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Contact support. I had an issue and they got on it right away. Scroll to bottom of the page and contact info is under Support.

@frankiiij I think it looks great how it is but you could do a design with the faint background to see how you like it?

I only knew Tiktok because of my friend´s girls who are around 12 years old. I have never heard about Clubhouse. I feel old and wise :-).
Joke aside: what do people use Clubhouse for?

@Jeremy-Ross I truly like him. To be honest, I didn't steer too far away from the original. I just don't like the chest and belly for now. It'l prolly help if i had a style. Thanks for the encouragement. Maybe he can just chill until we both reinvent ourselves.

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@Melissa-Bailey-0 Thanks for the feedback and the kind words! Yeah I've read a good amount of those books. That is definitely a good idea to separate it out like that.

@Nyrryl-Cadiz that actually makes me feel a lot better if there are a good amount of folks will not see a difference in style, even if I split the work into categories it might still look cohesive. The "sketchy" side of it was that I was intentionally leaving most of the sketch marks and adding additional pencil marks on top of the final drawing versus having very little linework in the 2nd one and it mostly be painted over.

Pro was not the right word - I was primarily looking for which one might be more appealing or modern (or marketable). Using it in that context didn't make sense since it's really more of a stylistic question.

Thank you so much @Tiffany-Thomas ! I am grateful you took the time to look at them and provide me with your thoughts.

It is funny that you mention #18. This one is a memory of me and my sister in summer when we were kids. It really came from my heart, and from this feeling of missing her this year (it will be more than year now...)

Thanks for being part of this adventure! I am glad to share this learning journey with you guys. Cheers!

Dear @KaraDaniel Unfortunately, this year there is not much info on what they want. It seems that they look for interesting "style and voices"... which is really wide. I guess that it is why I was so confused and looked for some advice here. I still do not have the experience to assess my work eficiently.

Hello @Melissa-Bailey-0 I I hope to grow this year in compositions,backgrounds, color and narratives, I feel I am still weak on those. SVS courses are helping me a lot!! I am grateful you looked at my work and provided me with your thoughts.

If I can assist with something, please do not hesitate to let me know!

@Laurel-Aylesworth I think you can contact Wacom for the exact recommendation. I had the opposite problem! And it also feels like I've seen this question on the forums before, so maybe someone has posted the answer?

If i remember it correctly, the one with little red riding hood book dummy is here:
https://courses.svslearn.com/courses/take/illustrating-childrens-books-part1/lessons/2627881-what-this-class-is-about
Illustrating children’s books.
But there’s a lot about book dummies in “Writing picture books” class too. 🙂

@chrisaakins be careful with dafont, most fonts are not licensed for commercial use and I’ve heard sometimes there’s viruses on dodgy ones. Plus some are very poorly made. As mentioned above Google fonts are good and fontsquirrel.com are all commercially licensed.

If you ever want to collect your open artwork files (not a flat PDF) to be printed then any fonts from Adobe Typekit will not be collected (when collecting for output from InDesign, I’ve not tried collecting for output from Illustrator yet it’s quite a new feature) so would be missing unless they have the fonts already or have a Creative Cloud subscription (which is highly likely if you are sending to a printer but it’s best to check).

@LisaF
Thanks !🙏 It works!
No pretence now! Lets work! ✏️✏️✏️

@Emma-Echter Pedant never, Nerd, and nerd is good 😃 I love nerds and consider myself a little nerd.

Yes I didn't mention the color reference (ColorChecker) because is the only thing that really works great. I love it! ColorChecker are important because camera manufacturers don't make cameras that give you right accurate colors, not even if you shoot in RAW. They compete with each other and they enhance the colors to be more attractive to potential customers. Some brands are known for beautiful skin colors, some for beautiful skies, etc. And then, the RAW issue, the information that the sensor catch in light have to be translated to ones and zeros so there's always a filter that have to be interpreted. Not even different persons view colors the same, so, the ColorChecker creates a Color space based completely in your lighting. You have to make a photograph with it in it with the lighting you are going to use for the shooting and you are good to go.
I don't say it gives you accuracy because I don't think accuracy exist, but gives you consistency. And in practicality it gives you accuracy because the range of change is far from the human brain to notice, I was a little nerd there.

Have an amazing day and keep up the good work!

@Michael-Angelo-Go I'm getting the impression that they're not publishing it just yet because they don't have the money to print the books. It's probably best that you leave this one behind and just make new pieces.

@robgale said in Anyone know what a remarque is?:

remarques

I think I’ve seen these in cricket media’s “Spider”magazines.

Is this what you’re talking about?

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@KayPotter Hi!

I took your advice and added a bit of sunlight and detail to the Illustration.

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Once again, thank you for your Feedback.

I don't know if this has been said before but I also really enjoy sad images that have some "hope" in them.

Like for example with your two characters in jars with a looming baddie over them: one of your small characters could be working on breaking the jar or something. I think any image or illustration that has "sacrifice" before something good happens, is extra powerful.

As you said about the blending the pokemon thing, that's ultimately too far mostly because (well it's horrible but also) it's irreversible. There is no "light at the end of the tunnel"!

Honestly I think Pixar is a great example. It's family movies but they still touch on very heavy subjects.

Hi sorry only just seen these messages.
The course is a year long, which for me was one of the reasons I chose it. A Lot is packed into a year which for me made it a really exciting course! Yeah if you have any questions feel free to message me privately 😊

@Jeremiahbrown thank you so much!!! I'll definitely let you know once it's complete, it's in the very early stages now. Please let me know when yours is out and if you end up testing out Lulu xPress. I figure when I'm ready I'll just order a copy or two to proof (in a couple different binding options), their pricing seems pretty good for print-on-demand.

@Corlette-Douglas Not necessarily. The important part is finding where your ideal customer is for your product and go there to offer them your product. The target audience of your art instagram isn't necessarily the same as the target audience for your store. For instance I have an Etsy shop for digital planners and digital planner stickers. This has almost nothing to do with my main art account, so my audience there is irrelevant and couldn't help me at all. So when I opened my shop, I knew I couldn't count on that and what I did instead was create a freebie and go offer it in Facebook groups related to digital planning, in exchange for signing up for my mailing list. With this tactic I was able to get a few hundred leads on my mailing list in the weeks before I opened my shop.

So the answer would be yes it's important to have an audience to launch to, but no it doesn't have to be your instagram art account audience. In fact, it's best if it's an audience you know for a fact is interested in buying the kind of products you make.

@Elisa-Gonzalez-O-Magaña

Hello! I sometimes do contract work like this.

When working with a larger company, I've always been asked for just an hourly rate, not a total price for the work. Sometimes they will ask for an estimate of time, but that is after they detail for you what exactly is expected. For example, if they need 5 or 20 characters, or if they need designs and poses etc. Also, they know it is an estimate, not a guaranteed amount.

When estimating the time I always tell them MORE time than I think it'll take, that way I am finishing things faster than they expected and I'm not stressed for time. This makes us both happy!

To give you an idea, in my area (San Francisco, California) $30 an hour would be a cheap rate.

For small companies or independent people, I would make them detail out for me exactly what is needed so I can gauge the amount of work, estimate higher than I think it'll take and then times that by the hourly rate I would like. I would detail in my contract how many revisions they are allowed to ask for, and then an hourly rate if more revisions are requested on top. I would also specify partial payment upfront and at the end, and what happens if they cancel but you've done a lot of the work already. I would also ensure images are allowed to be used in my portfolio after
the product launch.

Do not do any work without a contract or a written agreement - ever!