We have some exciting news! CCAS has moved to a new and improved version of our platform. Not only is it more powerful and better organized, it is completely responsive (looks great on all devices).
ATTN: MEMBERS WHO JOINED AFTER AUGUST 22, 2019
The only issue we are experiencing with this move:
Members who joined after August 22, 2019 WILL NEED TO RE-ENTER THEIR PROFILE QUESTION, ANSWERS. Please accept our sincere apologies for this inconvenience.
ALL MEMBERS:
We have added a new Profile Question: "Which Category best describes you?"
Categories: Amateur Artist, Professional Artist, Amateur Writer, Professional Writer, Independent Self-Publisher, Traditional Publisher, and Fan.
Please edit your Profile, and select your chosen category. By choosing the category that best describes you, will enable you to add content to the appropriate new modules:
1. Artists: Add photos to the new Arts & Prints Photo Module.
2. Writers: Add your bio information to the new Writers List Module.
3. Publishers: Add your bio information to the new Publishers List Module.
4. Publishers & Writers: Add books to the new Comic Books & Graphic Novels Module.
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Hello! Welcome to CCAS! Please let me know if you have any questions. God bless.
Eric Jansen
Tips for a future Art-tech book?
I'm totally unpublished, so these are only tips from a doodler, and buyer of art books:
1) Young doodlers(up through high school) start out with pretty low confidence in their work. Freaks did a pretty good job of breaking skills down into incremental steps and interspacing it with cool pics for inspiration. Putting artlessons online, and breaking lessons into lesson-pages(Pdfs) that could be bought for an small price might be a money-maker. I've seen this done successfully with knitting and sewing sites where thousands of hobbiests buy patterens of outfits they like the look of.
2) The next level beyond Freaks, for a Sketcher-wanting-to-turn creator, could be a compilation of tricks and tips from competant amateurs, many of whom would gladly share a personal technique in return for some name recognition.
3) I personally would pay good money,(already have in fact), to have a series of lessons(with redlines and edited practices) on character design and refinement. Its r e a l l y hard to get a detailed critique outside of an artschool.
Well...thats all the artbook ideas I can think of.
I've owned and pawed through your book, Freaks, drawing fantastic creatures for several years. Great stuff!
Glad to have you aboard, Steve. Look around the CCAS site and make yourself at home.