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Pocono Believe 2025: Free Opportunities for Illustrators

Free With Registration

Peer-to-Peer Portfolio Review

This is a FREE peer-to-peer critique session where you will receive feedback on your portfolio and offer others feedback on theirs. **Meeting times determined by the group members.

Portfolio Showcase

THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND: This is a FREE opportunity to display your illustration work for our agents, art director, and editor faculty to peruse during the retreat.

Mock Pile

SATURDAY SESSION: This is a FREE session where you can submit one anonymous MOCK QUERY for the opportunity to receive on-the-spot feedback from a faculty member in a small group setting. Due to time constraints, we regret that we may not get to all submissions. However, all participants can sit in and learn from the professional feedback in these sessions.

Believe Train: First Looks

SUNDAY SESSION: This is a FREE opportunity to receive live feedback in a large group session on up to 3 illustrations (submitted anonymously). Feedback will be focused on the marketing questions, "Who would these illustrations onboard/appeal to? Why? And what would make them more marketable?" We regret that there may not be time to review all submissions, but will try to accommodate a variety of illustration types and as many samples as possible.