Art by Will Terry!
Ready for another illustration challenge?? This time we are not gonna monkey around! Well, maybe a little 🐵
This prompt comes to you from Will Terry, who knows a thing or two about how to illustrate a story 😉 Here’s what he says:
“Create one illustration to represent the following story:
Bongo the monkey woke up in the jungle to the sounds of birds cawing and the bright sun shining. He yawned and smiled and felt the hunger in his tummy, which was a bigger hunger than normal, so he climbed down his tree in search of breakfast. He passed the pineapples and thought, "tasty, but I'm tired of pineapple!" He came to the papaya tree and thought "tasty, but I'm tired of papaya." He passed the banana tree but thought, "cliche?...as if I'm going to be caught eating a banana!"
What he really wanted was a big juicy orange but all the orange trees were on the other side of the alligator-infested river!
As he was walking and deciding what to eat he saw Clyde the Alligator floating on the far side of the river looking for his breakfast too! Bongo was so hungry but he couldn't resist teasing Clyde again, so he climbed the tree closest to Clyde. He crawled out on a branch overhanging the river and dangled his tail. Clyde's eyes looked up at the tail dangling just out of his reach, licked his lips, and slowly swam under the naughty monkey. Bongo wiggled his tail and dangled it lower and Clyde's eyes opened up more. Bongo kept lowering his tail more and more as Clyde raised his head out of the water.
Finally with one big surge Clyde exploded out of the water and gulped down Bongo whole and splashed back down into the river! Clyde got his breakfast!
But: Bongo was a particularly smart monkey so he waited for Clyde to swim back across the river. Then he started tickling Clyde's belly from the inside. Clyde did everything he could to hold in his giggles but finally he couldn't take it anymore and busted out laughing - and out popped Bongo!
Quickly Bongo climbed up into the jungle trees and found the biggest and juiciest orange to start his day off right. Now he just had to figure out how to get back!
The end.
There are multiple parts of the story that you could choose to illustrate but since you can only create one illustration this is an exercise in what to leave OUT! You cannot create an illustration that encapsulates the entire story because it happens over time. Illustrators need to develop the storytelling skills to discern between the very important, important, less important, and not important parts of the stories they illustrate.
Often you will see short stories in children's magazines and textbooks with one illustration that enhances the story but does NOT fully illustrate the entire story.
Can't wait to see what you come up with!“
OK, got that? Let’s get to it, yip yip!
HOW TO ENTER
Draw something awesome!
Post your final illustration on the SVSLearn Forum, in the competition thread titled: JUNE CONTEST: A very different kind of prompt! Be sure to keep this thread for final images only. If you want feedback on a WIP (that’s short for Work In Progress), create a new thread. Note: You will need to be logged in as a user on the Forum in order to post. If you don’t already have a user account, it’s free to create one 😀
Keep the file size to no more than 500 kb.
Don’t forget to include your name AND Forum name ON THE IMAGE so we can give you credit! And if you want us to tag you, include your handle too. This saves us a lot of time in the end when we are trying to give credit.
Only submit if you are OK with us posting your image on our social media and website for the whole world to see 🌎 And only submit if you are OK with receiving a critique from our judges during a live event, which will be recorded and added to our video subscription 🧐
No purchase necessary to enter.
One entry per person only, please!
Just to be clear, we do not own the rights to your work, you do!
Entries must be posted by June 30 at the stroke of midnight ⌛️
PRIZES
Winner 1: video crit, plus the chance to do a paid illustration gig
Winner 2: video crit, plus the chance to do a paid illustration gig