HOT off the presses!! The prompt for December is here!

Hope you a ready for a challenge, because this one is a doozy

It comes to us from @Jake-Parker :

"This month we are doing a character design challenge!

Your assignment is to design the fabled monster of the Himalayas, the YETI.

You've seen them show up everywhere from theme park rides (Disneyland's Matterhorn) to cable TV specials, and most recently a rash of animated films (Abominable, Smallfoot, and Missing Link).

What we want from you is a character design sheet with your own take on the Yeti.

Every entry must have 5 color drawings on ONE page:

1 neutral pose front, 3/4 view
1 neutral post back, 3/4 view
1 walking or running pose
1 sitting pose (ground or chair)
1 close up of face

What can you do to make the character stand out from ALL the other designs you've seen? Think of the character's background, personality, wants, and needs. All of these attributes will play an important role in the creativity of your design.

Allright, good luck!"

Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience! We haven’t done a big live event in a while, so we are still working out the glitches :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

So to answer your question YES, we’ll be posting the video from the live crit in the subscription next week, we’ll send out notification when it’s out

As for subscribers who didn’t receive the email with the live link, there were a variety of reasons why you may not have received the email:

•if you have opted out of our email newsletter, you will not receive any emails (except for progress notifications, these are auto generated by a different system)

•if you have a yahoo address, our email platform is experiencing issues sending email to yahoo, and many of these are bouncing

•if you cancelled your monthly subscription and moved to an annual subscription, our system may not have recognized the switch

•if you subscribed very recently, our system may not have caught up yet

•if you cancelled recently, our system sees you as cancelled even though you may still access through the end of the month

•various individual scenarios like expired credit cards and such

Our apologies if you did not get the email! Anyone who contacted me via email before the event, I was able to resend a link to.

Just fyi, Will, Lee and Jake want to do more of these kinds of events for our subscribers, so we are gonna try doing live crits on the first Thursday of the month for a while to see if there’s interest. What do you guys think?

Hello everyone! Just want to let you know we are doing a live event with @will-terry-art starting tomorrow! It's coming together very quickly, so we're still nailing down some of the details. But we'll be sending out links tomorrow!

Here's the plan: you'll be able to join in and ask questions as Will colors a brand new illustration! (Hint: it's called The Corona Session) He'll show you his coloring process step-by-step, so you can see it up close and personal.

The event will be over 3 days (Wed/Thu/Fri), for about an hour each, starting at 2pm MDT.

Stay tuned for details!

Posting on behalf of James Toogood (This made the deadline btw, but there were some technical difficulties uploading)

Wow everybody, great stuff!!

Just want to let you know that we are planning a live event to announce the winners, and yes, Tom Bancroft is gonna be there!

We're still working out the details, but we hope to email the details to our subscribers early next week, so be on the look out

We are shooting for June 6, so if you are a subscriber and haven't gotten an email by then, do let me know!

And here's what we are gonna end up with!

These are really spooktacular! This is going to be a tough one for the judges Thanks everyone for submitting!

We'll be convening our next Critique Arena on Nov 12. We'll have more details about that soon!

And, we are working on the November prompt, it's going to be a little different this time, we'll have more details about that soon too!

Wow, great job everyone!! Especially considering the circumstances Kudos to all who managed to pull through and actually enter the contest!

The next Critique Arena is set for Thursday, April 9 at 2 PM MDT. We'll be sending out the details in the next week or so. See ya then!

Hey y'all! We'll be hanging out with @davidhohn for this week's live session, woohoo!

He'll be illustrating this awesome take on the whole alien and toilet paper conspiracy

Be sure to tune in! It's this Thursday, April 30 at 2 pm MDT. Here's the link for other time zones. We'll be emailing the event link soon!

Thanks @Chip-Valecek!! And thanks everybody for submitting! We'll be doing the judging on Thu, Sep 10 at 2pm MDT. We'll email the link for the live event next week. See you then!

Anyone have any experience with fiverr? Just curious to hear some real life experiences

@Mackenzie-Melendy Hello! Once you click on the event link, it should take you to a registration page that asks for you name and email address. Just fill out the info and it should then prompt you to join the webinar. However, we just wrapped up, but you can still watch it on our Facebook!

@Meg-Clayburn awesome!

@Meg-Clayburn @Danielle-Closs I just tried the link using my personal email and got through no problem. After you enter your email, it should say Join Webinar In Progress. Depending on your setup, there may be a popup that says Allow This Page To Open zoom.us? You may need to allow popups from Zoom. Also, try another browser if the one you are on isn't working. I would recommend using a laptop rather than an ipad or similar device.

@Meg-Clayburn Sorry about that! We had to do it a different way this time due to technical issues

@Cayleen Ok great! Have fun!

Hey everybody! We'll be getting started soon! The event links were emailed yesterday, let me know if you did not get one

We'll be getting started soon! Click here for a countdown See you soon!

@Asyas_illos ok thanks! No need to resubmit, just use the new one going forward

@Kim-Hunter Hi Kim! Right now, the max file size allowed on the forum is 2500 kb or 2.5 mb, and the max image size is 5700 pixels wide and high