Love this! Such an uplifting story.

@Nyrryl-Cadiz and @NessIllustration thank you for your advice! I`ll take another look into licensing and what agencies offer what. 🙂

@ArtofJoseGalue Thank you, I'm very excited!

@Kevin-Longueil Oh, I see! It's a completely different set. Thank you!

@akpcreates The mid-century packs sound interesting too. I'll check them out.

Congratulations! It seems we also have a few other advocate-art artists here on SVS 🙂 The company is definitely growing.

@Jeremy-Ross Thanks Jeremy, it has definitely been exciting! The author of that book has been a real go-getter with her marketing. 🙂

@donnamakesart Thank you for spending this time to answer. I am planning on doing one work for winter's childhoodweek instead of individual ones (single drawings) to push me like in this October SVS contest work to create multiple characters interacting on the same page. But I don't really want to pursue Instagram contests next year -I find they distract me from pushing myself to do larger and more developed pieces- that I am more pleased with at the end and that are better received by others.

I have 3 "existing stories" that I have muddled over making "themed" work for in full illustrations with text, I may edit the idea and do one with 3-5 spot illustrations and one with a closer look into character design (once I get to that class).

I started an Alice in Wonderland title page this past year, but never got back to it, so it too is on my mind.

Thanks again, I'll return and review what you've said. 🙂

I've been playing on GIMP tonight 🙂

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@AWShurtliff thank you to everyone that has taken the survey so far! It is really helpful and fun to read about everyones favorite comic.

@chrisaakins I'm not sure if this is accurate at all but what I've heard about Instagram is:

the quicker you get interactions the more people its shown to, if you get a comment and respond straight away your post is more likely to be visible to more people, and it can snowball from there

If you use the same hashtags all the time you will not be shown to as much people as you are considered spam

If after posting you go back and edit your text this restricts the amount of people its shown to

Time of the day you post

Apparently posting stories regularly too helps boost your exposure when you do a grid post

I've also heard using 3rd party posting apps to automatically post are not good

All of the above might be rubbish

And it definitley comes down to what it actually is your are posting and a bit of luck too.

Try not equate the amount of likes to success, the amount of likes you get can be quite random and it can be detrimental to an artist to link the 2.

My advice when you get loads of likes enjoy it, it means your audience enjoys your work. If you post something the following day and it gets very little this could be completely random and have nothing to do with your work.

Done. It's on Amazon 🙂 whew!

Help!!!
Here’s the beginnings of my composition for my selkie illustration for folktale week. There’s going to be a seal in there somewhere and more fish. I’m just wondering if it’s getting too crowded? How’s the composition so far? Any critiques are very appreciated. Also, does anyone know why my images are lousy when I export them out of procreate? They’re all sharp and clear and then they are crap. I don’t know about digital anything, so I feel like I keep ruining images. Just know for now that it is a lot clearer than this.
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@Gary-Wilkinson interesting. I try using color combinations like complementary analogous etc. can u explain what color theory is?

@neilpriceart my iPad is about a couple years old, it works fine. In my opinion, it is not an essensial tool in my current process, more in the category of things that "nice to have". I got it while my girl was a new born, so I can draw in bed.

For artists who do art on the side for fun but have a full-time job on something else, I might recommend to start with iPad, becasue it is so easy to carry around. You probably end up doing more drawings this way.

For artists with a limited budget to set up a workspace for making illustration full-time (especially, working with books), I would recommend starting with a small cintiq + a computer instead. You can always add a ipad once you get a few illustration gigs, and set money aside.

Hope this makes sense.

@sigross That's a good question! I don't know the answer. But Im happy to try and find out.

Thank you.

Congratulations. I love the video, especially the end part, that is very endearing! I hope you do really well. What a smart idea to have it wordless so it can be open to anyone regardless of language!

@Jeremy-Ross 👀👀👀❤️✊🏽

@carriecopadraws
thats cool, I hope this works out !