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Prompt Party! December 2018 assignment
Prompt Party! December 2018 assignment

As many of you know, I run the Prompt Party account over on instagram. It’s a year old as of last month! It started out as weekly prompts, but a week isn’t always enough time to do portfolio-ready work, especially if you’re busy. It was always my intention to create something that you can jump in and out of from week to week, but after running a poll in my instagram stories, it seems that what’s best for people is fewer, more thoughtful assignments.

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The 2018 Global Talent Search
The 2018 Global Talent Search

If you’re reading this, you probably know that I was one of the winners of the Lilla Rogers Studio 2018 Global Talent Search. My life has been an absolute whirlwind since then, but I thought I’d share my thoughts on the competition—what it was like to compete, and what it takes to win—while it’s still reasonably fresh in my mind.

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Bologna Children's Book Fair - What to bring
Bologna Children's Book Fair - What to bring

It's been just about a month since I attended the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and my head is still spinning from all the inspiration. It was my first trip to the fair, and I already want to go back!

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#advent_challenge2018 day 3: This isn't exactly wintery but it's the first thing that came to me when I read the prompt about warm light and pie. And this could easily be a winter scene here in sunny San Francisco, so I'm just gonna roll with it. Guys I'm really excited about this piece. The fact is I've been working on a set of brushes for @procreate and this is my very first illustration using all my own brushes! I've still got some tweaking to do but I'm feeling pretty good about the result! For those of you who are interested, here's the info about the challenge: Repost @ema_malyauka ・・・ Ho-ho-ho, 🎄Winter days are coming with cozy music, hot chocolate, and beautiful fairytales. I and my friends are running the Christmas Advent challenge this year again. Join us if you want to get Christmas spirit☺️! The rules are simple👌🏻: 🖋1. Draw something nice with any technique or materials. 🖋2. Post it with hashtags #advent_challenge and #advent_challenge2018 🖋3. Repeat this 7 times. 🖋4. Get your Christmas spirit! That's it! In the end you will get 7 postcards that you can give to your friends or send to postcards companies😉. This is going to be wonderful, isn't it? Our dream team✌🏻: @ema_malyauka, @vvberger, @ladykbuzz, @kayla_stark, @anastasia_lavru, @cappuccinka_art, @laura_illustrator, @katya_tikhova, @housecatillustration Are you joining? #illustration #illustrator #procreate #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart #illo #lillarogers @procreate
#advent_challenge2018 day 2: Hot Chocolate Weather! I had a loose idea of how I wanted to frame this scene, but I couldn't decide how to crop it, so I drew the whole thing wider than necessary. 😆 Swipe to see it. Now I'm not sure which I like better! How about you? Wide or zoomed? Keep swiping to see the challenge prompts (as drawn by @ema_malyauka), and scroll to see the brilliant and talented hosts and learn how to participate. Repost @ema_malyauka ・・・ Ho-ho-ho, 🎄Winter days are coming with cozy music, hot chocolate, and beautiful fairytales. I and my friends are running the Christmas Advent challenge this year again. Join us if you want to get Christmas spirit☺️! The rules are simple👌🏻: 🖋1. Draw something nice with any technique or materials. 🖋2. Post it with hashtags #advent_challenge and #advent_challenge2018 🖋3. Repeat this 7 times. 🖋4. Get your Christmas spirit! That's it! In the end you will get 7 postcards that you can give to your friends or send to postcards companies😉. This is going to be wonderful, isn't it? Our dream team✌🏻: @ema_malyauka, @vvberger, @ladykbuzz, @kayla_stark, @anastasia_lavru, @cappuccinka_art, @laura_illustrator, @katya_tikhova, @housecatillustration Are you joining? #illustration #illustrator #procreate #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart #illo #lillarogers @procreate
Yay! Remember the Little Women pattern I designed for @littleskeinanne? It's finally out in the wild in the form of some awfully cute project bags. There's even a beautiful and thoughtfully designed Little Women shawl kit with custom died yarn. If you or someone you know is a reader and a knitter, you have to check it out. 💕 📸: @larkinsmallphotography #patternobserver #patterndesign #surfacepattern #knitting #knittingpattern #knittersofinstagram #yarn #littlewomen #pattern #lillarogers
Here are all my #folktaleweek pieces! Wow that was a lot of art! All said and done there were over 20,000 posts. When we set this challenge, we had no idea so many people would join us, but we're so glad you did! A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in and supported Folktale Week! . Swipe to see just a few of my all-time favorites, and tap to see the artists. It was sooo hard to narrow it down. . Folktale Week will be back this time next year. Meanwhile, we’re devising a brand new challenge for next spring, so keep an eye out for that! We’ll be dropping hints in the coming months. . Folktale Week was brought to you by artists from around the world. We appreciate your support, and hope to see you for our next challenge! Many thanks from: . @jennifermpotter, @devonholzwarth, @sinulee, @carolinebonnemuller, @sofiamoore_studio, @heycasshey, @rachaelschaferdesigns, @sandiesonke, @debrastyer, @laure_illustrations @louve.draws, @matejalukezic @shelly_laslo @tanja_stephani @juliachristiansde @thebrotherskent . . . . . #illo #illustration #illustrator #illustrationartists #artchallenge #childrensbookillustration #folktaleweek2018 #procreate #lillarogers
#folktaleweek Day 7: Animal 🐶🎻😸📯🐓🐎👒 (Work in progress) . You probably know this one. The Brementown Musicians is the story of how some old animals flee their respective homes instead of sticking around, waiting for a presumably unpleasant end. They decide to go the the city to become musicians, and on the way, they happen upon some robbers in their hideout. The animals end up inadvertently scaring the robbers away, so they're left with a cozy little home and the robbers' ill-gotten loot. I like it when the animals win. . This piece needs more work, but I really wanted to finish all of the Folktale Week prompts in the alloted time. I got it finished just under the wire (11:52 PM to be precise), but I decided to wait until Monday morning to post, because it was so late. And you know how the algorithm dings you if you can't respond to comments right away. 🙄⠀ . I hope you all enjoyed the challenge! It's been amazing seeing so many people get involved!⠀ . Many incredible artists came together to make this challenge possible. Be sure to check out their profiles for inspiration:⠀ . @jennifermpotter, @devonholzwarth, @sinulee, @carolinebonnemuller, @sofiamoore_studio, @heycasshey, @rachaelschaferdesigns, @sandiesonke, @debrastyer, @laure_illustrations @louve.draws, @matejalukezic @shelly_laslo @tanja_stephani @juliachristiansde @thebrotherskent⠀ . . . . . #folktaleweek2018 #fairytale #lillarogers #illo #illustration #procreate #grimm #illustrate #bookcover @procreate
#folktaleweek Day 6: Mirror ⠀ .⠀ This is a Japanese (and Chinese apparently) ghost story called The Mirror and the Bell. The priests of a small village wanted to create a great bell to put in their temple, so they asked all the women in town to donate their bronze mirrors so they could be melted. One women did not want to give up her mirror because it was a family heirloom, passed down for centuries, but she did so anyway. But because the mirror had not been given with her whole heart, it would not melt. So she did what any good citizen would do, she walked into the river and drowned herself. The link was broken, the mirror melted, and the bell was made. But there was a rumor that if anyone broke the bell, her ghost would reward them. So people tried and tried, but it was made too well. Eventually the priests got annoyed, and they put the bell in a crate and dropped it in the river. Since the bell could not be broken, legend has it that if you break a substitute for the bell, a smaller bell or a bronze bowl, she will still reward you.⠀ .⠀ Want to join Folktale Week? It’s not too late! Simply follow the prompt list and post art inspired by folktales. Use any medium you like, and interpret them any way you wish. Tag your posts with #folktaleweek and #folktaleweek2018. All are welcome!⠀ .⠀ Prompts:⠀ Monday 11/12: Forest⠀ Tuesday 11/13: Magic⠀ Wednesday 11/14: Witch⠀ Thursday 11/15: Ghost⠀ Friday 11/16: Insect⠀ Saturday 11/17: Mirror⠀ Sunday 11/18: Animal⠀ .⠀ Many incredible artists came together to make this challenge possible. Be sure to check out their profiles for inspiration:⠀ .⠀ @jennifermpotter, @devonholzwarth, @sinulee, @carolinebonnemuller, @sofiamoore_studio, @heycasshey, @rachaelschaferdesigns, @sandiesonke, @debrastyer, @laure_illustrations @louve.draws, @matejalukezic @shelly_laslo @tanja_stephani @juliachristiansde @thebrotherskent⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #fairytale #lillarogers #illo #illustration #procreate #best_of_illustrations #illustrate @procreate
#folktaleweek Day 4: Insect 🦋⠀ .⠀ This piece is inspired by the Japanese folktale, The Fire Quest. A poet sits, reading by his lit candle, and is saddened by the little moths and other insects who fly too close to the flame and burn their wings, He tries to stop them by telling them of the Firefly Queen, most beautiful and wicked of insects, who sends her many suitors on a fool's errand to bring back fire. All while they are searching and burning, and dying, and being swept away without a thought, she remains cozy in her lotus flower with her lover, the Lord of the Fireflies, who doesn't need to get fire, for he already carries it with him.⠀ .⠀ I decided to try designing this piece like a book cover. My final Folktale Week post will be one, too!⠀ .⠀ Want to join Folktale Week? It’s not too late! Simply follow the prompt list and post art inspired by folktales. Use any medium you like, and interpret them any way you wish. Tag your posts with #folktaleweek and #folktaleweek2018. All are welcome!⠀ .⠀ Prompts:⠀ Monday 11/12: Forest⠀ Tuesday 11/13: Magic⠀ Wednesday 11/14: Witch⠀ Thursday 11/15: Ghost⠀ Friday 11/16: Insect⠀ Saturday 11/17: Mirror⠀ Sunday 11/18: Animal⠀ .⠀ Many incredible artists came together to make this challenge possible. Be sure to check out their profiles for inspiration:⠀ .⠀ @jennifermpotter, @devonholzwarth, @sinulee, @carolinebonnemuller, @sofiamoore_studio, @heycasshey, @rachaelschaferdesigns, @sandiesonke, @debrastyer, @laure_illustrations @louve.draws, @matejalukezic @shelly_laslo @tanja_stephani @juliachristiansde @thebrotherskent⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #folktale #fairytale #folklore #lillarogers #bookcover #bookdesign #goillo
#folktaleweek Day 4: Ghost 👻⠀ .⠀ This ghost comes from Philip Pullman's version of the Grimm fairy tale, Little Brother and Little Sister. It's pretty long, so I'm not going to tell you the whole tale here, but a little girl and her brother have an evil stepmother (doesn't everyone in these stories?) who beats them every day, so they flee. One thing leads to another and the boy is turned into a deer, and the girl becomes queen, naturally. Of course the stepmother is angry they're now living it up in a castle, well...castle and stable, and that just won't do. So right after the queen gives birth, the stepmother lures her into a bath, lights a blazing fire under it, and magically seals the door, so that the queen died from smoke inhalation. The wicked stepmother has her daughter replace the queen, so no one knows she's dead yet...or what happened to the bathroom apparently. But in the middle of the night, while everyone but the nursemaid is asleep, the queen visits her baby and the little deer, once soaked from head to toe, then surrounded in flames, and finally covered in soot and smoke.⠀ .⠀ Want to join Folktale Week? It’s not too late! Simply follow the prompt list and post art inspired by folktales. Use any medium you like, and interpret them any way you wish. Tag your posts with #folktaleweek and #folktaleweek2018. All are welcome!⠀ .⠀ Prompts:⠀ Monday 11/12: Forest⠀ Tuesday 11/13: Magic⠀ Wednesday 11/14: Witch⠀ Thursday 11/15: Ghost⠀ Friday 11/16: Insect⠀ Saturday 11/17: Mirror⠀ Sunday 11/18: Animal⠀ .⠀ Many incredible artists came together to make this challenge possible. Be sure to check out their profiles for inspiration:⠀ .⠀ @jennifermpotter, @devonholzwarth, @sinulee, @carolinebonnemuller, @sofiamoore_studio, @heycasshey, @rachaelschaferdesigns, @sandiesonke, @debrastyer, @laure_illustrations @louve.draws, @matejalukezic @shelly_laslo @tanja_stephani @juliachristiansde @thebrotherskent⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #folktale #fairytale #folklore #lillarogers #ghost #childrensbookillustration #best_of_illustrations
#folktaleweek Day 3: Witch 🐇⠀ .⠀ This piece is based on the Cornish tale, The Witch of Treva: A powerful witch lived in a small village with her husband. The locals were afraid of her spells, but her husband was more concerned that she cooked and kept a clean home. One day her husband came home from work, and there was no dinner on the table. He was angry, but his wife told him you "can't get meat from bare rock." So the husband sarcastically told her that if she could get food on the table in an hour he would believe in her power. He watched her walk out the door, and to his surprise, at the bottom of the hill she turned into a hare and leapt away. An hour later she returned with a full meal of meat and vegetables. He ate the meal, but from that day on, he was afraid of his wife, and was completely submissive until the day she died. ⠀ .⠀ Want to join Folktale Week? It’s not too late! Simply follow the prompt list and post art inspired by folktales. Use any medium you like, and interpret them any way you wish. Tag your posts with #folktaleweek and #folktaleweek2018. All are welcome!⠀ .⠀ Prompts:⠀ Monday 11/12: Forest⠀ Tuesday 11/13: Magic⠀ Wednesday 11/14: Witch⠀ Thursday 11/15: Ghost⠀ Friday 11/16: Insect⠀ Saturday 11/17: Mirror⠀ Sunday 11/18: Animal⠀ .⠀ Many incredible artists came together to make this challenge possible. Be sure to check out their profiles for inspiration:⠀ .⠀ @jennifermpotter, @devonholzwarth, @sinulee, @carolinebonnemuller, @sofiamoore_studio, @heycasshey, @rachaelschaferdesigns, @sandiesonke, @debrastyer, @laure_illustrations @louve.draws, @matejalukezic @shelly_laslo @tanja_stephani @juliachristiansde @thebrotherskent⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #folktale #fairytale #folklore #lillarogers #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #goillo⠀
#folktaleweek Day 2: Magic. This is from a Slavic tale called Beauty and the Horns. The story goes that there is a notoriously cunning beauty, and if you even look at her, you won't be able to think of anyone else. A young man defies his father to go see her, but she won't give him the time of day. So he uses several magic items to basically invade her privacy, and she tricks him out of them. Of course, like many fairy tales, she doesn't mean to be difficult, she's just under a spell🙄, which can be broken by any man who tricks her. So the man finds some magic grapes, makes it into a jam, and tricks her into eating it, which makes her grow horns. Suddenly she's no longer quite as beautiful, and that makes her miserable. Once she admits defeat, the spell is broken, and they live happily ever after. Personally, I feel like she got a raw deal, so I decided to draw her enjoying the jam, happy being clever, and not being too stressed about the whole horns situation.⠀ ⠀ .⠀ Want to join Folktale Week? It’s not too late! Simply follow the prompt list and post art inspired by folktales. Use any medium you like, and interpret them any way you wish. Tag your posts with #folktaleweek and #folktaleweek2018. All are welcome!⠀ .⠀ Prompts:⠀ Monday 11/12: Forest⠀ Tuesday 11/13: Magic⠀ Wednesday 11/14: Witch⠀ Thursday 11/15: Ghost⠀ Friday 11/16: Insect⠀ Saturday 11/17: Mirror⠀ Sunday 11/18: Animal⠀ .⠀ Many incredible artists came together to make this challenge possible. Be sure to check out their profiles for inspiration:⠀ .⠀ @jennifermpotter, @devonholzwarth, @sinulee, @carolinebonnemuller, @sofiamoore_studio, @heycasshey, @rachaelschaferdesigns, @sandiesonke, @debrastyer, @laure_illustrations @louve.draws, @matejalukezic @shelly_laslo @tanja_stephani @juliachristiansde @thebrotherskent⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #illo #illustration #illustrator #illustrationartists #artchallenge #illustrationchallenge #artprompts #prompts #characterdesign #visualstorytelling #folktale #folktales #fairytale #fairytales #folklore #childrensbookillustration #бабаяга#иллюстратор #рисуйкаждыйдень #детскиекниги #beautyandthebeast #magic #ilustración #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #picturebook #goillo