SCBWI Illustrator Day

April 10, 2021April 10, 2021Leave a comment

I just finished attending a webinar hosted by the KS/MO chapter of the SCBWI. I have been doing illustration long enough now that a lot of these seminars (in person and online) are sort of reviewing things I’ve already picked up. But I did get a few points that were sort of new, or at least good to be reminded of. And it’s always good to get out there (metaphorically because it was on zoom) and actually discuss things.

The subjects were picture book dummies and working with art departments.

There was a lot of information, but the advice I took away was:

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Color Version of Inktober #28

November 26, 2020November 30, 2020Leave a comment

Inktober #28 was Float. Here’s that one colored in.

Girls at a sleepover playing Light as a feather, stiff as a board. One girl levitates in midair while 5 friends chant the magic words. The floating girl observes that "This feels weird!"

Color Version of Inktober #22

November 6, 2020November 2, 2020Leave a comment

Here’s a color version of my faceless chef.

An illustration of a woman in a chef's uniform standing with a spoon in her hand. Drawn in a simplified style without a face or detailed hands.

Color Version of Inktober #21

November 5, 2020November 2, 2020Leave a comment

Two babies in color this time.

An illustration of a human toddler and a young dragon curled up around each other, asleep. The dragon is green and the toddler is black.

Inktober 2020 #31 – Crawl

October 31, 2020October 31, 20202 Comments

So, since this is posting on Halloween, I thought it should be a Halloween themed image. So, the two things that come to mind with crawl is creepy crawly bugs and crawling babies. Bugs only seem really Halloweeny if it’s a spider or if they’re crawling over a corpse. I already did a spider this month and corpses are gross. Trying to not go for too gross since my target audience are kids.

So, a Halloween-themed baby.

I doodled a baby pumpkin-head, a baby Dracula, a baby Frankenstein’s monster, and a baby zombie. By the way, baby zombie? NO. Not cute. Bad. Very bad.

And I also doodled this baby Death, which is the one I liked best. So, that’s the one I finished off for today.

Whew! This is the last one! I’m done. I hope you enjoyed the month of inktober as much as I did. Thanks for watching!

A black and white cartoon of the personification of Death as a baby skeleton in his traditional robes crawling along with his scythe in one hand.

Inktober 2020 #30 – Ominous

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020Leave a comment

I considered several possibilities to answer this prompt, but you know what? Sometimes the less you know, the worse it could be.

A two panel comic. The first panel shows eyes in the dark, wide open with pupils contracted. A thought bubble reads, "IT'S QUIET..." The second panel shows eyes in the dark, narrowed with suspicion. A thought bubble reads, in smaller text, "TOO QUIET." — \

Inktober 2020 #29 – Shoes

October 29, 2020October 24, 2020Leave a comment

This is about the cutest concept I can think of today.

A cartoon, line drawing of a baby boy who has pulled off one of his shoes and is chewing on it. We can see he has just two front teeth on the top.

Inktober 2020 #28 – Float

October 28, 2020October 8, 2020Leave a comment

When I looked through this year’s Inktober prompt list for the first time, I saw this prompt and I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it. So, I’ve waited all month to do this one, and I finally got to it! Yay!

I may come back to it and add in shadows and maybe colors later. But not today. 🙂

Six girls at a slumber party play light as a feather, stiff as a board. Only, this time it actually works! The middle girl is levitating in the air. The other girls are chanting while the floating girl says, "This feels so weird!"

Inktober 2020 #27 – Music

October 27, 2020October 27, 20202 Comments

Siren song counts as music, right? I hope so, but really… I just felt like drawing a mermaid. 🙂

It seems like every time I draw water, I do it differently. This style seems pretty good for mid-ocean swells.