I haven't spotted it yet but I have faith in the system.

@Gary-Wilkinson Alas, I couldn't get it in Australia, I'll wait for the print.

I'll totally buy your book, Gary.
Well, I illustrated Black Beauty for QED publishing quite a few years ago now, if you like the classics. Out of print now but still available if you want to check it out:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Classic-Collection-Black-Beauty-Anne-Rooney/9781781711118

By the way, at the moment I'm listening to some comedy while I work. If y'all haven't yet heard of Dry Bar Comedy, I just did you a favour, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/c/DryBarComedy

I like to mix it up. Audiobooks, music, YouTube tutorials, sermons, podcasts, and sometimes sweet sweet silence and the sounds of birds chirping outside.

@Braden-Hallett Bro, your work is LEGIT! Always.

I STRUGGLE SO BAD WITH COLOUR & LIGHT, SO I'm doing the 'PAINTING COLOUR & LIGHT 2.0' course by Will Terry, which is excellenté, and trying to apply the concepts to some illustrations I'm doing for a friend's self-published insect fantasy (demographic 9-13 yr old boys). The front cover's been fun because he wanted it loosely styled on the poster art for the 1990's movie 'Army of Darkness', anyone remember that one? Might have gone a bit nuts with texture's and grit and FX, but I love all that stuff