Looking through all of your posted work, this is a standout piece. And everything you see "wrong" with it is mitigated by the creativity. The colors. The gestures. This is imagination and, in my opinion, that has its own set of rules. I don't know what your art "goals" are, but being able to pull something out from imagination/inventing your own world on canvas (or whatever other surface) is one of the pillars of being a great artist. It's what made someone like Frazetta so great - his illustrations were from his own sense of drama and imagination which is why he' soften imitated but never replicated. Just viewing this at thumbnail size, I get that there is a story. So while you may go on and create better pieces in the future, or work that you don't hate have negative feelings towards, remember that this piece is a HUGE WIN in the development of the artist as a creative thinker. And that you do it with your imagination and sense of drama is just icing on the cake. I don't know what you should do next, but I do know that you should give yourself a pat on the back for everything you accomplished in this piece.

I always wanted to see more illustrated covers on professional literature. Psychology is an especially good topic for creativity. Based on that I tried my hand at 'The Uncanny' by Sigmund Freud. Depicting a surreal scene in a realistic rendering, to keep the theme relevant. The initial drawing is done in graphite and coloured digitally. While I kept the typography clean and less creative as it is professional literature, and it needs some strict structure as a balance.

This is it, my all time favorite book cover illustrated. So many memories with the book and I always get my hands on this if I'm stuck with my art. Currently reading it to my youngest and getting inspired! :D

This is my book cover for the Favorite Book Cover challenge... it was very hard to decide on a single book but I went with The Call of Cthulhu from the many works of H.P. Lovecraft

This was a good challenge to tackle a Lovecraft book cover. I used a red, blue, and yellow with black for some limited line work. To not break the rules of the challenge and get a look I was happy with I think I used almost 75 layers for opacity, blends, etc. This was fun. I was going for that used paperback bargain section book feel (the type of aisle where my ten year old self discovered Lovecraft}.

This should be fun. I have a few questions that I was hoping someone could help me with: 1. What is the definition here of a "limited color palette?" Is the implication that, for example, three primaries (and white) should be used, and different shades/tints of each? The limited palette concept can differ greatly (i.e. watercolorists that use water to create different saturations of washes with a single color vs oil painters that mix from a palette and paint opaquely). 2. Are there certain dimensions we should design around (i.e. 5x7, 4x6, vertical, etc.) 3. Should we aim to be designing our work in the same aesthetic of Madi? Thanks so much, Mike

This was fun! I used gouache, acrylic, and digital to accomplish the challenge (experimenting with materials). In terms of painting w/ acrylic and gouache, handling the value and temp shifts was challenging. Beyond that, setting a timer of20-30 minutes was key to not going crazy with details or overthinking things. It's amazing how Tiffanie "sees" the world through color and light. I forgot to save two of the reference images I used (image 1 and 2).

You can tell Chelsea puts a lot of time, thought, and energy in how to approach and teach art. Her work is also expressive, beautiful, and exciting. Great addition to the Proko instructors!