I had soem time this m orning so decided to play with inkscape and GIMP again. I got stuck on Inkscape with soem problems so I switched over to some finger drawing and filling in again. Here's what I came up with this time. I am stayin gwith a friend with 4 adorable little blonde boys. When I looked up fro the computer I saw an image similar to this so yhat's what I went for. It's another loose rouch one but I like it okay.

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@chrisaakins Congrats! 😃 !!

@arent-draper where’s it going to be held?

I found the other generator that I was talking about. sometimes the prompts sound pretty terrifying, other times it's tame.

https://funwalker.itch.io/rmg

Here is one it produced. "You are looking up at the sky and you open your eyes to find your self running from something strange.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌This monster has ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌no torso, no hands, 3 feet.‌‌‌‌
‌‌‌This monster tastes like Heat.‌
‌It ... yes.‌

"

Haha, she does! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has thoughts like this. At one of my old jobs, a customer came in one day and I thought, "she looks like a Brett Helquist illustration" ...🤣

Wow it looks super good 🙂 !!! I'll look out for it in the shelves in Canada !

@NessIllustration Ah thank you ness! I really appreciate your experience, i wouldnt know the first thing about any of this.

Oh nice @VivianTong I hope your grad school is going well! I know that can be killer

I also received a similar email some weeks ago. I forgot to reply but at that time I also thought it sounds a bit suspicious where I couldn't find any books on their website and their Instagram is totally empty.

@xin-li Omg Xin I just found this post and THANK YOU for that publisher's list! This is beautiful

@Kat thank you for sharing this. I follow procreate but Completely missed this Gem. I only just found out about procreates weekly art mash too.
It’s Announced in the Stories, I think this weeks prompts are astronaught, bubble tea, Lego city then you’re suppose to mash them together. It’s open to any medium, not just procreate art

@Samu thanks Samu I’ll have a look

@Charlie-Eve-Ryan looks great! 🙂 such a shame I won't be able to see it life

@Braden-Hallett yes, by “correct” I mean either erase and redraw or touch the line up itself. You use higher powered programs than I do- something for me to shoot for in the future.

Dude! Just saw your final in the slideshow! Great work!!

@arent-draper I checked their website and they seem to still only have the 2018 post with the contest details.
http://www.kidlit411.com/2018/01/Kidlit411-2018-Banner-Contest.html

You could probably contact them through the website or ask in their facebook group.

Thanks for sharing KidLit411. I wasn't aware of it. Seems like a great resource!

@Debra-Garcia Yes it is and so crazy! I really hit it off with the editor who picked it up. Overall being a both a writer and illustrator has really helped because editors see my art and if they like it, actually ask to see my stories. It definitely feels like an advantage when it comes to building relationships with editors and art directors even with having an agent.

On the one hand, I got really lucky and on the other, I have been with SVS from the start and I don't think it would have happened with them!

BLUE CAT is out in the wild today!!

I echo what has been said above, it is the support of other artist's that make this forum great. I have made a great number of friends on here as well. Most have come and gone. It seems there are waves of new people ever so often and then their gone. So it sorta feels like we as a community have helped them enough and they have left the nest.

Thank you everyone! ❤ It's always so fun to be able to share news with the forum, especially when they are good ones!

@Chip-Valecek Okay, I think I might know a possible problem. My husband, who is more tech savvy than me has been helping however he isn't a book designer, but a programmer. The pages I got from the designer were 8.75 x 11.25 (probably to allow for trim). I wanted it to be timmed to 8.5 x 11. My husband resized those pages in KDP to be 8.5 x 11. This (maybe?) caused the pages to overlap a little. When we changed the trim size to a smaller size on KDP the pages didn't overlap but some of the text, etc. got cut off a little.

If he reloaded the pages that are slightly larger than 8.5 x 11 and then made the trim size 8.5 x 11 maybe it wouldn't have overlapping pages and would fit within the bounds set up?
Thanks.