Illustrators, writers, quite inspired, how do your stories grow? was the theme for the 2012 regional conference of the Houston Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) back i...
Erik Kuntz, Amy Rose Capetta and Nick Alter made this video of the Austin Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators 2012 Regional Conference, Something for Everybody. I get a kick out...
You might have noticed that the blog has been left with the lights still on, but untended lately. Not a lot of discussion about illustration, drawing or painting has been going on here. I’ve be...
You might not learn all you want to know about children’s book author illustrator Keith Graves from his website – like, what is the name of the rock band he was founding member of and sti...
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 ti...
University of Texas BFA grad Marsha Riti worked at her first creative love, ceramics before she saw an opportunity to make some extra money with her studio art craft — illustrating books for ch...
We first interviewed children’s illustrator Karien Naude of South Africa back in May 2009. Back then she was basically just starting, completely self-taught as an artist, working as a paralegal...
Children’s book author-illustrator Jeff Crosby says he came up with the idea for his funny new picture book, Wiener Wolf (Hyperion) while he was in the shower one day. For a long while after t...
Debbie Gonzales, the regional advisor for the Austin Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators wanted a logo. Logo design by Dallion McGregor Ideally, the logo would h...
Hey, children’s book illustrators and aspiring illustrators! Be the first kid on your block to win an in-person portfolio critique from Caldecott-Medal illustrator David Diaz! How? David Diaz ...
Children’s book illustrators would do well to make note of the pathfinders as the tectonic plates of publishing, communication and commerce are shifting under our feet — as we speak. Cont...
The demands are the same as for writing or illustrating a book: Something must come to life every time a reader turns a page. Except with a pop-up book, it really has to come to life. By definiti...
mmsmsmsmsm Hey Pretty Kitty from Sarah Wade on Vimeo.
Children’s Book Illustrator and surface pattern designer Sarah Wade of Design House Studios in Ipswich, England has graciously put together a short Photoshop tutorial for us.We’ll get ri...
Talented California artist and illustrator Susan Sorrell Hill reports to us today about a recent pilgrimage she made across the country to meet an artist she admires very much. When she learned that ...
It’s hard to explain the thrill of being inches away from an original watercolor by Uri Shulevitz, or Jerry Pinkney or the late Trina Schart Hyman. “The Huntsman” from “Little...
In this interview clip Maurice Sendak speaks as eloquently as you’ll hear on the roles of the children’s book illustrator and children’s book illustration. It’s from the DVD ...
Award-winning New York City illustrator Lisa Falkenstern is working on illustrations for her new children’s picture book. But she and her editor are having trouble deciding on the perfect tit...
What publishing genre relies on art and pictures more than any other? Children’s book publishing, of course. But for a long time the professional organization of children’s book writers...
More than 200 children’s book writers and illustrators (aspiring and professional) converged on a little Unitarian church just north of Austin for the 2010 Destination Publication SCBWI confere...
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