How Do I Grow My Email List?
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Hey everybody! New episode today!
This week, we share strategies for reaching your goals, from growing an email list to improving your shading to finally landing an agent.
Listen to the episode and check out the show notes
Art by Analise B!
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This episode where they discussed @allysa 's work really resonated with me. The advice Jake gave was spot on, and was a similar conclusion I came to about my own work: too dark both subjectively and visually, render less, look at targeting older age demographics for the work.
I got rejections from agents too, and realised that I needed to change things up a bit, but in a way that I would still enjoy the work - e.g. not becoming yet another Klassen clone.
Here's my original dark style compared to the last lighter, pencil and digital style I tried out (for an SVS prompt).
I'm going to use the darker visual style for a video game I'm working on, and the lighter pencil style for any future picture books. I don't think I'll look for an agent and will just self-publish picture books in the future, it just seems too much of a hustle to make money from illustration in any meaningful, sustainable sense. Especially because I take a long time on illustrations. So I'm going to have to keep up the UI design to sustain me.
Looking forward to seeing where Allysa ends up in 6 months. Also, I like the idea Lee suggested about showcasing illustrators, I learn a lot from those little mini-portfolio reviews, I think it's something that can help illustrators.
