#which is admittedly the easiest way to crit but its also fucking EXPENSIVE

[blueskittlesart]

Hi as an artist who also wants to work in long form visual narratives like your comic I was wondering how you present this at your critique. I have done a few short (very short) artist books in which my classmates just flip through the pages quickly and then critique it. How do you approach asking people to read longer books in a short time to then critique it?

I realize your art is much more digital. Do you offer them a QR code so they can read it at their leisure?

depends. cottontail is the longest thing i've ever had to present for full-class crit and i'm lowkey still trying to figure out exactly how I want to do it. the longest i've done up to this point is around 25 pages. my general rule is that if the piece is under 6-8 pages and is formatted for page-by-page reading, it's reasonable to just put it on the wall, because that's small enough that people can still look at it pretty easily. if it's more than that, what I'll usually do is print and bind a few little booklets (as cheaply and efficiently as possible--we're talking library laser prints with staples) so that I can pass them around, and then ask my professor if they want me to ALSO hang my pages on the wall or not. this varies on a case-by-case basis--some profs REALLY want everything on the wall, but if you're in a bigger class where space is an issue or the prof just doesn't care that much then you might not have to hang your work. If you go for this method and there's nothing on the wall I'd be sure to print enough books that most of your classmates will have something to look at so they're not just standing around waiting for their turn. I've gotten VERY good at formatting and binding booklets these last few years lol. in terms of qr codes, I have done that a few times, but i only ever do it if my work is specifically designed for a vertical scroll, because it's a lot harder to build a website with spreads or page turns, and I think a physical page turn is always going to feel better in terms of presentation than a digital one anyway. a lot of profs at my school are also pretty anti-digital-only presentation, so it's also just a practicality thing to avoid having to convince them to let me do it that way lol