I promised to post about the 2012 Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Conference held in Sandy, Utah at the Waterford School Campus. I have helped at this conference multiple times over the years and this year was asked to be the illustrator faculty member teaching morning workshops and a few afternoon sessions. Every year I am amazed at the vast amount of knowledge, expertise,...
Free Printable Calendar Card- July 2012
With my rush to prepare for ALA and the WIFYR conference (and all my kids end of school stuff) I forgot to post June's Calendar Card Printout. I'm so sorry. For those of you who don't know, it was my goal to publish a free 4x6 printable calendar for you each month. Here is the calendar for July.
click to open the larger image then right click to save to your desktop
And here are some images of...
How to Create a Digital PDF Dummy Book
I also promised my WIFYR class that I would post a tutorial on how to create a digital dummy book. Some editors prefer to receive submissions only through email, so this version of the dummy is important.
You need Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro (not just the reader) to complete this tutorial and create your digital pdf.
Open Adobe Acrobat and Click FILE, CREATE PDF, FROM MULTIPLE FILES
Click...
How to Print a Perfect Dummy Book
Last week I promised the attendees of WIFYR that I would post a tutorial on how to print a nice dummy book. Tomorrow I will also post a tutorial on how to make a digital pdf dummy book for digital submission. ENJOY!
However, you do need the program Adobe InDesign to do this. You can download a free trial of it HERE. Good luck and happy printing.
First create digital files of each of your sketches,...
Conferences and Signings - WIFYR and ALA 2012
So this will have to be a quick post because things are CRAZY busy around here. I've just finished teaching a 3 day intensive workshop at WIFYR and am getting ready to leave for a book signing there this afternoon. The signing is open to the public and there will be many other authors there like: Tim Wynn-Jones, Brandon Mull, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, Mette Harrison, A.E. Cannon, Trudy Harris, Matthew Kirby, Ann Dee Ellis, and Carol Lynch Williams. It goes from 3-6pm today...
Meet Will Terry, author/illustrator, expert on ebooks
Here's another awesome guy on the picture book scene you just have to meet...WILL TERRY. I actually met Will back in my college days. He was one of my sophomore year illustration teachers...kind of an intro to illustrating class. He was a young guy, not too long on the scene, but had already made a name for himself in editorial illustration as well as the picture book market. I really liked him as...
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- Julie Olson
- I'm a freelance illustrator working in the children's book industry. I love kids and raising my own 4 children. They are the inspiration and the passion behind all I do in art and in life. See my website at JulieOlsonbooks.com