The Girllustrators

My daughter made me this list of pop-song inspired drawing prompts, and I like it so much I wanted to share!  #popprompts

Happy #sharkweek!

- patrice barton

It looks like Chicken wants to fly.

I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. Here’s to more love, peace and art in 2022.

Process work for Friends Beyond Measure, my book for HarperCollins. Art buddies are so important; fellow Girllustrator Eliza Kinkz told me about some extra-chunky pencils she’d been using, so I got some of these Faber-Castell 9000 Jumbo Graphite Pencils, 6-8B! But I do use a Palomino Blackwing for tiny important details like eyes. – Lalena

Here’s another from the cut paper fish series.

Character designs in partial-rotation for consistency in my final drawings for upcoming book Friends Beyond Measure. Ana and Harwin! At top are the rough sketches. —Lalena

Marker and pencil drawings of Good Doggo, Bella.

Working on some characters... loving how this little girl turned out. 

A page from the sketched dummy and color plan for my book. —Lalena

Fish art  - cut paper on brayer roller blot paper.

Thanks to the United States Post Office’s “Special Handling Guidelines,” several people shipped their babies through the mail. A bad idea, to be sure, but we kind of get it. ~ Illustration from a promo postcard. ~patrice

Little builder building. Illustration from Remarkably You by Pat Zietlow Miller. I’m building too! I have a new website under construction. There’s so much to learn using a new website builder. It was quite puzzling at first, but slowly the pieces are falling into place.  Like my little builder, I will keep hammering away!