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 dipping my toe into some fan art this month for the first time (haha, thanks a lot @Jeremiahbrown, the can of worms is totally open now!). Turns out it's pretty fun!!! Here are a few of the pieces I've made so far. They are all a mix of traditional watercolor and digital enhancements.
Hi Everyone! Here's my 2nd entry, I wanted to go bright with this one, lol. Love all the entries so far, you all are so amazing!!
Hi everyone! Here's a new one, It's mostly watercolor with some digital enhancements.
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!!!! Here are a couple new ones. Putting characters in environments is super challenging for me so I'm forcing myself to do it, lol. Both are watercolor with digital enhancements.
Hi Everyone! As usual you all are amazing!!! I'm down to the wire so I'm going for "done not perfect" this month, lol. Good luck everybody!!!
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.
@ajillustrates It's looking soooooo good!!!! Can't wait to see it completed and the digital brush is perfect it looks so much like a traditional pen...very cool!!!!
@Jeremy-Ross Haha, thanks! I had to cut and move them around in the latest one but I've never drawn a room with multiple people in it, haha. I'm literally amazed at how long I've been avoiding backgrounds 
Hi Everyone!!!! Here are a couple new ones. Putting characters in environments is super challenging for me so I'm forcing myself to do it, lol. Both are watercolor with digital enhancements.
Hi Everyone! As usual you all are amazing!!! I'm down to the wire so I'm going for "done not perfect" this month, lol. Good luck everybody!!!
@Jeremiahbrown OMG! Hahaha, I love it so much! That may be the most amazing monster I've ever seen!!!!!!
@Jeremiahbrown The watercolor portion for this one took about 5-6 hours, then the scanning, cleanup and digital touch-ups probably about another 1-2 hours. I can usually get the underpainting done quickly, less than an hour. Here's a pic of the underpainting. I think on the next one I may scan at this point and then finish it digitally and traditionally so I can compare the results. For me the advantage to working in watercolor is the quirkiness and imperfection that happens, digitally I have a habit of trying to over-render and control every little detail and digital paintings actually take me way longer because I get super indecisive, lol.
@Valerie-Light Thank you so much! Watercolor can be such a challenge, haha I can't tell you how many flops I've made over the past year 
, I really appreciate the encouragement!
This months been super busy for me & honestly I was feeling a little creatively drained. Do you ever get to points where you think you've completely run out of ideas and even though you try, nothing seems to work out the way you want? So long story short, I decided to give myself a little break and just try to "fill my creative bank" and @Jake-Parker would say. I looked and looked at all the wonderful art in my collection of books and online (I live in a rural area so no nearby museums or galleries). I went on long walks in the forest and after all that, it was actually 1 illustration by Edward Gorey that pulled me out of my hump, lol. So here is my newest little watercolor lady dressed in her cruelty free, live monster stole and Spring party attire :).
