there was one about if you're ever too old to start an art career.

@Corlette-Douglas if your site is on wordpress, you can add borders to images in gallery

I’m just finishing up gesture class and now starting folds class....now that my figures are improving I need to figure out clothing lol! Otherwise a bunch of nekkid figures 😂 or good figures with crappy clothes 🤪

I have a decent interest and knowledge of human anatomy but I’m far from a fashionista or remotely interested in clothes lol, so I think this could be eye opening for me. She starts out with a discussion on Lyendecker, Rockwell, Sargent.....so I’m already getting a bit interested which is a win already haha

I’m starting today if anyone wants to join in today or anytime soon 😊

@davidhohn thank you so much for the advice.

I asked about the royality, and the norwegian publishers do not give royalty for the cover in general. So I got a "no". But I think you are right. I will keep asking for royalty for every book cover project I get in the futuren - this probably contributes to the change which makes the condition better for illustrators.

I am so suprised to realize that having the Url of the artist's website is not a norm in the industry. I will push for that this time :-).

@cristamay thanks so much!

@TamaraDomuzin To be fair my Intuos stops working too every time Windows updates hahaha... I don't think this has anything to do with our tablets, it's Windows breaking stuff. Every time I swear!

I personally don't like black outlines in drawings and so I think your second image is much nicer. I think you're getting there with the definition, have you tried using different brushes? It seems a bit like the squirrel and suit of armour have similar textures, maybe adding some hairs on the squirrel might give a bit more definition?

@eriberart Big congratulations! Are you a member of AOI? they have advisory team offering a service to look through your contract (free for AOI members). I heard there is something similar with SCBWI, but I am not 100% sure how that works. I reached out to AOI since the agency represented me is located in the UK. I believe T2 is based in the US. It is probably good idea to get a lawyer in the US to look through your contract, as american lawyers will be more familiar with the law that your contract is based on.

I really hope you get your money. The same thing happened to me years ago and I’m afraid to say it put me off being an illustrator for a long time.
I managed to speak to agent who gave me free legal advice. I sent an email twenty years after the event and his response was clearly a panic and full of excuses.
I doubt I’ll ever see any money as it would cost more at the moment to take him to court. However I learnt that staying polite and professional can still be in your favour.
If it ever goes to court, they take into account the behaviour of both parties.

Hi SVSLearn community,

I have a question regarding doing our taxes as a freelance illustrator/sole proprietor. I have been doing mine the last few years but last year, as things have expanded, it got a little more tricky and feeling stuck. A lot of my biz expenses are actually towards buying art prints and merchandise incorporating the art the re-sell (I was not holding an inventory yet) I am wondering what is the pourcentage limit you can claim for office expenses and supplies? Is there anything that has helped you found a bookkeeper/accountant with experience with artists? Did it make a difference? Any articles/resources that has helped you with this? I found it easy to find info for regular businesses but not so much for the artists specifically...Thanks a lot!! (sorry if the questions are not super clear, I find this subject a little awkward and can become overwhelming ha!) P.S: I am based in Canada but I bet some info must be similar enough?

@Natalie-Lundeen how do you promote on Pinterest? I haven't figured that out yet

I would personally read it A, B, C because B is still left of C but I don't read a lot of comics haha.
Maybe you can just stack A and B on top of C to clear up any confusion? Depends on the composition of your images though

@NessIllustration Thank you for the insight! I left my last agency for pretty much the exact same reason. Plus I was finding more work on my own but was under contract to send the clients their way and they probably would have "negotiated" a lower price than what I would have negotiated on my own lol. ItMe sounds really interesting - I may just look into that!

@DavidCousens Yes, but there are no comic-specific tools in Procreate. That's where Clip Studio may have a real advantage and is worth trying out. (I have a plan to eventually get a larger Cintiq-type device as well, so the fact that Clip Studio is on both PC/Mac and iPad is another plus.)

To be honest, the biggest hurdle may be getting/creating a brush that "feels" like my go-to inking brush in Procreate, which I have tweaked over time to be just like I want.

@Lucky-Platt Excellent! "See" you there!

@Frost-Drive These made me laugh - I think you've approached the "evil" older sister and baby in a new way... (At least I've never seen a water balloon used this way before.) I think 4 was a good choice - you've done a great job of capturing the moment just before the action. My one concern is the addition of the sharp pointy scissors - I think they look a little dangerous for a children's portfolio (her expression also seems very evil, if you were concerned about that). I really liked when the older sister was peering out from behind her fingers - it was funny and definitely mischievous (but not overly evil). It's really good - I can't wait to see how you finish it!

@Jane-Smith I know, it's low, terribly low...I did some more online research today and that seems to be a pretty common price range. I am not entirely surprised though...there are a lot of jobs who are extremely underpaid in Italy and 5 EUR/hour isn't the worst I've heard. Generally speaking, 10 EUR/hour (1600 EUR/month) is considered a pretty good salary for any job. I like your suggestion in any case, I don't know an agent that I can ask to, but I think I have a couple of people in my local network that could give me guidance on the topic.

Hi Mirkah!

Okay, so I tried following Lee's process, and when I save a brush as a "new brush preset" from my brushes panel, the brush shows up right beneath the brush I was using/modifying. In this case, I modified the "Hard Round" to "Pascal Campion" (inspired by this week's Jump into the Studio Session).

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When I go to Edit>Define Brush Preset, however, my brush ends up at the very bottom of my "Brushes" list, which in this case is "Splatter".

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Now, when I go back to my Pascal Campion brush and click "dual brush" so I can combine it with my "splatter" brush, it's really like finding a needle in a haystack. I noted my "splatter" brush size, like Lee suggested, which is 493, and it was in the middle of I don't even know how many brushes I have (way too many). If you double click on the icon, it'll show you the name of that brush (in my case, "splatter") and you can change the name from there too if you want. But that's a way you can double-check to make sure you have the right brush.

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I'm not sure if this was even helpful, hahaha. But let me know if you're still having trouble and I'll see if I can help! By the way, if you loved this class, Lee also has a great YT video on textures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7DedDc7aU0

@NessIllustration Thank you so much for your answer 🙂 You wrote exactly what I was thinking.

@carolinebautista Thank you so much! It's indeed very important. Yes I did but before really working so it's a good idea to watch again, thanks!