Children's Book Pro Early Bird Sign Up Date!

[carolinebautista]

@Lee-White So would you use the early bird part to prep for the instructional part, maybe with a different manuscript?

[Lee White]

@carolinebautista You could definitely do that. That is what I would do if I was taking the class. It can never hurt to familiarize yourself with the content and then get feedback when you are ready.

We are still trying to solve the problem of what to do with people who want to bring in their own stories. Many times people want to do that, but the story actually isn't ready to illustrate. Then we spend WEEKS trying to get the manuscript corrected. It's a really tough issue because the focus we want in our class is how to illustrate the text. There are a few options we are discussing on this such as instructor approval on the manuscript before you can start Another option is just to warn students that we will not be evaluating the writing, so you have to make sure it is 100% complete before starting the class.

In order to give students manuscripts to use in the class, we hired 3 professional writers to do manuscripts that are available for use in the course. That way students don't have to worry about that part of it.

[Lee White]

Oh, I should add that the class will begin launching content next week (May 24). This week will just be signing up and getting ready for it. : )

[RachelArmington]

@Lee-White Apologies, but I just can't stop myself from asking what rights your bought from the three professional writers. I can see where someone who spends serious time illustrating a dummy for this course would want to include it in their portfolio or in a showcase. They would want to acknowledge the writer in some form.

[Lee White]

@RachelArmington It's a general use rights to be used in context with the class. You can use it for portfolio work and for the class in general. You can make a full dummy using the manuscripts and even a full book. You can use it on your website and social media too. The only requirements are you can't try to sell the product (book, dummy, etc) with the writing in there. You CAN sell prints of any work you make, as long as the text is not included.

[artofdavey]

@Lee-White Hi Lee,
Thank you and the team for developing this fantastic place to learn and grow together as a community.

I'm very interested in Children's Book pro but recently moved to Japan so I am worried about missing the zoom calls due to timezones difference. Will the zoom calls be recorded and shared afterward for people who purchased the course, or will they only have access to the pre-recorded videos?

Thanks in advance.

[Lee White]

@artofdavey We will record the zoom calls so everyone can see them. We will try to move around the zoom call times to accommodate the time zone difference as well.

[artofdavey]

@Lee-White thank you very much, Lee. : )

[ajillustrates]

@Lee-White I know you've been hammered with questions (and you've been extremely patient answering them all), but I think I have one that hasn't been asked yet: will Children's Book Pro students be able to compete and place in Critique Arena?

[Lee White]

@ajillustrates good question. We are trying to keep the svs subscription clean and that would cause all kinds of overlap and we would get killed trying to keep up with it. So nope, the svs contest will stay with svs subscribers.