Children's Author & Puppeteer
Wed
17
Nov
2010
10 To Treasure
10 things I learnt from the SCBWI Conference 2010, Winchester, UK
Anish Kapoor Royal Academy Of Art
1. Visit Art Galleries and Museums
Speaker Marcus Sedgwick is writing Midwinterblood, a novel inpsired by Carl Larsson's mural painting at the National Museum in Stockholm.
Picture Book maker, Tim Hopgood visualised Here Comes Frankie after seeing sounds in Kandinsky's art at the Tate gallery.
SCBWI_BI illustrators' first sketchcrawl will be at the Natural History Museum on 26th Nov.
Lynne Chapman Picture Books
2. You don't have to be high-tech to create children's books but it helps.
Lynne Chapman, author and illustrator, uses Corel Painter for digital colouring (and cleans her pastels by shaking them in a bag of rice).
Marcus Sedgwick plays with Revolver on Prezie - the lateral way of presenting to his audience at events.
John Shelley suggested viewing the wonders of Wacom's new Cintiq pen for digital drawing.
3. Draw your character with a range of emotions to give it personality
This is a not a wolf. This is a particular wolf illustrated by Lynne Chapman.
This is a Dog Called Rod by Tim Hopgood.
4. If you want to write about a place, Google Street View will take you there for free (but it won't be half as much fun).
Possibly A Peacock - could be an idea for a book one day.
5. Reject Nothing
6. Tim Hopgood dances before work every day
7. 'We can have digital devices and books - we don't have to choose' - David Fickling
8. If there is no one else shouting about your book, you have to do it
9. 'We could not have succeeded without volunteers' - President Stephen Mooser praising the work of Natascha Biebow and team for the SCBWI in Britain.
I have so much more to pass on but how to get it all in to one. Well - as Linda Chapman said in her talk about pitching series fiction - sum it up in a nutshell.
10. Now I know what the C really stands for in SCBWI...
Comments: 12
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#1
Great blog! And it was a brilliant conference. Especially the cake, what a shame to cut it up and eat it.
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#2
Lovely lovely post - what a cracking picture of the cake cutting - i turned my back and missed it!
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#3
Cake! Cake! C AKE!
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#4
Did someone bring a cintiq? i would've loved to see it.
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#5
Great posting, Sue! And you managed to get so many good pictures. I want cake! I would also love to read more. Will you be posting further excerpts?
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#6
C is for cake, that's good enough for me …
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#7
Wonderful post Sue, fun to read and view and thought provoking, ta.
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#8
Love the post and some great photos. :)
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If SCBWI keeps launching books at this rate - they'll be opening a cake shop. Perhaps it's time to open an SCBWI_BI online bookstore!
Anita - it's great to see the varied POV's from the conference
Candy - I haven't seen a Cintiq - someone brought an ipad but I prefer to draw with a pen not my finger :)
Rebecca - oh I think I may be posting some of my sketches next...
Thanks for all your comments!
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#10
Wow! That cake is incredible!!! Probably the most amazing cake I've ever seen! I can't believe you guys had the heart to cut it! :-)
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#11
Yona, we didn't cut it - we edited it!
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#12
I'm always up for cake! Great post, excellent pics, as always Sue.
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