Update
Like I haven't been posting every day or something. I just finished my 29th eHow article, which gives me ten invoiceable articles that don't have anyone else's photo references involved. The art itself is scanned twice, once for eHow at a low resolution and once for deviantART prints at 600dpi, which is enough that they usually turn up scalable to 30" x 40" poster size canvas prints. Imagining some of these smaller artworks in print that huge is amusing!
The article is How to Draw Smooth Tonal Layers in Colored Pencils and I made it Moderately Challenging because it was a pain for me to learn compared to going real heavy with Prismacolors and layering solid shading on top of more till I burnished out every white speck. I didn't start deliberately doing smooth tonal layers till a couple of years ago when I got the Bet Borgeson books and saw how she was doing color mixing and blending.
I haven't actually heard back from DemandStudios about clarifying or amending the boilerplate contract, but today I need to bill them for ten articles in the topics they want. I'll find out if they reject any of them or want rewrites. I'll find out if they just pay up without question, and maybe get an answer to my question about the art prints and open source photo references when I hear back after the invoice.
They're all at least as good as the articles that got their notice in the first place, so at most I'd probably get rewrite suggestions. I think this is going to work. Let's see what happens. Off to Google Spreadsheet to do a Save As on the Invoice form and start filling in the information... (is not used to using spreadsheets at all, lol)
The article is How to Draw Smooth Tonal Layers in Colored Pencils and I made it Moderately Challenging because it was a pain for me to learn compared to going real heavy with Prismacolors and layering solid shading on top of more till I burnished out every white speck. I didn't start deliberately doing smooth tonal layers till a couple of years ago when I got the Bet Borgeson books and saw how she was doing color mixing and blending.
I haven't actually heard back from DemandStudios about clarifying or amending the boilerplate contract, but today I need to bill them for ten articles in the topics they want. I'll find out if they reject any of them or want rewrites. I'll find out if they just pay up without question, and maybe get an answer to my question about the art prints and open source photo references when I hear back after the invoice.
They're all at least as good as the articles that got their notice in the first place, so at most I'd probably get rewrite suggestions. I think this is going to work. Let's see what happens. Off to Google Spreadsheet to do a Save As on the Invoice form and start filling in the information... (is not used to using spreadsheets at all, lol)