I'm a husband and father (the best part of my life) and an aspiring children's book illustrator and author. I have wanted to be involved in children's books since I was in my teens, and for the past eight years I focused on creating stories, though drawing and painting has been a passion of mine since I was very young. So I have finally decided to pursue my dream with everything I have, and hopefully someday I can say I am an actual illustrator for children's books
Depends on the agent who is going to pitch the dummy. My agent requires 50% of the book completed, which is unusual, and was a lot of work. Usually 3-4 pieces is the norm. A cover, but just a cover concept, because it will most likely get changed by the publisher.
This is very sad to read. I will definitely add her name to my prayers for the the foreseeable future, as well as the entire family. This news is very shocking, and even those close to me who aren't at SVS know of Will through what I have talked about for the last few years, and are also very sad about this news. May her memory be eternal!
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I am glad to be at SVS with all of you. I look forward to seeing what we all do in 2019. 
That is a good goal. I would add that since you are already doing full images, that you should enter contests, and get critiques on your portfolio as the year goes on.
My goals for this year are:
It asks you if you’re a student, and it didn’t ask anything else. I then was billed as a student. Idk, my wife set it up 
however, that is what she said she did without much difficulty.
I got the Adobe student price by citing SVS. I probably should have made a post about it. But yea, it worked.
@evilrobot thanks for sharing this dude! Thanks everyone on these forums, you all helped me a ton over the last couple years.
@Sarah-LuAnn My brother in law who uses InDesign everyday at his job came by and walked me through it. After having him walk me through it, I thought this would be a great class at SVS, and funny enough a few weeks before I had gotten to talk to @Will-Terry at Designer Con, and my brother in law got to meet him as well. I would love to see if they could get him to do a class for SVS on it, because it streamlines the process so much, and is the perfect sidekick for illustrators.
@burvantill I had an agent reach out too me last April wanting to see if I had any manuscripts in the works, and at the time I was too busy with other things, and so am not just finishing it up. I hope to have it sent by the end of this week. If this doesn’t work out, I will move onto getting an art rep, and spending more time on my writing on the side.
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