We’re trying a few new things this episode!

First off we’re joined by a gaggle of extremely talented illustrators from Crit-Bot: the email crit group I mentioned in the previous ep.

Aaron Miller

Marc Scheff

Mark Winters

Aaron and Marc give us a first hand account of Illuxcon, an illustration centered convention.

For our roundtable discussion, we discuss a question we got from Christopher Burdett:

“When dealing with an open ended art order how much weight do you give to time / money when it comes to limiting the scope of the art. Doing something simple and “good enough” that take less time and energy versus doing something super awesome and amazing over the top that involves more time and energy. Were do you find a balance point.

Example, say the assignment is “Evil Tornado, Wind monster causing much havoc” that’s all. You could go with a tornado knocking some trees around and a person running from it… all the way to leveling most of a castle and keep with dozens of people fleeing in terror. As an artist, how do you go about making these choices and how does $$$ and final product ( trading card vs half page book art) affect these choices?”

Music this episode is by 3!x13, and released under creative commons

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