Paper Personas Sketch

Remember the Paper Personas project I mentioned below?  Well, I completed the project.
I will give you a sneak peak, a rough sketch.  I will be sending the final doll off to Art Doll Quarterly.
http://www.stampington.com/ArtDollQuarterly/index.html

If you are an artist and would like to make your own paper doll, the submissions are ongoing.  Check out the site!  It's a great magazine, as are all  Stampington's publications.

What's for Dinner? Worm Stew of course!

What's for dinner?  Worm stew!  Delicious only to birds I'm sure.  Verrry sketchy sketch of work in progress.  
I got this idea after making spaghetti. There were a few strays left in the pan.                                                                    http://raradesig3.wix.com/rachelbollman

Paper Personas Perfecto

  Lately have become obsessed with the idea of paper dolls.  It started with stumbling on a challenge from Art Doll Quarterly, Paper Personas...
http://www.stampington.com/submissions/callsChallenges.html#artdollquarterly
which sound so fun I started sketching right away.
  I was curious to see what else is out there so I did a Bing search on paper dolls and to my utter joy, my heart is racing...I found The Ginghams, a set I had as a small girl.  NOT ONLY did I find pictures but a link so that you too may print out A FULL SET for yourself! or your kids if you have them. http://tpettit.best.vwh.net/dolls/pd_scans/ginghams/index.html

10 Simple Illustration Tips for Success!*

 I went to a few conferences and condensed
the information into these simple tips!     

Hope it helps other illustrators...

Trying to maintain so many sites my head is spinning like my twitter post that won't tweet.
https://www.facebook.com/rachel.bollmanillustrator

Wishing I had a little time to read like this happy bird so anxious to get home. Have a Friday deadline to submit to an editor and panicking!  Gotta get to work!

               Here is the illustration I ended up submitting for the Tomie dePaola Award.

     This girl is a younger version from the first illustration.  I used ink and watercolor pencil.

I am anxious to see the other submissions.  The winner will be announced around the second week of Jan.  

    There will be a gallery of entries posted on http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Tomie-dePaola-Award  and you can read more about the award.