I have been working on using triadic colour schemes in double page spreads.

I've been working on a set of pet based playing cards.

I've been reworking an old piece into a newer style.

Hi guys.

I didn't get chance to enter the June competition but decided to finish my entry any way.

Hi @franksandovalart. Here is a list of agents I recently put together. Each one has specific guidelines for submissions so you should check out their websites.

Advocate Art Ltd
Allied Artists/Artistic License
Arena Illustration Ltd
The Art Agency
The Artworks
Beehive Illustration
The Big Red Illustration Agency
The Bright Agency
Jenny Brown Associates
The Catchpole Agency
The Copyrights Group Ltd
David Lewis Agency
Good Illustration Ltd
Graham-Cameron Illustration
David Higham Associates Ltd
Inky Illustration
B.L. Kearley Ltd
Kids Corner
LAW
Frances McKay Illustration
NB Illustration
The Organisation
Plum Pudding Illustration
Sylvie Poggio Artists Agency
Elizabeth Roy Literacy Agency
Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency Ltd
Vicki Thomas Associates
United Agents LLP
Astound Illustration Agency
The Cat Agency
Bath Lit Agency

Best of luck.

None illustration work has been really busy recently. Finally got round to doing a bit of drawing this week. Got to do a rework of an old concept.

Hey guys.

Recently I've been drawing in more of a digital pencil style.

I'm really wanting to push this style further. Do any of you know of artists, other than our wonderful Will Terry, who use this style or something similar?

Thanks

Hi @Heather-Bouteneff looks like the values of the hedge, ground and animals are pretty close. I've turned your image black and white to demonstrate what I mean.

I took your drawing and quickly darkened the bushes and floor (with my finger on my phone so it's a bit messy). The characters aren't quite as lost within the hedge.

The focal point is the exchange of the apple between the two human characters. I'd suggest upping the contrast even more around them by lightening the sky around their heads maybe. Maybe even drop that top of the hedge down a bit so the figures are silhouetted against the sky. The line of the top of the hedge is touching the girls hand which slightly obscures the action of her throwing the apple.

Hope that helps

Hi guys.

For this month's competition I went for the moment before things get very toasty for this wandering dwarf. I was trying to push the separation of the foreground and background characters. Using cool lighter colours and lighting for the foreground and darker warmer colours for the background. I wanted to try and push the dragon back as far into the shadow as possible so that it would almost be a second read with the inner mouth glow signalling that something lay in the gloom.

The things I'm not currently sure about are whether the dwarf pops out too much that he doesn't like he's in the same room as the dragon. The more I look at it the more i feel he should have stronger shadows.

Thanks,
Daniel

I'm a bit happier with it after going back and reworking the warms and cools into patches of light.

Hi there, hope you're all doing fantastic!

I feel I'm at a point where I'm ready to approach publishers and agents with my work. While I initially set out to create 10 - 15 pieces for my portfolio, I've discovered that each agency has different rules regarding how many portfolio pieces to submit.

While I have my favourites, I'm kinda struggling to choose which are definites to include. Any chance some of you could take a quick look over the following images and pick a top 5? Also if there are any that definitely shouldn't be included I'd really like to know.

Thanks for your help!

TLDR: Need help choosing which portfolio pieces to submit.

The Great Monster Bake Off Cover:

Girl and Tree:

Fishing Robot:

Lassie:

Lovebirds:

Elephant Rocket:

Reluctant Dragon:

Mushrooms:

Jack and the Beanstalk:

Jack and the Beanstalk spots:

Frog:

Space Slime:

Monster Kids:

None illustration work has been really busy recently. Finally got round to doing a bit of drawing this week. Got to do a rework of an old concept.

I think that is a great idea. I have purchased process pdfs and videos from Gumroad before.

If you're looking for other ways to open a shop there is also a market on etsy for digital art. I believe @NessIllustration mentioned doing this in one of her videos.

Hi @franksandovalart. Here is a list of agents I recently put together. Each one has specific guidelines for submissions so you should check out their websites.

Advocate Art Ltd
Allied Artists/Artistic License
Arena Illustration Ltd
The Art Agency
The Artworks
Beehive Illustration
The Big Red Illustration Agency
The Bright Agency
Jenny Brown Associates
The Catchpole Agency
The Copyrights Group Ltd
David Lewis Agency
Good Illustration Ltd
Graham-Cameron Illustration
David Higham Associates Ltd
Inky Illustration
B.L. Kearley Ltd
Kids Corner
LAW
Frances McKay Illustration
NB Illustration
The Organisation
Plum Pudding Illustration
Sylvie Poggio Artists Agency
Elizabeth Roy Literacy Agency
Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency Ltd
Vicki Thomas Associates
United Agents LLP
Astound Illustration Agency
The Cat Agency
Bath Lit Agency

Best of luck.

@Gaelle-Grizzly This is great. I love the details in the blueprint. Really well thought out and executed!

I'm a little late to the party but just wanted to add my 2 cents. I would de-saturate everything apart from the teapot and push up the saturation on the teapot. This will make everything a bit cooler and your focal point warmer.

I would also add a bit of a shadow behind the teapot to push it out from the background.

Thanks @txels ! I always enjoy an extreme angle.

Hi @Jeannelle-Pita and welcome to SVS

Hi @phoenix-yip I absolutely love the design of this piece.

I must admit on my first look I completely missed the character sat at the base of the sword.

I would go even further than what you've done here and darken the area around the character to make their silhouette pop out to the viewer.

I hope you don't mind I've done a very quick paint over to show you what I was thinking

Hi @Gary-Wilkinson can I ask how you chose your color palette?

Its clear from your thumbnails that there is a consistent palette running through the book but you're not limiting yourself and including saturated blues, greens, purples, reds, oranges etc.

This is something I struggle with so its nice to see it done so well. I often find my colors losing saturation as I try to make them work together.

Great job.