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I really admire artists like Jonny Duddle who successfully blend a cartoony style with realistic colors and dimensionality.  Here’s a one-hour warm-up I did this morning.  My focus was on achieving pleasing skin tones.  I didn’t bother to render out the hair, eyes, or shirt (obviously!).  Those blobs to the left are the color pallette [...]

What’s better than singing in the tub?  Singing in the tub with your dog, of course! Cross-post from Anthdrawlogy.

This week’s Anthdrawlogy theme was “hats.” I’ve never tried inking in Seuss’s style before.  He had such amazing line work!

Where’s an elf to hide when kids are lurking?  Cross-post from Anthdrawlogy.

Oh yeah, hey… so it’s 2012, huh? So I got this awesome little 7″ x 5″ watercolor sketchbook with a giant spiral binding, perfect for clipping my pencil and eraser to.  My resolution this year is to carry this thing around with me and sketch on the go.  It’s rare that I’m able to carve [...]

(Side note: although there has been no official statement to this effect, it appears that the announcement of the winner has been pushed back by one week.  The date on the main Tomie dePaola Award page silently changed from January 2 to January 9 this morning, but the text on the guidelines page still reads [...]

(Continued from part 1) The next step in my process was pretty simple: sketch, sketch, sketch. Before I could nail down the final composition, I needed to clarify my character designs.  Although I wanted my final look to be cartoonish, I did quite a bit of research to study actual bird anatomy.  I’m a strong [...]

(Continued from my previous post.) This is my first page of thumbnails I created.  I began by transcribing the text by hand.  This may seem tedious and unnecessary, but I find that it helps me to absorb the story moments more fully. From there, I zeroed in on the moment I wanted to capture — [...]

This is my entry for the 2012 SCBWI Tomie dePaola Award, which I’ve been working on during the past month. The challenge was to illustrate the following text: So they went along and went along until they met Turkey Lurkey “Good morning, Goosey Loosey, Ducky Daddles, Cocky Locky, Henny Penny, and Chicken Licken,” said Turkey [...]

Cross-post from Anthdrawlogy.  This week’s theme was “Zoo.”