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adam rex friday february 21 2014 in which i m dressed like a bunny at 11 05 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels champions of breakfast cold cereal unlucky charms thursday february 13 2014 the prophecy and lo a hero will come as the prophecy has foretold and lo he will be strong and beautiful or she he or she will be strong and beautiful keeping in mind that words like these are hard to pin down like maybe the hero is beautiful on the inside or something the prophecy doesn t say exactly and yea in the twilight of whatever year this is the chosen one will arise and slay the great dragon and release the sugar zombies from their enchantment and thwart the lady of the lake in her plan to tear a door in the universe the prophecy says all this and more i don t have it with me i can show it to you later if you want but lo lo it is written that there shall be a handsome knight and a time traveling merlin and a stouthearted leprechaun and a girl possessed of a frightening genius and a boy who once won a second place ribbon for apple carving at the delaware county fair children 5 8 division though he was technically nine read on seeker of truth read on by which i mean please consider reading my cold cereal saga which is today completed with the publication of champions of breakfast at 5 29 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest an illustration from my new novel champions of breakfast and an inadvertent self portrait at 5 29 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels champions of breakfast thursday january 16 2014 at 4 26 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels smekpics boov fashion working on smek for president i ve been wondering what my alien j lo would be wearing after living on earth for a while he only had the one boovish uniform after all winter weather summery what sort of man reads playboov this seems right at 2 53 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels smekpics monday september 30 2013 filk song amazing song about the true meaning of smekday by a teen named rosie makes me so happy at 2 19 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels smekpics wednesday september 25 2013 baltimore you re having a book festival this weekend i m going to be at that at 1 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday september 7 2013 sketch robot house at 8 46 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 3 2013 then i started a yawn that swayed up the block crossed two policemen rounded the square and followed me home from moonday available now at 8 26 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels moonday monday september 2 2013 the band on bleecker street could only sigh into the microphone lullaboo i love you shush a loo la lullaboo from moonday out tomorrow at 11 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels moonday friday august 30 2013 moonday again i have a new shoddy homemade video so here s that at 1 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels moonday thursday august 29 2013 i looked through my heavy lashes though the window through lean trees to see my blue moon staring back at me moonday 9 3 at 6 05 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels moonday i walked over and under and around to where mom and dad waited what now another from moonday september 3rd at 4 11 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels moonday monday august 26 2013 the next morning the moon was lower and larger and very nearly on the ground it was in our backyard from moonday my new picture book available september 3rd at 12 25 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels moonday wednesday august 14 2013 moonday a detail from my next picture book moonday in stores september 3rd at 12 18 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels moonday tuesday august 13 2013 hey georgia i m going to be at the decatur book festival on september 1st talking about my new picture book moonday let s you and me get caught up at 1 21 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday august 11 2013 cold cereal commercial at 6 14 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cold cereal monday july 8 2013 stu stu studio i ve moved into a new studio this is what it looks like on the inside at 12 43 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday may 22 2013 phoenix comic con hey come see me this weekend at the phoenix comic con here s my table number and schedule 2524 where i ll be adam rex spotlight friday 1 30pm 2 30pm writing for today s younger readers saturday 1 30pm 2 30pm story creation with janni lee simner and adam rex sunday 12 00pm 1 00pm illustrating your own work sunday 1 30pm 2 30pm at 2 18 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 18 2013 how i make a picture book and not the only way to make a picture book obviously if it s not my own story then i m starting with just a word document or whatever of the author s manuscript sometimes you can tell by the way he broke up his sections how he thinks the book ought to be paginated but i m free to ignore that if i like paginating the book is the illustrator s prerogative a manuscript as it appears on my computer machine this is actually some text from the next book i m doing with gaiman couldn t find the last one so i print that manuscript out and start marking it up i draw brackets around sections that i think ought to stay together on a page or a spread this turns into a bit of a puzzle for at least a couple reasons because you want to be deliberate about where your page turns are falling and because virtually all printed books have a page count that s divisible by eight in a novel you can just throw a bunch of blanks at the end to round out another eight pages if you have to but with a picture book you need to be more precise add to this that nearly all picture books are either 32 or 40 pages long and it gets even more restrictive few pbs are more than 40 pages none are less than 32 board books don t count i probably just lost half my readers discussing this stuff so i m bailing out now but there are a lot of tricks for getting to the right page count and not all of them are obvious so to the guy in the comments section who is going to claim he found a pb with 35 pages i preemptively say nope you didn t we can talk about it after class once i know what s going where i can start sketching the thing out and i always end up doing something like this actually the thumbnails to chloe and the lion couldn t find the thumbs to chu s day either should i have made a panda thumbs joke here because pandas have thumbs maybe it s a little too on the nose i draw 32 or 40 or whatever little boxes on a single page of my sketchbook and start filling them in i only have the most rudimentary notion what each page is going to look like but this is where i usually discover the ideas that will make this my book as opposed to a book that was merely illustrated by me once i have all my pandas in a row i probably sketch character designs this is easily my favorite part of the process when everything s still new and the book in question is still the best thing i ve ever done or will do on this sketchbook spread you also see merle lynn a character from my cold cereal trilogy and also abraham superlincoln fighting an octopus on the moon i refine the page thumbnails into loose sketches and the loose sketches into finished sketches eventually i compile all the sketches into a dummy of the whole book in the old days that meant a lot of photocopying and binding together a physical mockup nowadays i just assemble a pdf this is often the first thing the publisher sees from me the pdf is named for its inventor paul diogenes format now s when i start entertaining comments from the editor and art director and make changes and fight for things i don t want to change i don t remember there being much disagreement over this particular book though harpercollins didn t care for the way i was treating the text in my pdf they nixed the cmy bubble things and hired a letterer so i wouldn t have to worry about that as i was already several months late at this point at this step i consider why i fail to meet deadlines and why i m such a constant disappointment to all who depend on me you may want to skip this step but i can t seem to anyway you can guess the rest once the editor and i agree on everything and the author either likes it or else the editor decides the author is wrong for disliking it and therefore doesn t tell me then i finish the illustrations i render the finishes a little differently on each book about halfway through i m so sick of pandas i m actually glad they re endangered when i turn in the art i m worried that it s totally inadequate when the book arrives in stores a year later i only see mistakes a few months later i love it goodnight okay almost none at 12 43 am 23 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels chu tuesday april 16 2013 abecedary not shown j w at 9 18 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 3 2013 dragon at 3 20 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels champions of breakfast cold cereal wednesday march 27 2013 new smek city at 2 22 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels smekpics monday march 25 2013 postcards to kids when kids mail me actual letters i try my best to actually mail something back emails get emails here are a handful of postcards i sent back to readers during 2012 this girl sent me a picture of her own fantasy land which included animals called bublis so i drew my own this kid told me he got in trouble for reading in class this guy told me about his own story he was writing titled bug world war spiders vs ants which rules at 8 58 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 21 2013 kahlo and rivera i just got back from a trip to mexico city and while there my wife and i visited the studios of frida kahlo and diego rivera frida s first note kahlo s actual wheelchair from late in life in front of the easel the wall plaque said in this part of the house designed by juan o gorman in 1944 the artistic essence of frida kahlo is distilled her brushes her easel a gift from nelson rockefeller the mirror she used for her self portraits and her books there are also perfume flasks and varnish jars which the artist used to hold her paint all of the materials remain exactly as she left them one striking feature of the studio is the painting which depicts the evolution of the human fetus a reminder of frida s obsession with the maternity she was never able to achieve yeah so here s that fetus poster they mentioned i was also captivated by whatever this was besides awesome next diego s set up didn t even understand what these were pigment manufacturer s samples and there are boxes of powdered pigment i guess i d love to read opinions in the comments at 2 56 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom content 2007 adam rex author and illustrator of the new york times 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