Hello Funsters,
Thanks to all who came along to my first Q&A session! I hope it was useful for you.
For those who couldn’t make it, here’s what we covered, although not necessarily in this order:
• Why I hid my picture books in a suitcase under my bed for almost a year.
• How I found an agent, or rather how she found me.
• Why I think drawing from life trumps drawing from a photograph.
• How to bridge the gap from drawing what you see to drawing from your imagination.
• How characters in my sketchbook became characters in my books.
• What comes first - writing or drawing?
• How I achieve a smudgy effect in my monochrome drawings.
Links I said I’d find!
🍑 Life drawing (all host online sessions):
✏️ Industry bits & bobs:
Orange Beak Online events, tutorials and workshops
The Good Ship Illustration Courses, podcast and freebies
SCWBI Global community for children’s book artists
The AOI Association of Illustrators (in the video I say it’s the Society of Illustrators, which exists but is different 😂)
💛 Substackers:
There’s so many fellow Substackers I’d recommend - you can find a list of some here (scroll down and they’re on the right near the bottom).
The next Q&A Session will be at the end of July. Exact date TBC!
Have fun!
🧡 Powell, Funster—In—Chief
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