Hey Griffin, in my experience with corporate type jobs and companies it is not unheard of for them ask for you to work in a different style. That being said it doesn't mean you have to say no. I often find that someone developing an app or website gives examples on what they've seen that they either like or they know works bc its the new trend.

What I have done in the past is mention "I don't work in this specified style but I think we can work together to make something cool/something that will fit/etc." That way they know ahead of time that what you produce will be somewhere in the middle but will be more than likely leaning towards your style of work. A bonus when this has happened to me is the client has liked what I made plus its a unique take on something they like. You working in your style or somewhere in-between may shed a new look or perspective that they aren't aware of.

I saw this about a week ago and forgot to register. Thanks for the reminder!

Get a copy of Will Eisner's books - Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative as well as Comics and Sequential Art.

Those are the Bible on graphic novels for story and art. Eisner invented the medium (and he was a great guy too!)

After that, start a graphic novel and do whatever else you need to in order to pay the bills.

@burcu-yılmaz
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.