How To Promote Your Illustration Work In 2025
Platform pressure, mental health impacts and creative fatigue are all costs of building a business...
Kirbi Fagan
How to Improve your Cat and Dog Drawings With One Tip
Whether it’s portrait of a pet or the furry best friend of a fictional hero, most illustrators will be asked to draw a dog or cat along the way. In this article, I’ll focus on the often overlooked skull and head differences that can dramatically improve your drawings and basic animal anatomy. This key insight will help improve your dog and cat anatomy with one look.
If you’ve read my articles, you will know The…
Should Artists Create Alt Text?
Hello Muddies, I’ve come off an exciting month, launching We Are The Scrappy Ones. In other great...
Illustrating A Picture Book with A Tra-Digital Approach
I’m excited to present a project of mine coming next week, April 1st, “We Are The Scrappy Ones.”
We Are the Scrappy Ones was written by groundbreaking educator-memoir writing-creative,-activist, Rebekah Tuassig.
We are the scrappy ones. / We live, we adapt, we defy. / Made of stardust and grit, we are spectacular.
Children with disabilities experience the world in all kinds of ways. Yet one thing they share is navigating a world that doesn’t…
Traditional-Digital Legacy with Matthew Schenk
Traditional and Digital tools together are being used in collaboration in illustration today more than ever.
I’m bringing Muddy Colors an artist and gifted teacher who rides the waves of technology alongside traditional art making. Matthew Schenk is an artist and illustrator who has illustrated various projects from coloring books to medical illustrations. He spent ten years in Los Angeles, California working on productions for Sony Pictures/ Columbia Tristar Children’s Entertainment including the animated version…
Tra-digital Tell All
I first heard the term “Tra-digital” about a decade ago, most artists know it means when an artist combines traditional materials like paint and pencils along with digital tools like a Wacom tablet, iPad or Cintiq. I’ve been developing my approach using both traditional and digital tools since I graduated from art school. I’ve avoided sharing my process online because my process is not pretty and not always linear. This process continues to develop for…
Interview With Cover Aritist Kelley McMorris
I connected online with Kelley, admiring her career in book cover art. Her work was everywhere I...
Illustrating book covers and Interiors for middle grade readers
My favorite work I have done, and hope to continue to do, is working on middle grade books. From fantasy, to historial fiction it’s been a rewarding area of my career and one I had my heart set on doing since my college years.
What is Middle Grade?
Some people debate where exactly the rails are for the “middle grade” genre but most agree middle grade readers are 8-12 years old. The worldview in the…
Hand Lettering: An Act of Rebellion & Tool of Narration
I’m writing with another conversation on a topic that includes traditional skills, design, and the...
The Art of Green
One of the projects on my desk is a book with scenes featuring a lot of…. green. In gardening, textiles, and decorating, green hues flow for me. I incorporate them generously so much so that I think of green as a neutral color – a backdrop of life on Earth. But this romantic thought comes to a screaming halt when I’m planning a composition with a lot of green.
When I’m stuck with a problem…
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