@NessIllustration Thank you so much for the critique....back to the sketchbook...

@Coreyartus Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! This helps a lot! 🙂

@Laurasketches I'm almost a month behind now. I really liked the Cecelia (?) Yung and ooh the guy who worked on the muppets one LoL. Can't believe I'm blanking because I watched it three times at least. It's gone now tho. I'm actually rewatching the Vashti Harrison one now, I think that's a good one for illustrators! I also just clued into regional webinars and looked at the schedule. There's one in two days (21 July), that is about how to receive critiques. Considering that one. Only$15. Of course convert that to Canadian and it's 500 bucks Ha ha ha kidding. I signed up for the portfolio consult too so it might be good to do that webinar.
I'll have to get on the ball watching the other free series before they disappear.

Realistically, it's a very low number of people where social media is a driving force to generate the majority of their income. It's an essential part of self promotion (just in the same way someone you might court for business might check your instagram feed for example), but I think the pressure to "perform" on social media, to me at least, feels over emphasized in the minds of aspiring artists. The distance I'm keeping with social media is that I post stuff about once a week and beyond responding to comment, I check it every 3-4 days.

Just being very transparent about my own ambitions, I'm aiming to transition to doing mostly illustration and design over the next few years to try and replace my current income. I do a lot of web based interface design and graphic design for my current career, and I'll be the first to admit that most of it is "work", but there are projects I do throughout the year I feel REALLY good about, get passionate about, love the way it turns out, etc. and I think illustration will be no different - there will be plenty of projects that are just work, plain and simple. And then you'll get projects you are inspired to do and feel lucky to be a part of it. To only do passion projects, I feel about myself, is unrealistic just based on my own journey building my current company.

I do think it's going to take 5-7 years to fully move over because it took at least 5 years to build my existing business and have enough referral business combined with existing repeat business to make a good living.

I think you might benefit from some of the stuff that Marco Bucci talks about on his YouTube channel about inspiration. I think he has a book out that talks about it as well.

Just some thoughts from a newbie - take it with a grain of salt 🙂

@TessaW @NessIllustration @carrieannebrown @korilynneillo @StudioLooong @deborah-Haagenson & @cristamay

Thanks for all the helpful tips! I'll try experimenting more with dimensions and sizing for web with my next entry.

@cszoltan The first one looks better to me as well 🙂 The client wanted them as separate illustrations (not as spreads) and they might end up with frame around them (as in the picture), so I'm not working on them as spreads, having that continuation. I think these two I've put together just might look that way.

@Jeremy-Ross yeah I hear you. I wish I could but unfortunately can't due to my job. I dream of the days when I can just have a house phone and that's it 🙂

I hope this type of question is ok here. I created a spot illustration for an ad campaign for a graphic design client. They liked it and now want to use it in other campaigns and on their website. How should I charge for this? Most of the info I've seen on licensing pertains to using artwork on products. This seems different and I'm unsure how to proceed. Any advice or info would be much appreciated!

I just looked at your portfolio! This is amazing! I love literature and writing. But I always had problems with the essay. Thanks to the EssayService Blog, I was able to raise my level higher. You guys are awesome!

Congratulations @Coley!

@LisaF Ohh, I didn't realise that Jake's class had been replaced. That would explain why it's not showing up for me then, that makes sense. Thanks very much for clearing this up for me. 🙂

@Miriam Thanks very much for your help Miriam, you're a star! Hope you have a lovely day!

@Laurel-Aylesworth did you make sure you have a brush loaded? When you first start it might only have the basic brush which you can't use the brush tool for.

In the brushes pallet you should be able to load a new brush or copy and paste something you've drawn with a brush into the file

Seconded!

@Kim-Wilson yes, what @Coreyartus said!

Hello, not sure if this can happen or not. I just traced a sheet of music with pencil and scanned it and imported it to GIMP. I was thinking it would be cool fi I coudl cange the text color but I wonder if it's possible? Anyone know? I have 8 docuents I will be importing. They can stay black if needed but it might be cool to have the look of a colored text option 🙂 Thanks for any help. I did look it up but didn't find an answer that seemed to work for me.

@LauraA You're welcome

@Pamela-Fraley thank you ! I tested the other cards they are pretty nice but not that cute. 😉 I think I'll go with moo with gold foil ($$$) for my top picks and normal moo ($$) for some others to check out 🙂

@Danielle-Closs Good to know, thanks for sharing that!

Thanks guys the feedback I reckon I will pursue illustration through SVS Learn and other online tools for now, I'm still looking into art school but it's tough to find something. I was advised by a friend whose field or work is illustration and they've also recommended art school, having an actual teacher and peers around me would help with the development. - I do have the equipment to take my work to another level and I reckon now it's time use those to my advantage than lounging around, make my work at a professional level rather than a hobby.

Edit: Just realised I did the exact thing I shouldn't have; I should have been a little more interactive in the forums before asking for advice, giving it more weight. Thanks Jake for that advice from the 'Critiques' episode.

I've got a technical question about digital arts vs. prints here,

So now I have a digital piece I created on ipad. I'm checking it on laptop to make sure everything looks good before sending it editors, but using different "brilliance/contrast" on my laptop apparently makes this piece looks drastically different. Printing it out using my own printer doesn't make much sense either, the outcome from my printer and industry printer can look totally different. So what "brilliance/contrast (laptop display setups)" set up should I use to check digital art, before sending them to editors?

Thank you for your experience!