@Susan-Szecsi I'm in San Jose. I won't be able to make those two. I really don't liek to drive to SF if I can help it. I need to get over that, pronably 🙂 My husband works in Berkeley at NERSC in Berkeley Labs. It might be that I could drive in with him for an event in that area at another time. It's always nice to have the carpool lane 🙂 One of these days we'll be in the same place! 🙂

Oh, yes thosw are great! I must have put the wrong words in befoer because I coudln't find very many. Running of the bulls was a good idea! Thank you!! I'm considering that for Inktober I might try out some positioning exercises with people an danimals running and such. This month I am daily doodling S things made from or with an S incorporated and also starting with S.

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@Kevin-Longueil THANK YOU!!!!!

@natiwata That's awesome, good luck!

Hello friends!
directly speak of Brazil, and would like a help with the classes are all in English, of course.
I do not quite understand the language of you and wanted to see at least the videos with subtitles.
Could anyone help me with this issue?
Not notice the misspellings, because I'm using google translator.

Daniel

Hi All,

Registration for the SCBWI IL Prairie Writers and Illustrators Day on Nov 5th, 2016, just opened a few moments ago.

One of the featured speakers - who will also be doing a break out session and some of the portfolio reviews is none other than Giuseppe Castellano!!! You know the guy who was recently promoted to Executive Art Director for Penguin Random house, is very big on Twitter and has amazing blog posts with info for the children's book illustration community.

I am so excited to meet him at this event!

I am also excited to hear from Don Tate - award winning author/illustrator who will also be presenting, doing break outs and portfolio reviews as well.

And then Albert Whitman's Creative Director Jordan Kost will also be on the faculty for the event. She did a presentation at our local SCBWI monthly Illustrators meeting a few months back and was fantastic. Will be great to see her again as well.

Event info and registration is here for those who may be interested: https://illinois.scbwi.org/events/pwid2016/

@Camomilla Good points. Thank you!

@Chip-Valecek @natiwata Thank you! 🙂

@Kevin-Longueil and @smceccarelli Thank you both for your detailed thoughts and feedback on the site...interesting that you both thought the separations aren't really necessary - that's so useful to know, as I don't have the outside perspective to be able to decide easily, whether it all looks like one body of work or not. So I'll re-think that part of it and I'll most likely change it once I have new artwork... I'd like to be able to show the best/newest work at the top anyway, so re-thinking that would make that easier.

@smceccarelli Thanks also for the comment about my bio and whether I should include my craft designs...I have wrestled with this dilemma a lot, ever since @Lee-White made various posts here recommending to keep different sub-groups of work types on separate websites...I can see where he is coming from, but also I would like an art director to know that I already know how to create successful products (albeit in a different area) as I feel many skills would transfer to books...and I agree with your point that an art director would be curious to see this side of things.

So...my solution is to have a third art licensing website, which will have a shopping cart function where an art buyer can license the patterns directly ...and that way the many many patterns and cute pictures won't overload this more curated, children's book one...but I will link between the two, once it's made (it's designed but not made yet, it's more complicated). But maybe I could add a smaller section on this website too, just to give a flavour. Thanks again for your feedback, lots to think about, and I will definitely try to improve it 🙂

Thanks for having a look Rebecca and for your thoughts.I loved just sketching out with my new pencils...I didn't overthink or plan anything on this page,apart from thinking about Joan Eardley's work,its funny how these thumbnails took next to no time,and other sketches take ages,and annoying how I prefer these ones!!!

I don't know what your subjects look like, but these are very natural looking and full of life. Well done!

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen

@Jake-Parker just added "Stories" video onto his Instagram about Inktober and has videos of it on his Youtube:

https://www.instagram.com/jakeparker/

https://www.youtube.com/user/jakeparker44

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Hi Djmittenzz! I have to agree with smceccarelli it does depend on style. If you are looking to illustrate for t-shirts Illustrator is the way to go as it is the industry standard. Unless you plan on digitally printing the designs on the shirts/items. With digital printing you would be able to take your painted Photoshop illustrations and print those on the shirts but again it depends on the printing method digital vs screen-printing. If your are looking to do more painterly illustrations Photoshop is where you want to be (or a similar program). I'm not sure how far you can really get in illustrator to really get a good painted look, a lot of the time people use illustrator for clean flat shapes and lines using limited tones and gradients. But you can absolutely get lots of detail and textures in illustrator but for t-shirts you have to pay attention to layering and also the amount of colors play a big factor in your illustrations, sometimes you have to pay by the color b/c of the amount of screens a printer might have to use to transfer your design to a shirt. But this also depends on the print shop. Brandon Green has a couple of great videos on using Photoshop vs. Illustrator and the kinds of looks you can get with each program.
Character in Adobe Illustrator :
https://youtu.be/dOy6PZcOTY8

Style explorations with some gator sketches:
https://youtu.be/7h_IUf-ZjuM

I hope this helped! 🙂

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen There are sure to be some "photo editing" or "photo manipulation" tips-and-tricks and tutorials online that can perhaps give you help on "stitching together." Though they'll be about photography, the basic process is the same as with merging 2+ illustrations: Masking, Cloning, Levels/Curves Value Manipulation, Hue/Saturation & Color Balance, Opacity & Effects, etc.

In my opinion, this would be a great "next digital skill" for you to pursue as it could give you a lot of freedom with your traditional artwork, particularly for fixes, but also it may give you some tools/tricks for any desired enhancements or simply allow you to create pieces as separate elements (for instance, if you wanted to paint the character(s) separate from the background so that in addition to the digital merging of them for piece #1, you can use the characters elsewhere as a spot illustration or with another background and if you want to use the background elsewhere too without having to repaint them)

@Rachel there is an upload icon right below the heading when you make a post - it's the little rectangle with the arrow pointing up from it - click that and upload an image from your device - there is a size limit - I usually resize things to be 800 pixels tall for portrait and 1100 pixels in the long dimension when I post landscape -

Thanks Rebecca,makes sense to break sessions down,seeing what you have done after 25 mins is a good way to feel like your achieving,or not !then addressing any issues😊 was up till 2.

These are just placeholders until I paint it traditionally next week. I decided to go a bit more cartoony, since I thought it would be fun to do, and it is my comfort zone. Any suggestions on changes?

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....minutia... just tweaked the eyes a bit..... think i should give it a rest and come back to it with fresh eyes 🙂

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