I remember this being brought up on scrapbooking sites I used to use years ago and there are some brands of scrap book paper that don't allow the use of their paper in pieces that are to be reproduced commercially without credit to them, it got very messy and didn't cover the thing about 'if you remove copyrighted material...' . this thread here goes into it a bit
There are 'angel' brands that are fine about using their designs out there.
I'd say unless you know for sure don't make the paper an integral part of the piece and change it a little.

I kind of get what he’s saying but looking at his portfolio he clearly does know ‘the fundamentals’ beyond composition and that has come from practising them even if a little unconsciously, no?

@maureen No data plan for my Ipad here either. I love Procreate and have learned so much about digital painting in a really short space of time, not sure I want to use anything else now. I haven't got a scanner and I am not a great photographer so getting my 'real life' work into the ipad is hit and miss but when I do I am happy with it. I have used Bamboos in the past and it is so much better being able to draw on the piece you are working on.

I’m in the UK (London) and thought I was alone in the SVS world. UK people feel free to message me here or Instagram.

I’m in this year. I’ve started it for a couple of years and never got through the month but this year I am going to. I AM!

@pinky I have done a quick sketch of how this would look if you used mouse anatomy. It does the job, he can wear clothes and carry the strawberry, but it just might not be the look you want. Your guy does look like a person in a mouse suit, but that's Not necessarily ‘wrong’. Make sure you bare consistent, if all the animals in the book are the same then it won’t look out of place and make sure you are also getting the human anatomy right.

Anatomy is one of those ‘learn the rules to break the rules’ kind of things. If you are making an animal that is a quadruped bipedal you have to break rules, or anthropomorphising their look so far that they look like a person in a suit (biker mice from mars are just men shaped with fur and mouse heads and tails for example and Beatrice Potters creatures are the opposite, they are real creatures) you might want to look at what makes an animal uniquely that animal, what bones are you shifting to make them stand etc and maybe you are fine with just making a human shaped animal because of what you want them to do. That’s where the artist licence happens I guess; what do you need them to do and how can you make them do it? I’d draw the actual animal you are using and then see what their real anatomy allows.

SORRY! This is finished version I forgot a layer before I uploaded. So as I said I wanted a cartoony, Ghibli and synthwavey look to this.

@cam-royce see you've actually done the thing, you can do it again! I love the idea of world building and having, like, all these little guides to a story; characters and places, machinery. Small, finished zines seems like a good way to finish something while still building your story.