Publishing Birdies and Beasts
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The Backdoor Artist and I joined Mark Mitchell of
Make Your Splashes, Make Your Marks
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RECORDED June 20, 2013
Publishing Birdies and Beasts
Mark Mitchell, illustrator extraordinaire and proprietor of Make Your Marks, Make Your Splashes Illustration Course Interviewed Mary Livingston, The Backdoor Artist, and me Thursday, June 20, 2013.
THE FORESTER ARTIST 
Way to go, Tim and Mary. I have signed up for the hangout. Looking forward to it.
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Awesome Linda, we look forward to “hanging out” tonight!
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Hoping your event goes well, congrats!
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Thanks Scott. Hopefully, I won’t say something embarrassing for Mary. But, I usually do.
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Very cool! You are so professional now. :). Wish we lived a little closer, I would love to say hi. We still have the signed copy of your first book you gave the girls. Wishing you a huge turn out and congratulations.
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We just wrapped up an hour ago. It went for 3 hours, which I guess is good. We had a relatively small turnout due to some technical difficulty at the start. It was fun. We were just in Oregon last weekend, over at Glide near Roseburg for a dog event. Next time we are that far North we’ll have to visit.
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You said you make your storyboard on a big piece of paper. How big?
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We use 11″ x 17″.
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I found a couple of templates online. They’re sized for regular paper, but I’m going to try to print them out on 11×17 paper anyways.
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I have forgotten, we have been out.
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It’s okay. I’m glad you’re out. That means you’re doing lots of storyboarding!
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Ah! Ok. I pictured (since there’s so much on the paper – that you were using something the size of a desk top. 11 x 17. I like that. It’ll force me to ease up on the detail.
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Easing up on the detail is not always a natural thing to do when you’ve been doing art for a long time. It took me a couple tries at it to get down to a scribble.
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Oh, I wouldn’t call your storyboards scribbles. Un uh. But they’re definitely a good balance of just enough information. Maybe I’ll start with a scribble and meet myself in the middle – loosen up and learn what just enough information looks like for our book.
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WONDERFUL 🙂
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🙂
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