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By: Kathy Temean,
on 1/14/2011
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Ponder Goembel has enjoyed creating and observing art for as long as she can remember. As a child she liked to draw pictures from her imagination and from life. When her mother brought home books from the library she studied every detail of the pictures. She felt that to create book art would be wonderful. In high school she enjoyed designing playbills and posters for school plays and after graduation moved on to attend the Philadelphia College of Art where she majored in Illustration. Courses such as history of film and animal anatomy still influence her work today.
By graduation in 1977, Ponder had worked on her first freelance illustration job and moved on to create illustrations for advertisements, magazines, and book jackets. After almost ten years she received a commission to illustrate her first children’s book, Hear The Wind Blow, American Folk Songs Retold by Scott R. Sanders. Though not a picture book it included ten black and white illustrations, good practice for her more colorful picture books of today. With the publication of her first picture book, A Basket Full of White Eggs by Brian Swann, came a move to the country and the arrival of her first child. The experiences of parenthood increased her desire to create art for children and she has been doing so ever since.
Her illustrations may be found in Give Me Wings, Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Animal Fair, a song adapted by her, Swamp Song by Helen Kettemen, Mr. Mosquito Put on His Tuxedo by Barbara O. Morrow, and three collaborations with Lisa Wheeler, Castaway Cats, Old Cricket and Sailor Moo, Cow at Sea. One of her books, “Hi, Pizza Man!” written by Virginia Walter, has been in continuous print since 1995. In addition to picture books she has created a poster for the Children’s Book Council, a top-selling greeting card for Peaceable Kingdom Press and several illustrations for The Cricket Magazine Group.
“When I first read a manuscript I put on my thinking cap and imagine what the book could look like. When I’ve decided to illustrate it I sketch a few key characters and scenes.
Then I start organizing the book with thumbnail sketches, small rough sketches of the way each page could look. This gives me a chance to work on the pace of the story. without worrying about the details.
Once I’ve got the basics worked out I enlarge the thumbnails then trace over and re-draw each page with more details until it looks good enough to submit to the Editor. This is called a final sketch and images can be changed more easily at this point than when the final art is done. Also, I use reference pictures to help me with details.
By: Kathy Temean,
on 11/19/2010
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Like most artists I have always been drawing. First, it was watercolors of birds rendered on my dad’s dry-cleaning cardboard inserts (remember those?). Then it was comic books in crayon and pencil, loosely based on Archie but mine were artier. Then it was fashion and costume illustration in marker, ink and colored pencil; inspired by an illustrator/theater director whom I acted under. His drawings made my jaw drop.
But I really I owe it all to Marc Chagall. For my eleventh birthday, a friend of mine gave me a print of his. Not something you would ordinarily give as a gift to a sixth grader. Still it was the best present ever. Chagall’s paintings tell stories. And I remember thinking I want to do this. My dad and I made frequent trips to Lincoln Center, and I was mesmerized by the huge Chagall canvases that hung from the rafters.
When I studied art at Connecticut College (we called it Connect the Dots College) I fell in love with collage (no pun intended). My concentration was in illustration and graphic design. But I wondered what I would eventually do with that degree in Fine Art. I knew that I wanted to move to New York City where all the Chagall and illustration was. But where did I fit in?
The drawings of nature and comic books never made their way into my portfolios. But the fashion and costume illustrations did. I applied for an accelerated one year post graduate program in fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. And a competitive one at that. What I really wanted though, was illustration. The professors said that this part of the industry looked bleak. I never finished that program as I was a total klutz with draping and pattern-making.
My best patterns and drapery soon would be done on illustration board.
After much soul searching, I began a career in advertising as a “Creative Assistant.” This was the grunt work that most beginners get. The nice thing is that I worked on storyboards as part of my job. Storyboards are not called storyboards for nothing.
At the same time, I took many night classes at Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, and put together another portfolio; this time in advertising art and typography. Eventually, this portfolio got me a job as a real art director. But I kept studying illustration… my true love.
Fast forward… Then I got married and had kids. As my kids grew up and went to school I was invited to the book-fairs. A friend of mine introduced me to some beautiful, funny and well written picture books. I thought I want to do this. But how? Are there any classes that can help me?
Lo and behold I found two, through a continuing ed program. I wound up with two fully illustrated, bound books both of which I am still writing.
Basically, I start out with a stech like this. Then I select a color palette from my piles of papers I’ve bought over the years, or that I have made myself (picture below).
Then I transfer my sketch onto bristol board or illustration board. Then I trace the shapes on to the paper I will cut or tear. Sometimes I wing it and get as close to the sketch freehand as possible… especially for intricate things.
By: Kathy Temean,
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Ryan Sias is the author of “Are You Eating Something Red?” (Blue Apple Books). His story and illustration work has appeared in the “Take Along Learning” series of activity/coloring books, Nickelodeon magazine, the Flight series (Villard) and Mad magazine. He publishes a comic, “Silent Kimbly” on the educational website Funbrain.com.
Ryan has considerable experience in the world of television and film. He has directed videos for Barney and Chuck E. Cheese and his storyboarding credits include the movie “Bowling for Columbine,” “Robots,” “Pinky Dinky Doo” and “Maya & Miguel” for Scholastic Entertainment.
Ryan’s artist temperament was shaped at an early age by his father, an industrial designer, and his mother, a kindergarten teacher. “Sesame Street” and the author, Dr. Seuss, fuelled his creativity and early on he developed a passion for drawing monkeys and monsters. In middle school Sias was diagnosed as dyslexic. While this didn’t make academics any less challenging for him, it did get him out of Spanish class and into extra art classes.
Zoe and Robot – Let’s Pretend!
In this comic book / picture book below, Zoe teaches Robot how to pretend.
It is part of Blue Apple Books “Balloon Toons” Series which are simple stories illustrated with zany cartoon art to engage and encourage new readers.
Published by Blue Apple Books - Comes out April 2011
This is how I normally work. I do pencil sketches for the whole book.
I use a light board and do inks on a new piece of paper. I used water color instead of ink. (Finally, someone who didn’t clean their studio before taking the picture. ~ Kathy)
I scan the finished inked page.
I color in photoshop and TA DA! Finished art!
This book was done digitally. I do quick sketches to get the story across and make sure its reading.
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Laura says, “I have always loved to make art. That same spirit that moved me to render Humpty Dumpty in crayon on a white cupboard when I was two years old moves me today. Now, instead of crayons it is with watercolor and oil paint that I try to communicate what inspires me.
“I went to The School of Visual Arts for both my BFA and later my Teaching Certification. I have taught in public schools in NYC and New Jersey . I continue to teach art only not in the public schools anymore.
“I have worked in many ways a s a visual artist. I have done murals and faux painting, I have worked on house portraits for a real estate while still in school. I have done commissioned work as well as book illustrations. I still exhibit and do portrait work on commission. I have always been drawn to children’s books. I have learned a lot from various workshops and classes. The conferences have taught me the most. My illustrations have been in magazines, and I hope to do more.
“I seem to be drawn to the narrative. I love to draw and sometimes and content with the line drawing as a finished piece. I also love to celebrate text with rich color balancing bold compositions. It is as though I tell a little story in each composition. It is my sincere wish that the viewer is drawn closer to the story through when viewing my illustrations.”
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Double Page Spread Sketch to Finish Piece. The story is of a very poor little girl and her dad in China. The little girl finds a silver buckle in the center of a squash. This will prove to change their lives!
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Cynthia is a traditional artist using acrylic, watercolor and gouache in her painting and illustration. She worked as a museum educator and in public schools, teaching art to children and adults. She is greatly inspired by her student’s work. Cynthia exhibits and sells her paintings in galleries and her poetry has been published in chapbooks.
She aspires to be an author/illustrator and is currently working on several picture book manuscripts.
Cynthia loves animals and gets many story ideas from the antics of her five pets. In her spare time she enjoys horses and riding through the park.
She began her formal art training in England then transferred to Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she lived with several friends in an old farm house near Peggy’s Cove.
At the kitchen window we could see whales spouting in the ocean, while the deer ate from the apple trees in the yard around the house. Here I also learned about the beauty of the vast sky and billowing cloud formations.
Cynthia shares studio space with her photographer husband.
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Bird Coming in From Snow Fight Below
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Timothy Young has been a toy designer, illustrator, sculptor, puppetmaker, a graphic designer and pop-up engineer of I’m Looking For A Monster! His work has been seen on television, in major magazines and on toy shelves worldwide. He majored in illustration at Pratt Institute and has over 25 years experience as a professional artist. He even created an iPhone App Creatures & Characters Mix-Em-Ups. His illustrations have been seen internationally, including the covers of Popular Science and Golf Digest.
His first book was published by Random House. Although he’s wanted to create books for a long time, he never thought his first book would be a pop-up. Tim looks forward to putting out many more books in the coming years, and just recently signed with the Herman Agency. They are currently showing new pop-up and picture books to publishers.
Tim in my studio with some of the toys he designed on his shelves.
When I first presented “I’m Looking For A Monster!”, it was a straight picture book. This was the spread for “I want a Scary Monster…”
And this is the sketch for the next page, “But Not That Scary!”
These are the thumbnails, converting the spreads into pop-up page ideas.
And this is the final pop-up spread.
Here is the illustration of the wrap-around cover.
This is a spread from “They’re Coming!” using a similar silhouette style, but with a deeper background.
My Agent, Ronnie Herman, has advised me to work in a looser style. I now scan my sketches without clean-up or inking directly into Photoshop and use the rough line quality in the finished piece.
“Shadows On My Wall” combines the silhouette characters as shadows with a looser, more traditional style in the foreground.
This is my pencil for a book called “The Day Goes On Forever” I work in blue Prismacolor pencil on rough paper to get the line quality I like.
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By: Kathy Temean,
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Mike Scott has been a professional illustrator for 26 years. Moving from Ohio to New Jersey in 1984, he worked at The Courier-News as a illustrator, graphic artist and editorial cartoonist until jumping to The Star-Ledger in 1996, where he worked as a graphic artist, illustrator and editorial cartoonist until 2009.
Now, he works as a freelance artist in magazine & newspaper illustration, web graphics, logo design and general illustration. The NJ Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded Mike a first- and third-place for his editorial cartoons for newjerseynewsroom.com in 2010.
His children’s book illustrations are done in pencil and pen & ink, and then painted in Photoshop.
First up is an illustration done for NJSCBWI’s June 2010 illustrator intensive. I chose to illustrate a double-truck spread from Peter McCarty’s wonderful book, “Jeremy Draws a Monster.”
After I do some character sketches, I sketch out the spread at a larger size, so it can be reduced for the final (it tightens up the drawing).
Once the art director approves the initial sketch — after whatever tweaking or changes he/she needs, I transfer the drawing to a better grade of paper (usually 80 lb. drawing paper) using a light table. I ink the final with Micron felt pens and technical pens.
In this example, the AD suggested I make the monster a little less scary, and also make him taller, to give him more emphasis within the illustration. I thought those were pretty good suggestions, so I made the adjustments.
Then I scan the inked drawing into Photoshop. With this illustration, drew and scanned Jeremy and the monster separately. I wanted Jeremy to be outlined in black, but the rest of the illustration outlined in a blue line to make Jeremy stand out more. Using layer masks in Photoshop, I adjusted the color of the outlines to blue and placed Jeremy and the monster in the illustration. Photoshop is also great because it allows me to place the type.
Now I’m ready to apply the “paint” in Photoshop. I work with layers in Photoshop, so every element’s color is on its own layer —this is one advantage about Photoshop: if I need to adjust any element, I can go to that element’s layer and not affect any other item in the illustration. I try to map out the color of the entire drawing in my mind.
In this example,
By: Kathy Temean,
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Once you look at Jeanne Balsam’s art, I think you will realize that Jeanne has been in love all her life. In love with animals, that is. From her first steps toddling up to hug her cousin’s Beagle, Jeanne has been entranced by animals of every kind right through to today where they are a rich source of inspiration in her writing and illustrating.
After completing her B.F.A. at Pratt Institute, Jeanne continued her post-graduate studies there in Art Therapy. But it was when she studied the writing and illustrating of children’s books with Uri Shulevitz at the New School that Jeanne discovered her heart’s desire. Through a long and circuitous route, which included a major career change or two, Jeanne has finally returned to her dream. Her stories and illustrations focus on the special magic of animals and the children who discover it.
A Graphic Designer by trade, Jeanne’s artwork has been published quarterly since 2003 in Just Frenchies magazine to present and Just Terriers magazine until its closing in 2009. Her extensive drawing of the French Bulldog has inspired more than one of her current children’s books as well as a small business in French Bulldog art.
Jeanne’s illustrations are primarily in colored pencil and/or in watercolor colored pencil. She also works in watercolor and pen and ink and combinations of all these media.
Places Jeanne has carved out to do her artwork and writing. she says, “I actually work in two different spaces. If I’m doing spot art or working on a dummy, etc. and/or may need the computer, I tend to work in my downstairs space. When I am working on finished illustrations, I work in my upstairs studio space – quiet at the moment – where all my art supplies and children’s books are. It is when I am working here that I focus most deeply and am most inspired.”
Here is a black and white drawing Jeanne did of little Jeanne.
Here is some sketches and the final art from one of Jeann’s projects. Jeanne says, “French Bulldogs have a wide variety of facial expressions – a big part of their appeal. I wanted to capture their mischievous attitude in this drawing. At first I did a bunch of drawings with cupcakes, (but went for Christmas cookies instead), then of them climbing on the table, and finally ON the table, totally into the cookies and caught red-handed!”
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By: Kathy Temean,
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Sladjana was born in Yugoslavia 1973. Here is what she sent me:
We moved a few times before my art high school. 1992 year was my high school graduation year and beginning of the civil war in Sarajevo, BiH, Yugoslavia. We become refugees and with all that confusion I didn’t have all I needed to apply for Art University. So, instead of that I went to the teacher college with the idea to use my creativity in work with children .I start working in the day care for children age 3 – 7. That was a great experience for me .Few years later publisher “ Zavod za udjbenike” http://www.zavod.co.rs/ offered me to illustrate school books on Rusin language ( I am bilingual, rusin is one and serbian is other language) .First one is published in 1999 and other in 2000 year.Then I get married and had a child so ,drawing and illustrating somehow become more of a hobby then a profession .
Working with children gave me opportunity to try myself in making toys ,sets for children plays, murals. After 12 years of work at day care , getting married and having a daughter we come here to NJ , USA. Here I started to draw again with support of my family and Mrs. Janet Wong. In addition to everything else she did for me ,she sent me a link to NJSCBWI logo contest. Attending a NJSCBWI conference was new and excited experience.
If you attended the NJSCBWI conference in June, you will remember that Sladjana won the award for this year’s logo contest.
Now I’m working on a few picture books .One of them is “ Luna goes to the mall” –about a playful and happy octopus .She like chocolate chip cookies and jumping on the bed .But her favorite thing to do is –going to the mall. I am still searching for the best background solution and environment for her.
I tried to make Luna the octopus to be a real girl to see how she would look like and that become another story : “ MY beautiful girl” with similar content but her favorite thing is going to the playground and she has a cat named zoee to make her company in her adventures .
I met Tory at one of the Networking Dinners in June and immediately was impressed with her talent and all she has accomplished in her first 22 years of life. She is full of creative ideas and pushes the envelope on how she can make money and show off her art. I think you will also be impressed.
At age 22, Tory Novikova has graduated in May 2010 from Pratt Institute’s school of Art and Design. There she studied a mixture of illustration, children’s illustration, and graphic design as part of her BFA in Communications Design.
She had immigrated to the United States with her parents from Moscow, Russia, in the early 90′s shortly after yet another revolution took place there. It’s not a surprise that Tory is enamored with art, after all, she was practically destined for it. Her ancestry links back to even the great Bolshoi Theater in Moscow where her great grandparents worked as production artists. Though, if it wasn’t for her mother – a renowned Muscovite fashion designer herself – Tory would have never picked up those pastels, water colors, or pencils at age 3 and let her imagination run wild ever since.
In the US, Tory was exposed to a mixture art culture – but cartoons and comics always had the greatest effect on her. She has been making short comics and characters since high school (her 2006 high school yearbook is proof).
Recently she had the opportunity to publish one of her 8-page stories with Dark Horse Comics (MDHP anthology issue #4), and to the credit of her editor, Scott Allie, it came out looking even better than expected. The process for creating Face of Evil was simple: first came the original script, then came the second draft, rough layouts, pencils, and the digital color. The lettering was done by Nate Peikos of Blambot.
She’s also working on a personal project called Count Dorkula – dedicated to her little 7 year old cousin’s unnatural obsession with all things dark and creepy. Though Count Dorkula doesn’t really fit the stereotype of the average vampire, he is very reminiscent of a human adolescent boy.
With the helping guidance of her esteemed professors Pat Cummings and Tom Graham, Tory created two original stories titled Calamity strikes Fumyumia and J∅rgen the Norwegian Forest Cat, that she hopes to some day publish with the children’s book market.
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The illustrators who attended the conference last weekend participated in a faculty juried art exhibit. I think everyone who attended was impressed with the caliber of illustrations displayed. I know I heard many of the editors and agents say how difficult it was to judge. I also heard many non-attendees in the hotel walk by the exhibit and comment on how much they enjoyed viewing the art, so I congratulate all the illustrators who exhibited. I would like to introduce you to our winners.
Beth Bogert won first prize, which was a free membership to SCBWI. Beth also was a runner-up in our Annual Logo Contest.
You can see more of Beth’s work by going to www.bethannbogert.com
Lisa Falkenstern tied for Second place with Doris Ettlinger. You can see more of Lisa’s artwork by going to www.lisaFalkenstern.com
Doris Ettlinger, the other second place winner and Lisa won a years subscription to Sprouts Magazine. You can see Doris’s New Jersey Shore Illustration below and see more of her work at www.dorisettlinger.com
Penny Weber and Bruce Arant tied in for third place and won an autographed Richard Peck book.
Here’s Bruce’s artwork and a link http://www.arantcreative.com/portfolio.php to view more.
And Penny Weber below and her link:http://www.pennyweberart.com/
Somehow the poster that I had made up to show off the Logo Contest Winners disappeared on Saturday, so her is what the poster looked like for those of you that missed it.
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Last Weekend Tracey wrote and article about her trip to BEA. I wanted to share a few more pieces of her artwork and give you a sneak peak of the picture book she is working on. But first a little bit about Tracey:
Tracey Berglund is a native Brooklynite whose latest watercolors of Brooklyn and New York City emerged unexpectedly from her recent return to the Park Slope/Gowanus area of Brooklyn.
Her career as an illustrator, artist, teacher and designer has taken her to London, Stockholm, Rio and Cape Town where she has also resided. Always inspired by her surroundings, Tracey’s latest works embrace the renaissance which Brooklyn is presently undergoing and the diverse communities thriving within it.
Tracey’s preferred medium is watercolor dyes and ink. She appreciates the spontaneity. vivid color, and transparent qualities of the medium as well as it’s ability to convey the lively energy of the scenes she depicts from real life.
Her commercial clients include:The Gap, The Food Network, Nokia, Nickelodeon, Virgin Atlantic, IBM, VH1, Target, Intel and the US Departments of Energy and Education.
Tracey has also worked extensively with non-profits as an art and language teacher most recently in Cape Town and also through IBM.Tracey K. Berglund
Tracey studied at FIT, The School of Visual Arts and the London College of Printing.
Here is the art from her picture book work-in-progress.
A few days ago I said I was looking for people who would be interested in writing something for my blog. I felt it was a win-win, since it would be a great way for a writer to promote themselves and it would give me a few days where I didn’t have to do research for my blog.
Writer/illustrator, Tracey Berglund was the first to e-mailed me and said she had just gotten back from BEA. Of course, I knew all of you would be interested in hearing about her experience, so she agreed to share the high points of her day with you.
My first thought was to put up Tracey article, plus her artwork, but after reading her article, I felt running her artwork and her article together would take something away from both.
I have always wanted to show off the many talented illustrators I know and meet, and have been disappointed that the illustrators have never written anything about craft for my blog. Tonight a light bulb came on and I decided every Saturday will be ”Illustrator Saturday.” So next Saturday Tracey will be the first Illustrator for “Illustrator Saturday”. I will show you some of her new art from her latest book dummy and a couple other pieces, along with her bio.
If you are an illustrator and would like to have me show off your artwork, please contact me. Send me your picture, bio, website (if you have one) and illustrations you think represent your best work.
Here is Tracey BEA article and one piece of her artwork to whet you appetite:
I went to the Book Expo yesterday, quite a trip!
When I arrived I realized that people like me, illustrator/authors were not really welcome, as I heard the person I bought the ticket from say so to an artist/writer who didn’t know what to fill out on the form registration form. I had written I was a non editorial media person, and wrote the name of the mobile company where I do freelance work. I didn’t let that spoil my fun and curiosity though. I had decided to attend my first Book Expo with a detached air and not have specific intentions so I wouldn’t get stressed out. I felt good wearing one of my British Alison and Antonia t-shirts, it said “I specialize in 19th century poetry” which is a random, and tongue in cheek graphic (I have another that says I Specialize in 18th Century Architecture) and of course I wore it to amuse myself. Twice though, I’ve met shy poets who asked if I really was a poet. (I am not) Trade shows are like airports, no one really looks at each other - too busy…
Once inside there were thousands upon thousands of publishers and marketers and ebooks business people, etc, etc. It was rather overwhelming. Librarians and book enthusiasts stand in long queues to get signed books from their fav authors, the name authors require pre-ticketing before queuing. The authors or sometimes publisher reps would say one line to them and smile. With a sigh of disappointment sometimes only posters were given out, and not the books. There were some very odd titles being promoted too-some of the more memorable ones included:” How To Live Like a King on Credit Card Debt”, Is God Really Listening?”, “Dinosaur vs. the Potty”-(yes, for kids”, “Why Men Prowl and How not To Become Prey”, and much more.
I donated a dollar and got a signed book from an author whose signing line was not
And I recognized the elephants immediately as one of the covers for Sprouts! Thanks for sharing.
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Wow, talk about a well-rounded and talented guy! You do such great work! I’ve always wanted to do comic-like work, but don’t/can’t.
And your story time promo stuff is wonderful!
Btw, Ryan, I had the pleasure of meeting Jim Jinkins and talked with him a couple of times by phone. What a nice guy! You must’ve really enjoyed working with him.
Thanks for sharing!
Donna
I am so excited to see one of my favorite author/illustrators here! I just love the fun and imagination behind your work <3 It's so nice to get a look at your background, process and your creative space! XOXO
The Zoe and Robot cover is AWESOME!!! So glad to see it, Ryan. Thanks for sharing, Kath!!