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Great advice! Should you inform the buyer of the original that you are going to sell this image multiple times in different forms?

thank you so much for making this video, I’ve had tennis elbow at various times in my life and had no idea what muscles were causing the pain. I thought it was from bending my elbow too much and i’d purposely hold my arm out straight to help it, lol! i’ve taken all the advice here and fixed my drawing setup accordingly and i’ve healed my injuries pretty well with these tips, you’re a lifesaver and I’ll be sending this to anyone I meet who needs it!

Great video! Two questions… do you do these sketches on your computer or by hand & you just brought them into PS afterwards? Also, do you get to read the book first if designing the cover? 💭

So lovely and informative watching your process thank you. Please make more videos of you process!

Great analogy. I've learned a lot about what is causing and aggravating my elbow, wrist and shoulder pain x

Thanks for the great video:) Do you keep stock of all the products and sell via your website ? or are they printed on demand by a company you use ? I have a Redbubble store but hardly sell anything on there . I also have an etsy shop with cards that I have stock of which goes better but not as well as I’d like . Thank you

I come back to this video every now and then to remind myself how important thumbnailing is. Lee explains is all so well. In particular, around 6:20 he says that it's not about trying to get to 50 thumbnails, or a specific number, without caring how good they are. I've found that, yes, I need to do plenty of them so I've explored all avenues. But every one of them needs to be considered and I need to remain conscious of what I am doing at every moment. And, as Lee says, you really do need to have some fun with it and enjoy moving the composition around. That's just as essential!

Thank you for all the information ☺️

Great hat!

Absolutely beautiful

This video single handedly just saved my art career, you are so kind for sharing this knowledge thank you lee, for your generosity, your art is absolutely deep and beautiful ❤

Thank you so much for this video I found it on Google looking for this very specific drawing injury and you explained it so well and the visuals really helped!!

Beautiful

Avid user of compression gloves and pen grips over here!

I was really blown away by the hue and saturation tool, I use it all the time but didn't know about it modifying a specific tone! Thanks

That was helpful. Thank you!

Soooo many great tips! Thank you. 🤗👌👏

This has been beyond helpful thank you 👍🙏 I've always tried to go from vague concept to creating an art piece without success. Now I understand why ... wish my visual art diploma course had taught this ... would have saved a lot of lost confidence 🙄

Thanks Lee, I used these on Photoshop for iPad successfully. They give a really natural watercolor look. The only two brushes not for use with Photoshop on the iPad are the smudger and charcoal pencil.

Thank you very much for your wisdom❤💜💛🧡

Saying something to help the youtube algorithm. Keep up the good work. Thumbnail looks great. You have all the good elements for having a clickable thumbnail

Love the video but your sound is very uneven. From good to very low.

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Wow! last few days my elbow has been killing me, Then low and behold, youtube hears me and creepily suggests :)

Thanks for this Lee! 😊🙌It always helps to hear the personal experience of artists and how they work through problems. 💪 (Particular exercises would be helpful!) Proper arm support is so underrated 😅 I'm curious though, were you recommended physiotherapy? and if so, how was your experience with that? 🤔

People might think drawing all day is easy and you will never get injured. Drawing and painting professionally can be a health risk and we are prone to injuries, especially when dealing with tight deadlines. I experience neck and shoulder pain during long sessions. Thank you, Lee!

Very helpful. I’ve done a few videos on this a as well. I haven’t done the extensor exercises though. I’m going to add that

Very beautiful! Thanks for breaking it up! :)

Hi Lee, Not sure if you read the comments from your older vids, but I've just got to say that for the last four days I've been trying your 50-minute time blocking method and, WOW! Those 50 mins rocket past, don't they?! I'm sooo focussed now and getting so much done, I finish each day almost with a satisfied smirk on my face rather than the "better luck tomorrow" glum self-talk. I exclude all distractions and put my phone on flight mode. And I've just finished a client piece that I thought would take me another couple of days! So I just wanted to thank you for making this video. It's really helped me and I'm very grateful to you.

super awesome!

Thanks for more great advice, Lee! I had to smile a little at your comment about starving artists. I remember a friend & I went to a presentation by an art college, and the presenter said something about being an artist as opposed to making money with your art. That's when we decided to leave. 😄 Whether or not you want a career in art - we didn't like the snobby, pompous attitude. I love your down-to-earth, clear, practical teaching style.

Glad you're back on RUclips Lee. Great video.

I tend to agree with you, it seems like it is more geared towards photos than illustrations. It might work better if you partially illustrate the parts that you need and then let the AI give it a go. But by that point, I would just finish that part instead. 😆

Hi Lee, May I ask a technical question? If I buy a brush set and download it onto my iPad, can I use the brushes in Procreate too? Thank you 🙂

So so helpful. This gave me some direction for both of the current pieces I’m working on. Thank you!

Hi Lee, Really enjoying your new videos, keep 'em coming! I'm pretty new to digital art and very new to photoshop. I've set up my workspace and shortcuts as best I can at the moment but I often feel irritated with it and like there must be more efficient ways of doing things. For example, in this video you use a pop up colour picker, how do you do that 😅? If you felt like doing it, I would love to see a video on how you set up your photoshop workspace 🙏. Thanks for sharing your expertise so generously 😊.

Hello lee Is great seeing you back on RUclips,Great videos thanks!

Stunning brush set. I love your work and style!

Awesome video, thank you for sharing!

HI Lee! This is so helpful! How big do you make the original, and would you sell it right away (after you got it good digital version) or try to hold onto it for a while?

thanks for taking the time to make/post this info, super helpful. I've just begun taking illustration//storyboarding seriously and pursuing it as a profession in the last 2 years, and have been taking all the sVS courses and listen to all your guys' podcasts. One of my goals this year is to have 3 or 4 decent portfolio pieces for a picture book I'm writing. Thanks again!

This is really useful, Lee. Thanks so much for making this video. I do feel that many illustrators get into this business because they just like illustrating, rather than thinking of the business side of it. I probably had one foot in that category too. But as I'd imagine most illustrators are freelancers, and therefore self-employed, they need to be even more business minded than the regular employee. I'm a member of the Association of Illustrators and attended some of their online workshops for new illustrators. They pointed out that you'll need to use about 50% of your time on your artwork and the other 50% on business/marketing etc. I was surprised that it was so much time spent on the non-art side of the job. But with your (and a few others) help and being a member of SVS, the business side of our wonderful job is becoming clearer to me. I am really grateful to you for helping others like this. When I started in this world, I was told that artists have a reputation for trying to help their newer peers climb the ladder and get better. It is certainly my experience and I already love doing the same. Thanks for your inspiration!

Thanks Lee! Glad you're back to making videos again! Tons of great info as always!

Hi Lee! Love your drawings 😊 I am taking your classes on svs learn and am really enjoying them! These are some really great ideas. I am in my 3rd yr of running my art business and I just this year thought of my art in a multi-product kind of way. I'll def have to give some of these a try!

Lee, I'm a married man with 2 kids but I'll say it; you're a talented, sexy beast of a human. Keep up the good work.

I'm glad you started doing youtube videos again, Lee! Thanks for all the advice. I'm only starting on my art journey (moving from graphics design) and my pieces are not at a level where I can make money from them yet, but it's a good thing to keep in mind even at the learning stage: make products and come up with multiple lives for each piece. Cheers!

This is really great advice! And something I've been struggling with.. To think about everything I'm doing as products and be a little more strategic and business-oriented in my creative choices. Still very hard! As artists we naturally want to draw these random ideas that come to us 😅 At times it seems impossible to make anything else than intuition or some unexplainable feeling tells us to make at that moment. But it often doesn't lead anywhere 🥲

so informative Lee!Thank You!

Great advice thank you!!. I find the scary thing is spending money on all the product! and then getting people to know you exist to sell it to them! It feels like a mountain of work to get that one sale :( (or maybe my expectations are too great!) It is really great you share everything you know though! it really helps us!!

Thanks a lot, this is very interesting and helpful! I found it very difficult to keep the price of prints, calendars and cards at a reasonable level, because printing cost is so high.. I tried to research local printing shops, but unless you print thousands of copies it’s still quite expensive. Do you maybe have any tips on that?