Hi, @eli As long as folks are willing to share their experiences, I'm ready to learn. Glad this is helpful for you, too!

@jason-bowen That's awesome!! Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Hello,Grateful for some help.

I am using the latest, updated version of Photoshop under W10 Pro 64bit and my XP-Pen equipment is an DECO 01 tablet with grip and passive pens.I buy it from their offical site.

I am using the latest Nvidia and Wacom drivers, and W10, are up to date. I have 32Gb ram and a Core i3-8100 cpu.

but I was never able to get rid of that eye-hand coordination issue and I would end up frustrated whenever I would draw on my computer.I would never draw as good as on paper. so i want a tablet with screen .They recommended XP-Pen Artist 12 drawing monitor to me - https://www.xp-pen.com/goods/show/id/380.html .

Anyone using a XP-Pen Artist 12 for drawing your vectors in Coreldraw x5?? If so, how do you like it?? Also I'm looking for alternative to Photoshop, can paintshop pro handle the task of adding graphics and colors to bitmaps??

I would be grateful for any help

Kind regards,

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Hey I hope you don't mind I did a little draw over that might help you out too add a little drama to the poses. 🙂

@chrisaakins Thanks! I totally get what you are saying though, so many ideas not enough time to bring them to life.

My favorite character is the hungry ghost in the last image. Overall I’m more compelled by the characters in the last two images than the first two. Peter Parker is looking a little like Voldermort to me. The last two images remind me of Tara McPherson’s art.

Dude, sounds like you got a good strategy. My advice would be to mention snacks or pizza will be available at the chapter meeting on your flyers. Starving artist is a thing

Good Luck!

Great tip! I will definitely try. 🙂

Thanks man, this is uber-helpful! I suppose the primary thing I'm worried about is just that between everything going on for folks at college, Inktober will fall by the wayside...

I gues to kinda start finding ways to combat that, what is the more beneficial aspect to doing Inktober in your eyes? Personally, I think it's a phenomenal opportunity to stretch out as a budding illustrator/designer/artist/whatever; to learn the struggle of creative work, and to strategically sneak work in through the cracks in one's schedule, but another perspective, especially that of someone not in the campus culture, will be insanely helpful in, well, hooking people into the challenge

And @rachy and @carriecopa

Thank you so much for your help! Your work is fantastic! I loved the drawing of the dragon. That totally helped to get an idea of what the details are in your price point.

And Carrie, I bet those smaller pieces are worth every bit of $260. They are so detailed. Your work is amazing!

Thanks so much for helping me out! I have a much better idea of where to go with my pricing. Pricing note cards that I printed is so much easier. The formula that deals with the cost and supplies works out beautifully. Oringinal watercolors are so hard. Their cost is like five cents to make! I have no idea, but it’s not much.

Happy creating to you guys too!

If your not an apple lover like myself I would recommend the surface from Microsoft. I have the surface book and love it. I use it for work and for drawing/painting. It runs full windows so I can run the full adobe suite. I can take it anywhere as well. But when I am in my office I have an extra monitor hooked up to it as well. I built a cool wooden stand so when I flip the screen to draw it is on an angle.

I hope to one day upgrade to the Surface Studio or maybe just get the Dell Canvas which is really sweet!!

Reminder! @Jake-Parker ’s World Art Drop Day 2018 is this Tuesday September 4. Click here for more info

Small Press Expo. A little convention focused on indie comics and cartooning. It's in Bethesda MD right outside Washington DC.

http://www.smallpressexpo.com/

@lee-white What's the best way to contact him? Email...maybe SVS messaging?

Hi!

If you want to see Indy artist portfolios, poke around the comcbookcollabs subreddit, digitalwebbing and deviant art (lots of examples around there). If you are looking for professional portfolios, just pick up a few comics and Google the artists. Everyone has a web portfolio these days. Lots of people use squarespace but it's a bit expensive.

Depending on what you want to do, you should curate your portfolio. Independent artists are expected to do it all (pencil, ink, color, sometimes letter). Professionals tend to do one step in the process. If you are going for a traditional professional job, fit your portfolio to the job you want. I.e. if you are trying to do inking, show examples of your inking (with a few of the pencil pages for reference). If you are applying for pencilling / general sequential stuff, show pencilled pages (with a few examples of the script you worked from.)

My website has a sequential section, but I don't do a lot of paid work... Yet! aaimiller.com. Not saying it's great, but it's an example.

@chip-valecek thank you Chip! I really dislike this stage of the painting how far to go, when to stop 😞

@aaimiller @Art-of-B @Concept @Simon-Prime @TessaW @davidhohn thanks so much for everyone's helpful and thourough answers. It really helped me to put things in perspective and realize how much power the contract has, which I'll def keep in mind for the future. I have replied to the author basically saying this work is not part of the contract and unless we include a clause about marketing material I can't do it, and I'm just waiting to see what he says.

And to answer if he has paid me for this last milestone, as I write this, no, I still don't have the money even though the work has been delievered for weeks now.

@tianlian Wow!!! Thanks! Yeah, as I was planning this illustration I did other sketches of the main character (the furry one catching the light). May be turning it into some story!

@jaepereira Lol. "Just look at the model out of the corner of your eye. That should be good enough!"