@davidhohn Thank you, David. Looking into these factors, I addressed my concerns to the agent, hoping it works out.

it's pretty interesting to see how varied our styles are even when everyone is using black and white only 😃

I came across this and thought I’d share here 🙂 it’s another funny yet effective analogy to use when someone offers to pay you with exposure instead of money.
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That’s awesome! Congratulations!

@K-Flagg oh that's so good to hear! Glad you got it figured out! 🙂

Funny enough, I got that exact deal in the mail a couple days ago haha. It's been great so far! I'm sure somebody on the hunt will really appreciate this!

@jenithornhill I like the light sky and contrast with the dragon float in the second one up. I still think there's too much confusion in the camper itself, though, and unifying the values more might help with that. You've did that more in the last one, but still, set them off even more against the sky. That way the camper will read as one big silhouette, despite all the details. It may go against your lovely 1950s camper design, but I wonder for example what it would look like if you made all the white part a color of similar value to the bottom, blue green part?

I do like the frog bigger, but now that his head is in the middle of the camper confusion, the silhouette is not as clear. Having him so big also changes the focus from "a crazy family of flamingoes have a pet frog" to "this frog lives with a crazy family of flamingoes." Just make sure that's the story you want. I also just now realized that he's not out front, but that they are dragging him from behind! I wonder what happened? Did he just make a big jump and end up falling off, or was he after something?

I also just wanted to add that your drawing here is great! I love the delicacy of the line, especially in the rending and shading on all the camper items. You must have had fun designing all this and it's really worth making it read at its best!

@hakepe you're welcome! I've had to do it a few times as well as I further refine what I really like doing.

And thank you for your kind words about my portfolio! I am for sure in the cute category of illustration 😆

@donnamakesart Great analogy especially because the fun part is throwing the ideas all over the place and the editing (the adult part) is hard work.

@JosephStallone That review looks perfect though. Thanks for sharing.

I just found a related post to your query that you can check here: https://printerdeets.com/best-printer-for-giclee-prints/

I am using Canon IP8720 Wireless Printer and it works perfectly.

Hey y'all ~ Shani here!

Hope y'alls inktober is going well! I'm keeping up (though still a little stuck on 'moon').

QUICK QUESTION: If you've done Inktober before, or are doing Inktober now, have you/will you be turning your Inktober pieces into products?

I'd love to see what y'all have cookin' up, idea wise for that! I'm thinking of a cutesy but sarcastic little urban proverb book. Maybe not for all of the Inktober pieces, probably about 28 of them.

How about you?
Cheers!
Shani

Great feedback @Georgios-Christopoulos, will give it a shot!

@xin-li 😁

@carlianne thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. I’m going to try the grid today, I’ve heard lee say that before but I’ve never actually done it. Thank you!

Sure! It looks like a lot of fun!

@Melissa-Bailey-0 Oh, I'm a prize idiot. I even downloaded The Book LOL

Hi @von_Nimmermehr, thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback!

I appreciate your feedback on my 2020 Inktober pieces, will look at opportunities to improve the aesthetics. You’re right, I was all over the place with media so will need to take another look.

You gave me some great things to think about to improve the look and feel of my site, especially the start-to-finish slides.

Many thanks!

@Melissa-Bailey-0 That's a great point. Figuring out which printer to go with if we do use Kickstarter will be an interesting endeavor in itself.

Curious if anyone has experience using art storefronts for their shop/online art store? I’ve listened to their podcast and like what they have to say. I also know they’re selling their product at the same time as giving marketing advice. Curious if anyone would recommend them of have any experience with their product. Thanks.

A late reply, but thanks to all who have contributed to this thread!

@Janette Haha, I've noticed that too, how doodles will often turn out so much better. Yesterday, I actually managed to do some decent sketches for the book project I'm working on, just because I was talking to a friend on the phone while drawing. Strange how that works. Maybe I just need to find more ways to distract those parts of the brain while I'm drawing. Thanks for the encouragement!

@Alzamon I've realized that I've automatically become less and less active on social media this past year, probably because I just don't have the energy to keep up with the high pressure-low reward ratio. Even though I'm stuck more than usual these days, I think it would have been even worse if I hadn't cut down on that pressure. When it comes to ideas, I usually have the problem that I get frustrated that I have way more ideas than I feel I can express. In some ways it's better than the other way around, but still frustrating.

Switching activities, like you say, is the only thing that has consistently worked for me. Since I started this thread, I switched to rendering a lot of drawings that I had done the line art for. It worked quite good to relieve the pressure, even though I'm still a bit worried about those drawings I still have a deadline for but haven't even started on yet. Thanks for the reply!