Does your book dummy need a push?
Smart Dummies moves into its final week this week, with the finish line looming Friday. The...
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Category: Illustration course
An amazing way to learn illustration
So what is musician-performer-dancer-composer Lindsey Stirling doing on this blog about...
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How to paint a novel at 24 frames per second
Be patient with the 30 second advertisement in the video, illustrators. It leads to a rewarding...
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Of sea, sky and human spirit
So here it is: Alluded to in the videos in the previous post, the first animated film did for the...
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A finger-painted, animated "expression of dabs"
Russian animator Alexander Petrov works a lot like a children’s book illustrator to make his...
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De-foresting Kipling's dark jungle
Rudyard Kipling, who had been born in Bombay and was happier in the Punjab and India than he ever...
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Trouble in imagination paradise
Not a kind portrayal of the creator of Mickey Mouse, with a fascinating comparison between Disney...
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Betting on books with "behaviors"
Children’s book illustrators already know about interactive book apps. They don’t...
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Bumper crop of children's titles by Austin area illustrators
Children’s and YA author Cynthia Leitich Smith gives an incredibly generous and instructive...
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A brief visit to an illustrators' studio
Author-illustrators Jeff Crosby and Shelley Ann Jackson have MFAs from the School of Visual Arts...
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Doodling is for learners
In between book and other illustration assignments, children’s book illustrators can now...
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Illustration classes and illustrator-friendly SCBWI conference in Austin!
The Yuletide/New Year’s tornado is over. Most of us are just now beginning to touch back to...
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Character Drawing With Cindy Wider
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Writing Fast Track
