So for the last 9 days of Inktober I created a 9-page piece that when put together looked like this!

After that I took it into photoshop and colored it!

Such a great challenge, thanks for all the inspiration guys!

Ive already completed a couple class and browsed the forums and the community here seems so amazing and helpful!

Here's a few of my drawings!
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@lee-white That's absolutely understandable! It's a bit of a passion project so I'll absolutely keep working on designing it but what you said about taking in account all the costs of production, I'll definitely put that on hold until I am able to figure it all out. This was incredibly insightful advice! Thank you!!

If you're looking for something cheap I DEFINITELY recommend this.

For me it's the best lamp whenever I'm working on small 8.5x11 pieces and it's just easy to move around and can move, bend, and turn in any direction if you attach it to a desk or something!

So much insight! I'd have to agree with the general consensus of never really thinking about it when I find a cool artist I like on instagram. It's more about the content. For my page I end up trying to only follow people who inspire me so my feed can just be a stream of creativity. I've been posting up to 8-9 months and just steadily posting everyday for that long has gotten me a decent amount without needed to really follow anyone back JUST for the follow.

Wow what a wonderfully warm welcome! You guys are so great! I look forward to being apart of this community. Thanks everyone

Oh all the time! I cant tell you how many times I would sketch out the design and hate it before I end up just throwing the entire design away and approaching it with a fresh new sheet of paper. The idea is still there, I just end up approaching it (the pose, composition, etc) almost entirely different from the original concept. Most of the time it works for me!

@smceccarelli What kind of conversations do you jump into? Ive been trying to grow on twitter and I'm finding it kinda hard. I'll try to find conversations to jump into but most of it is just people complementing the art posted. Is there a specific way you find engaging conversations?

I really love how you do your coloring! It's such a kid friendly style too, great work!

Hey! I was wondering if I could possibly request a class or even just start a discussion about working at Artist Alleys, good travel/storage ideas for your inventory, good display ideas, and just how in general do you guys sell art at conventions? I've done two now and each time I've learned valuable lessons but I'd love to hear from the teachers and other members who work conventions and get their insight!

@Gary-Wilkinson Thank you!! Yes actually, that was kinda a small concept piece to a larger comic i'm building upon!

@Jason-Kilthau Thanks man! The original dimensions in photoshop are 7650x9900! I shrunk it down to post on the web

@StudioHannah Thanks so much! I definitely recommend https://color.adobe.com/explore/?filter=most-popular&time=month

That helped me make decisions on where I could take the color palette!

So for the last 9 days of Inktober I created a 9-page piece that when put together looked like this!

After that I took it into photoshop and colored it!

Such a great challenge, thanks for all the inspiration guys!

@lee-white That's absolutely understandable! It's a bit of a passion project so I'll absolutely keep working on designing it but what you said about taking in account all the costs of production, I'll definitely put that on hold until I am able to figure it all out. This was incredibly insightful advice! Thank you!!

If you're looking for something cheap I DEFINITELY recommend this.

For me it's the best lamp whenever I'm working on small 8.5x11 pieces and it's just easy to move around and can move, bend, and turn in any direction if you attach it to a desk or something!

@lee-white Thanks for the excellent idea on the isometric backgrounds, that could definitely work out way better!

These are awesome questions!

• I'd say probably the core of this idea is based on just having cute everyday designs that people could buy but ultimately can work together with one another. Take Barbie for example, you have all these great accessories that are interchangeable with different dolls. However for this you can just buy those separately and just have a cool paintbrush sticker, or a sticker of books, or cute species within this world. On the other hand you can try to collect them all and create scenes with the Background art. Along with this, for inktober, I'm doing a short 31 page story about the world which will also hopefully become a book someday!

• Having them able to be re-positioned is also an great advice, I hadn't thought of that but it could make for excellent lasting value, so I'm gonna research materials that could work with that!

• Distribution would be almost entirely through conventions, art shows, and so forth. I'm trying to make the style eye popping enough to draw people in. Also I wanted something original because all I'm selling these days are fanart. I was playing with some package design Idea's which I can post later today!

• This idea was most inspired off of Alex Pardee's Pinfolk series and Enfu's sticker line. For the consumer I'm trying to make it very all ages sorta thing, something for the children that run up to my booth because they usually dont end up wanting anything unless its a pokemon drawing haha.

So far the most money I make out of conventions are with stickers but most likely because it's Overwatch fanart. It's also pretty cheap to sell at 2 dollars a piece. The risks would mostly be the money I put into production which is either getting them professionally printed or buying a Cricut Maker and printing them myself.

Such a thought provoking response! Thank you Lee!

I agree with @IanS. the only thing that confused me was the road! However i love the style and the direction of the piece! What could also tie the composition together could be some distant rolling hills in the background on the right side of the piece!

I love the second one because of the value in the trees! Lovely style by the way!

Hey! So I'm trying to build a story around these characters I'm selling stickers for. The idea is that the character/design works alone as a single sticker but can also be used with the other stickers to form a story. I called it Stickerton. Here's a few designs for it! I just wanna make sure I'm going in the right direction with story telling and design here. Feel free to critique as much as you want! I really wanna get this story/concept right before sending it to print!

Here's the characters i've come up with so far!

Ava

Hopscotch

I havnt come up with names for the rest yet!

And here's a location! The idea is its a print that people can buy to stick the stickers to.

Here's the first accessory sticker!

Here's the story blurb I wrote to these characters

Ava is the teenage daughter of the town's most affluent family. When Ava was young, she was jettisoned into another dimension where she met her soon-to-be protector, the Raven. The Raven watched over her as she tried to find her way back home, and when she did, her only escape required her only friend to sacrifice himself. Ava is home now and wears the Raven's skull as she paints descriptive scenes of her experience. Hoping one day she can find her way back to this dimension and return the skull of her best friend to their rightful parents; who have been searching for the Raven for years.

The Paintbrush - A conceptive weapon! The best friend to inner monsters and outer demons!!! Used by the gloriously creative Ava!

Hopscotch is part of a local species that lives around the desert area of which Ava paints the depictions of her past on the rocks. Every time she comes out to paint the rocks, Hopscotch devotedly follows her. Hopscotch eventually figures out that Ava wants to go back to the dimension she had jettisoned to.

Thanks for taking the time to read up on my project! I just wanna take as much critiques and info i can get before pulling the trigger on production!

@lee-white Thanks so much for addressing this Lee, I absolutely didn't know it played that much into the career of an artist! I look forward to seeing it, thank you!

Like Tess said the black and white illustrations in your sketchbook are astounding! I'd definitely like to see more of that from you!