Dana Sullivan sent this Seattle magazine piece our way; it's about the Canoe Social Club, "a place where artful matters are discussed, argued and celebrated with vigor and intention.”Read the rest here. Or, visit the club's website.
Erin Taylor, an illustrator, writes on her blog about a book that's helping her illustrate:I have bought books before on "how to draw children" or "drawing people", but they always bored me- seemed better suited for the fine artist because every person in there was so stiff and posed. About a month ago I began... Continue Reading →
Learn to illustrate children’s books with Craig Orback
Illustrator Craig Orback has three new Children's Book Illustration classes starting soon.He is the illustrator of over 15 books for children including "Nature's Paintbox: A Seasonal Gallery of Art and Verse", and the forthcoming picture book "The Can Man", due for release in March.He has been teaching illustration and painting classes locally for 8 years.... Continue Reading →
New network for illustrators
Elizabeth Blake has set up Rendered Speechless, an online social network. Many illustrators in our region have already joined. Check it out here.
Questions from Wendy Wahman
Freelancers, Wendy wonders the following:Do you get asked to work on spec? (For example, to produce samples of specific characters or enviroment) If so, how do you handle this? Do you have a price range cutoff? Do you decline to work on spec for magazines, but will you provide samples to book publishers?If you have... Continue Reading →
For inspiration: visit Richard Jesse Watson’s blog
Richard is in the midst of a series on his creative process. If you're feeling at all dark and cold, it'll warm you right up.When I first read the text to The Dream Stair, it beckoned me both ways. Go up the stair to your attic room. Go down the stair to your cellar room.... Continue Reading →
Illustrators, take note: Eveline Ness auction
From the Drawn blog:Ness was an illustrator of many children’s books during the mid-20th century period. At a time when most illustration was still being done in a style of literal realism, Ness was among that group of stylistic pioneers whose work still influences the look of illustration today...and she was married to FBI agent... Continue Reading →
Potential opportunity for illustrators
An SCBWI member from San Francisco recently sent us this:Pearl Cards is a collaborative storytelling game in which players tell a story together, using fine art and photographic images as creative cues. The game consists of decks of cards displaying these images. Right now, all the images are from the public domain, but in the... Continue Reading →
You won’t be-leaf this
This set of illustrations on the New York Times blog leaves me in hysterics.Thanks to Liz Mills for the procrastination link.
How Scott Westerfeld imagined Leviathan
Here's a brief excerpt of his bit on John Scalzi's blog:Leviathan is often described as a steampunk series, and fair enough (walking tanks!). But it hews closer to alternate history than most steampunk, with the son of the Archduke Ferdinand a character, and the timeline for the early war matching our own history closely. But... Continue Reading →