Enrollment is now OPEN for our brand new Children's Book Pro course!

Lee White

@Johanna-Kim no, this is totally separate from the svs membership. It will come up for sale again at some point in the future.

The zoom sessions are basically just Q&A each week to help people understand the assignments. It's not crits of individual works

Johanna Kim

@Lee-White Thanks so much for the clarifications! I hadn't realized about the Q&A sessions.

AButtigieg

Hi guys, Is there an anticipated time that the Zoom session will occur? Will it be 1 option a week, or will there be 2 or 3 times to attend to cater for different time zones throughout the world? I'm based in Melbourne Australia. I would like to attend these live and want to see if it fits into my schedule.
Thanks,
Andrew

AButtigieg

Answering my own question regarding Zoom times, from the live stream Q&A earlier today, Jake mentioned that there will be 2 sessions on a Thursday at 10am and 6pm PST.
For those who missed it, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/cVfohWOiejs

Adam Thornton 0

@Lee-White Thanks for your reply, Lee. Although, SVS's tagline has always been "Become a working illustrator. Prepare for a career in illustration with our online classes", which is my goal. So I'm afraid I'm still confused as to whether I should cancel my SVS subscription and buy the CBP course instead. Sorry if I'm being thick!

lpetiti

@Adam-Thornton-0 I'd say both would benefit you, I don't think that it's necessarily an either/or situation. For me, personally, I'm glad this is being offered again at a later date. I'm working my way through the fundamentals classes on my time off from being a teacher, but I'd like to do CBP someday when I get my confidence (and more importantly, skills) up!

Lee White

@Adam-Thornton-0 I agree with what was previously said. Its not either/or type situation. We are still building SVS up. quite a bit. I think unless you are truly at the experienced pro level, SVS will still be a huge benefit. especially as we add the more advanced foundation series of classes and workshops.

CBP is HIGHLY specialized and is only for adding the "children's book" polish to your already established skill set. SVS is about getting the skills, CBP is about focusing it and entering the field.

Hope that helps some! : )

Valerie Light

@AButtigieg Ah! That's what I've been looking for. @Lee-White can you confirm that Thursdays at 10 and 6 Pacific Time are the scheduled Zoom meetings?

Lee White

@Valerie-Light that is correct!

lizardillo

After much deliberation I have just signed up for the course . I will be three weeks behind by the end as there are weeks I will not be able to attend but as the course is accessible forever I’m hoping it will work out ok.

ajillustrates

@lizardillo Awesome!

Kim Hunter

When can we actually access the videos? My last CBPro email said the class starts today but I haven't seen anything or any links.

The notice for the live Q and A on the course was emailed to me too late for me to join. Listening to it right now.

Kim Rosenlof

@Kim-Hunter I found mine by logging into my account on SVS Learn's website.

Kim Hunter

Found it! Thanks. It was on my dashboard. Cheers!

Kim Hunter

Wasn't there a zoom meeting today for CBPro? I'm not getting any emails. I can't sign up for the Disquord thing. And now I can't access any but one screen on the CBPro lessons and lectures on my dashboard. Is it just me?

Lee White

@Kim-Hunter we had the zoom session. It appears in the course shell the day of the event

Lee White

there will be another one tonight at 6pm pacific time

Kim Hunter

The course program doesn't give me any options. I can only watch a video once and click complete. Then it's gone and there is no way for me to see it again, unlike the other SVS courses where I can pick what videos I want to watch and watch them multiple times. So, if i click through the course videos to join the zoom meeting, I can't go back and watch the videos.

Week one worked okay but week two did not.

Kim Hunter

Never mind. I found it. This is goat migration season and I'm on the road most of the time so I only had a few minutes to check things out before. . I'm home for the night and compared things to the usual SVS and found that that had changed too. Used to be, I'd open a lesson with a list of videos on the left. Now I have to open a new window to find the list and can't have a video and the list open at the same time.

kylebeaudette

@Kim-Hunter sounds like a typical goat migration season error.