Hi Everybody! Here's my Fairytale Traveler, meet Adalee and her gingerbread sidekick Bren. I really love the prompt for this months challenge and everyones submissions look amazing (isn't it so cool how different we all are?)!!!! Thank you all for inspiring me to push myself a little bit harder everyday, I'm super thankful to have such a talented and supportive community. Good luck everyone!!!
Hello SVS community! Here is my Yeti cooking for February!
I just finished my first SVS course "Creative Composition". Such a great course & I really took to heart the emphasis on planning and sketching out concepts in advance. I know that seems obvious, but I've always been a 'just start drawing and see what happens' kind of artist (I'm learning now that illustration requires so much more) it was a huge challenge for me to design and really think about the concept for this one, I hope you guys like it. Good luck everyone, I love seeing all your work!!!
Hi Everyone! Here's my first entry for this months challenge. Welcome to the "Bibbidi Bobbidi Inn & Brew". It was actually pretty liberating to know we can do more than one entry, now to start on #2 ;). Good luck everyone!
Hi Everyone! I've been in a bit of a creative rut lately, haha but I kept forcing myself to make art everyday, even if everything feels like a failure. I've learned over the years this is the best time to let go of expectation and just explore different things. Yesterday, I finally I was able to paint something I'm happy with again. As much as I love digital painting, I think I tend to really overthink things and get stuck in the never-ending cycle of moving and modifying to a point where I start questioning myself. I love watercolor because it's totally unforgiving and I'm forced to solve any issues that come up. So here is my little watercolor monster, hope you like her!
Hi Everyone!!! It's so awesome to see what you all have been working on so I figured I'd share a piece I made this weekend. I've been going back and forth between watercolor and digital painting, so yesterday I decided I would try combining the two. I used the watercolor like an under painting and then added the digital painting on top. Overall I think I'm happy with the effect of the layering but I'm definitely going to explore more to see if I can capture a bit more of the watercolor feel.
Here is the watercolor underpainting and the final version with the digital painting.
Hi Everyone! My name is Tiffany, I just joined SVS last week, I'm super excited to participate in this challenge & looking forward to getting to know this awesome community!
I imagine my Yeti is a well traveled, successful B&B owner with a profound love of the greatest utensil to ever be designed...the spork.
So when I was a kid, my favorite pictures were always the ones that had tons of detail. So my personal challenge this weekend was to make a picture that had a ton of detail but to use color to give it a focal point. I picked monsters singing because I completely love to draw monsters and I saw a picture of children singing in a choir and I was completely in love with all their expressions and thought it would be fun to do a monster version, lol. Here is the sketch and the final color version:
@carlianne I do a bunch of different things for my company but I'd say my primary job is curating and designing art for hotels. I am still dealing with designers, art directors and timelines but I'm less emotionally invested since the purpose of the art is to design for a specific location. It's challenging at times, depending on the project & how many revisions are needed, but I really enjoy the variety. Sometimes I'm collaging photography in photoshop, sometimes I'm painting abstracts or ocean scenes, etc. I think what I enjoy the most is how much I learn from each project, it could be experimenting with new art material to try and get the right effect or just simple things like exploring color or composition. I've also learned so much about curation, design, sequencing images, merchandising, marketing, branding (haha, I still need to learn how best to apply this knowledge to my own work).
@LisaF Hi Lisa, just checking in to see if this is still scheduled for tomorrow? I'm new so I'm not sure how everything works yet and I'd like to make it if possible.
@Melissa-Bailey-0 Yes! I think there is so much potential for exploration here. I've noticed my style changes a bit when I only draw digitally and there is just something fun and unexpected that happens when you use mediums that are a bit unpredictable (such as watercolor). My background is fine art so I'm used to letting the mediums do a bit of their own thing as part of my process. On the other hand I love the control I have with digital, I can re-size, recolor, layer and move things around if needed, but I'm a bit of an over renderer so I think trying to find balance between the two will be good for me. Are you drawing in Photoshop after you scan your watercolor images?
@Christine-Rotolo Thank you!!!! I love yours too!
@txels One idea, you could do some ink washes across a whole blank page, scan it and use it as a layer in photoshop. You'd be able to play with the transparency, erase out some of the highlights and maintain the organic texture from the ink wash without worrying whether or not you'll loose your line work from the original. If you're doing comic work, digital color/shading probably makes the most sense ;).
Hi Everyone! Here's my first entry for this months challenge. Welcome to the "Bibbidi Bobbidi Inn & Brew". It was actually pretty liberating to know we can do more than one entry, now to start on #2 ;). Good luck everyone!
@kylebeaudette Wow is right! I love the light coming in through the window of your traveler and the colors in the other two....AMAZING!
This is so awesome! I love the narrative here and all the details that add depth to the dragon character. As far as lighting goes, I think you have a good start but it seems unfinished only because the shadows are so clearly coming from the window but it seems like the shape of the window would produce less light (hope that makes sense). If you want to focus on traditional ink, you could dilute with water to create a different values of grey washes to enhance the shadow. I did a couple quick draw over in Photoshop to try and explain better what I'm trying to say (hope that's okay?). 
Looks like everyone's covered it pretty well so I just wanted to add this is a lovely piece, the colors and mood are wonderful. I love how the different personalities of each child are so clearly conveyed in their expressions. You definitely have a gift and I'm excited to see more as you progress :). Thank you for sharing!
@kylebeaudette neat, I can't wait to see. It's amazing how much light can change or enhance the narrative. Looks so fun!