Experimenting for #colour_collective

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Castle, characters, illustration, Medieval Times, Picture Books, snails

The #colour_collective prompt this week was lava, so here are my snails living in a lava-colored castle and dining on their favorite marsh grass & moat slime. Big thanks to Patricia Keeler  and Aram Kim for photoshop pointers 💛 …and I have to keep trying and experimenting!

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#scbwidrawthis for February

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Castle, SCBWI, scbwidrawthis, snails

Glad that SCBWI started up their monthly illustrator prompt #scbwidrawthis for 2017! For this month, the word was love.

The Ghost of Rietberg Castle

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#colour_collective, Castle, ghost, illustration, Picture Books, Switzerland

I love #colour_collective, a weekly drawing prompt on Twitter. It has really helped me to rethink my older work. The color this week was #lilacGrey and I thought about an old character of mine named Pompeius von Planta who I sketched about 5 years ago:

And here is what I did with it for #colour_collective yesterday:

Hmmm. Hard to do this because I like the older one better. At least right now 🙂

 

Enchanted

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Castle, Cats, Don Gato, Donna Anna, Unicorn

My submission for the October Society of Children’s Bookwriters and Illustrators “Draw This” challenge. The word was ENCHANTED….

You can see lots more on Twitter at #scbwidrawthis