Any advice?

Solomon Designs

Hey everyone!

I’m Jonathan and I’m looking for feedback on my work and if I’m ready to seek out clients. I struggle a lot with self worth and pricing so I’m looking for advice or/and resources to find my first children’s book client. I know a lot of us are in the same boat but if anyone feels like commenting then please do! My website is below.

www.jondanielsolomon.com

carlianne

@solomon-designs said in Any advice?:

jondanielsolomon.com

Hello and welcome!! You've come to the right place for resources for sure! I loove the classes here for children's illustration and if you haven't checked out the 3 point perspective podcast I would check that out starting from the earlier episodes. There are some great ones about agents and pricing your work and portfolios etc.

For your portfolio I think the two things you could work on is the anatomy on the human faces, they look much more realistic than the rest of the drawings, so matching the level of stylization on the faces as the rest. And for the rest of the imagery I think you could work on making some areas not in focus, softer edges, and some areas more crisp with hard edges. Right now in most of your images it is the same through out and it makes it harder for the eye to focus on your focal point.
You could also try using some texture in your illustrations aside from the brush stroke to help it feel a little bit more organic

Your character design of Oscar is pretty cute! I'd be interested to see how you might color him.

You could try to get work from commissions or self published authors, and if you most single images here I think you'll get better feedback as you go

Solomon Designs

@carlianne
Thank you so much for your feedback!! I will definitely focus on the things you mentioned. Thank you, thank you!

carlianne

@solomon-designs I'm so happy it's helpful!! ️️️