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Currently seeking representation. Stephen Macquignon is an illustrator and was the first-runner-up for the prestigious Tomie dePaola award in 2017. He has had the privilege of working for Michael Sporn Animation Inc. on many different titles including, “The Little Match Girl”, “Ira Sleeps Over”, “Abel’s Island” and many more. An illustrator of children's books including Tea with the Queen, he has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and is a proud member of SCBWI. To date, he has never missed a deadline. A fresh energy that is not part of the trends out there.

Friday, December 23, 2016

Monday, December 19, 2016

Pandas at play





 
Pen and ink with watercolor also acrylic white

Friday, December 2, 2016

Elephant Birthday Wishing

Elephant Birthday Wishing

 
Reworked this image several times
 
 
Too Blue

 
Much better
 
 


Tuesday, November 29, 2016

We need Heroes

We need Heroes
 
First attempt
 

 
Decided to use my mistake as a color chart

 
Second attempt watercolor washes over pencil

 
Ink and washes of more watercolor

Finished Artwork
 

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Chasing Butterflies

Chasing Butterflies
 
 






Friday, August 5, 2016

Panda in Lifeboat

 Panda in lifeboat
Watercolor and India ink
 
 
One of several sketches and finish pencil with new fox on tracing paper  

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Strawberry Kraken


Finished Strawberry Kraken
 
 
one of the many sketches

 
Wash of India ink & watercolor

 
Additional washes of color
 
 
Almost done

Friday, June 17, 2016

FOX from sketch to finish

Sketch/ pencil drawing with washes of India ink 

Washes of watercolor

added ink line waiting for color and ink to dry

used eraser to remove unwanted pencil lines
 


Finish

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

HOMEWORK?

I got the call!
 
Well not "the" call but a text message from my niece, "Hi uncle Steve do you have time to talk?"
I called
Me: Hi
Her: what are you up to? Doing any projects?
She wanted to know if I had time to do some artwork for her as part of an assignments for one of her college courses.
Me: How many?
Her: Only 20
Me: By when?
Her: I need them by cousin Marks wedding
Me: That's two weeks away
Her: I know
Me: What class is this for?
Her: Picture book writing (something like that) 
Me: Okay this is what I can do for you


 


So I started...
 I decided to treat it like a book dummy I figured it was the only way it will get done on time.  I broke down her version of Pandora's Box into a storyboard format and picked a handful of sketches to do as finished artwork.
 

    Then I added the text I am no graphic designer so I make no claims that I understand fonts and what works best with illustrations; I did the best I could with what I had to work with.
 




It was a lot of hard work but I got it done on time.
I personally think it should of been an A+ but her school does dot give them out. 

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