Informal process showcase #4

xin li

The book arrived yesterday. Just in time for me to show the real thing over zoom meeting tomorrow :-).

If you want to join in the informal meeting, PM @Braden-Hallett.

braden H

@xin-li That's beautiful!

braden H

See everyone tomorrow at 1:00 PST!

If you'd like a link to attend feel free to shot me a PM

NessIllustration

@xin-li Perfect timing!

Jeremy Ross

Hi @xin-li, beautiful book!

xin li

@Jeremy-Ross Thank you so much
@NessIllustration I am very happy the box came

See you guys in abour 20mins

NessIllustration

@xin-li Thank you so much for the amazing presentation! I learned so much. Your process is AMAZING. You are a true pro

Jeremy Ross

Hi @xin-li, that was an incredible presentation! Thank you so much for sharing your process with us!

And thanks again to @Braden-Hallett for hosting!

Hopefully I didn’t ask too many questions!

Jeremy Ross

Hi @NessIllustration, your insight and experience was also very helpful to see things from a different perspective. Many thanks!

Laurasketches

@Braden-Hallett hey brad, i may be too late, but id loooooove to join the facebook group! I obviously missed the meet up today, but would like to know about future opportunities.

braden H

@Laurasketches Here's a link

https://www.facebook.com/groups/226573271732680

Mara Price

@xin-li
Thank you @Xin Li, it was a fantastic presentation. Wow!

And @Braden-Hallett, thank you so much for making this possible. I am truly enjoying these informal process demos.

Mara

xin li

@NessIllustration thank you so much. Almost everything from my process, I got them from the svs community. It was good that I am able to give soemthing back to the community.
@Jeremy-Ross @Mara-Price, thank you so much. It was really nice to talk about my process, it feels like a proper de-brief .
@Braden-Hallett, thank you for organizing the event
Looking forward to the next Saturday.

braden H

Oh my goodness that was awesome!!!

I know how I'm gonna go about communicating with clients from now on

Here's a link to @xin-li 's awesome presentation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUm1PL-y50c&list=PL1KOpkKmrEdDEaEOGiVLxDa8f76BC4_sX&index=4

burvantill

I just watched the video. Such a great package of information.
Thankyou @xin-li
I have a couple questions if you don’t mind.
•When you were doing your initial back and forth emails to gather as much information as you could before starting, how long did that take, how long was the time gap from when you accepted the contract to when you actually started drawing anything.
•Did you get paid in installments, did they pay you anything, like a retainer, before you started the art?
•Did you receive any of the finished books for yourself, for self promotion or just to have?

Thankyou again. I wish I could’ve joined the meeting. This was great.

LauraA

@Braden-Hallett Thank you! I was going to attend last night but at the end I crashed. I will most certainly listen, though!

xin li

@burvantill The editor contacted me in mid Septbember to check my availability. Then it took sometime for them to get back to me with the ready manuscript (I think it is around mid October). We settled the contract around the same time as I recieved the manuscript, and I started working on the art around the last week of October. Once I recieved the manuscript, the communication went fairly quick.

I got a bit less than half paid in advance, and got the rest payment after I delivered the final art.

I got 15 illustrator copies of book.

I would guess the arrangement of advanced payment and illustrator copies are common, but maybe different countries/publishing hosues have different practice around these things.

TessaW

@xin-li This was a great presentation. Everything was so clearly mapped out and organized. It was a breath of fresh air. Thank you so much for doing that for us!

burvantill

@xin-li Thanx

eriberart

Watched this on youtube and it was really great and informative, thank you @xin-li
I've only done a couple short commercial jobs that were local, and I felt really out of my depth the whole time. I'm worried if I ever to get a proper publishing contract that I won't know the right etiquette and way of dealing with things, and look unprofessional, so this is super helpful!