Hello, My name is Jenica, founder of Little Mango Art. I specialize in cute, colorful creations 🙂 I design products with my own artwork to sell online and at conventions. I am also a comic artist focusing on Palettes of Power! which I plan to self publish but is also on Webtoon Canvas.

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Wow! Some really lovely works you got here! Very tight and detailed. I always love these architecture/environment drawings. I wish more people do this kind of more "classical" illustrations. I also love the studies you did in instagram. Not that many people are more interested in scenery/landscape, and I quite like the direction you are going. I especially love the textures on your traditional media paintings!

Anyways, welcome and make yourself at home 😃

Welcome Anika. Nice watercolours

@Larue Thank you so much 😊

@Erick-Reilly Thank you! 🙂

@Mike-Babich Thank you!

@kirsten-mcg Thank you!

@Melissa-Candrasaputra Yes that idea fits with my comic portraits I have been making.

@randarrington I'm in a small town called Pittsboro which is about 2.5 -3 hours from Charlotte. Nice to meet you as well!

@katt Welcome!

Welcome Kaylee, Glad to meet you

@robbery said in Hello! I would like to reintroduce myself.:

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welcome back @robbery ! im looking forward to see your illustrations.
Just had a look at your instagram and it looks so nice 🙂

Have fun!!

Hello Tora and welcome to SVSLearn Forums. I haven’t been a teen for a long time, but use to hang in the same social circles <insert Steve Buscemi skater meme>.

You’ve likely already started doing your research about animation courses and how the Japanese industry is like, but I would like to drop a few helpful links:

YouTube: Animator Dormitory Channel Here you’ll receive a working Japanese Animator’s honest discussion about pay and work conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLPWmJXcELI3QTuqzNqkVQ/videos

NHK World – 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki A documentary that follows Miyazaki as his studio was creating Ponyo. He's is retired now, but the workplace culture he fostered must still be present.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/program/video/10yearshayaomiyazaki/?type=tvEpisode&

YouTube: Software used in the Anime Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DSnKa--aMM

You may want to do research on the studios that are working on the latest animation series on Netflix, Hulu, etc. It may be easier to break into those places first. Also, Ghibli recently released their first fully CGI movie. Perhaps they need more 3D animators?

Lastly, LightBox Expo, an event for those who want to get into the animation and video game industries, is happening now, running to Sunday. Check it out. Some videos are being recorded and living on YouTube or Discord, free to watch.

Best of luck to your career. がんばって！

BTW, have you read or watched Beastars ? It’s Zootopia for an older audience.

@sirjana hi! Just hit follow on instagram, I can see your fellowship at mats too 🙂 your style is really lovely and professional, welcome on the SVSLearn forum.

Welcome @Ghartark! Love the tiger piece!

@Elisabeth-Rae Aw thank you so much, I appreciate it!
You're very kind 🙂

@AbbeyK thank you so much!

@Josy Welcome! You should definitely try the monthly challenges; they are lots of fun.

@Ash-Lamb Welcome! Nice colors and texture 👍

@Jade-Yaert welcome! I also joined recently (last summer) and will be looking for fellow classmates to follow along the foundations program level 2 after Xmas (I will likely have finished level 1 then, just working on light & shadow).

54 hours a week to study illustration, that is great. I also went down to work part-time a year back to free up time for arts and other personal activities, but I will be working at a much slower pace than you 😅 - I can maybe allocate 10-15h?

Anyway hope to see you around and share our progress!