How my SCBWI Portfolio critique went
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I'm trying to put together a website, as well as a portfolio to showcase on the website, so this was very helpful. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks so much for sharing! Your recount was really insightful! There is a LOT in there that is really really useful! Thanks so much!
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@Coreyartus @Justin-Moss you are very welcome. I’m glad I was able to help.
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Thanks for sharing all of this. It was really so helpful to me as I prepare my work. Good luck as you take the advice and put it to use. How exciting to be taking steps in the right direction! Keep us posted on your progress. Thanks again for sharing your experience.
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Thank you so much for sharing your experience! That is some awesome feedback. This is helpful for us as well as you and you certainly didn't have to share that experience. That's very kind of you! If I may, did he elaborate on the realism vs cartoon dynamic? Did it seem like a personal preference or an industry trend? Thanks again!
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@Jon-Anderson said in How my SCBWI Portfolio critique went:
If I may, did he elaborate on the realism vs cartoon dynamic? Did it seem like a personal preference or an industry trend?
As an example, he mentioned the girl in the blue aquarium image as being realistic and the children and animals in the marching band as being cartoony. Unfortunately we didn’t have a lot of time to really get into it, but personally i took it as, even though I have a definite ink outline style, which is common for a “cartoon”, the girl herself is still realistic looking. Proportionally realistic as opposed to the little human muppet faces of the children marching
. I have read in the past, when researching submissions, that art directors ask for realistic children, not cartoony. Now I know what they mean by that. 
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Really useful information... Is it typical that portfolio reviews are so brief?
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@Laurasketches I have one coming up at the nescbwi spring conference and it is also 15 minutes if that helps
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Thank you for sharing!
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@Laurasketches This was my first but I think so. I talked to the woman who organized it, and she said that if they go longer they would have to charge more to pay the AD. Not a bad gig if you ask me
