I have gone back to school, or should I say Skool? I signed up for “Sketchbook Skool”. It’s an online class that was started by Danny Gregory and Koosje Koene. Sketchbook Skool is a 6-week online course where you get inspiration from six different teachers as well as from artists from around the world. You …
Neil Shigley is an instructor at SDSU and he managed to get sponsorship through the Suzy Spafford Scholarship fund to have Mark Ulriksen come out and talk. He plans to try to get two top-notch illustrators to speak each year. Mark Ulriksen was the speaker on April 10th. Mark’s work is very unique and …
For 52 years, the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles (SILA) has put on a great annual show exhibiting experienced and up-and-coming illustrators. This year’s SILA Illustration West 52 was no exception and a wonderful demonstration that this art form is still going strong. My daughter, April, entered an illustration for the first time and was …
I confess, I was a little reluctant to go to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) conference March 1-2, for two reasons. First, I had just started working on my new book dummy and I wasn’t sure I was ready to show it at the illustrator intensive with Pat Cummings. Second, I …
