@Neha-Rawat Exclusive means that only they, and none others, are allowed to use the illustrations during the time established 🙂 You cannot sell it to other companies or even make your own products. You've basically relinquished all your rights for the duration of the license. A non-exclusive license means you can sell it as many times as you like to other companies at the same time.

So yes most publishers would prefer it if they can, but this exclusivity prevents the artist from making money off their work which means an exclusive license should be a LOT more expensive. Most of the time the publisher can't afford exclusive rights. Sometimes they buy a non-exclusive license, but include some non-competition clauses in the contract. For instance, a clause saying the artist can't use the illustrations for a picture book while their own license is active (so the book doesn't compete with theirs) or a clause that says the artist cannot resell the rights in the same country. Not all usage of the illustrations will actually interfere with the publisher's project. For instance, what does a Canadian publisher care if in 10 years I re-sell a book illustration in Germany for the packaging of a local product?

@Mara-Price said in Contract question...:

@Braden-Hallett I'm glad you did your research. Congratulations.

Thanks 😃

@Jeremy-Ross said in Contract question...:

Congratulations @Braden-Hallett! Another reason to trust your gut, then run it by your SVS friends!

Thanks! This forum really is a goldmine of a resource 🙂

@Coley Brilliant - thank you. Cheers Jane

Comic-Con San Diego starts today and it’s free!
https://www.comic-con.org/cci/2020/athome

Then click on Comic-Con@Home for the program schedule.
Have fun!

@Rex-Wright this post was from 2017 tho

Yay, good for you!!!

Congratulations!! Upward and onward from here...

@jdubz said in Where do you go for your daily drawing prompts?:

@Braden-Hallett Hmm maybe we should have a community driven 24 Character Alphabet drive similar to what @chrisaakins did this week. I could even put a small script together to randomize a result similar to these other sites.

This sounds like work 😉

Okay, I made some changes. Still not sure if I even want to use this image but, I decided to finish and let it sit a bit. The lullaby it goes with is called Breeze. I might try and do another composition that might fit better or, I might just use this one. It's mostly a personal project with 8 lullabys I made up when tryign t get my kids to sleep 🙂 My kids are now between the ages of 26 and 33, so they have outgrown them but I wanted to make it for my grandson (and any possible other gtandkids that might come along) and for my nieces and nephews families (I have 33 of them 🙂 ) I've been slowly working on this for years. I had help from friends to actually put the songs notation on paper so I could make this. I kind of want to finish it up here this year 🙂

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I didn't know they were a thing, I would never take a royalty only project. That would be my response to them, even if they are a friend. You could elaborate and explain that you would basically be working for months on the artwork for the book but the book may not be released a long time after that, so you essentially will only see returns, if any, on your work probably a year later. Who would agree to that? The least that could be offered is an advance.

I on the other hand have only been offered work for hire contracts lately 😞

If a designer is going to designing for bleed they also need to be designing for gutter or clear space. That's rarely mentioned in any specs. If you have a 1/8" bleed, you also need a 1/8" inside gutter to keep clear of any import information/text/etc. more is better in this case.

@silvialcg Thank you! The Painting Secrets course is one of the live classes, I followed it last year. It was given before I believe and I did hear that it will some day be available online, but I'm not sure if that is still the case and when this will happen. It is a great course, I would love to see the classes again 🙂

@deborah-Haagenson yeah i think im just being greedy now, when i first got it it blew me away, was using an old wacom bamboo before that, so much easier now.

I would recommend the ipad + Procreate. It's much more intuitive to learn and use (However I would suggest reading the Handbook if you want to squeeze all the possibilities it has).
If you don't know Photoshop I would recommend you check first GIMP and Krita which are open source software for illustrators made by illustrators.
Photoshop is not an easy software to learn on your own and it wasn't meant for drawing but some years ago it was the only thing we have. That's why so many artist use them mainly.

Hello friends! I was reading when I noticed that the shadows from my fingers were casting really odd hues from the two light sources that I had: a window with blue light coming through, and a lamp with yellow/orange light. A crisp shadow cast a blue hue, and a softer, more diffused shadow cast an orange hue. I was so tripped out by it until I remembered what I’d learned about lighting. The crisper shadow was blocking the orange light but not the blue light, so the shadow looked blue. The diffused shadow was blocking the blue light and so that one cast an orange hue. The orange shadow really tripped me out!! But I guess since the rest of the paper would have a mixture of blue in it, if I blocked the blue light, the shadow would look more orange than the rest of the page. I just thought I’d share this with my fellow art nerds! Hope you all are having a great weekend!

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Thank you for sharing this! I have been wanting to participate in the forum more but as soon as I start typing up a critique, I erase it and don't post anything. I am used to critiquing in person and I feel like it can seem more harsh online for some reason. I think keeping these points in mind will definitely help 🎉

@Taigyo hi! I guess it totally depends on what your definition of finished is. Can you provide other images that you consider as finished?

@Manuel-Mal

I totally echo everyone else saying that here's a GREAT place to be! I'm kind of in and out here (getting better at being here more often!) and it's an incredible place to get and receive feedback.

That being said, I'm all over discord all the time, so if you're looking for a Discord buddy I'm totally down!

@carriecopadraws said in Book Cover Inspiration & Tips!:

! A general rule of thumb is the title takes up 1/3 of the cover space.
If you can, use real fonts. Or trace over fonts for and embellish them. It will make your cover look more polished. The title treatment conveys the tone of the book as much as the illustration. There are several free font resources out there.

Thank you for putting this together. I feel the rule you summarized are pretty helpful, although not even some publishers understand this, to my surprise.