Love the details.

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Septum!

And damn you! I watch your art too many places. I saw this on LJ today and was delighted, and then I was excited when there was a deviation from you here. BUT IT WAS THE SAME ONE. WTF.

You were talking about composition in your post. The only qualms I have is that illustration is so cramped it doesn't seem part of the title, and it probably needs to be a little bigger. It kind of throws me. Maybe if you made it more black where the triangles are?

*shrugs* Constructive criticism?

thanks!

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For I know men who love monsters
Who give themselves up with delight to the sacrifice
Making of the bites their religion

This is probably going to beat the hell out of what they're actually going to run. Can you submit covers for AI or is it one of those things where they come to you?

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I thought I already wrote this comment! Stupid internet, eating my words!

Mostly people only watch DA or LJ, so it's mostly the same content in both places, although the LJ tends to have more... crappy doodles. I am always so torn! DA gets more comments and feedback from people, but LJ has more people actually interested in buying stuff (mostly because it's people I know from Thunder Bay!) and more people semi-famous art world types watching it, who could potentially mention my name to someone else or invite me to participate in one of they art-world event things, should I ever become a competent artist in the future!

Constructive critisism is good! Around the illustration it's a litte busy, the fingers get mixed up in the words.. the triangles I felt I needed because there was so much white space around the word, and I couldn't have the word fill up the whole bubble because it would be illegible. If I were to redraw this, I think I need to rethink the shape of the "word bubble" and the way he's holding it to make it work at all. Start totally from scratch!

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For I know men who love monsters
Who give themselves up with delight to the sacrifice
Making of the bites their religion

I have no idea, but since it's a competition you can submit to (by paying them money... ) they might take submissions for the cover? But they might just commission alumni. But, I've got 8 years until they publish issue 33, so I've got 8 years to try to win the international competition and get some work in the book in the first place, and get the composition right.

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For I know men who love monsters
Who give themselves up with delight to the sacrifice
Making of the bites their religion

That would actually be pretty awesome, to spend 8 years becoming famous enough for AI to court you, and then when they ask you to do the cover, whip that out and be like "Oh this cover?"

I hate entry fees. I just adore the idea that I am paying someone for the two seconds it takes for them to look at my shit and check the NO box or the YES box. THAT IS TOTALLY WORTH FIFTY BUCKS!! Maybe if they sent me a certificate to show that my entry was personally thrown out by Solomon R. Guggenheim himself.

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Yes, entry fees are pretty damn lame! OCAD keeps going on about how we should enter lots of competitions while we're there so we can get a "student rate", which is still generally pretty ridiculous considering we're paying to possibly be rejected. (I guess it keeps out the riff-raff, though?) I can't remember if it's AI or another one, but apparently it's so much to enter, plus AGAIN so much if you win and want your illustration included in the annual! So you ahve to pay for winning? I hear it's worth it though, since so many people with money burning holes in their pockets buy it to scope out talent. There was another one, the Workbook I think, which is like $1200 to have your work printed on a full page.

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For I know men who love monsters
Who give themselves up with delight to the sacrifice
Making of the bites their religion

I really love his tattoos, in fact.

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