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!

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 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.

Hi! I have a hard time deciding but compositon wise I’m split between E and H.
I’m a sucker for classic compostion and I like the triangle shape created in E. The diagonal lines also create a bit of tension, I am assuming that the hand coming out of the snow and ‘pushing up tulips’ is a pun on the classic zombie hand rising from a grave right?
Picture H gives more room for the light effect and the falling snow though, which adds to the winter feeling. I am guessing the hand is in the lower right corner, but I would advise to move it to the middle left (position of the dark figure) to take advantage of the ‘rising through the snow’ part.

Thank you for making the slideshow. It provides a very nice way of viewing all the entries, there is so much skill on display!

@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.

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.

Cool! I already wanted to get some practice in architecture. Just a question though; what is generally meant by a ‘3/4th angle’ in building design? Just a three point perspective view?

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?

@Morten-Christiansen I think it could work, though I think the character needs a bit more wide-eyed-exitement look on his face to make it clear he isn’t fearfully running away.

And I think it’s better to stay away from small text on items, since they might not scale good enough. But I’m on unsteady ground there.

@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.