Happy New Year of the Dragon!

Happy New Year Scribblers!

With wrapping paper, gift receipts and cookie crumbs swept off your drawing table it's time to get to work. The theme for this month's challenge is "2012:  Year of the Dragon".

The Chinese New Year celebrates the Dragon this year, one of the most showy characters of the zodiac chart. May your new year be filled with dragon luck, fun and energy. Dragons are the doers of the world and don't sit and wait for things to happen, they make things happen.

So grab your gear and do art making. Dragonflies, snap dragons, flying dragons, luck dragons, little green hatchling dragons. Be creative, be imaginative, be dragony!
DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2012

Here there be dragons!
Lori Taylor
Pinckney, MI
loonwoman@gmail.com

Lori Taylor (SageWoman 2012 Illustration)
www.loritaylorart.com
loonwoman@gmail.com

Tomie dePaola award - Nina Goebel

Here is my little illustration. I thouhgt I bring in the fox as a harbinger of bad things to come. Done with corel painter on a wacom tablet. www.ninafecit.com

"Turkey Lurkey, Chicken Licken and Ducky Daddles", Tomie dePaola Illustrator Award Entry by Lori Taylor

"so they went along and went along until they met Turkey Lurkey..."
Illustration by Lori Taylor
www.loritaylorart.com
loonwoman@gmail.com

I was excited to illustrate this excerpt of the story of Chicken Licken. It was a favorite story of mine as a child and it still tickles me today.

I began the layout of this sketch while waiting for breakfast in the Green House Cafe in Traverse City. The cafe (which serves super, amazing breakfasts!) offers brown paper and crayons at each table. Then after you finish your art they hang your masterpiece on the wall.

I scribbled and scrawled and soon had the "bones" of the illustration down. I loved it so much I hated to leave it behind. so we took a photo of the piece for me to bring home and begin the art.

I sat with our flock of chickens and rooster and sketched and snapped photos of them and after they signed a release and I fed them rice, I began the watercolor painting.

As usual--I am in love with the raw energy of my original sketch!

"Chicken Crayon Scratching"- Green House Cafe, TC - Oct. 21, 2011

The Laundry Monster -Kathryn Mays

 The Laundry Monster. This little boy has an unusual friend that he plays with using his imagination. The first sentence says:" I have a friend who likes to eat socks." But he also knows the secret of the laundry he takes...

He tries to scare his friends by making sock snakes! His mom does not like the laundry monster and is always trying to get rid of it.When she finally succeeds you'll have to see what happens.

www.kathrynmays.com
www.kathrynmays.blogspot.com

Prince Billy of Masculonia

 

Billy is destined to take the throne of Masculonia, a kingdom where being tough and strong is all that matters. Billy just wants to be creative and make art projects but the King and  Queen keep him too busy with his manly skills training.

This is a depiction of him during Ogre Conflict Resolution Studies.

Jeff Jantz     http://www.descriptiveillustrations.com/folio2.html   jeffjantz1@gmail.com  586-212-6950

For critique

critque of art - Lori McElrath-Eslick

www.EslickART.com

Happy Birthday Scribblers! Art Critique Month

Hello Scribblers!

It's hard to imagine that the Scribblers blog has been around for one year already. We are, at the time of this posting, 27 members strong. One of the big boosts for us was the Fall SCBWI-MI conference on Mackinac Island. This event and the forming of an illustration group in Southeast Michigan has bonded Michiganian scribblers and scrawlers.

To celebrate illustrators this month and to grant the request of fellow Scribblers, our Illustration Nation is going one step farther into drawingdom! The Scribbler blog will host an occasional peer review of artwork. November is Art Critique Month.

Scribblers will post art of their choice to be critiqued by fellow SCBWI members. This includes work near completion and finished. We will be practicing the critique style that Matt Faulkner used in our "boot camp" on the island.

Art posted labeled as: "For Critique by--"
Perhaps add a line or two of manuscript that interprets the piece in the BODY of the post beneath the image and don't forget contact info in the CAPTION area.

Critique's Response:
1. What works? (A positive note here. What is strong? Composition, color, etc.)
2. What needs work? (A kind and gentle nudge and suggestion on what may make it a better piece.)

Critiques help us to grow and hone our skills. I hope that we get a good response in this month's challenge. Putting unfinished work up for all to see can be like hanging your underwear out on the clothesline for all to see and comment on. (I'm still getting over my granddaughter's comments--but hey, she's six. What does she know? Boxers are comfy.)

So what I'm saying is in bringing about a balance of positive and instructive comments and open mindedness on the part of the recipient it will make this new Scribbler addition successful for all. This is a great way for us Scribblers to get to know each other and make the page interactive, educational and FUN!

Get ready, set--POST!
Lori Taylor

loonwoman@gmail.com
www.loritaylorart.com

Deadline: December 31, 2011
(Due to holiday hustle, bustle we are extending the deadline and will resume theme posts in Jan. 2012)