Decision time. Always a little apprehensive and excited when time comes to decide to set down my paint brushes and pick up my color pencils to finish a piece. I love the combination but often find it tricky to know the exact switch over time, and perhaps it's not as cut and dried as I sometimes fear it to be. Working on some finished pieces for dummies and preparing a piece for the SCBWI Marvelous Midwest Conference. I'm excited to learn …
Illustration
Entering #50PreciousWords
Vivian Kirkfield's yearly contest inspires frugalness with words. https://viviankirkfield.com/2024/03/02/the-50preciouswords-2024-international-writing-contest-is-open/comment-page-13/#comment-280875 I thought these old sketches went well with my submission. One done many years ago when my girls were young. The other done in my college days, of dorm chums Cindy and Kris. We need friends through out our lives. …
Discover Your Character
Looking over your shoulder. Look over your manuscript, your sketches, or even your shoulder and you may discover your character. The character of your story that is. Character is all around you. In people, animals, sometimes even in the objects around you and the spaces between them. Sounds strange, I know, but I'll share a drawing sometime of a character I saw in the combination of a tree and it's surrounding spaces. Today's shared …