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@Valerie-Light Oh sorry, i missed that part of your question. It's looking like Tuesday May 25 is the start day of the class. The zoom meetings will be for Q&A and maybe a few critiques to help if there is a general problem we want to address. Note: the zoom sessions are NOT crits of all student work. At no time will you turn your work in during this class. The instruction content is pre-recorded which is what we have been working on for the last 6 months or so.

BTW, The video we did today on how to use narrative to design your backgrounds is KILLER! We all design one as a demo from scratch showing our process the entire way. Then the other guys ask questions, etc. along the way.

@Valerie-Light It runs 10 weeks in total, although you can go at your own pace. The zoom session will be at different times to accommodate different time zones and countries. They will be recorded so everyone can see them though.

Hi guys,

I just found out that our early bird launch for the Children's Book Pro class is on TUESDAY! We are so excited it's finally here! The first spots will be restricted to people who are signed up at www.childrensbookpro.com. We are limiting space because we are doing live weekly zoom sessions with the students. Should be a ton of fun! Hope to see you in there!

Let me know if you have any questions at all! : )

-Lee

Yep, it's posted on the www.critiquearena.com website

THIS MONTHS CHALLENGE!
Our Fairy Tale Traveler is in a situation!

For this month’s prompt, your mission is to draw our Fairy Tale Traveler in an environment, in a situation. The enemy is coming down the road and now our traveler must decide whether to face the adversary, flee or hide. How will our traveler get out of this situation??

In March, we designed a Fairy Tale Traveler. In April, we designed an inn for our weary traveler to sleep for the night. And this month, we are creating a full page illustration featuring our traveler.

For this challenge, the image must be a full page illustration, and the dimensions must be 9.5 inches high x 10.5 inches wide.

Just to clarify: don't worry if you haven't submitted in the previous Fairy Tale Traveler contests, you can still do this prompt! Just treat it as if it's a stand alone prompt

I had to leave before the first round was even over but I’m so excited to see @chrisaakins and @lizardillo are the winners. Absolutely well deserved. There were so many tremendous entries this time but I loved both of your pieces best and am happy you both rose to the top. Congratulations!

@DaveLeekArt yep! Emailed to you

Hi everyone! It's almost Critique Arena time! We'll get started at 2pm MST (check here for other time zones). If you did not get a link, let me know

Hi @Moana-Maureen and @LauraA! Emailed links to you

I am literally drawing a demo on that exact topic as a lecture for our new Children's Book Pro class right now. How do you draw a background so it has the most narrative punch it can? You can't just think about filling a scene with stuff. Everything needs to help the narrative that you are trying to tell. In my demo, I am using red riding hood as a story basis to show how to let story drive the content. It's so fun and best of all, when you approach it in the right way, the background will sort of let you know what it needs! : )