Author Illustrator Tao Nyeu gives us insight to her creative process. She shows us her silkscreen color separation technique for Squid and Octopus, Friends for Always.
Above: The cover for The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra. I love Ana Aranda’s work, and I especially love her incredible color sense. She embraces purple and pink, and makes these colors feel sophisticated and fresh in a way I haven’t seen before. (Look at that amazing palette on the cover!) Today I talk to her about her U.S. illustration debut, The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra.
Illustrator Maral Sassouni combines ink, pencil, crayon, and monoprinting to create the rich collages in The Green Umbrella, a sweet picture book about friendship and imagination by Jackie Azúa Kramer. There are so many great details to linger over. Today Maral tells Pen and Oink about her inspirations and her really cool process.
Lani Yamamoto's books have been a big inspiration to me. I love her books on every level, for the topics they tackle, for her simple line illustrations that speak volumes, for her inventiveness and for her extraordinary sense of color. Many moons ago I worked at a bookstore and told anyone that would listen that they should buy the Albert series.
Jessie Hartland discusses the process for her graphic novel, Steve Jobs: Insanely Great. "I'm really drawn to taking very complicated material and simplifying it with drawings and words."
Above: A new piece for my portfolio, based on feedback from SCBWI-LA. ©Robin Rosenthal For the past few months I’ve been working on new pieces for my portfolio based on the amazing feedback I received at the 2014 SCBWI LA Summer Conference. (I was one of six illustrators who received the SCBWI Mentorship Award, and I got to meet individually with six mentors who each gave me guidance on my work. It. Was. Awesome. Read more […]
A quick look at recently published great books with yellow covers illustrated by: Sara Varon, Allie Brosh, Marc Boutevant.
Above: My piece for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, an assignment for the Illustrators’ Intensive. I am still riding an inspired high from last weekend’s SCBWI Winter Conference. I’ve been to the conference four times now and the Illustrators’ Intensive Day is always the highlight for me. Art Director Cecilia Yung’s interview of Tomie dePaola was fantastic. They structured the talk around a comparison of Tomie’s book illustrations and his costume and set design work. Tomie […]
Akira Satoh and Kyoko Toda's animal portraiture play with the idea of individuality and force us to pay notice to the differences in each animal face.
I love opening a children's book to find beautiful, surprising endpapers inside. Here's a round up of some of my favorites.
The Vine app is a place for animators to shine. We check in on some of the best...
Animal Stackers on Kickstarter. Amazing toy design by Dan Nguyen.
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