It’s been a creative Sketch Fest Friday! We kicked off this month’s #EMGSketchFest this afternoon, and our participants started creating an inspiring selection of prompts for everyone right away.
There are already two dozen illustrations posted to the gallery, ranging from Space Age Milkshakes to Medusa to a Caticorn and a chubby little groundhog.
“Octopi Tea Party” by Julie Rabischung
The first sketch uploaded to our gallery goes to Julie Rabischung for her completely adorable “Octopi Tea Party.” The original illustration measures 5×7 and is ink and colored pencils on toned paper. You can pick up the original drawing for just $18!
Join us here tomorrow for more featured illustrations from #EMGSketchFest – if you can’t wait, head on over to the full gallery now.
We’ve been sketch festin’ all weekend, and have nearly 100 sketches in the gallery to show for it! You should definitely pop over and explore – there’s even art for sale, so you might find something wonderful for your walls.
Let’s check out some featured pieces to whet your appetite:
“First Glance” by Tammi Sponseller
This piece of a “lovely lady with blue eyes and a diadem in her hair” kicked off Sketch Fest #107. As the first sketch, it’s appropriately named “First Glance” by artist Tammi Sponseller.
“Mermaid’s Narwhal Friend” by Julie Rabischung
Julie Rabischung was inspired by Sarah Alden to create this playful piece: “A little mermaid swimming with her narwhal friend. Thank you Sarah for the lovely prompt!” This 4×6 illustration was drawn with ink, colored pencils, and markers on toned paper. You can grab the original sketch for just $15!
“Narwhal” by Juliana Velasco
Narwhals were a popular subject this Sketch Fest, as you can see in this adorable narwhal watercolor from first time Sketch Fester Juliana Velasco.
“Harajuku Girl” by Corgi
This was Corgi’s first Sketch Fest, and she slayed it! This cute and striking illustration of a “Harajuku Girl,” those iconic Tokyo fashionistas, is a fine example.
“Art Nouveau Mermaid” by Amy Sue Stirland
Inspired by Mayumi Ogihara’s prompt and an Alphonse Mucha piece that she really likes, Amy Sue Stirland drew an “Art Nouveau Mermaid.” This sketch measures 5.5×8.5 and is ink and colerase on mixed media paper. She’s planning to add watercolors. Check back later to see if the original’s available!
“Otters and Orange” by Jill Britt
Jill Britt, inspired by a prompt from Afke van Herpt, drew this wonderful slice-of-life illustration of a mermaid and otter friend titled “Otters and Orange.”
“Hummingbird” by Kelly Johnston
Our last featured illustration for today is this colorful piece from Kelly Johnston – she created a “plum fairy hummingbird pattern sketch” in the one-hour limit.
Now that you’ve enjoyed these highlights, go and explore the full gallery! Meet us back here tomorrow for one more featured post – and be sure to join us for next Sketch Fest, which will take place April 5-7.
Welcome to Ellen Million Graphic’s Featured Artist of the Week! Each week, we select an EMG artist and share their work and history. We hope you enjoy getting to see incredible artists this way.
This week, we’re proud to spotlight Australian artist Nicole Cadet! Nicole’s been a student of fantasy art since first discovering libraries at a young age. She’s particularly intrigued by medieval and mythical imagery, and that interest weaves through her fantasy art in pomp and pageantry, and the wild or whimsical glory of the fae. You can explore more of her art, find her Etsy shop, and learn about commissioning Nicole at her website: www.nicolecadet.com.
Nicole has contributed art to EMG-Zine, and we’re featuring her “Rose Unicorn” piece today in honor of National Unicorn Day! (This is apparently a thing in the US, and we’re not complaining!) She also has a good array of portraits available for adoption, ranging from Star Wars Jedi to a number of elves and a well-armored fellow. Nicole has also been an enthusiastic participant in Sketch Fests since 2010, leaving many prompts for fellow artists and creating fantastic sketches herself. A couple of her original sketches are even available for purchase at her Sketch Fest gallery.
We invite you to explore more at her pages over on EMG as linked below:
Welcome to Ellen Million Graphic’s Featured Artist of the Week! Each week, we select an EMG artist and share their work and history. We hope you enjoy getting to see incredible artists this way.
This week, we turn the spotlight on Casandra Ciocian! Casandra joins us from Cluj Napoca, Romania, where she has worked with digital illustration and animation studio Deveo Media Illustration, providing artwork for children’s book series HUDSON AND ME by Nicola Preskett. Over at her Behance gallery, she features her work in background studies and fantasy illlustration. You can see that at this link.
Casandra has been a prolific portrait artist since 2008, and is responsible for over 100 portraits in EMG’s Portrait Adoption program! Her work spans characters of multiple races and ages and has been very popular, resulting in dozens of portraits placed with players. All of her portraits capture layers in their featured characters, providing adopters with prime story fodder. She’s also joined in on Sketch Fest weekends, and has contributed a coloring book page to Scheherezade’s Shimmy. (We gave away a free sample page from that book earlier this week! Scroll down to see it.)
We invite you to explore more at her pages over on EMG as linked below:
We’re over 24 hours in to #EMGSketchFest 106! Have you been by the gallery yet? We’ve got 18 participants so far who’ve contributed over 40 creations to the gallery – including unicorns and mermaids and baby dragons. There’s even sculpture!
Check out our five featured creations below, then hop on over there – and, if you’re not registered, sign up! It’s free, and you can leave prompts for the participants and comment to encourage them. You can even get in on sketching or knitting or crafting or writing yourself.
“Snow Unicorn in Tack” by Ellen Million
First up, we have a sketch from the founder of our Sketch Fest feast, Ellen Million! Drawing on Nicole Madden’s wintry prompt of “Unicorn in a snowy scenery,” Ellen Million said about her ACEO pencil sketch: “Well, I didn’t get the snowy scenery in, but maybe it’s snowing really hard…” You can snap up the original drawing for only $5!
“Batty for You Valentine” by Jill Britt
This sweet little bat was sketched by Jill Britt, inspired by Rosie Wells!
“Kitsune” by Linda Sayegh
Linda Sayegh drew this gorgeous fox – or “Kitsune” – with colored pencils and sharpie paint pen on toned Canson Mi-Tientes acid-free paper. 5×7 inches.
“Two of Hearts” by Maria Gonzalez
Sarah Alden left the prompt “Little Hearts” and Maria Gonzalez spun that seed into this lovely and fanciful 4×6 inches sketch. Titled “Two of Hearts,” this drawing was done in colored pencils on toned paper and the original is available for $18!
“Viola” by Lorna Cowie
Lorna Cowie, inspired by Sarah Alden’s prompt “Violet Flowers,” drew these violet flowers and amethyst crystals in the style of her coloring pages.
Loving these illustrations? Head over to the full gallery and enjoy some more! When you share on social media, make sure to use our official hashtag: #EMGSketchFest.
It’s a Sketch Fest Saturday night, and you know what that means – we’re staying up late and getting creative! We’re over here gossiping away over a bevy of choice prompts – and by gossiping, I mean mulling them over and making art. You’re missing out if you don’t join in. If you don’t feel like creating something yourself, our participants would love comments cheering them on.
Pride of first sketch in #EMGSketchFest 106 goes to Julie Rabischung!
Little Dragonlings of Winter and Spring
Julie gave us this adorable and whimsical pair of dragonlings, one embodying the new life and blooming moments of Spring while the other captures the whimsical and cozy essence of Winter. If this one makes you “aww…!”, don’t sleep on it – the original painting is available for purchase and it’s only $15. 5×7 original ink pen sketch on Bristol.
Check out the rest of the gallery, where you’ll find another two dozen pieces waiting to be discovered. Share your favorites on social media, and be sure to use our hashtag #EMGSketchFest when you do.
Welcome to Ellen Million Graphic’s Featured Artist of the Week! Each week, we select an EMG artist and share their work and history. We hope you enjoy getting to see incredible artists this way.
“Sand Witch”
This week, we’re spotlighting Tiffany Toland-Scott! Hailing from the Cascade foothills, she’s been a full-time artist since she was 17 and sold out her first art show. She’s been inspired by the mythic from childhood, and counts American folklore, Southern Gothic media, and Victorian cemeteries among her inspirations. Her work has been featured and published all over the world, and you can explore art both haunting and beautiful at her website at www.epiphany.gallery.
“Wreath of Moths and Butterflies”
Tiffany’s been a Portrait Adoption contributor since 2008, contributing popular figures that appear caught mid-movement. She’s also been a dedicated contributor to Sketch Fest since 2010, crafting remarkable sketches in the single hour allowed and then adding finished paintings later – you simply must wander through her Sketch Fest gallery!
There are two Portrait Adoption pieces included in her featured illustrations, and we invite you to explore more at her pages over on EMG as linked below.
What a wonderful Sketch Fest we had last weekend! Twenty-one artists joined us and contributed 50 creations to the Sketch Fest gallery – we have thumbnails and watercolors and colored-pencil illustrations. We have a Christmas teddy bear, wonderland winter foxes, sweet Christmas mice, and polar bears, too – alongside Christmas tree cats and curious blops, folkloric illustrations and more.
And did we mention the art for sale? Snag originals and prints for all your friends this holiday season – just look for the red border in the gallery to discover what’s on offer.
Let’s have some final featured illustrations before we go.
“Mistletoad” by Nathalie Reinholz
The holiday spirit gets a little earthy in “Mistletoad” by Nathalie Reinholz – Nathalie was traveling this weekend but still managed to squeeze in this sketch!
“Kitten in Christmas Tree” by Tara N Colna
Tara N Colna uses photography with “Kitten in Christmas Tree” to demonstrate that the struggle is real when you have kittens and Christmas trees together: “Can’t keep the new kittens out of the tree. This is Oreo getting caught, her brother Beelzebub jumped out before I could get him.”
“Next Step of the Plot” by Kir Talmage
We love this super-quick sketch from Kir Talmage! “Next Step of the Plot” captures the raccoon’s hopeful deviousness as he dons a disguise to steal Santa’s sleigh… “The plans were ready. The diagrams were complete. All he needed now was his disguise.”
“Christmas Mermaid” by Sarah Alden
Sarah Alden created this beautiful “Christmas Mermaid” and she has a question for us all: Sarah will be coloring her soon and asks, “Do you think I should keep the shell crown or go with more of a holly wreath crown instead?”
“Silent Night” by Erich Heidewald
Feel the warmth of joy in your heart with this “Silent Night” landscape featuring a family of rabbits in scarves around a cheerful campfire.
“I put it on a gear” by Charlie Galvin
This charming Christmas tree from Charlie Galvin made us grin! Here’s what Charlie said about it: “It counts as steampunk because I put the tree on a gear, right? The tree is also decked out in Edison bulbs. 🐙” We think it counts, too!
We hope you enjoyed this, and we hope you’ll participate in our next Sketch Fest in February! Enjoy the holidays and follow us on Facebook for the latest #EMGSketchFest updates.
Our December Sketch Fest is nearly over, and it’s been seasonally appropriate and inspirational! Jump over there to check it out, and maybe even pick up a gift or two – prints and original sketches are for sale.
Let’s have some featured illustrations:
“Warm and Fuzzy” by Amy Sue Stirland
Amy Sue Stirland sketched this adorable “Warm and Fuzzy” pig, and she says: “This cutest fluffy piggy is enjoying his first snow in a warm winter cap.” She plans on finishing the 8.5″ x 5.5″ illustration with watercolor/gouache.
“Polar Bear and Her Cubs” by Peter C.M. van Herpt
Peter van Herpt’s animal illustrations never disappoint, and this protective polar bear with her two cubs is no different! This sketch was done with pencil, pen, and ink.
“Christmas Cardinal” by Sally Gilroy
This sketch of a “Christmas Cardinal” from Sally Gilroy easily conjures the feel of a bright, crisp day and the birdsong all about. We can even see the colors!
“The Sweetest Mouse” by Katerina Koukiotis
Evelyn Henderson left the prompt of of “sweetest mouse” and Katerina Koukiotis delivered with this sweet creature! “The Sweetest Mouse” is a 5″ x 7″ sketch in colored pencils – and an ACEO LE print is available for only $6!
“Unimpressed and Ornamented” by Tallulah Cunningham is another illustration that made us laugh out loud – the expression on this giraffe’s face is priceless! Tallulah created this illustration with color pencils and pen on a paint swatch card.
We hope you enjoyed these illustrations – why don’t you head over to the full gallery and leave comments for our artists? And don’t forget to shop!
Welcome to #EMGSketchFest Saturday! It’s bitter cold and/or rainy in the multilocational EMG offices, so we’re looking forward to staying warm and getting creative with all of you. Let’s take a look at some featured sketches from the gallery so far.
“Winter Forest Guardian” by Kathy Nutt
Kathy Nutt got the first sketch in this Sketch Fest with her imposing “Winter Forest Guardian,” which she describes as “Ent sketch with Micron pen.”
“itsapolarbear!” by blopdotink
blopdotink has joined us for another Sketch Fest, sharing “itsapolarbear!” from her blopmess Christmas calendar: “It’s a continuous story with an ink illustration per day until Christmas and I am excited to base it (partly) on sketchfest prompts again. Let’s find out what mischief my blops are up to and what role their newly discovered ‘polar bear’ plays.” We can’t wait to find out!
“Cats in a Christmas Tree” by Julie Cooper
I laughed out loud when I saw Julie Cooper’s “Cats in a Christmas Tree.” I feel like this is exactly what would happen with enough cats around sparkling lights, shiny tinsel, and something to climb.
“Beary Christmas” by Linda Sayegh
This adorably fluffy bear was created by Linda Sayegh: “A cute little Teddy Bear getting ready for Christmas. Colored pencils and a bit of Sharpie paint pen on toned Canson Mi-Tientes acid free paper. 5 x 7 inches.” You can actually purchase the original sketch of this piece!
“Red in Snow” by Harkalya Reveur
Our final sketch – for now! – is “Red in Snow” by Harkalya Reveur and we really hope she does more work on it! She said she spent 20 minutes rough sketching here to create a concept sketch.
Head over to the full gallery to check out more illustrations – register for free and leave some prompts for our participants! And don’t forget to use our official hashtag of #EMGSketchFest when sharing your favorites on social media.
