@davidhohn
Thanks for such a useful and clear list.

This piece is a personal project. I try to document moments from everyday life while learning digital painting.

The mood I want to capture was dad and child enjoying a good book, treasure the time of being together, and captivated by a good story.

Composition & colour: I try to keep the viewer's attention to the child and dad by putting them under a spot light, and apply a distinct warm colour on the child. I also arrange all the toy animals looking back to the story-teller as if they are also captivated by the story.

Medium: I was not very conscious on the choice of medium to enhance the piece. The choice of working digitally, and the choice of brushes were more about trying out a style rather than enhance the subject matter.

As I wrote out my intent, I realised that this piece is not working from the sketch level. The facial expression of dad and the child is not telling the same story as I intended, and the arrange of toys seems unnatural and a bit creepy. I think I need to restart from sketching level.

Amazing list of artists here. So much to learn. Thank you guys.

Thanks for sharing your process. Would love to try a similar process - paint in bw traditionally and color digitally. Very beautiful piece.

Hi. Welcom. I am fairly new here as well. Joined the forum this autumn. I am so happy to find this forum where I can ask for feedbacks, see other people’s process and geek out art related discussions with other artists.

I am working on “slow” for the November art challenge. I did not manage to finish on time.
Still working-in progress. At this moment I am a bit blind to this piece.
Does the overall composition and value works?
What is the one thing I can work on to make the biggest improvement for this piece?

@rcartwright really amazed by how loose Joseph uses water colour, yet his paintings feel very realistic.

@whitney-simms thank you. Love her colors and her drawing of children.

@teju-abiola wow. Thank you so much for the recommendations. I will look thought the list and see what resonates me. It is always hard in the beginning to know what works for me. I will try a few different techniques, and see what sticks. Very excited!

I am going to work on painting with water colour in December. The holiday session reminds me traditions, and I remembered that many of the traditional children's book illustrations are done in ink and water colour :-).

I want to find water colour masters to study. Currently I am looking at Quentin Blake, Anita Jeram, Matthew Cordell and Vera Brosgol's art. I am also going to re-watch Lee White's water colour tutorial on SVS Learn.

Do you have recommendations on which artist I should be studying?

These are so cute. Great shapes and color. Both yours and Smceccarelli’s kids are so inspiring. I am joining in to make 100 kids project also. Wanting to practice drawing boys expecially. A bit low on free time at this moment, so I will Start in December.