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 …
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 …
Agent Jamie Weiss Chilton (With Andrea Brown literary Agency) and editor Emily Easton (Director at Walker Books for Young Readers/Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.) have agreed to anonymously review the portfolios of illustrators attending the SCBWI conference here in San Diego, CA. It will work like this – (exact timing to be determined): Illustrators will turn in their …
My daughter April and I went to see a lecture Nov. 14 by one of my favorite illustrators, Jeffery Smith, at SDSU. He is an instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, so his talk was geared towards the students in the audience. He had a nice crowd present. He showed a lot …
