Homeage to my Dad. Thanks to him, I have climbed up more mountains in my life than I'd be able to remember to count, and got lost miles from the correct turn in the trail many more times still. Back in the early 2000s when GPS systems weren't as advanced and convenient as they are now, and the loss of signal and misread of the map would lead to the occasional hickup.
So many amazing entries this month!
I finished this a week or so ago, so I thought I best post before I forget.
I too haven't had much time to take slowvember really slow this month, but I am still happy to say I spend a fair bit more time developing and working this one out. I needed bookcover examples for my portfolio, and this is gonna be one of them!
Hope you like it. Lots of great work this month!
Here's mine! Struggled to come up with a concept for this one, and didn't have a lot of time in the end, but here we are! I'm still pleased with the image at least from a render standpoint I guess.
It took me forever to finally compose an image i was somewhat happy with for this month! Phew! But it's done and I'm happy I could hand in something.
I'm doing mine in bulks because I often don't have time for several days in a row! I'm also not following the prompts but inking cute halloween animals every day. My goal here is to create cute animal examples for my portfolio and mostly to just manage to finish 31 drawings consistently! So I hoped to pick an achievable theme.
These are my first batch!
Besides a few fantasy commissions, I am slowly struggling my way through this illustration this month:
Hey guys!
Everyone's pieces are looking really promising, I look forward to seeing them all.
It's pretty late for me to ask for feedback as this is pretty much finished, but I still wanted to post it to get a general opinion whilst there's still some time to rework minor or even major bits or even rethink the concept.
Here's what I came up with!
I'd love to hear what you think 
Thanks!
I really like that refined sketch.
As Ness mentioned there's some good fundamentals here and really cool concepts.
It would be nice to see some coloured illustrations because I think especially for children's books, images will probably be in colour and rendered out, and from the examples above I'm not sure what that would look like for you!
I think it's worth starting to put together a website if you haven't already and spend time on some best-as-you-can illustration pieces. Maybe some full spreads in colour. I don't know if that's what you want to do or if you're purposely focusing on vignettes for chapter books.
Hey guys, I have a couple of questions to add to this if anyone has any insights.
What do you guys think qualifies as relevant education in this case? For example, I didn't study illustration but Digital Arts - still worth mentioning or is education really not that relevant unless it fits very specifically?
Do you guys send loose jpegs as attachments to show your work, as some agencies request, or do you have a PDF portfolio for these occasions? How do you name your Jpegs attachments? It's probably overthinking, but I feel silly or lazy no matter what I name them.
I'm also wondering how much one should try to refer to the specific agency. For normal job applications, I'd find it easier to research the company a little, but I find most illustration agencies have versatile and impressive rosters and have done plenty of awesome work.
To contribute, my current formula is this:
Feels a little subpar perhaps but I couldn't help but feel like anything else might just not be interesting at this stage 
Maybe I'll add in that I'm German and bi-lingual or something.
Leaning towards A as well, although I think either could work if the values were pushed a bit more and colour played alongside with the contrast 
love the idea and composition, and especially the character design! Nice work!
@TessaW Hey tessa! Thanks, that's some great advise. I had been wondering about text and I think you're right, I might go through and remove that.
Thanks for remembering my bear piece XD I wasn't sure if it was all that strong, but with the current layout I have a space free again so I might reinclude it with some alterations...
Pencil textures are featuring more and more in my work so i hope with time my portfolio will become more textured and book-friendly
You might be right about B&W! I alwyas think of colour as my strength, but you're right that my subject matter probably works better for middle grade.
wooh! Good luck with your applications, your work has really stood out to everyone for a while now so it's only a question of time until you make a total breakthrough That's a really cool way of thinking of applying to agents. I'm not sure my inner-imposter could be shut up like that, but it's really good to remember how true that is. They are making money off their artists too after all.
@Nyrryl-Cadiz Do you think it's better to have overall more work on display then than I currently do? I have held myself back from uploading simpler vignettes or character designs or prop designs because in my mind I thought only full illustrations limited to 12-15 would be better than packing it full with more....very important stuff.
@eriberart I didn't want to say it but yeah XD this year I might just swear off fairs and conventions to play it safe and hopefully next year isn't overshadowed by global tragedy 
Hey! Love the feel of this so far, seeing the man and the cat made me smile at once, it has a lot of character and is promising to be great.
I like how strong the old gent feels being centered like that, but I agree with Nyrryl that it would be nice to see some more of them. Right now I don't know what the duo is doing, who they are or why they're there, as much as the scene is menacing I don't understand anything about it.
Looking forward to where this is going!
@eriberart Haha, I saw your post about the Bologna Book fair and arranging meetings for the London Fair and was so impressed with your efforts and disheartened with my own XD It's not in the budget for me right now to go to fairs I think, but I hope I can do so next year with a better idea of who to contact.
Thanks for your feedback, sequential is definitly on my to do list.
Your work is great, I am expecting beautiful books from you very soon
