Almost did not make it this month. It turns out this was a lot harder than I initially thought.

Looking at the other entries, maybe I should have included her name and a small bio?

Loved the challenge. Much to learn. Tried to keep it in the style of my last months submission. The more I work on it the more I think this would be a fun project to base a small 10-20 page comic story on.

Busy month with family and the whole Covid thing. Didn’t think I’d be able to work on it after my initial thumbnails, but made a sprint in the last days of the month.

Looking forward to the next contest!

Did this one a while back and it was a very fun course to do! I kind of want to do more perspective drawings, but at the same time I ‘forget’ to do them.

Hi. It might be a bit rude, but I have been commenting a bit on the forums without introducing myself. So to remedy that; here I am!

While I have had an on-off relationship with ‘art’ since I was around nine I am trying to mindfully improve for the last two years. The Three Point Perspective podcast has been a motivator for this as the topic of artistic growth and learning has been touched upon in a number of episodes. Speaking of which, I’m not up-to-date yet as I mostly listen to the podcast during downtime around the house, which is something that comes and goes since I have a young family and fulltime job to keep me occupied.
A friend talked me into signing up for the SVS curriculum which we’ll do as soon as he gets his new house up and running. I understand that it’s main focus is on illustrating children books’ however I hope to learn a thing or two I can use in my own projects. While I really enjoy drawing, well, basically everything I hope to finish a comic one day, illustrate an article and create at least one lifelike portrait in oil. I enjoy reading fiction, historical non-fiction, comics, strips, long distance running, classical masters in oil, beer, wine, cooking and seem to have an eclectic taste in music*.

As you might notice from this post English is not my first language and I might have trouble expressing my thoughts correctly through this language barrier. On top of that dutch culture is very direct, bordering on blunt sometimes. So if one of my posts or critiques comes over as brusque or abrasive it 99,5% of the time won’t be ment that way and I would like to apologise in advance.

So hi!

*Going as far as enjoying Spanish, French, German and dutch rapmusic apparently. And if someone knows of good rappers in bahasa Indonesia, please let me know.

I was looking forward to doing inktober and wanted to try making 31 comic book like ‘frames’ in which a story was told using the prompt. For example for ‘crunch’ I was planning to do a side view of a cyclist looking down on his phone, while in the background you could see the lorry driving up.
Used a great part of september brainstorming the prompts, made almost 31 small scale drawings (and even more miniatures to try different angles etc.).

Then I started thinking “But what will I get from this years inktober?” It’ll cost me a lot of time which I might be better off spending on the foundations courses or trying to further myself in illustrating a short story (for that ambition of one day creating a comic book..). And time-wise I just know I won’t be able to spend the amount of time I want on each illustration and create a number of drawings which could be better with just a bit more time and attention.
At the same time I really enjoy the creative process of inktober and the thrill of creating stuff then seeing how others tackled the prompt.

As a in between solution I opted to only do the four thursday prompts to coincide with Inktober52.

The hard thing though is that with Inktober I have a physical list and goal to work towards which really gets me in the focus mode (31 drawing, in ink done in october and posted on IG). And I know from previous editions this really works for me. And I know the generic ideals of ‘doing more SVScourses’, ‘participate in the monthly challenge’,’illustrate a fable’, ‘do the inktober52 drawings’ lack in this aspect and I find I miss the drive (?) to tackle these.

I like the idea! Looking at the picture from a smaller screen I would advise to play around with contrast/value more. The separate elements tend to fuse together in their current state. Really dig the colour palette though!

I really like the energy of the picture. One small thing that stood out to me though is the area where the lower jaw of the cat intersects with the tail of the rooster. I think there is a tangent line(?) which, to me, makes it feel like the cat has the tail of the rooster in his mouth as opposed to being in front of it. Just a little shift of the tail would remedy that.

Again really like the picture and I am still a novice so take my advice with a grain of salt.

I like the individual items in the picture, though the yeti does look a bit sad. Composition wise, would making the yeti a bit bigger work for you? That way it would push the yeti a bit more into the focus of the drawing, without having to drop the birds. Now my eye first noticed the left bird and the couldron/barbecue first.

@Asyas_illos @CLCanadyArts @Jacy13 @Tiffany-Thomas
Thank you all for your response! Funilly enough number three was my initial choice before exploring different colour options (did about ten in total). I’m now continueing to the colour stage. Thanks again for the help.

I will see if using I can get less saturated colours to work for me @Tiffany-Thomas. I’m slowely building experience in procreate, but it’s at a snails pace currently.

Number one of four.

Did this one a while back and it was a very fun course to do! I kind of want to do more perspective drawings, but at the same time I ‘forget’ to do them.

I like them! Keep ‘em coming!

What strikes me is the quality of every drawing. How long before did you start preparing for Inktober? And do you ‘do’ a drawing a day, or batches? I started with the preparing, but ultimately decided it would give to much added pressure at this current moment in time. But incidently our ideas for pressure were very similar.

I was looking forward to doing inktober and wanted to try making 31 comic book like ‘frames’ in which a story was told using the prompt. For example for ‘crunch’ I was planning to do a side view of a cyclist looking down on his phone, while in the background you could see the lorry driving up.
Used a great part of september brainstorming the prompts, made almost 31 small scale drawings (and even more miniatures to try different angles etc.).

Then I started thinking “But what will I get from this years inktober?” It’ll cost me a lot of time which I might be better off spending on the foundations courses or trying to further myself in illustrating a short story (for that ambition of one day creating a comic book..). And time-wise I just know I won’t be able to spend the amount of time I want on each illustration and create a number of drawings which could be better with just a bit more time and attention.
At the same time I really enjoy the creative process of inktober and the thrill of creating stuff then seeing how others tackled the prompt.

As a in between solution I opted to only do the four thursday prompts to coincide with Inktober52.

The hard thing though is that with Inktober I have a physical list and goal to work towards which really gets me in the focus mode (31 drawing, in ink done in october and posted on IG). And I know from previous editions this really works for me. And I know the generic ideals of ‘doing more SVScourses’, ‘participate in the monthly challenge’,’illustrate a fable’, ‘do the inktober52 drawings’ lack in this aspect and I find I miss the drive (?) to tackle these.

@ajillustrates

That’s a great idea! Gives the whole scene an even great sense of tension.

@ajillustrates

About 5MB total. I’ve uploaded pictures before on the forums, but somehow this time it won’t work.

Nevermind. Got it to work. Didn’t do anything different so far as I can see..

So I’m a bit miffed I discovered the prompt for this one so late. More than half the month’s gone, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish this one. Shame because it looks so fun! I’m posting here to chronicle my progress and am open for any and all reply’s feedback you might have.

I’m very happy I took Lee’s advice from one of the podcasts and really fleshed out my character. She is smart, but not cunning so would not talk herself out of a situation. She might know some martial art, but as a 14 year old sh’s no match for a trained soldier. She does however really like rock climbing, so she would probably try to find safety higher up.

Made a few exploratory sketches, and I like the idea of her climbing a wall as the ‘others’ approach. And if I can pull it off I want the ‘danger’ to be seen as shadows only.

Edit: Ok. Im trying to post the pictures, but it won’t work. I get an error about parsing server response. Can someone explain what I am doing wrong?

 

@ChrisConnor

I like the second one more, but without the mane it looks more like a leopard or panther to me so I would definitely add a mane. Maybe you could work around the background a bit so there is a ‘darker’ part behind the flaming mane (very cool idea btw) to work as contrast for the fire? I really like the way you textured the lava and the ‘splatter’ to the left of the lion.

@PieterVanDerBeek

Gefeliciteerd! The card really looks nice.