Another wonderful Google+ Hangout from Mark Mitchell!

Hangout Thursday with a prize-winning cakelustrator!

Join us this Thursday at noon for a free Hangout on Air with 2014 SCBWI Tomie dePaola Illustration Award winner Akiko White. She’ll show us her working process, answer your questions and chat with her SCBWI, illustrator and cake decorating colleagues — and you in this fun, informal live session. Discover:

How Akiko became a cakellustrator and how you can do it, too!
Why she includes bas relief and 3-D cake decoration in her artist’s mediums!
What it’s like to pioneer a ‘new method’ in an international illustration competition!

http://illustratechildrensbooks.com/hangout-with-akiko/ is the address for the free signup and replays!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

New children's book classes starting up

I also signed up for a few new classes, Will Terry's and Jake Parker's "Painting with Color and Light" Featuring Ty Carter from Bluesky studios and Mark Mitchells and Wendy Martin's "Vector Your Kidlit Art 6-week Adobe Illustrator Class" as with the apps, learning a painterly way to use vector (sizeable) art seems the perfect transition. Here is a free class intro and I am sure you can buy the recorded series after, View the recording we made of the free webinar.

This is a high Nouveau style of art from Echo-X that is Adobe Illustrator which I had no idea you could do things like this. Vector used to be only logos and more commercial graphic art, but not anymore!

Thanks! Dyann Joyce

Dyann Joyce : Writing Adventures of a Children's Book Author Illustrator

Navigation through the world of Children's Book Publishing. This writing blog focuses on the writing aspect of Picture Books (PB), Chapter Books (CB), Middle Grade (MG), New Adult (NA) and Young Adult (YA) books and offers tips, insight, querying help, social media help, tax and business side, and advice as one author illustrator makes her way (as she waits for art projects to come to fruition while having queries out). Welcome and enjoy!

For more focus on the art side of Children's Books, fee free to visit my visual Children's Book art portfolio is Dyann Joyce Adventures of a Illustrator Author and my project-based blog is there with my current art projects and upcoming books I have illustrated.