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An esteemed panel of judges (possessing much expertise and very good taste) pored over portfolios yesterday to choose winners for the SCBWI Portfolio Showase! Laurent Linn, Steven Malk, Richard Jesse Watson, Nancy Conescu and Jamie Weiss Chilton chose a grand prize winner and three honor winners as well as several illustrators to participate in SCBWI's illustrator mentorship program.
Note that mentorship recipient Julianna Brion won an SCBWI student scholarship (one of three winners), awarded this year for the first time. And she's the recipient of both a portfolio honor and mentorship. Also note that honor winner Joen Deininger was a mentorship winner last year. (The wonderful SCBWI Illustrator Committee programs yield results!)
Here are the recipients...
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| Grand Prize Winner: ELIZA WHEELER |
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Portfolio Honor: GREG PIZZOLI |
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| Portfolio Honor & Mentorship Recipient: JULIANNA BRION |
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| Portfolio Honor: JOHN DEININGER |
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By: John Deininger,
on 8/13/2010
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Went overboard a bit here, piece is still in-progress, any feedback would be great! 
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Been taking lots of classes lately. A recent concept art class for gaming at Seattle Central Community College had students building up characters from silhouettes; two of my studies: 
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Piece created during the week-long Illustration Master Class, each June in Amherst, MA - a mind-blowing event that centers on Fantasy/Sci-Fi illustration. James Gurney was this year's guest instructor! 
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Lots of sketching lately, from the zoo and the imagination. 
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Been a long while since last post; working on a newish style with more layers of watercolor on top of prismacolor pencil (for texture); what'chy'all think? 
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More things chasing things... 
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Had fun working on an image where stars reveal themselves as robots.
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Inspired by Goya.
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Working on the second of three finsihed spreads for a children's picture book dummy, in which a robot is searching for a star.
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Played around with watercolor pencils today. I love the texture they create, depending on the application of water and brush pressure. What fun! The background color was changed and diffused in Photoshop.
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Here are the Terrible Tinys! A mail-order gang of terrible, tiny creatures who really aren't all that terrible. They eat weeds and rotting fruit, they use house-dust to build tiny homes, and generally re-use all the things we humans think of as rubish!
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One on paper; one on board.
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Congratulations, everyone!
And a special shout-out to Andrea!
Yaaaay!
So Exciting!!! ❀◕‿◕❀
Thank you so much, SCBWI! I should also add that I was in the mentorship program last year, along with John Deininger, and couldn't have gotten this far without it. My many thanks to the mentors, my fellow mentees, and the judges of this year's showcase!!