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Not Sure How To Fix Your Art?
Ever had the feeling that something is off about your illustration, but not quite sure what? We've all been there! Sometimes it helps to get another point of view. Every month, we'll be taking submissions from our students and demonstrating how to improve.
This is your chance to see how a pro would do it!
Current & Upcoming Prompts
FLIGHT
Ready to take your work to new heights? Your illustration should tell a story incorporating the concept of flight. Focus on making your concept interesting. Take time to brainstorm ideas and ask questions about what is happening in the image. Any illustration format will work. Upload your finished illustration to the Forum by November 1st, 2023.
HELPFUL COURSES:
- Developing Great Visual Stories
- Visual Storytelling
- Creative Composition
ROCK FORTRESS
Rock on! For this prompt, we are creating something really sturdy. Design a fortress built of rocks to use in an illustration. Your final image can be a full illustration showing the fortress prominently, or a design page including just the fortress on a white background. Focus on the structure of the building and how to convey that it's made of rock. Upload your finished illustration to the Forum by December 1st, 2023.
HELPFUL COURSES:
- Introduction To Prop Design
- Designing Rocks And Plants
- Exterior Environment Design
SHE STEPPED CAREFULLY THROUGH THE DARKNESS. SHE KNEW SHE WAS NOT ALONE…
Time to tackle your fears. For this prompt, you will create a finished illustration that features a character and tells the story of the prompt text. Be sure to choose the most interesting moment from this story to show in your illustration. Any illustration format will work. Upload your finished illustration to the Forum by January 1st, 2024.
HELPFUL COURSES:
- Visual Storytelling
- Unique And Appealing Character Design
- Creative Composition
How To Submit Your Work
Anyone can submit their work for a chance to get it "fixed" by one of our instructors. Here's how to submit:
- Create something cool based on the monthly prompt.
- Click the button below to submit. You'll be taken to the SVSLearn Forum, where you'll find the submission thread for the upcoming live stream. Please note you will need a free Forum account to post.
- Click on the thread, and hit "Reply" to add a JPG of your artwork to the post (please only post your final version).
- Submit by the 1st of the month to ensure you have a chance for your work to be selected.
- Join us on the third Thursday of the month to see whose work made it to the HTFYA livestream!
Please only submit if you are OK with our judges potentially critiquing and altering your work during a public livestream on YouTube, which will be recorded and added to our website.
We do not own the rights to your work, you do! But we reserve the right to publish your work on our online platform SVSLearn.com, and its associated email list and social media.
About the Instructors
Illustrator/Cartoonist Jake Parker
For the last 25 years Jake has worked on everything from animated films to comics to picture books. For several years he worked for Reel FX and Blue Sky Studios on such projects as Horton Hears a Who, Rio, and Epic. He is the creator of the popular Inktober drawing challenge. Jake currently works as an illustrator and cartoonist on children's books and comics. He works out of his home studio in Arizona.
Illustrator Extraodinare Lee White
Lee White is a children's book illustrator based in Colorado. He has been illustrating books for the past 20 years and has over 30 titles to his name. His latest book, This Pretty Planet, was released in November 2020. He also teaches all his painting secrets at SVSLearn.com and workshops around the country.
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Illustrator Will Terry
Will Terry has been a freelance illustrator for 26 years. He got his start working for magazines and newspapers in the Washington D.C. area. His early clients include publications such as Time, Money, WSJ and ads for Sprint, Pizza Hut, Fed Ex, and Master Card. He has illustrated about 30 children’s books for a number of publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, and Penguin. When he's not mountain biking, hiking, or snowboarding he works out of the svslearn.com office in Provo Utah.
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