SCBWI Orlando

I had a chance to attend the Orlando SCBWI conference, it was great. The homework we had was to illustrate a Mother Goose rhyme, I found Elsie Marley, it was about a lazy self focused farm girl that is not feeding her swine...

This is the sketch I submitted to the art director. Her comment was to  concentrate on the fancy comment in the poem and make Elsie preening herself, I loved the suggestion and this is what I submitted:

At the conference someone suggested the room was too big and it looked like a mirror, so I fixed that and this is the finish,

I made the pigs lighter and fixed the room, by making it line up with the corner of the house and adding a window, I am happy with it. It really added to the poem.

This months Facebook header is all about bunnies. I was thinking of the holidays in March, St. Patricks is less fun than bunnies so I decided on this one. The girl and boy decided to pick some veggies from the garden and share with the bunnies.

facebook headers

I decided I would give myself a challenge and create a new header for both my website, SusanMillerIllustrator.com and my Facebook page. This is my first one, I created this on the iPad Pro with my pencil. I never had a cintiq and I am thinking working like this is the closest I have gotten to it. I love being able to make changes, change out backgrounds etc. So, happy February.