A Question of Voice 14:39By Anne Marie Perks with Bridget Strevens Marzo Illustrator Masterclass Series last event for 2011 Bridget Strevens-Marzo Author illu... 7 Comments Read
Converting a Picture Book into an Interactive App 18:10 By Paul Morton Just finished work on the conversion of Ga Gunk to become an interactive app. The artwork for Ga Gunk was finished a cou... 1 Comments Read
Great Expectations at the SCBWI Conference 2011 00:00 By Candy Gourlay First published in candygourlay.com I've just come home from a most moving weekend. It was the annual conferenc... 0 Comments Read
New artwork style for Bug Belly 18:31By Paul Morton Following some enthusiastic feedback from a couple of publishers and a consensus that they'd like to see non-digital ... 3 Comments Read
Itsy-Bitsy Book Cover 09:50By Lynne Chapman Remember the issues we had with Waterstones not liking the yellow cover which I originally designed for Baby Goes Ba... 3 Comments Read
The Bic Picture Competition: What I Want to Be When I Grow Up 16:19By Mike Brownlow Last month I had the pleasure of being invited to be a judge in the annual competition run by BIC -- the BIC PICTURE --... 2 Comments Read
The Halloween Forest 10:30By John Shelley Although this won't be released until next year, here's a sneak preview of my upcoming Halloween themed book for H... 14 Comments Read
Young readers phonics book 20:55By Anna Violet How Anansi Got His Stories has just been published by Oxford University Press (Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales serie... 9 Comments Read
Viv Schwarz character design and comic workshop 22:17 Viviane Schwarz playing with shapes. By Anne-Marie Perks Viviane started the session talking about coming to graphic novels from pic... 6 Comments Read
No line! 15:48 By Mike Brownlow I've just received the proof copy of a book I wrote and illustrated for OUP earlier in the year -- a re-telling of ... 5 Comments Read
'Baby Can Bounce' artwork - head down... 19:10 By Lynne Chapman When last I showed you my artwork on the book, I was about to start the hedgehogs. I got on with them early last week: ... 5 Comments Read
Norwich Solstice Scrawl Crawl 23:10By John Shelley On 21st June several SCBWI regions around Europe participated in a Summer Solstice Scrawlcrawl. Inspired by illustrator sk... 1 Comments Read
Creative Typography in Children's Books 13:32 With Gillian McClure and Lisa Kirkham Lisa and Gillian showing a spread from Gillian's next book. It is always nice to see eve... 1 Comments Read
Illustrating Michael Rosen 12:16By Mike Brownlow I was very pleased to be asked to illustrate a story by Michael Rosen for a book that’s being put together on behalf of th... 1 Comments Read
Sketchcrawl: more York images 11:26 Some more sketches from the York Sketchcrawl. These are by Catriona Tippin . 0 Comments Read
Sketchcrawl: York by Sam Zuppardi 10:59On 7th May SCBWI members in the York area got together for their first Sketch-crawl and Scrawl-crawl (for writers). Twelve members of the No... 0 Comments Read
Bologna Book Fair 2011: The World of Storytelling is Changing 16:59By Bridget Strevens Marzo Well I promised to write it up for SCBWI BI so I took pages of notes at the 2011 Bologna Book Fair's first... 0 Comments Read
New Idea: the Tour de Sketch 09:33By Lynne Chapman On Sunday, we tried out a new sketching idea in Derbyshire, just outside Sheffield. Instead of our usual monthly SketchC... 3 Comments Read
Sketchbook project: on tour in the U.S. 09:41By Anne-Marie Perks In this post I thought I would share a peek into the sketchbook I submitted for Sketchbook Project 2011 . The theme I ... 2 Comments Read
Baby Goes Baaaa! - creating the artwork 12:39 By Lynne Chapman I started on the pastel artwork for my latest book Baby Goes Baaaa! last week - yikes! 2 Comments Read
SketchJam in Sheffield 16:29By Lynne Chapman Last week, we had another go at the SketchJam idea. It was rather louder on the ear than the old fellas we drew last tim... 0 Comments Read
Sorting the mess and 'deskavation' 20:02By Bridget Strevens Marzo L ast year was busy, crazily so at times, and there was no time for pondering projects. Just one commissi... 0 Comments Read
Sheffield Sketchcrawl Number Four 17:42By Lynne Chapman Around 30 people turned up on Saturday for the 4th Sheffield SketchCrawl : some old hands, several brand new faces, all... 0 Comments Read
Introducing SketchJam: Sketchbooks & Beer! 18:44 By Lynne Chapman No, not exactly a SketchCrawl this time. SketchJam is SketchCrawl's younger brother, so to speak. It's a brand n... 3 Comments Read