An Interview with Marla Frazee! (She mentions Taco Bell and George W. Bush)

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Teddy Newton's Day & Night

A good practice for writing picture books is to truncate movies or novels into a 100-word story for children. Teddy Newton did this for his own brilliant short film, Day & Night (part of the Toy Story 3 theatre experience). In this video, he explains a bit about the adaptation from film to picture book:

Registration for the SCBWI Winter Conference (NYC) starts today!

The Illustrator Intensive on Friday sounds amazing, almost like a mini-convention within the bigger convention, but specifically for children's book illustrators. Plus signing up for the intensive enables you to enter your portfolio in the private exhibition, where invited industry professionals can see it.

Registration opens at 1 pm EST today, and I'm eagerly waiting for my chance to register.

Blog highlight: The Sketchables

The Sketchables is a wonderful blog in which a group of illustrators share their sketches and thoughts on illustration with readers. The artists: Kelly Light, Joy Steuerwald, Diandra Mae, Priscilla Burris (YAY! One of our SCBWI Mentors!), and Heather Powers.

URL: http://thesketchables.blogspot.com/

Using the iPad for sketching

I've been using my iPad as a sketchbook for the past few months, and I love it. I use a Pogo Sketch Stylus, which is a sort of pseudo-pen with a spongy tip. You can just use the tip of your finger to draw on the iPad, but I like the feel of something pen-like in my hand. I use the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro app for the iPad, which has layers, transparency, brush sizes, etc.

Business Insider mentioned me today in their article about ways people use their iPads to create content. They included my sketch above, which I did at the cottage recently. I drew this picture of my friend reading on his iPad using MY iPad. :-)

Any other illustrators out there with iPads?

For those interested, I tweet about digital publishing, e-books, impact on technology on publishing (esp. kidlit) & iPads at @ipadgirl.