@Lee-White I wonder if there could be a one time fee to have a professional mentor also look at specific projects on a need basis? I have a BIG project that I am working on and I am really nervous about my perspective, but I am under an NDA so I can't share to the forum for feedback. Having someone I can pay to correct my one specific piece of work would be also wonderful. If there IS something like that, I would love to have someone point me in the right direction- I need it ASAP! (In the next month or so)

Hi all! We're hosting another live Q&A today!

If you have any questions about CBPro, or just want to hang, come on by! Anyone can join!

We'll be getting started at 7pm PDT. You can check other time zones here.

And you can join the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/coKi4QJefyU?si=kkYe5XUG0L5qGBmo

See ya then!

Hey all! Just a reminder that HTFYA is today!

The prompt this time was a doozy: "Jack reached the edge of the castle tower just as the griffin was swooping low. If he missed, there would be no way he'd survive the fall. Swallowing every ounce of his courage, he leapt..."

We’ll be getting started at 2pm MDT : )

Anyone can join! You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/xCBJHHrJAWw?si=k2pTcX7exc6wWz1t

Hope to see you then!

@Jake-Parker Oh my Gosh Jake, this podcast just came in time. I am having these exact thoughts right now, as I enter 16 months of employment at a corporate firm.

I miss doing illustrations 💔

@LisaF I would just love to say that for @Jake-Parker request there is a great Jim Davis interview in the Stripped documentary and they even have a one in a billion short interview to Bill Watterson

https://youtu.be/S-sKf3KCRY4?feature=shared

Oh and this one as well from Watterson newest book

https://youtu.be/HHND7L1wUl0?feature=shared

Hey all! Love it or hate it, social media is here to stay. What's the best strategy for dealing with it? Or, should you focus on something else, like your email list or portfolio?

In this week's episode, we talk about what to prioritize as you grow your art business.

Also, quick poll: anyone interested in a new class called "Insurance For Artists Pro?" 😂 Haha JK!

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Art by Analise B!

@AngelinaKizz found the planner video. It was a live stream so its not on the main channel page

https://www.youtube.com/live/q8FOSs_P8-Y?feature=shared

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@MimiHecher Due to the massive amount of time the crits took, and the lack of people signing up, we have decided to shelve the portfolio crits for now... they may come back in the future at some point.

@R-Fey-Realme thats a great idea! I'll make sure to share it with the team.

@Lee-White Merry Christmas to everyone! I enjoy being a part of the wonderful community! Looking forward to great things in 2024!

@Jake-Parker That looks great, @kylebeaudette!

I'm sad that modern kids can't go anywhere without adults or without a helmet, even in book. When my daughter (now 29) was about eight, she loved a series of books about a bunch of kids who went sailing around the English Lake Country all summer. No parents allowed. At one point, they wrote their father (who had been posted to a distant country) to ask if they could go out to sea. He replied by telegram, "Only duffers drown. Not duffers. Won't drown." What a great vote of confidence! (Even if it isn't realistic.) Of course this was the whole reason she loved the series!

Another great book about faith in kids is Understood Betsy.

An even more inappropriate example: The same daughter, during the same period, loved the Lang "Colored Fairy Tales" books. They were called that because each volume was a different color. We owned the blue one. But at some point we had checked another one out of the library and I was reading it aloud to her (the reading level was a little high) when a giant killed the child protagonists, chopped them into pieces, and buried them under the floorboards. I made a face and said, "Ew, gross! I'm going to have to skip this part!" I do think I explained why.

We eventually found a happy medium in Joan Aiken. And we both love A Series of Unfortunate Events. Or is that dated too, now? Some of the new developments in kidlit I'm very glad for, but I do think children are more capable of figuring things out, and can take things more tongue in cheek, than we give them credit for.

@LisaF This was soo good. We saw composition, structure and lighting in one video. Thanks guys!

When I woke up this morning my first thought (after I reminisced about how weird my dreams were) was, "Argh! I forgot about HTFYA last night!" Instead I'd spent the whole evening chatting to my husband. What a waste!

Yay for monthly prompts!