Thank you all, you have made me more confident in this look!

@paran Indeed everything is! Making a book to sell in 8 languages and many different countries seems a large and ambitious project, so there is potential for a really good payout if you and the publisher can work this out! The average rate or a children's book is $8,000 to $12,000 US, and since they will sell lots of books in lots of different countries and languages, and need more copyrights, it should be a lot MORE for this project If they say something like $5,000 for the illustrations and rights, heck no get out of here! They'd be trying to take advantage of you. But if they have a good budget, like twice the average or more, this might be a good deal!

@danielerossi said in Who's doing Inktober 2020, and what are your plans?: media I saw on Ins many artists use other media, which is totally not ink for Inktober. Some uses traditional media, which is not even a mimic of ink. So my question is, does inktober has to have ink/digital ink?

@ajillustrates said in Inktober Book Plagerism Accusations: would artworks for sale using the Inktober name or branding be in violation if they were produced before the filing or registration date? The way it was explained to me, it can extend back so to speak. If the item were still being sold/used when the trademark is obtained the trademark owner can enforce their trademark. However, don't forget that more than one person can own a trademark on the same word/name under different classifications so that is another set of circumstances to deal with.

HI,EVERYONE! I've been working on some sketches for Faux Inktober. I've attached the sketches I've done so far. I still have a long way to go. I'm targeting 12 illustrations to make into a short book but I'm happy if I can even complete 8 given how complex my plan is. I tried to keep my illustrations as simple as possible so that I can finish them in what little time I have. I budget about 2 days for the smaller illustrations and 4 days for the double spread ones. If you've made sketches and want to share them, feel free to post them in this thread. I look forward to all of you projects this Inktober. Happy creating! P.S. I copied @Braden-Hallett 's pointy cliff/ridge coz it's awesome and I can't think of a better background element. I hope it's ok you @Braden-Hallett Thanks I've started some color comps

In Procreate with the studio pen. (For those who have never seen an animal based fairy, this is a m...ink fairy, a little animal fairy who loves the inky blackness of ink because it matches its fur.)

@hakepe Oh good, I’m glad I was able to help We’ve all been there - some pieces practically have to be wrestled out of the imagination!

@davidhohn and @Nyrryl-Cadiz Thank you! These are all very good points. In reality, I haven't worked professionally yet in illustration (only in portraiture, which is a whole different thing) and I don't have any idea how to establish a going rate (maybe that pricing book)? But I like the idea of doing it for a price that the client would consider low, and then licensing it. Also because I think the channel's concept has a lot of potential, and so I would be happy to promote it! The reason I am assuming it's work for hire is that I am in Italy, where so much is done casually among friends. To do this with a contract, likely I would have to pay more to set myself up as a business (VAT tax number, etc.) than I would earn, which is a bummer, and that would put me under pressure to get more work immediately to make it worth it. I'm just now setting up my website and will hopefully be ready to go pro, or try to, by sometime next year. But I can inform myself here about the Italian side of things. Anyway, thank you for the tips! At least I have some idea how it should be done now.

If you haven't watched it this is a great class for getting advice on how to plan out your work, and super useful with Inktober on the horizon. Anna Daviscourt also suggests a fun challenge to put some of the advice into practice.

@Heather-Boyd Story from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.

It made me smile There is a very clear message saying 'accept yourself'. Love it!

fun idea!

@JoshSchouwstra thanks Josh! Yes I will post it here on this thread as well as on my social media and I might make a section on my website for it as well. Stay tuned kflaggart.com

October begins my 4th Monster Project! I'm asking any of you that might have kids that would like to describe a monster for me to participate. I will draw one monster a day using the kids descriptions. I am collecting descriptions on my Marsha Ottum Owen facebook page or you can put them here on this thread. If your kids have participated before they are welcome to do so again. Thanks!!!!!! Here are some samples from last year (sorry, no descriptions included).

I paid for SVS Courses for a few months and took notes for most classes but I forgot when I watched all of Jakes robot course!! Does anyone have notes or tidbits of really useful stuff Jake went over? Or another question is, what are the most common errors you see when noobs try to draw robots?

Life has changed on planet. But for #Mhambi everything looks pretty normal. Check new #MicroStory MHAMBI here > https://bit.ly/2EkUmGU #illustration #illustratedstories #FlashStory #artwork #creaturedesign #creature #photoshop #drawing #sketchbookpro #art #africa #zulu @Heather-Boyd @aska @Joanne-Roberts

Ahh, Jake’s got me feeling all the feels with his story about his mom in this tutorial. 🥺

@kimmypie thank you!

@Shyam-Sailus Just finished week 1 assignment of Painting Texture and details course

It's coming together. Looking forward to seeing the wings fleshed out. I think they'll be a key feature in this image.