This Lunchtime Lecture was given by Lilly May, a former MLWGS student who is currently an illustrator and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and works under the name Grendel Menz online. Lilly majored in illustration and minored in environmental sustainability and now works as a freelance illustrator whose work primarily features romance, found family, and horror elements and has made several small comics and is an artist working on a sequential short story for the Shades of Fear Anthology. I was interested in the work schedule of a freelance illustrator as everything depended on the client setting deadlines as well as the process as a whole of creating these comics, which started with visual development to brainstorm, then script writing, then thumbnails and color keys, inking, coloring, and mentioned the importance of keeping a routine. This was something that really interested me as I have started experimenting with comics lately and enjoyed listening to someone with more experience speak about the subject. I was also interested in how Lilly talked about managing commissions and work, giving advice to create a separate email for commissions in order to separate it from one that one uses to sign up for things as well as to be cautious of scams. Overall I thought this was a really interesting lecture to be able to hear from a former MLWGS student, especially one who does comic illustrations now that I've started to experiment with those.
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