Thanks to all my helpful forum friends on this one.

I really like the Octopus theme because you can get a lot of movement with the tentacles, and point to things of importance. Any critiques are welcome and appreciated. ~ Johanna

Here's my Old and New contribution, with my characters from last month's Octopus theme. This illustration had a lot of challenges but much thanks to the valuable feedback from @kevin-longueil @gary-wilkinson @jason-bowen @kathrynadebayo, it's one of my stronger efforts.

Johanna Kim

This illustration was technically challenging for me every step of the way, but I think it's time to let it go. I'm really enjoying everyone's different take on the prompt. Good luck and stay safe, everyone:)

Time to let this one go...fly away little illo. Kudos to my fellow SVSLearners @Gary-Wilkinson @RHirsch @demotlj @Miriam @Sofie_designed @Adrian-K for helping me make this a better piece through their feedback and suggestions.

As usually happens, I revisited my illustration and felt compelled to make changes. Please excuse my re-submission.

Love the super-charged creativity in all the submissions. Really inspiring to see.

@ShannonBiondi Thanks so much:) I wonder if you might suggest in your directions at top that in addition to uploading hi-res images to the Google folder, that we all share lo-res versions to this feed as well, as inspiration to each other.

Here's mine:)

Decided to do mine in ink this time. I imagined the following accompanying text:

With the Count's thick Transylvanian accent and obvious mirror challenges, his hair stylist never could understood what he wanted.

Hope you like it:)

@JoshuaDages I got my email September 30. Maybe if you sign into you account on Kickstarter, you'll see more info related to your order?

Hi Heather, yes, I was a bit confused myself, but after going through the process, here's what I know from my own personal experience:

This Response Needed prompt is, indeed, to pay for the shipping cost. Don't add another book to your shopping cart unless you want another copy. You'll see when you check out that the cost for the book itself has been credited to you since you already paid, and you will only be charged for shipping.

You also have the option of switching your pledge amount or level. Pledge options include soft cover, hard cover or e-book. To switch, in the first window of this confirmation process, you'll see at the top "Your Pledge Level" and a link below. Here's a screenshot. You'll see that just now I switched my pledge level from $29 (soft cover book) to $19 (e-book).

Switching levels left me with a $10 credit. I probably could have gotten that money credited back to my credit card, but then there's an add-on for an audiobook version for $10. So I went ahead and got that as well because sometimes I feel like looking at the words, and sometimes, I like multi-tasking with audiobooks. Both versions of his book, audio and e-book, added up to the cost of my original soft cover book pledge. So no further monies were exchanged. And I just have to wait for my purchases to arrive in my Inbox, I suppose.

Moreover, I received an emailed receipt confirming my pledges, and also letting me know that I can still make changes to my order up until the book is ready to be printed. There was no indication of that timeline, however.

Hope that helps.

Congratulations! The cover looks awesome and very professional.

@Neha-Rawat Congratulations! This is an amazing achievement!!

@carrieannebrown Thanks so much:)

@Coley Thanks so much:)

Love the super-charged creativity in all the submissions. Really inspiring to see.

@Coley This looks great! I really like your style and as others have mentioned, the silhouette is really striking. Re: the lettering, it works compositionally, but I personally tend to gravitate to titles with lettering that's more hand drawn, or fonts that feel hand drawn. If you have time and the interest, it might be interesting to explore options with the lettering. re: having to get a day job, I totally empathize. That's a whole separate thread (sigh). Sending big hugs to you and know you're not alone.

@Gary-Wilkinson Congratulations! Such wonderful news and so well-deserved.