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Whenever anyone mentions mermaids I can't help but think of sailors recording 'mermaid' sightings and describing the creatures as much more masculine and whiskered than they anticipated :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: So my mermay entry contains no mermaids. Just the things that most likely spawned the mermaid myth.

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Cassandra demands breakfast for dinner. Jeremy also wants breakfast for dinner, but doesn't want Cassandra to have it. Annabelle demands her cheerios in her special flower bowl. The twins are showing their love for Senator Ursinius (also known as Mr. Bear). Joey has once again played 'hide the poop' but honestly cannot remember where, and thus needs his older brother to find it. Mr. Fuzzy Britches, as is his right, enjoys the dinner theatre. Happy anniversary.

Boy did I ever learn a lot from this challenge!

Good enough!

Doooooooone. Just in time

As for the deadlines, I agree with @NessIllustration . I'm lucky in that I haven't had to deal with people being late with deadlines, but I think I'd do pretty much what she does; polite, constant, consistent communication with a reminder that there are ramifications for late feedback.

@Annabishop I feel your pain! The first bunch of projects I got offered through the agency were, after factoring in deadlines and agent fee, garbage. So I said 'no thank you'. I have now turned down far more work than I've accepted.

Nothing bad will happen if you politely refuse work. Now, if you impolitely refuse work or act like a prima-donna, that's another thing entirely, lol.

Part of it (I think) is that newer artists get offered worse projects in general. If I were an agent and I had a new artist, I would NOT send them jobs from big name clients (unless this artist was, like, mind-blowingly phenomenal AND I knew them very well personally). Just like any other job, you never know if the new hires are going to be easy to work with; challenging to work with but in the end worth the effort; or absolute (#$%^ing horror shows. I know artists who ask for feedback then throw pissy toddler-esque tantrums when they get the warmest and fuzziest critiques. I sure as hell wouldn't want to work with them when money is on the line. So I wouldn't be surprised if agents assign their newer artists some kind of 'probationary' clients.

Another part of it is that (in the extreme short term) it may seem better to agents to get their clients working on something (anything) so that they get that sweet sweet percentage, so they'll send everything they can your way to see what sticks. If you say 'yes' to working on low-paying, then who are they to disagree?

TL;DR it's find to say "no thanks" to jobs. Nobody cares. Your agent is fine with it. The client is fine with it. Everyone is fine with it. As long as you don't act like a flapping butthole when you say "no", it will not hurt your career

"Flapping butt-hole" is an excellent band name. Ska, I think. With a big brass section. They could have paper-mache butts on the ends of their horns.

Miiiiiiiight be tomorrow tomorrow

I'll post a link to the recording here sometime tomorrow

My current book project includes mostly kids playing with puppies. Once that's all done I'm gonna do a bunch of middle grade interiors featuring dinosaurs, explosions, motorbikes and other loud and awesome things. As a palate cleanser

@K-Flagg sent

I've sent PM's to everyone who was interested to far

Workin' on a sample page for what I'm gonna show on Saturday. Mice are jerks.

@David_Crabtree said in Informal Clip studio demo for my SCBWI group:

I prefer it much more for illustration and artwork than Photoshop or Illustrator

it's surprisingly good for illustration, especially if you rely on solid linework. So many nice little tools to make life easier!

@jdubz said in Informal Clip studio demo for my SCBWI group:

@Braden-Hallett I'm interested for sure. The main thing I want to learn about is the comic panel workflow in action!

There will definitely be comic panel workflow!

@txels said in Informal Clip studio demo for my SCBWI group:

Yes... not necessarily Clip-studio-specific, but I'm interested in how you plan out your layers.
Also to what extent you rely on specific "digital world" helpers like stabilization, [perspective] grids...
And whether you manage reference within Clip studio (i.e. specific tools for it).

Cool! I'll definitely address this!

@hakepe said in Informal Clip studio demo for my SCBWI group:

That is cool! Is the showcase still running? Will there be new sessions?

No, sadly. This is just a one time thing