@Chantal-Goetheer For sure. I will be drawing regardless of whether or not it gets me work.

So cool to hear from you! ❤️

@kirsten-mcg Thanks for the kind words and feedback! This forum does seem to be filled with a lot of nice people and I hope we can keep inspiring each other to keep going and follow our passion!

@katsuds Thank you! His newsletter is also great! One of the few I actually read 🙂

I am looking for an illustrator on a children's book project I want to get off the ground. Your art style might be just the ticket. It would encompass 12 illustrations, smaller, not full page, and a cover, all colour preferably.

If this is of interest, perhaps we can come to an agreement.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Jarrod
(from Canada too)
jarrodrbennett@gmail.com

@jph_illustrates Welcome!!! It's definitely a struggle to balance things isn't it? At least for me. But I am convinced parents are a special breed of people that just somehow find a way! So glad to meet you. I am so looking forward to getting to know you and seeing your work. 🙂

@Katherine thank you, I'm a bit overwhelmed. Wasn't expecting to win at all. There were so many good entries. I saw your value sketch in the other forum thread... It looks great. I love giant snails and can't wait to see your final!

@KellyMaldonadoArt Welcome!

@Napoleana Hey, welcome! Mom and artist, you're doing a balancing act! You've got this! Glad you've joined.

@Christina-Perez Welcome! Looking forward to seeing the work you have to share!

@susanhowarth-art Welcome!

Do share your work. The members of this community are very helpful and offer good advice.

Agree that you could do the 2 week trail of the classes and see how you like them. I've been slowly going through the classes the past few months and have learned quite a bit! So you might find something in the courses for where you are. Plus there are assignments that go along with the classes and you can post those as well.

I just saw this was from 4years ago, but welcome anyway?

@PenAndrew thank you! I'm so excited as I check out more of everyone's amazing artwork here!

@illustrationmaven Welcome to the forum and good luck with the classes, yes the learning curve gets pretty steep, and I found it so surprising how much I didn't know that I didn't know!

Wow @Kruzby, thank you so much!
I hope this for you too! 😊

Hello, @akwisler! Welcome to the forums. I hope you are encouraged and blessed here. 🙂 The fact that you love to draw is already a good start on your journey to illustrating children's books! Having a passion for what you do makes a difference. For posting, you could start your own blog? Or, like @Griffin mentioned, Instagram is another option! Or Facebook. Do you know why kind of posts you want to make?

@AngelinaKizz thank you! I appreciate that. I’m very excited to join the community. It does look awesome. 😃👌

@AlliFaith thank you ma chère! What an inspiring place you are moving to: sunny, beautiful and delightful Montpellier, and everything around it.

@Elli Hellooo!! Your work is beautiful 🙂 I love the colors especially ❤

@Blackpaw4 welcome! I also used to work traditionally, so that I would have an actual piece of artwork that I can hold in my hand. I started working digitally a couple years ago, because although it doesn't speed up the creation of the art, it is much easier to make edits to a digital piece. That being said, it is also very much possible to edit traditional work digitally.

I think lots of illustrators work in combination to get the benefits of both, like 'tra-digitally.' I guess I was finding that I was editing my work heavily in Photoshop, which improved my digital painting skills in the process. So it was sort of a natural transition.

With the courses, I did most of them with pencil. Also I always do my brainstorming, sketches, thumbnails in pencil first. Apart from the digital-specific courses, you will probably not feel limited or out-of-place using traditional media here.