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Anette Heiberg
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Anette Heiberg
www.anetteheiberg.com

As a full-time freelance illustrator, I usually have numerous projects going on at once. So in addition to the trade picture book that I'm working on, I'm also illustrating a bunch of Christmas cards right now that are for Christmas 2009. Yep, one and a half years away! Greeting card companies work far in advance, just like picture books.

Kristi Valiant
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A different version of the illustration I posted last week. I love drawing kids who paint or draw!
Anette Heiberg
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Last week I read Peter Pan as part of Jacqui Robbin's Remedial English Lit Summer Project. We're reading 15 classics in 15 weeks. I had never read Peter Pan, so I figured this was a good time. Here's my cocky, young Peter.

I drew the kids in my sketchbook as quick pencil sketches, then scanned them, resized them in Photoshop, added the background, and shaded them using Photoshop brushes. So this is mostly a digital illustration. I plan on using it in my chapter book/middle grade illustration portfolio.

Kristi Valiant
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Anette Heiberg
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A couple fun summery sketches from my sketchbook. When I create new characters like these, I try to show a distinct personality in each one through the pose of the body, facial expression, hairstyles, clothing choices, eyebrows, the amount of body movement, and so on. There are so many wonderful ways to give your characters life and personality.

Kristi Valiant
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Anette Heiberg
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Kristi Valiant
www.kristivaliant.com
http://kristivaliant.blogspot.com

God hand picks each one of us from the very beginning to do His good works in this world!
© Deborah C Johnson 2008
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This is a spread for a story I illustrated for Highlights High Five Magazine. It was published in the May 2008 issue.

Anette Heiberg
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Roberta Baird
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A Mouse in the House

This is an illustration I painted to add a new black and white picture to my portfolio.
Anette Heiberg
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Kristi Valiant
www.kristivaliant.com
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My first post on Picture-Bookies Showcase - thanks for inviting me to be a part of your wonderful group of illustrators!
This illustration won an Honorable Mention in the SCBWI Illustration Contest entitled, "Wacky Wedding."
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This is a 20 minute sketch to finish for Illustration Friday - Pet Peeves. Josie is my very real, very hairy, very voluptuous cat :)
© Deborah C Johnson 2008
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Paula J. Becker
For the book "Pilot Point", Nazarene Publishing House
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If you are in Portland by may come to see my first solo show in this city at The Basil Hallward Gallery in the 3rd floor of Powell's Books (The City of Books). The opening is thursday May 3rd and runs trough the 31st.