February, but for Artists
This is it, guys. This is the stuff I get so excited for.
Allow me to introduce you to my new favorite thing: Month of Love. This is a month-long challenge similar to NaNoWriMo or #Inktober. Month of Love is geared towards illustrators and provides weekly prompts during February. The program encourages artists to pump out four to five portfolio-ready pieces, finished and polished.
The prompts are open-ended and really meant as a loose jumping-off point. Here’s what they’ve planned for 2017:
- Secrets (Feb 1-3)
- Innocent (Feb 6-10)
- Keys (Feb 13-17)
- Metamorphoses (Feb 20-24)
- Light (Feb 27-28)
The challenge actually happens twice a year, and in October it becomes Month of Fear.
Like I mentioned above, this is an amazing opportunity to build your illustration portfolio and create a series of pieces much more polished than you ever could in #Inktober.
I’m already overboard with ideas for the project, but I know I’m going to incorporate two repeating characters (nicknamed Gold and Blue) and an homage to the Silent Hill aesthetic.
What are you going to do?
Special Adobe Streams
Special streams on twitch.tv/adobe! Join us and share your works in progress with the creative Adobe Channel community! Let’s draw inspiration from each other!
Wed, 2/8 2pm-5pm MST featuring Tawny Fritz working on the theme Innocent
Wed, 2/15 2pm-5pm MST featuring Kristina Carroll working on the theme Keys
Wed, 2/22 2pm-5pm MST featuring Maggie Ivy working on the theme Metamorphoses
The header image was made with a photograph by Lamiot and a texture image from LostAndTaken.
