Hey Gang! Here is my submission for this months contest.

Life has been crazy these past few weeks. I moved at the first of the month and then two weeks later I was off getting married! Now, dragonflys can symbolize change and a deeper understanding of life. With these new changes in my own life, I wanted to express that in illustration by seeing off a little dragonfly in the first light of morning.

Hi Everyone, here is my entry!

Farmers, beware of the black sheep!

Hi Everyone! Here is my entry for isolation.

Our cat likes to meow at the wildlife he'll never be able to reach.

Hi everyone, here is my entry for this month's contest!

Lisa's robot invention worked great, until it went for a joy ride!

It was a fun challenge. I wanted to try loosening up more and I wanted to see if I could come up with a narrative that was about a robot but didn't show a robot.

Hello everyone! This is my first post and contest with SVS, super pumped for this months theme!

Made it in! Hi everyone, here is my Nightfall entry

Hey Gang! This was a tough one, but ended up finding a way to have fun with it.

Hi everyone! Here is my entry! I had a ton of fun with this one and for the first time, I tried out the red under painting Will showed in this past week's live sessions. I liked that process a lot and I'm pumped about using it more.

Hey everyone, here is my entry!

Hey everyone, here is my entry for the contest!

Hi @Shyam-Sailus I like this goal of crating 10,000 drawings. There’s a lot to be said about getting those pencil miles in. I want to back up @Heather-Boyd on this and suggest you try to find a little more focus on your 10k drawings, too. I like your example of the divided class, and I have no doubt that by just making 10,000 drawing you’ll improve a substantial amount.

Ten thousand drawings is a bit of a vague goal. If you want to try and get a little more out of it, and possibly have better work in the end, maybe try to make some goals for yourself to go along with the 10k. If you’re wanting to make a career out of art or get a job, figure out what those could be and see how you can focus your drawings to that. Maybe something like “this 1k drawings will focus on figure drawing” or this “100 on perspective.”

There is a trap you can easily fall into if you’re only focused on moving the pencil. I myself fell into this for a few years after college. Despite drawing and painting everyday for years I had very little work that I liked and no portfolio level work to show for it. Maybe a mix of both, you need some quality to go in with this giant amount of quantity.

I wish you all the luck on your 10k drawings, this will be an exciting journey for you!

@Dima-Eichhorn that would be a journey. I’m lucky in that I’m only a two hour flight away from Pasadena. The cost aside, I wouldn’t rule it out, last year I met a ton of people from outside the US. It would be an investment, so it’s not something I’d recommend on a whim.

I’ll be “going!” I’m digging that it’s online this year. I went last year and was originally not planning on going this year (decided that before covid was a thing) so it’s cool it ended up being online this year.

Not sure what I’ll attend yet, I haven’t had a chance to look at the schedule.

Color can be a tricky one. There’s way more to it but I’ll try to explain what I usually go through. I mostly go on feeling and what I want the end piece to feel like. I’ll ask myself if I want the piece to feel warm or cool. I try to keep my color selection really narrow, it’ll usually be around 90% warm and 10% cool, or vise versa. What ever the 10% is will be what grabs people’s attention. Once I have an idea of the colors I want, I sometimes grab references to color pick from as a place to start.

Thinking of the time of day your scene takes place can also help, then find references for that time.

Also, when you test your colors, try to focus on just the big shapes and keep it simple. You can try out way more color schemes in a short amount of time.

Hope that gives you a place to jump off from.

@George-Broussard I think they’re referring to Dunn’s new post on Instagram. Unless you are too? I’m not sure if you can arrange comments on Instagram. I’ve been looking at that new post off and on. I haven’t seen a single negative comment on there either. Guessing people that can see that the book is most likely authentic are also more polite.

Venting side notes:

This whole ordeal is incredibly frustrating to see. One comment on Jake’s recent post, shows that someone is sending out misinformation that if you tag a post with Inktober, Jake owns it. Silly. Some people don’t get that it’s only the Inktober logo you can’t freely use, which makes sense. I work with logos in my day job and you can’t just go throwing those around willy-nilly. And then to assume someone who’s been teaching and helping people for years isn’t capable of writing their own book. Also I worry about the implications this could have for anyone wanting to teach in the future.

I haven’t been able to find the book on amazon by searching but I can always still see It when I go to my preorder. It’s always shown the price but today instead of the dollar amount it reads “currently unavailable” hoping thats not a sign of bad news or a huge delay.

Hey Gang! Here is my submission for this months contest.

Life has been crazy these past few weeks. I moved at the first of the month and then two weeks later I was off getting married! Now, dragonflys can symbolize change and a deeper understanding of life. With these new changes in my own life, I wanted to express that in illustration by seeing off a little dragonfly in the first light of morning.

Wow it is really rough out there.

I've watched Dunn's video and I'm going to piggyback off David Hohn's words about content a bit. A lot of what Dunn points out as his work are things that I learned in one of my first art classes, Principles of Visual Communication. I've also heard these lessons from multiple teachers (I think Lee even covered a lot of stuff about the mark making and how to get different values with ink in a class called Quick Sketch, which was all in ink) and I could grab most any book on my shelf teaching drawing and it would have a good chunk of similar information. It feels and sounds like what happened on some level is Dunn has come to these art fundamental conclusions on his own, which would be incredible. I feel this would also give you a sense of ownership of a technique or way of mark making.

By no means am I trying to take anything away from either artist, making a book like this is no joke. I think it's important to have multiple books on the same subject. A particular teacher could have a way of conveying information to you that just clicks even though you've heard it from someone else in a different form.

Thank you! @Kevin-Longueil yeah this illustration is in kind of a tough place right now. Everything is subjective at this point and it’s difficult to know what to settle on, haha.

Thank you and thank you for the opportunity! This felt like a really great one to get to illustrate @Lee-White

@dafoota @Jeremy-Ross Sorry to hear. I haven't checked if the stream is up on svs' site, but last I checked you could view it on their facebook page in full. Hope that helps!