Scott DuBar Illustration

Viking | SCBWI Highlighter

Viking spot illustration for Winter 2019 issue of the SCBWI Highlighter.

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators is using my Viking spot illustration for the SCBWI Highlighter Winter 2019 issue of their newsletter for the Mid-Atlantic. This was a fun little self-promotional piece I did awhile back, and I am very happy to see it in print. It was one of the first illustrations I…

Three Ganeshas | Sketchbook

Sketchbook drawing, Bali 2018. Ratu Bagus Ashram.

Here are a couple of sketchbook drawings I did during my recent trip to Bali, Indonesia. I was there on a meditation retreat at a beautiful center near the island’s biggest volcano, Mt. Agung. The watercolor sketch is of the stairs leading up to the center’s dining hall. From this side, you can see three Ganeshas, two at the base of the stairs,…

Socially Awkward Skier | Ascent

Some people only put their foot in their mouth…

Winter Is Coming…Hopefully

Ok, by this point winter is technically already here but I usually don’t post client work until after it’s published. In any case, I was very happy to have an excuse to draw some Game of Thrones characters before the final season is over. I got Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow, his direwolf Ghost, one of the dragons, and the three-eyed raven all acting as harbingers of the end of pumpkin spice latte…

Inktober 2018: Week 4

Here are the last of my Inktober illustrations. I had such a great time doing these and am a little bit sorry to see this year’s challenge come to a close. Drawing challenges are a great way to improve as an illustrator, as I learned awhile back when I did my first 365 Drawing Challenge. I’m already looking forward to next year’s Inktober! Until then, here’s a couple of my favorites from week…

Inktober 2018: Week 3

Happy Halloween! Even as October comes to a close, I still have plenty of Inktober illustrations to share. Here are a couple of favorites from week 3. You can check out the rest in my Inktober 2018 gallery.

Inktober 2018: Week 2

So here I am with another week down in this year’s Inktober challenge. I felt like I got into a nice groove with these. It helps that I have been keeping to my Halloween theme for all the official word prompts. My first hang-up so far with that was for the prompt on day 12, “whale.” I have to admit I was completely stumped as to how to stick to my Halloween theme for whale. In the end, I decided…

Inktober 2018: Week 1

Here are a couple of my favorites from Inktober 2018: Week 1. This marks my first time participating in the yearly Inktober drawing challenge, and so far I am having a real blast! I am sticking with a standard, kid-friendly Halloween theme, working from the daily word prompts compiled for this years’ challenge.  You can learn more about the challenge and its originator, Jake Parker, at inktober.c…

Burning Sean | Client: Utah Adventure Journal

My latest illustration fro UAJ, Burning Sean, required a bit of extra care. It’s for an article about a perfectly innocent yearly pre-ski season ritual/party gone wrong. It also involves a bunch of drunken white dudes with tiki torches burning an effigy of their soon-to-be-married friend, Sean. As a long-time resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, I have to say I had some apprehension about…

Camping Compromise | Client: Utah Adventure Journal

Editorial illustration for an article about the type of compromises that need to be made by rugged outdoorsmen when they become a parent. No matter how much you might hate RV’s, babies can’t really sleep on the ground.

  Here’s a chubby, little, blissful bumblebee wallowing in a bed of fresh pollen. I wanted the bee to look like a fat cat getting its head scratched. My dad used to say that every living thing just wants its head scratched. One day a bumblebee landed in front of him while he was gardening and looked, to my dad at least, like it wanted its head scratched. So he reached out with a finger and…