I've had several people suggest I register as an LLC but haven't seen any reason for this. What benefit does an LLC give for an individual who just does freelance business under their real name?

Looks amazing!

Hi Buffie! I'm in Colorado too. I went to the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design for illustration. I also couldn't get behind the fine art mentality and illustration seemed more useful.

I'm also interested in editorial illustration. It's not really the same thing as SVS learn,but there's a blog called Dear Art Director where you can anonymously ask illustration industry questions and get replies from real art directors. I've found it to be a useful resource for my editorial illustration questions. I wish I had more precise resources to share but if I ever find them I'll certainly share them here.

I like the uncropped version. The boat gets lost and becomes unnoticeable when you crop it in my opinion.

So today I opened up my gouache palette to find a couple of earwigs feasting on my paint. It was really surprising and disgusting and now makes me worry that there are tasty things in my paint. I looked it up and think it's either gum arabic or dextrin. Has anybody else ever experienced something like this? What did you do about it? Will they go after the thin amount of paint on paper? Am I just painting tasty earwig snacks?

@ajnewman @DOTTYP @Erin-Cortese @Tom-Shannon @jwing Thanks all! It was a fun piece to make

Thanks so much for all the feedback guys. @ajnewman I tried to fix the tangent with adding more of a tail to that lamb.
Here's the finished piece.

I'm a fan of the first one. It's simple and funny. Maybe a little smoke or something could exemplify what's going on.

@thousandwrecks I love it so much. I even thought "this reminds me of American Gods" before I even scrolled down and saw that.