I hate to submit unfinished work...headed out of town unexpectedly and no time to finish Glad to participate tho!! e

@Eli I do have a sub and haven’t made it to that one yet, but will make it next on my list! Thank you!

@Lee-White Thank you, Lee! This makes great sense, and very actionable thank you for taking the time!

@burvantill Thanks! yes, I've both followed the misfortunes of Will's Kickstarter and have heard the podcast/videos...I guess my question speaks more to how one can tell when they are simply drawing inspiration from another artists style, or if they are simply ripping them off. Though not perfectly clear, I think the "fan art" issue has more understandable lines due to the fact that the fan artist is using another's character. In my situation, I'm not using anyone's characters, I'm working on actual people from history, but its unclear whether incorporating some of Will's style into my own is frowned upon, or fine...does this make sense? lol

So...I’ve loved the series @Will-Terry does with his drawings of pop icons as kids...and have been inspired to do a similar thing but with historical figures. (See posted image) I’ve done a similarly proportioned characters, tho stylistically quite a bit different...before I continue to do more, tho, I wanted to check that this is accepted as “inspired by” vs “stealing from”...any thoughts??!

@Lee-White thank you, lee

Okay, I think this ones done...I'm gonna stop fiddling with it, anyway. lol

I’ve been offered a job illustrating a digital children’s book, which will be my very first paid illustration job! I’m so glad to have had @Will-Terry youtube channel and SVS to help guide me through the negations and preliminary stages I have been given permission to share images in closed groups, so I look forward to getting some WIPs posted here in the coming months!