Pratt Workshop: Creating Your Own Graphic NovelThis class begins February 1, Wednesday and 1:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.Instructors: Rollin Thomas Explore how pages fit together and tell stories sequentially. Find out how fun it is to write dialogue using the back-story-method. Structure stories, characters, and action to carry the story in each panel. Work in... Continue Reading →
Picture Book Illustration Certificate Series
Are you brimming with ideas to create children’s picture books? Perhaps you participated in NaPiBoWriWee and need to know how to get the best ideas ready for market? If you want to illustrate or create children's books, or would like to contribute artwork to children's magazines, or reach other potential markets, then this three quarter... Continue Reading →
Classes with Rollin Thomas and Doug Keith
This year Rollin Thomas and Doug Keith are offering their picture book course in two places. At Edmonds Community College as a certificate course and at Pratt for a slightly shorter version. See the notices below. And Rollin Thomas is offering for the first time, a three term course in Creating Your Own Graphic Novel... Continue Reading →
Picture Book Illustration Class
SCBWI's own Doug Keith will be teaching a Picture Book Illustration class at Edmonds Community College this fall. The course focuses on the fundamentals of creating artwork for picture books, from the first sketches and storyboard, to the final art. Doug is a multi-talented artist, who has illustrated more than forty picture books. For details... Continue Reading →
Doug Keith in the NYT
Illustrator Doug Keith got nice praise this weekend in the New York Times.THE BORED BOOKBy David Michael Slater. Illustrated by Doug Keith.Simply Read. $16.95. (Ages 5 and up)This wordless book begins perfectly, with an image of two bored siblings fighting on the sofa in Grandfather’s study while he looks on morosely. Then he opens a... Continue Reading →
Class: Storytelling through Picture Book Illustration
Doug Keith and Rollin Thomas are offering the next segment in their picture book class at Pratt. Here's the description:Whether you want to create a picture book or a graphic novel, this class will help you write/illustrate with effective storytelling through a visual medium. Learn to refine your ideas with a study of story structure... Continue Reading →
Class: Introduction to children’s book illustration
Rollin Thomas and Doug Keith are at it again!Do you have a children’s book you want to create? This course will guide you through visual storytelling, creating characters, drawing storyboards and dummies. Then create one finished illustration, while learning how to find your place in the children’s illustration market. The pieces you make will help... Continue Reading →