Syethain

Hi!  It's been a while!  Time to support the art community!  

Rules:
1. For each of the 20 first people answering this journal, I will put their avatar and the 3 deviations I like most from their gallery on the list!

2. If you're featured, you have to do the same in your journal, putting the tagger on the first place. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone!


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I hope it will motivate me to draw more...  and to improve, of course!


Tell a Story Many images are used to help a narrative, and as an illustrator it is important to keep developing this skill in your off-time.
1. Make a book cover for your favorite classic novel. 
2. Create a series of illustrations that show the passage of time.
3. Illustrate a song.
4. Make a narrative advertisement for a soft drink.
5. Illustrate your favorite childhood memory.
6. Make a children’s book spread for a fairy tale.
7. Illustrate the four seasons.
8. Why did the chicken cross the road?
9. Make a series of black and white “chapter” drawings for a novel.
10. Retell a short story in graphic form.
11. Create a theater poster for a Shakespearean play.
12. Create a series of illustrations that shows a person aging.
13. Make an instructional poster for a favorite recipe.
14. Illustrate a day in the life of a cat, dog, fish, or monkey.
15. Make a picture book dummy.
16. Illustrate the seven days of the Creation.
17. Interesting stories to consider: The Odyssey, the Bible, Aesop’s Fables, Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, nursery rhymes
18. Make a magazine cover for a current news story.
19. Illustrate a famous historical event from: 20 years ago, 100 years ago, 1000 years ago, Prehistoric times
20. Illustrate family life in the future, at least 100 years from now.
Academic Exercises Time to get back into the classroom! Refresh your skills every now and then so you don’t lose sight of the basics.
21. Make an illustration influenced by your favorite illustrator.
22. Paint a landscape with only three colors.
23. Create a painting in a medium you’ve never used before.
24. Study and draw figures from each source: Bridgman, Vanderpoel, Hogarth, and the masters
25. Make an abstract painting.
26. Paint a self-portrait.
27. Create a full painting in 30 minutes.
28. Draw a figure in: 1 hour, half hour, 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 1 minute, 30 seconds.
29. Fill a page of your sketchbook.
30. Create two versions of the same painting — one with warm colors, one with cool colors.
31. Sketch in a public place.
32. Paint a traditional still life.
33. Paint the same still life in your illustrative style.
34. Read a book.
35. Watch a movie.
36. Read other artists’ thoughts.
37. Watch how other artists work.
38. Take a class, if there are any available in your area.
39. Research a particular era, artist, or style and create a few paintings influenced by it.
40. Take a trip to a zoo or aquarium to sketch animals from life.
Practical Projects Don’t let the promotion and organization of your business get pushed aside.
41. Create a series of spots to use on your website.
42. Make an illustration for a postcard.
43. Design a new logo for yourself.
44. If it’s near the holidays, create a Christmas card to send out.
45. Create a Thank You card to send to clients.
46. Draw a self-portrait in your illustrative style to use on your promotional materials.
47. Create a business card.
48. Make a small sampler, such as a booklet, that contains your artwork that you can use to give to prospective clients.
49. Create a piece of artwork to enter into a competition.
50. Take a moment to archive your traditional paintings through scanning, digital photography, or slides.
51. Backup your digital files to a disk, hard drive, or server.
52. Create sample sheets of your artwork that art directors can file easily.
53. Update your website with new artwork.
54. Work on creating samples for styles, markets, and subject matter that you are lacking in.
55. Create stationery for your business.
56. Make computer desktops or e-cards to distribute on your website.
57. If you are a children’s illustrator, create some coloring pages for your younger fans.
58. Create a fresh, new illustration to be used in a sourcebook or other advertisement.
59. Clean your work area.
60. Catch up with your paperwork.
Creative Exercises One of the hardest tasks that illustrators have is to stay fresh and original. Use your free time to keep the creative juices flowing.
61. Design a character for a book/movie/tv show.
62. Draw a caricature of your favorite movie star.
63. Illustrate a fortune from a fortune cookie.
64. Create an illustration that integrates your name.
65. Make an album cover for your favorite band.
66. Create a modern movie poster for your favorite classic movie.
67. Create a classic movie poster for your favorite modern movie.
68. Design a creature that is a combination of at least two different animals.
69. Design a car from 100 years in the future.
70. Paint a landscape painting of an imagined land.
71. Draw a treehouse. Include as much detail as you can.
72. Draw 50 thumbnail sketches of the same object.
73. Make an illustration for each month of the year.
74. Design a deck of cards.
75. Make up your own fairy tale land and characters.
76. Research and draw characters/objects/settings from: the Mob, the Middle Ages, the Samurai, a Pirate ship.
77. Draw a monster a day for a month.
78. Illustrate a song from the Sixties.
79. Create illustrations of current events and topics such as global warming, airport security, new technology, or education.
80. Illustrate a stereotype.
Online Communities These are resources I have found across the internet that will help you grow as an illustrator.
81. Participate in Illustration Friday.
82. Create a Moji.
83. Start a blog.
84. Help other artists who ask for critiques of their work.
85. Join an artists’ forum and participate in discussions.
86. Find and study online tutorials.
87. Look at other artists’ work through portfolio sites and blogs.
88. Subscribe to Drawn!
89. Subscribe to Lines and Colors.
90. Listen to what other artists have to say through podcasts.
91. See what other artists’ like on de.li.cio.us and StumbleUpon.
92. Contribute to the ThreeThumbsUp Gallery.
93. Read EmptyEasel.com.
94. Check out AmateurIllustrator.com.
95. Join a community like the Little Chimp Society or Illustration Mundo.
96. See the point of view of an art director.
97. Stay up to date with your industry: SI, SCBWI, GAG, IPA
98. Find illustration competitions.
99. Online portfolio sites: Portfolios.com, iSpot, Illoz.com, childrensillustrators.com
100. Read book reviews: the Sandbox, Fuse #8

It's been a year and a half since I last used Photoshop.  But todaaaayyyy!!  Todaaaaaayyy I'm baaaaack!

Evidence of this will follow sooooooonnnn!  

*victory pose*

Stole this from

1.  What's the strangest dream you've ever had that you are comfortable telling?
I have many strange dreams.  For example, last week I dreamt I was walking in the woods.  And everyone was telling me that these were sacred woods and they would help me.  But the more I walked, the more I realized that most of the trees were upside down, roots up, and there was a giant UFO in the treetops that caused them all to bend and break, and I ran away because I was sure that the trees were gonna fall on my head, despite the cries of the people around me who wanted me to stay.  And then there were feminists.

2.  Who's the most beautiful person you've ever seen?
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He changed, though.  He got OLD.  

3.  What's the first movie you've ever seen in a theater?
I think it was the Aristocats, but I don't really remember.  First movie I saw alone in the theater (without parents, only friends) was Signs, when I was 13.

4.  If you could live in any time, what would it be?
Let's say the late 1800s.  Because anything was possible.  We have lights!  We have newspapers!  We have trains!  We have shopping malls!

5.  Who do you think the most overrated musician alive today is?
Eels.  I don't like his depressed music.  Or his voice.

6.  What's your favorite drink?
Coke

7.  What's your favorite kind of weather?
Sunny, cloudless and at least 30°C.  Sadly, this never happens in Belgium.

8.  If you could put one kind of curse or hex on any person, what would it be?
Every time you tell me things about your baby/pregnancy that I don't want to hear, your kid will get a crying fit.  Every time you hint at me that I should get pregnant too, your kid will get an extra painful tooth so it cries even more.  I don't have anything about babies, but hearing about them ALL DAY LONG (I worked in an office with 9 pregnant women) kinda gets on my nerves.  I think I'm a bit traumatized by pregnant people now.

9.   Is Pluto a planet or a moon?
In my heart, it will always remain a planet.  No matter what the scientists say.

10.  If you could be in any movie, what would it be
Avatar please.  The movie with the blue people, not the anime.


Nobody tagged, but feel free to steal the questions if you like.

That's right.  
We'll be there.

And we'll bring madness.
And dog hats.