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@Asyas_illos Thanks so much for joining today!

@danlandau Uhmm.. I think I'd research that sort of book (online or in book stores). Find companies that publish them, then put together a pitch and contact those publishers.

@Lee-White cool!
I’m really looking forward for this one! Hope kids will fall asleep just in time for me to be free to join you all

@seelliott I think it will be recorded and added to the subscription as a "bonus" kind of class. We are still figuring that out though.

@Mr-NiftyRat All svs members will. receive an email today.

bumping this thread back up to the top. Glad to see all you guys will be joining us. This kind of thing is going to happen regularly on the last thursday of the month

@Michael-Angelo-Go I used Paint Tool Sai back when I used to do digital speed paintings, circa 2010 or so I want to say? As for the lime green and neon blue in CMYK, honestly I personally don't mind it so much. I have a tendency to go a bit overboard with very flashy colors, and it's often not very tasteful. Using CMYK helps me tamp down on my neon color tendency. In the images you showed the colors on the CMYK version are still very bright. And it's always possible to make them seem brighter than they are by using duller or darker surrounding colors. There is very rarely a good reason to use neon colors in illustration. In my experience if the color won't print, it's probably bright enough to hurt someone's eyes...

@Mr-NiftyRat Any work that is in the public domain can be used by anyone without restrictions. A good rule of thumb is anything created before 1925. So rewriting Red Riding Hood would not be Fan Art (or Fan Fiction in the case of text) because there is no copyright holder.

Also any changes you make in your rewritten version would be copyrightable to you! (cool right‽ )

Thing is, that last bit works in the other direction as well. If you reference a version of Red Riding Hood (re)written after 1925, any unique elements in that version could be still protected and using them in your "new" version could be infringing on someone's copyright. This is what @Kevin-Longueil was referring to.

And so @Melissa-Bailey-0 advice to research carefully public domain works is important!

Oh yeah this is happening!
Here's the cover art for the book in question. Going to be a lot of "sausage getting made" kind of chat. I'll show all the stuff that got rejected.

This is an informal hang out session where you can ask us questions or just watch. Come hang out! it will be fun!