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Painting Process Breakdown

Robert Hunt

This month I thought I would share a little painting process. This is a painting of Arctic Explorer Frank Worsley* that I did as preliminary work as part of a project I'm working on. I start by doing a very loose sketch to lay out the composition I do the same to rough in the position of the facial features I start adding some transitional passing values and modulate the colors in the drawing. most…

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Making Books is a Team Sport – On Becoming a Author

Kirbi Fagan

November 4, 2025 - The submission process for writing illustrators isn’t a linear path. Today, I thought I’d outline the process on becoming an author-illustrator while sharing a bit of my own experience of emerging from the slush pile. Submitting Solo Most illustrators will relate to pitching their artwork to an art director. I walked that path standing in line or paying for portfolio reviews to get my work seen for many years. Mailing or emailing an art director (with care and research) is still a profitable way to put your artwork out there in 2025. As opportunities came in, the circus tent of my career started to have more and more structure. I dove into longer term illustration gigs, l enjoyed these immensely, feeling less like the tail of the dog and more like of part of the…

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