I wanted to participate in HTFYA this month because I'm trying to up my single-image storytelling. Here's one of my rough sketches. Unfortunately I told my critique group what the concept was already, so I need new guessers. What do you think it is? The story needs to be crystal clear or it's back to the drawing board!

A-food-truck-like-no-other-3.jpg

I can only imagine they'd get any access to stuff you save to the cloud instead of your machine. Which I never do, and find it annoying every time Photoshop decides to default back to Cloud saving 👎

Characters as Emotions:

With the new Inside Out 2 movie coming out, I thought I'd share this talk by one of my favorite artists who also explores the idea of characters who represent emotions.

https://www.youtube.com/live/L8s_Da-4yKI?si=SwI1hJ9m2otYCkT2
(Turn on captions, then auto-translate)

Chiara Bautista talks about creating an emotional language through symbolism of characters. Each character represents a set of emotions that can be understood through the narrative of her illustrations without needing to view them chronologically or see the full story.
Screenshot_20230908-151245_YouTube.jpg FB_IMG_1718358967640.jpg

@AustinShurtliff Thanks for expanding the list to let me and Sarah in!

This looks promising. Not sure how it protects but good on Wacom!

Wacom's found a use for blockchain - and it will protect your art from AI

I'm glad they addressed this on the podcast today. I think when all artists freak out, it's hard not to join into the collective mob mentality. I did start posting on Cara and it is like Lee says: People are focused on posting their own stuff, not connecting with other artists. There isn't the audience that people need to sell their projects. Although, I started posting my comics in TikTok with the slide show option (and on IG still) My goal is to do it for 30 days. I have a 30 page comic so I will post a page a day and see what happens in the end. By no means am I a super amazing artist, but I hope my cute/quirky short story comic draws an audience.

This is the response I got:

Thank you for your inquiry regarding a payment due to you from Cricket Media.

We would like to make you aware that we are currently in a tight cashflow situation and are working diligently with our internal management team to prioritize and process payments as efficiently as possible. A part of this process includes the implementation of a recurring payment schedule flow and are aligning your invoice to confirm a timeframe the payment will complete.

We will notify you once the timing of the payment is scheduled.
Thank you for your patience as we work through the temporary state and we want to reiterate how important your contribution/service is to us and appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely,
Cricket Media Accounts Payable

Hello! I'm from Sweden, and I've just started my illustration business and begun looking for work. Are there any illustrators here who work in Sweden and have suggestions on how to get my first jobs?

@Jason-Crowley hmm, maybe I should try blue-sky to then. Oh man, I already see myself jumping from one to the other🙈

godzilla progress.jpg
I didn't think to take any screen captures of the final illustration progress, but I thought I'd share my progress through idea generation, composition, and lighting/coloring.

@MirkaH CDQ is the BEST!

I do subscribe to CDQ and it's my very favorite thing to receive every 3 months. It can be considered expensive, but I think it also depends where you live because it's coming out of the UK I believe. It's not your typical magazine though, it's more of a book than magazine. There's zero adds, and 100ish pages of character design education, and it's a thick card stock color. To me it's worth it, and works out to about $15.00 Canadian a publication with shipping. I certainly can't get a book this nice in the bookstore.

There's a free issue on their website so you can see exactly what you'd be getting.

@thomas-young this is perfect, thank you!!

@jenn the is awesome! You go girl ❤️

@kayleenartlover That makes sense. Thank you!

@kayleenartlover thanks for starting this thread! I hope we can get a good amount of people to join. I’ve been wanting to have some kind of sketch group meetup for fellow artists here in Utah.

@jvartandillustration Free copies aren't an automatic thing. Even with real publishers, if it's not in your contract it's not happening. For authors especially, many of them don't know much at all about the publishing process and I wouldn't be surprised if your author doesn't even realize free author copies are a thing.

You definitely should have asked before, but since you can't go back in time, you have nothing to lose by asking now. Just say you forgot or something, worst that can happen is a no 🙂

@jvartandillustration it's cool, it's cool.

That is so helpful, thank you!