by shellajack | Jul 9, 2011 | Blog, Critiquing, Events, Illustration Craft
Amy Farrier (left), Marsha Riti (right) and I (the middle of the Girllustrator muscle sandwich), celebrated Marsha’s fantabulously exciting news: she has signed with an agent at Prospect Agency! Hooray, Marsha! It’s no wonder Marsha got signed, since she...
by shellajack | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog, Critiquing, Illustration Craft
Last September Jeff and I were hired by the ad agency red&green in Colorado (where we were living at the time) to create a children’s book as part of a Christmastime promotion for Compassion International. Compassion seems like a great organization. They...
by shellajack | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog, Critiquing, Illustration Craft
This title kind of sounds like a Curious George book, eh? Well, the Girllustrators is not my next book idea—it is actually an illustration critique group. Being new in Austin, I really wanted to connect with some other female illustrators for feedback, group-imposed...
by shellajack | Apr 27, 2011 | Blog, Events, Illustration Craft, Technology & Picture Books
As you may have learned in my previous post, two weeks ago I was lucky enough to catch the panel Picturing Greatness: Picture Books that Stand Out in a Crowd with Morgan Marie McMillian, Dan Yaccarino, Chris Barton, Eric Rohmann and Kevin O’Malley at the Texas Library...