Excited to make my first post on the forum for this contest! MER-HULK!

Something i’ve been wondering. A lot of the portfolio advice on SVS is geared towards children’s books. @Jake-Parker @Will-Terry @Lee-White any advice on what a portfolio of someone who wants to illustrate comics should look like?

Hey all! So I rarely get on the forum, and I realized it's such a cool place to have an art community and get critiqued. So I thought I'd post a drawing I did last night and see if anyone was willing to critique this one. I recently went through the perspective class and am trying to work on that.

Thanks!

Raj

Here's my "Spidersona" from right after the movie came out.

I’m definitely doing it!

One thing I’m gonna try this year is to use September to plan some. I’ll do some sketches or layouts, so that all I really have to do is sit down and ink once October comes around.

Finished just in time!

Here's a great sheet of expressions you could use: https://reference.pictures/

I know @Will-Terry is planning on being a Denver Comic Con, anyone else?

@carlianne would love to share! Right now I have 15 patrons. I’ve had it for about 4 months now.

I’ve struggled growing the Patreon after those initial 15 people joined. Patreon isn’t meant to be a place where people discover you, it’s a place where you bring your existing audience. So in that regards I’m not surprised I haven’t grown much.

I’m terms of content, initially I had it so that it would solely be content related to a webcomic I am working on. That made it more difficult to consistently have content. This week I decided to change the tiers a little to make it about my art in general. So I’m hoping that helps me be consistent on it.

Overall I’m a fan of Patreon, I started because I got laid off as the pandemic hit, so any money was fine by me. I say it’s worth getting started even if you don’t have a huge fan base because you can always get friends and family to hop on board first!

Let me know if you have any other questions!

I'm a fan of the first one, it really makes the Octopus a big focal point.

@Frost-Drive I've seen a few work, Ty Carter has one that does really well (but he's really well known). However, I think it works well to center it around a project. Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett are two good examples of this. Most of it for me will still be around a comic.

@carlianne would love to share! Right now I have 15 patrons. I’ve had it for about 4 months now.

I’ve struggled growing the Patreon after those initial 15 people joined. Patreon isn’t meant to be a place where people discover you, it’s a place where you bring your existing audience. So in that regards I’m not surprised I haven’t grown much.

I’m terms of content, initially I had it so that it would solely be content related to a webcomic I am working on. That made it more difficult to consistently have content. This week I decided to change the tiers a little to make it about my art in general. So I’m hoping that helps me be consistent on it.

Overall I’m a fan of Patreon, I started because I got laid off as the pandemic hit, so any money was fine by me. I say it’s worth getting started even if you don’t have a huge fan base because you can always get friends and family to hop on board first!

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Hey all! I thought it would be cool to see who all on here have Patreons going! To gather them all here for people to see who they can support if the want. Put your link and a short description!

I'll start off. Mine is Patreon.com/ransomcomic
I just started a small illustration club there. A place for tips, challenges, and artists resources. All working on my comic there!

Look forward to seeing what y'all got!

Thanks everyone for the input and help! Moved forward with the author today, really appreciate all the advice!

@NessIllustration That actually makes a lot of sense. It seems like it’s gonna be self published, but I was just curious that if someday that unlikely scenario of a publisher taking it did happen, how I could include something in this initial contract to account for that.

Hi all! Been a while since I’ve been on here.

I had a question regarding contracts that i haven’t seen an answer for in the forums (but could have missed). I am in discussions with a children’s book author to illustrate their book. We’ve talked through pricing, timeline, budget, and sketch/revision expectations. Currently it’s a project that she is writing with no attachment to a publisher, but she believes there is potential for it to get with a publisher. When constructing a contract to send the writer, how would I go about including that the art is not work for hire and them at when it gets to a publisher o am still considered equal creator so that I can have a claim to an advance/royalties? Couldn’t find this scenario in contracts provided by the graphic artists guild either.

Has anyone dealt with this before? @Kathy-Jurek i saw that you had worked on a contract with someone before. Did this come up for you?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

@Will-Terry My hope is to work full time writing and illustrating my own comics/webcomics!

@demotlj Good question, I think it depends on what you want to do with it. But I know Clip Studio can also be used on an iPad, so you wouldn't have to go out and buy a graphics tablet.

@charitymunoz I would actually recommend Clip Studio Paint over Photoshop for a beginner. It has all the same capabilities (plus some special features for making comics) but is way cheaper! It’s on sale right now for a single payment of $25! I just got rid of my Adobe subscription and switched and it’s been great, and a huge money saver. https://www.clipstudio.net/en

Here's a great sheet of expressions you could use: https://reference.pictures/