Testimonials

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I sincerely hope you know, Carol – you have been an inspiration to me for a very long time…because you are always so honest, personable and willing…

Carol – I’m not sure you realize how much you have helped me…

Thanks for all your hard work and coming in under budget.

I know this info will help me get started. I think you have a terrific idea for those of us who can’t sketch.

Thank you for Sketching Designs for Any Body. All your things I have used are great.

[Carol's Master Sketch Pad] is great for anyone who has not really learned to sketch because you can use it as a basic for realistic images for your clients. So you can learn illustration and sketching, and I do have to say people are impressed by that.

I am excited to get started on a more professional look for my clients’ approval. Unfortunately I am not a very good artist when it comes to drawing a body so this will be just perfect.

The pad and sketches are so much more than I expected. What a neat packaging design you’ve got! I love the pad and the cards that lie under them – I was expecting copied sheets. lol

I did lots of sketching on the flight home it was great fun.

Thanks for the warning about the pads disappearing.

Your new slogan should be: “So easy a 10 year-old can do it!” My daughter took over the Master Sketch Pad and designed a new wardrobe for herself.

I have a student whose daughter is interested in fashion design illustration- I will obviously show her your wonderful sketch pads…

(from a six-year old):
hi Carol i love croquis i’v been drawing them a lot. i’v Learned not to [draw the] hem straight, I curve the hem, love, Tori

Funny, before the kids could get into bed last night so I could draw – they drew all kinds of outfits for me to make them and to ‘help’ me on design ideas! They’ve hijacked the pad you sent, so I’m using my sketch pad I keep hidden from them.

…I then followed the links to your website and was amazed at all the
wonderful things you have on offer; especially the design outlines for the people in wheelchairs; arghhh, if only I had known of you two years ago I would have saved myself soooo much work!

OH! Carol! These are absolutely perfect! [As I am]…drawing out ideas that I hope will benefit someone else one day, on top of your drawings, helps me feel inspired by the layering of creativity.

Your drawings are wonderful. I’ve been visiting with a woman who isn’t
in a wheelchair, but due to a stroke has limited mobility and, near as I
can tell, her body shape is such that wheelchair designs may be optimal.

Thanks, Carol! I’ll take them to the copy shop and have them made into a tear-away pad. I have a lot more confidence in what I’m doing now.

These are great! I think I even have some card stock on which to print them!

Thanks so much for the flattering body!

Thanks for sending my personalized body images. You did a great job
and I know that they will be tremendously helpful to me when planning
my new projects.

Thank you so much for the personal body croquis. I purchased a pattern yesterday that I’m not sure is a good design for me. My “homework” tonight will be to transfer the design onto my “body”. It will be good practice.

Teaching fashion illustration

I really enjoyed your class, and I also really liked how you were able to offer design advice, as well as illustration techniques!

The class was great! I learned so much and my drawings have improved immensely! If they start getting really good, I can send you some “before Carol’s class” and “after Carol’s class” images as a testimonial.

Hopefully I will get a chance to take your class at a future [national ASDP] conference, I heard so many wonderful comments about it.

I wanted to also thank you for making the class so accessible to a drawing dunce like me.

I have already applied what I learned in class. The client loved the jacket illustration I did for her. The consultation was quick, easy and effortless.

Puppets

I want to put a note on your website about how useful they are to use with kids who have communication problems.

Bless you for all you do for others…..

Carol Kimball really is a top notch professional and a person we are seriously indebted to for the work she has done in the illustrations and layout of our Welcome booklet.

…the graphics designer/volunteer developer [at a national conference] of much of the info went out of her way to tell me about all the research they did both primary research interviews with refugees and reviews of secondary sources. She told me that our stuff was absolutely the best they saw and in fact was her inspiration for the story book.

I’m sure the official sculptor for the Refugee Hall of Fame is busily at work now preparing your bust for the Refugee Hall of Champions! It’s just down the block from the rock and Roll hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Love it!! Great fun – best mission statement I’ve seen!

I LOVE the mission statement.

Your mission statement came out beautiful!!!!! Great JOB! [spouse] laughed out loud.