Girls Drawing Girls - Submissions

Girls Drawin' Girls is opening it up to all you talented ladies out there--If you're a kick-ass female interested in pursuing a career in the animation and illustration industries, then we want YOU!

The GDG crew is looking for a few good ladies to help us out at our comicon booth this year, and possibly with artistic projects for the coming year as well! Send us an email and a few samples of your work! We would love to hear from you.

GDG will also be hosting a portfolio review at Comicon. Bring by some samples of your best work, and get some handy feedback from artists on The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, and Nickelodeon.

Interested in becoming a Girl Drawin' Girl?
Send 1 or 2 jpegs of your best work, preferrably drawings of women. Finished pieces are ideal, but life drawings are good, too. If you have a webpage of your own pinup art, send us a weblink.

Starting January 2010, GDG will begin to implement membership dues for all active members of $30 a year, in addition to collecting a 10% commission on all merchandise sales.

In order to bring the organization to the next level of professionalism, we need to build up a general fund that we can draw from for booth fees (SDCC booth fees), art receptions/ industry parties (publicity, gallery fees, drinks), merchandise (books, calendars), and year-end taxes. Up to now, these costs have relied on donations and the credit cards of a few select people, and this will help bring the organization closer to financial independence separate from our personal checking accounts.

As an active member of GDG, your membership counts for a lot! Membership gives you the opportunity to have access to an ever growing pool of creative and artistic women working in animation and the arts. We give you the opportunity to promote and publicize yourself and your art via art shows, merchandise booths, and group collaborations (books, etc). Being in GDG gives us the collective power and strength to reach a wider audience of fans and higher profile projects (i.e. the Vader project, the Nat. Geo documentary, etc, NPR and media reviews).

GDG will maintain a dedicated member to the Treasurer duties. Anne has kindly stepped into this role, and will manage our financial resources. If you have any questions as to what's going where, you will have access to that knowledge.

In the same capacity, we will try to define GDG's mission statement and start to create an organizational hierarchy, so that different people can help head publicity, membership, managing art shows, etc.

You will be able to go into Inactive status. You will be removed from the yahoo mailing list, and will be unable to participate in any GDG event/ sales, but once you opt back in and pay dues, you will be restored to active status. Being inactive won't prevent you from joining back at a later date! It also helps us keep track of our active members and members who are no longer interested or able to remain in the group.

Anything you sell personally, from your etsy store or your own shows, is not effected by the 10% commission. Anything sold via GDG at our merchandise booths or through GDG hosted shows will have the 10% commission rate applied in addition to pre-existing gallery percentages. (i.e. if a gallery was a 50/50 split, for a $100 piece, the gallery would receive $50, the artist $45, and GDG $5)

We want this group to succeed and grow, and it's here for the benefit of all. Our mission is not to take your money, but create profit for you and help you promote and sell your art.

If you have any additional questions or concerns not addressed here about any of these upcoming changes, please do not hesitate to ask myself, Melody or Anne.