@jasondmcintosh Honored and humbled.

@eric-castleman Might have to interview you as well - keep me posted!

Guys, I can't tell you how rewarding it is to hear success stories from our SVS students! I get personal emails and messages from time to time where our students share the books they've sold or the books they are illustrating for clients, or the agents they've picked up, or the personal projects they've launched and funded, or even the epiphanies they've had concerning their work!

Here are a few highlights from the people we know about - if you've had success let us know - we want to brag about you

Simona Ceccarelli - has a book due out in spring 2019 that she illustrated. Check out my interview with her here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUXXWBQyQo

Joy Heyer - Sold her book and it's now on Amazon! https://amzn.to/2D55Cpz

Charlie Eve Ryan - Just sold her second book!!! You know I'll be interviewing her as well!

Shinji Fujioka - Sold his book and is currently working on the illustrations - not sure when it's due out.

Again - let us know what you have in the works - I realize you can't always talk about it until it's official - but even if you have had inquiries about your work or other illustration work we need to hear about it. It's not bragging unless you follow it with "so there"...

I love looking at new fresh creative art - these are great! I'm really inspired by the dedication to these competitions! Great work!

@lauraa we couldn’t do this without the word of mouth... thank you!

@gary-wilkinson Hey Gary - the critiques will come back - we just have so many classes we need to post up before we feel we can spend the time there. We've talked about outsourcing or hiring teachers to critique but that opens up a bunch of problems as well...I can't wait for the day that I have all my classes up/re-made so I can spend time helping students with their work.

@pamela-fraley Wow! Thank you - it means a lot!

@c-davies Thank you!

@jason-bowen Some of the agreements we have made with certain teachers don't allow for us to include classes in the subscription. There are interesting problems we are trying to solve with subscription pricing and royalties that go to teachers. Other classes that won't go into the subscription include a lot of live back and forth between students and teachers. Many students do NOT want their comments recorded and given to strangers because they are sharing their artistic vulnerabilities.

@rhirsch

Thank you Becky! We love doing this and we're all very excited for what we are able to accomplish in the coming years!