traylorillo

Here’s a tiny little spot illo I originally created for a tea party invitation. Just a little frothy, frilly fun. She’s been converted and colored in Adobe Illustrator and is now a scalable vector.

I recently finished an illustration for an African folk tale called the Lion and the Hare. Hare, in African lore, is a trickster and in this particular story, he manages to convince the large, but easily outsmarted, Lion not to eat him. I’m sharing my process, again in this illustration, starting with the initial concept [...]

It may not seem like a lot so some, but I finished off one of the three sketchbooks I’ve had in progress since about 2005. It is a major milestone to me. This unassuming little, black book was started in 2005, finished in 2010. I have three sketchbooks at the moment, that I keep in [...]

This is a reprint, with permission, of my article from the Spring Issue of THE HIGHLIGHTER, SCBWI Mid-Atlantic’s quarterly newsletter. It was written for an audience of children’s book authors and illustrators in the VA/DC area, but you can really apply the concepts here to any creative practice. Who doesn’t need to stimulate their creative [...]

I just finished this little spot kidlit illustration so I thought I’d share the process involved in going from sketch to final spot illo. First Sketch… I usually work in pencil. Specifically, cheap mechanical pencils that come in a giant pack…like these. I like having a sharp point all the time and it’s no big [...]