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    MAY CONTEST: MERMAY!

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    • LisaF
      LisaF SVS Team SVS OG last edited by

      Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience! We haven’t done a big live event in a while, so we are still working out the glitches :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

      So to answer your question YES, we’ll be posting the video from the live crit in the subscription next week, we’ll send out notification when it’s out 😄

      As for subscribers who didn’t receive the email with the live link, there were a variety of reasons why you may not have received the email:

      •if you have opted out of our email newsletter, you will not receive any emails (except for progress notifications, these are auto generated by a different system)

      •if you have a yahoo address, our email platform is experiencing issues sending email to yahoo, and many of these are bouncing

      •if you cancelled your monthly subscription and moved to an annual subscription, our system may not have recognized the switch

      •if you subscribed very recently, our system may not have caught up yet

      •if you cancelled recently, our system sees you as cancelled even though you may still access through the end of the month

      •various individual scenarios like expired credit cards and such

      Our apologies if you did not get the email! Anyone who contacted me via email before the event, I was able to resend a link to.

      Just fyi, Will, Lee and Jake want to do more of these kinds of events for our subscribers, so we are gonna try doing live crits on the first Thursday of the month for a while to see if there’s interest. What do you guys think?

      Director of Sunshine and Rainbows
      lisa@svslearn.com

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      • Darian
        Darian SVS OG @LisaF last edited by

        Thank you @LisaF for your response! Much appreciated!

        https://www.instagram.com/darian.pereira
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        • lmrush
          lmrush Pro SVS OG last edited by

          Thank you Lisa, You are the best! That is awesome and tell W,L & J crit Thursday would be amazing! Thanks again

          Lisa Rush
          www.lisarushgallery.com
          www.facebook.com/ArtbyLisaRush/
          www.instagram.com/lisarush11/

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          • karolifo
            karolifo @LisaF last edited by

            Nice! Thank you so much for the update @LisaF 🙂

            Crits are awesome to watch, I would definitely like more of that kind of content! It would be nice if the events could be recorded and posted as videos so you don’t have to watch them live though. Because of jobs and life and timezones, it’s just not possible for everyone to watch live sessions. It doesn’t have to be available for ever, could be for a week or until the next session for example 🙂

            www.instagram.com/karolifo

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            • MichaelaH
              MichaelaH @LisaF last edited by MichaelaH

              @LisaF That would be awesome to have more live seassons, but offline videos are also cool

              https://www.instagram.com/michaelaheimlich/
              https://www.heimlich-illustration.de/

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              • Jon Anderson
                Jon Anderson SVS OG @LisaF last edited by

                @LisaF I love the idea of these live events I just wish it wasn't in the middle of the day (which can't be helped for everyone understandably as SVS is available worldwide). Between short lunch breaks, appointments, and life in general maybe a late afternoon/early evening time works for more students? Wasn't the 3rd Thursday timeslot around 2pm CT?

                instagram.com/jonandersonillu

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                • burvantill
                  burvantill Moderator @LisaF last edited by

                  @LisaF said in MAY CONTEST: MERMAY!:

                  to see if there’s interest. What do you guys think?

                  YES!! 😃

                  Lisa Burvant
                  www.lisaburvant.com
                  Instagram & Twitter & SVS: @burvantill

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                  • Chip Valecek
                    Chip Valecek SVS Team SVS OG @Jon Anderson last edited by

                    @LisaF I would only be interested if its the 3rd Thursday of the month. You know us old school SVS'ers don't like change LOL. JK that would be great.

                    @Jon-Anderson the 3rd Thursdays started in the evening like around 9pm. I believe near the end they moved it to the afternoons.


                    https://www.instagram.com/chipvalecek/
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                    • xin li
                      xin li last edited by

                      @LisaF love the video crit format. Totally understood all the technical glitches. Thank you so much for deciding to post the videos for subscribers - It will be rare I can catch any of the live events, since I have a toddler home. Already getting excited for the next session.

                      Web: www.lixin.no
                      IG: www.instagram.com/lixin.illustration/

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                      • MissMushy
                        MissMushy SVS OG @LisaF last edited by MissMushy

                        @LisaF thanks for the update! Would definitely be interested for guys to give more critiques - via contest or otherwise.

                        www.instagram.com/artbymmartinez
                        www.instagram.com/the.mindful.otter

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                        • LisaF
                          LisaF SVS Team SVS OG @Chip Valecek last edited by LisaF

                          @Chip-Valecek 🤣 Apparently the management doesn't like change either because this is basically gonna be just like the OG Third Thursdays!:face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: 😂

                          Director of Sunshine and Rainbows
                          lisa@svslearn.com

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                            Jean Gao @LisaF last edited by

                            @LisaF Thursday live crits would be awesome!

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                            • ajnewman
                              ajnewman @LisaF last edited by

                              @LisaF I would absolutely love Thursday critiques! Although the critiques for the winners of Mermay were very informative and I enjoyed watching it, I was a bit disappointed that they didn't critique everyone's pieces. I know that would be a lot of work, but that direct critique was SO helpful for me in April that I was really hoping for another critique this time, too.

                              So yes, if there is a way to get more personal critiques going, I am all for that!! Especially if there's a video of them posted later. Excellent idea! Thanks so much!

                              Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newman.illustration/
                              Website: http://www.ajnewman.art/

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                              • Stephanie Hider
                                Stephanie Hider last edited by

                                Would love to see the old third thursdays back too! I am happy to know that the video will be in the sub area later I missed it as well but I did get an email and it had a link but I was busy and was able to view.

                                http://stephisdoodling.com
                                http://stephaniehider.com
                                https://www.instagram.com/stephhider/

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                                • ArtofAleksey
                                  ArtofAleksey last edited by

                                  @Lee-White im curious did the mixups with the email system also affect you choosing which pieces to consider because I think you mentioned only subscribers submissions would count? Or am I mistaken.

                                  instagram and twitter: @artofaleksey
                                  alekseyillustration.com

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                                    SusanMiller @LisaF last edited by

                                    @LisaF thanks, it’s good the Critiques are going to be able to view for all of us, those of us that participate, put a lot of of work into these prompts, and the feedback is very important to all of the artists that contributed to the Svs Learn Mermay. That’s why we participated, for the feedback. And of course, living all around the world we can’t be at your same place at your time. What I like about Svs Learn is the accessibility, I can see what I want to see when I want to see it, that’s your strength. I think this live thing is fine but not backing it up with a recorded version is moving away from what makes svslearn valuable.

                                    Http://www.SusanMillerIllustrator.com

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                                      SusanMiller @ArtofAleksey last edited by

                                      @Aleksey I’m thinking the judges judged the work based on what was posted on the Mermay contest, that’s my guess.

                                      Http://www.SusanMillerIllustrator.com

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                                      • APHOTICMOTH
                                        APHOTICMOTH Moderator last edited by

                                        Thank you for posting the video soon. I didn't receive an e-mail, so I missed out. Looking forward to the recording.

                                        All my links: https://APHOTICMOTH.carrd.co/

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                                        • LisaF
                                          LisaF SVS Team SVS OG @ArtofAleksey last edited by

                                          @Aleksey Hi! All the contest entries were reviewed first without regard to subscriber status, the ones that were selected actually all turned out to be subscribers. A couple of the winning entrants did not get emails either 🤦♀ There were so many great images, it was so hard to choose! Hope that helps clarify!

                                          Director of Sunshine and Rainbows
                                          lisa@svslearn.com

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                                          • ArtofAleksey
                                            ArtofAleksey @LisaF last edited by

                                            @LisaF yeah totally does. Im sorry you had to deal with all the chaos!

                                            instagram and twitter: @artofaleksey
                                            alekseyillustration.com

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