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Karen Lee is a children's book illustrator and writer
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I drew a lot today for the paying gig and could post one of those, but that would be cheating. This is one that I drew while chaperoning on a cold and drizzling day; one of the last marching band practices my senior will have. This is bittersweet. Being in band has shaped the man he's become and this year has been a challenging one. It has given him community, discipline, artistry, honor, responsibility and above all else - love. I cry when I think about the gifts it has brought to us, the path it has put us on.
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The first one was just meh, so I did another.
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Amazing illustrator Linda Silvestri is hosting her third annual SkaDaMo - Sketch a Day challenge and I am in! I am hoping to expand my drawing style and tap into some long dormant creative ideas.
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Dead Anyway: Stories From the Zombie Apocalypse is now available for pre-order! I am delighted to have been invited to participate in this incredible collection of zombie stories.
Dead Anyway, Stories From The Zombie Apocalypse is a zombie graphic novel with comic stories about zombies by award winning illustrators and comic artists.
Pete Mitchell has always had a strange fascination with the previously dead. He has seen almost every zombie movie, has written songs about zombies, he draws them constantly, and thinks about them in the shower. When he met Bryan Ballinger, and saw his equal obsession with drawing lifeless characters, he knew they had to do something bigger, better, and deader.
So they decided to gather some of their buddies from across the globe in order to make a big collection of rockin’ comic zombie stories. This motley gathering of professional cartoonists, comic book artists, children’s book illustrators, concept artists, animators and designers produced the graphic novel anthology, Dead Anyway. And the world will never be same.
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I am now selling limited edition prints of original digital works. They are all high quality Epson 160lb cold press giclees. I can do custom sizes but at the moment I am offering these as either 11 x 14 for $35 or 8 X 10 for $25, shipping included in the US. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to purchase any of these! [email protected]
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Lately I've been exploring my darker side in my development pieces, but that doesn't mean I've quit doing the lighter work. I've had several assignments for Highlights lately and have used my digital technique with a great deal more fluency. I'll do a quick tutorial on one image from a series I did for the upcoming June issue.
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My mental bandwidth is returning. I just finished my sixth year of coaching Odyssey of the Mind. This year my two high school teams both made it to the State Finals last weekend. They both did extremely well, but did not place for World Finals. I am so proud of both teams!
Back to our previously scheduled program.... I have a couple of art shows coming up in June. I will have limited edition giclee prints so I've been creating images just for that purpose. I'm also exploring the medium (pencil with digital color) and expanding my approach, rethinking my place in the market and the culture.
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This is the most overworked/loose piece I've ever done. The downfall and the delight of working digitally. The "twins" are inspired by Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. I borrowed the name from the Bunker twins - the famous original Siamese twins that retired to raise families (!) here in North Carolina after their career on the road. They are buried in our Oakwood Cemetary. Waaayyy more creepy stuff than you'd ever want to know about them can be found here.
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At the beginning of the year I sat down with several abandoned stories to reassess whether they were worth pursuing. I kept a few for further revisions, shelved one indefinitely. A few weeks ago I did the Zombie Tea Party piece as a parody of all the cute stuff I've been doing. I was reluctant to show it, but I did, because that's what artists do. I had no idea that it would resonate with people (and by people I mean editors at big publishing houses) the way it did, and almost instantly.
So the story I put away is now quite active. This is a sample spread that is being submitted, like now. Like for real. Was all that time pursuing cute a detour? I don't think so. I'd like to think that I have come full circle. This art is not something I could have done four years ago when I wrote the story. And I think I needed to be a bit desperate to take the risks necessary to allow myself to do this.
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With much trepidation I put this image out on my Facebook page. I just wasn't (and still am not) confident in this. But it must have struck a nerve because the response has been overwhelmingly positive. I'm relieved and excited. And it may have already opened some doors I've been banging on for years. Who knew (my husband says he knew, as in "I told you so").
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I signed up for the #KidLitArt Dummy Challenge this year as a way to motivate myself to complete a few abandoned picture book projects. I started by spreading everything I had for three stalled projects on the dining room table, manuscripts, drawings, page break dummies, and comments from my critique group. I decided to shelve one indefinitely, put another aside to work on later, and pick one that stalled out for no other reason than that I began another one before I completed it.
The first thing I did was to read over the comments from my critique group - they are so wise! Then I looked over my story with fresh eyes. Very fresh. My last manuscript update was dated 2007.
It took me a while but I was able to immerse myself again and do some heavy revisions. There is still room for a little more but being primarily an illustrator I was anxious to get on with pacing the story. I made a grid for the page spreads on a large sheet of graph paper then I wrote each character's dialog on color coded sticky notes so I could move them around to establish the page breaks and turns.
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My gal Maggie pitched some of her artists for a chapter book series and I didn't have much of anything appropriate for the project, so I whipped one out over the weekend.
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Love your newer style....very free and light looking! 'Course I luv your "old" style too! (grin) I can so sympathize re-inventing your style....I'm doing much the same myself. It looks like you kept the parts of your style that are really "you" and spiffied up other things to make a new you! Bravo!