On the plus side, Lisa got a visit from the Tooth Fairy that night.

Same here. My schedule is out of wack! I am loving that line work of yours that has Pete's Dragon in it.

I'm taking a schoolism class, Nathan Fowkes Color and Light. It's taking me FOREVER to get assignment 3 done. I think I started this class several months ago. Sigh.

Worst Fear- That your dad was responsible for Bambi's mom.

Hi friends. How has everyone been lately?

Welp, it's still just 11:30 pm in my home state. That totally counts.

I'm hoping to be able to enter the competition this month! Last month I bit off more than I could chew and then I got sick, so I wasn't able to get my piece done in time. I'm hoping a more simple concept will allow me to finish in time.

Posting my progress here to keep me accountable. Here's my idea. Still need to work on some drawing problems and play with the palette before I render it out.

Oh, wow. Just want to say thank you to all of you who helped steer my illustration to what it became. I was lost with it for a while! And a big shout out to Tyson, who I know was feeling a bit down after the last competition. He makes really good work, and it paid off for him in this particular competition! Good job, Tyson!!! Congrats to the rest of the finalists and to everyone else; there were a lot of amazing pieces that I think could easily have taken 1st place right along with me.

Thank you!

Loving this contest! Fall is my favorite season when I'm in a colder climate, so I'm loving the vibe from all of the entries. Here's my contribution. I wanted to make it into project, so I pretended it was in a songbook for kids. If you want to listen to the arrangement I made for the song, I have it on my instagram.

Probably not the best composition, but here's mine! I'll be close to Provo friday night, so I'm hoping to be able to give it in person. Congrats on your new bunny burrow SVS team!

Mwahaha, while all of you are busy with Inktober, I shall sneak in and win this one. Just joking! Monsters are are totally out of my comfort zone. I am super pumped to see what crazy monsters people come up with. @Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen already has a head start!

Congratulations!!! That's so awesome that you get to make a personalized announcement for him. It's very cute.

@Matthew-Oberdier

It made a big difference!!!

Wow, this is really lovely. You really nailed the different expressions and the color palette and rendering is very dreamy. A couple of thoughts to add into the mix:

-I'd love to see a brighter light cast on the human characters. The dragon's face is illuminated pretty strongly and I think it could be intensified on the kids as well.
-The dragon looks very elegant overall, but the back foot looks stumpy in comparison. I'd consider elongating the talons and making the back foot have a more elegant gesture.

Well done! Glad you shared some of your work with us.

The poses look great to me! I would say that it does look very blurry, rendering wise. That can happen really easily with digital work, and sometimes the blurriness is even more apparent when you take it to print. You could sharpen up some edges manually or even put a subtle sharpness filter over it. Just something to keep in mind!

I think the colors work!

Congrats on finishing the course! Love all the little details you put in.

I've done quite a few 1-1 studies, and I'm not sure how I feel about them. One time I was doing a go-at-your-own-pace course and we had to make an exact copy of a piece. I spend like 2 months on just that one piece because I was only doing art during my toddler's nap times during that period. I felt a little shell shocked afterward because I really felt that I hadn't learned anything in the end. In retrospect I might have learned a bit of endurance and maybe something about value ranges.

My current philosophy for myself is to select something about a piece I want to implement, and try it out on my own original piece. That way I get a study out of it and possibly a portfolio piece. This keeps me from going on autopilot and keeps my mind on what I'm trying to get out of the study. So on a fully rendered piece I might focus on the color palette and values, or the composition, or the textures, or the lighting, etc.

I might feel differently about 1-1 copies in the future, but at this stage I'm not interested in those kind of studies!

This is so fun! I got:

"the guard enduring their kid's 5th tantrum today"

Wow @chrisaakins, I'm so proud of you! Congratulations!!!

Hi Madeline! What a cute scene! You're characters are all so pleasing.

My critique is what the others have said about focus. Ideally there'd be a main focal point we'd want to spend the most time looking at and then have our eyes look through other parts of the piece and keep coming back to the focal point. Right now it's hard to focus on any one thing. I'm seeing the plants and lamp posts standing out the most through value contrast. The dog is in the middle and seems like it's supposed to be the focal point, but it's losing value contrast with the grass, and the grass is a very dominant color. The butterfly is getting lost in the dark busy background of the sunflower stalks.

Another small critique would be to add some linework details here and there to the grass, mostly where it meets the edges of things like the pots, the puppy and the path. You wouldn't have to draw every grass line, but I think adding a few would help unify the piece, considering you use linework heavily elsewhere.

Great job overall, and thanks for sharing!