Gencon was (as always) a blast! Thanks to all of our listeners who stopped by and said hello!

As for the show, we’ve got a round table discussion with (in the order they talked):

And of course the four of us, but you all know who we are at this point anyway

The second half of the show we discuss what went well and what we’d do differently for next year

Music by Slugabed

Ania talks about her experience at IMC, Jeff and Pete talk about their differing philosophies on making it in the art world, and we all talk about the upcoming summer con gauntlet!

Music by Roughquest

Caroline dug up a few contests going on now:

http://www.writersofthefuture.com/17/rules/ilofrules.html

http://www.rockstarcontests.com/art-contests/rs/493-strange-figurations

http://www.onangelsmagazine.com/enter.html

We’ve also got an interview with Ralph Horsley!

music this episode is by Cutups

In no particular order, here are the folks we’ve got on the show:

Aaron Miller

Prof Herbert

Joe Acone

Mark Winters

Music this ep is by Ochre

Show Notes coming soon!

There’s some background noise but Todd’s a REALLY interesting guy to listen to, so it’s totally worth it. Meanwhile Jeff talks about his experience at the global game-jam, a 48 hour game design contest.

music is by orange crush: http://gratisvibes.com/post/orangeyeah-thats-right/

more linkage after the jump

The game jeff worked on–all done within 48 hours:

And Anna getting a critique with Todd Lockwood!

This is our year in review episode, inspired by Chris Burdett’s Blogpost: 2009, the Year I Got Serious (part one and two).

After we recorded the episode we figured it would only be appropriate to have Chris on the show for an interview.

an image Chris did for artorder.blogspot.com

We also talk about Artrage, the Spectrum deadline and crowd-sourcing.

First off we’re joined by a gaggle of extremely talented illustrators from Crit-Bot: the email crit group I mentioned in the previous ep.

Aaron Miller

Marc Scheff

Mark Winters

Aaron and Marc give us a first hand account of Illuxcon, an illustration centered convention.

Illuxcon poster by Ian Miller

For our roundtable discussion, we discuss a question we got from Christopher Burdett:

“When dealing with an open ended art order how much weight do you give to time / money when it comes to limiting the scope of the art. Doing something simple and “good enough” that take less time and energy versus doing something super awesome and amazing over the top that involves more time and energy. Were do you find a balance point.

Example, say the assignment is “Evil Tornado, Wind monster causing much havoc” that’s all. You could go with a tornado knocking some trees around and a person running from it… all the way to leveling most of a castle and keep with dozens of people fleeing in terror. As an artist, how do you go about making these choices and how does $$$ and final product ( trading card vs half page book art) affect these choices?”

Music this episode is by 3!x13, and released under creative commons

We’ve also got an interview with Emily Warren, a colorist for Marvel and a veteran con-goer.

It’s long, but it’s a good’un. We’ve got some big things in the pipeline for next month. Stay tuned!

Music this month is by Transient, released under creative commons.

Hit the jump for the rest of the show links

http://lateralaction.com/articles/social-networks-for-creatives/ (Thanks to Denise Dorman for the link)

CGhub –fairly new but totally awesome

http://groups.google.com/

Design Blogs Pete mentioned:

http://www.dezeen.com/

http://hautemacabre.com/

http://designyoutrust.com/

http://vividfluxury.blogspot.com/

Zoë Robinson, John Stanko, Aaron Miller, Mark Winters, Storn Cook, and Jon Schindehette.

Music this ep is by Benchun