Each year the incredible illustrator Monty Lee hosts the Imagined Book Cover challenge on Instagram, where she comes up with seven creative titles and everyone who joins creates book covers for those titles. It’s so fascinating to see how different and unique everyone’s imaginations are, and how we all interpret the prompts differently. The aboveContinue reading “The Imagined Book Cover”
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Lettering Challenges
I’ve been learning to design and draw lettering styles for book covers, and Aurelie Maron is one of the best teachers for this! Each October she hosts a Lettering Style Challenge, where she assigns a style for each day (bevel, san serif, horror, etc), and it’s incredible to see what so many creative people comeContinue reading “Lettering Challenges”
Anything But Common
This past month, I participated in an Instagram challenge (36daysoftype) where we created one letter of the alphabet each day. I’ve wanted to draw the alphabet for a few years now, but haven’t known what kind of a theme I’d want to have, so I kept procrastinating. Then an Instagram friend Monica asked if sheContinue reading “Anything But Common”
A story about a little robot
A few months ago I participated in an Instagram illustration challenge #bkspinocchio and I enjoyed it so much I drew a few extra images and put it in a wordless picture book just for myself. It’s sold on Amazon now, but it’s not a standard picture book layout since I just wanted the drawings gathered in aContinue reading “A story about a little robot”
How to Be a Star
My middle grade novel, Taffy Nackman’s Guide on How to be a Star, is now live on Amazon! This story started out in my imagination years ago with a quirky twelve-year-old girl’s voice saying something like: “Just so you know, I’m not a star. I’ve never even met any real famous people in my entireContinue reading “How to Be a Star”
I created a book cover!
I met Jill Campbell at the Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers conference several years ago, and we kept in touch over Instagram (she was one of my first big cheerleaders as I started my illustration Instagram page). She reached out to me a few months ago, asking if I’d be willing to be braveContinue reading “I created a book cover!”
A Pocket Full of Art
If there’s a blank space on a paper, I’ll probably doodle on it. I’ve never considered myself an artist, but have always been moved by other people’s art work, and in the past I liked to draw. I even took a few art classes in college (oil painting seemed like a good idea in theory,Continue reading “A Pocket Full of Art”
Gaylene Wilson 