I am psyched for this class!

@will-terry We as a community of SVS can't thank you guys enough for all you do for us!

You should be proud of a job well done! Looks really creepy and funny at the same time.

@Lee-White Very cool. Maybe that would be a fun challenge for all of us to do one month. You could post a sculpture and we could do the interpretation. I think it would be fun to see what everyone came up with.....thanks for sharing!

Awesome entries! Congratulations everyone! It is even hard to choose a favorite, such unique pieces.

they are all private

Thanks @Rich-Green I am excited about it! I love a good class and from the sound of it this one is going to be super helpful! I will share some stuff from it as I go along 🙂

I personally know one of their author-illustrators (Jami Gigot - Mae and the Moon) and I believe she's happy with the outcome of working with them.

Hello! For folks who are running into dead links or "lorem ipsum" gibberish or other problems with the new SVS website, try clearing the cache and cookies in the browser you are using. Apparently, unless you clear these out every so often, you are likely seeing an older version of the website (there's a helpful explanation for this here: https://www.replicon.com/customer-zone2/kb-1001296)

We are making lots of updates to the site daily to fix all the little glitches y'all have found, so if you clear out your cache/cookies every now and again, you should hopefully be able to see the latest version of the website a little quicker 😀

For example, I wasn't able to see the SVS forum on the new site for several days on Firefox, (although I was able to see it on Chrome and Safari), but once I cleared my cache/cookies, it popped right up.

The way to clear your cookies/cache is under your browser's Preferences. On Firefox and Chrome, there's a way to do it without clearing out all your passwords, but I'm not sure if that is the case for all the browsers out there, so just know that you may have to re-enter your passwords if you do it.

Anyway, I'm not super tech savvy, so those of you who are, feel free to chime in! 😉

@aska It is a messy living room and the owner is sitting in the black funny shaped blob there in the center. I am really hoping to get the values looking good here before I worry so much about the specifics of the guy sitting at the sofa, and the exit sign is just another element I thought I could throw into the scene to create some interest. I'm not sure if it will count as an additional item as the rules for the assignment only count things that do not require a tool to remove. The exit sign would not normally go in a home as it is a piece of eclectic decoration!

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This is so exciting! I'm enjoying my current class with Lee and David, and more classes like that sounds awesome!
This is such an amazing team of people!

@Will-Terry A few more things occurred to me after I posted the previous comment:

Another area of distinction would be contracts with art & lit agents (also the flow of legal responsibility between all 3 parties of Client, Agent, Illustrator, particularly with client-to-agent/illustrator contracts)

One highly specific question I have always had is regarding contract points/obligations between the illustrator and an ad agency that are not conveyed in contracts between the agency and the end client. If the end client is not aware of something like usage restrictions (duration & region, and consequential costs to any expanded use) and thus do not hold to the illustrator’s agreement with the agency, how is this resolved (or prevented from happening in the first place)?

There are a few other things that might be good to touch on given the breadth of experience levels of the audience:

Contracts often have moral clauses, which has implications upon the illustrator and any displayed illustration work or accompanying text the illustrator posts/prints/etc., particularly in relation to the end-client

There are often restrictions upon what can be shown and when it can be shown, along with restrictions on information shared with others (especially competitors of the client).

Conflict Resolution. State/Country of arbitration, financial & other responsibilities upon the illustrator, etc. With this is also the reality that a contract does not prevent abuse/breaching of that contract by the other party; however, litigation is costly (financially & relationally), even when “you are in the right”. Thus, there are some hard realities that might need to be addressed.

EDIT:

When sharing with a friend about this upcoming webinar, I realized that I overlooked a key part to this webinar's topic: "publishing contracts" - So, I suppose much of what I wrote in these 2 posts is irrelevant to the topic at hand... oops — haha — Well, perhaps there's some nuggets in what I wrote that may be they'll help formulate parts of an outline anyway... Regardless, thank you so much for this topic!

@Will-Terry Thank you - if I can submit, say, a new detailed sketch + value study rather than a final polished piece by May 4th, that would be much easier to commit to. Just working on the challenge so far has been really worthwhile (it's made me think very carefully about values and grouping things), so I'm sure it would be a great thing to sign up for!

@Lee-White @Rich-Green - Thanks! Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity for this one (it is sold out!) but certainly I will sign up for the next one hopefully this fall 🙂

@Kevin-Longueil On it!

Hi! Here's the presentation from the Jan 3rd Thursday on agents, if anyone is interested : )

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great image.

Great! Thanks for signing up! This is gonna be an awesome class!