7 Nov 2018, 04:28

@nessillustration @smceccarelli , Yes Simona, You were gushed over 😜. Very appropriately so, I might add. I'm glad that you posted those three artists as accomplished. I have been having a minor existential crisis of late tied to that exact topic. As a good little student I have been pouring over children's books. Trying to learn what exactly publishers are looking for. They are ALL different! And what is completely blowing my mind is that a lot of what I'm seeing does not seem to be living up to my standards of what I'm pushing myself to accomplish. For example, today I saw a list of the top 2018 children's books. I scrolled through the images from the books listed and there was one in particular that, had I painted it and posted it to our SVS forum for critique, I would've gotten REEMED. The proportions were way off. It was very flat looking in some spots but not in others. The composition wasn't great. I just can't wrap my brain around it. There are some VERY great books out there, with awesome illustrators that just blow it out of the water on every page, but then I see a list like this and I'm just so confused.