Hello everyone, and I’m back with a new round of the Drawing Children’s Book Characters In My Style series. This time, I will not be tackling the supporting cast of any particular book series. Instead, I will be tackling a different kind of children’s book character, the ideological opposites to the protagonists we know and love: villains! A hero is only as good as its villain, and there’s no shortage of antagonists from the annals of children’s literature to illustrate. With October in full swing, and such films and television series as the Goosebumps television series reboot for Hulu and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes on the way, now felt like the perfect time to bring on the evil.
Before I continue with this round, I have a couple announcements to make. I know that I haven’t been on the blog in a very long time, and I have plenty of reasons for that. I have been shifting my focus to my personal projects, which you check out on my website, Naimoli Universe. There’s also the first chapter of my online book Operation Awesome, which I am currently sending to agents and was influenced by Diary of a Wimpy Kid. You can also check out my comic strip Sammy Specific, which I am releasing new strips of every Friday.
Additionally, I am happy to announce that I am officially a freelance illustrator at Worldreader, a global nonprofit organization working with partners to get children to read at least 25 books a year with understanding! My first project, a children’s poem by Rebecca Fenton titled That Stinks, has been released on BookSmart, and I am currently working on another project with Worldreader, though I won’t disclose any details about it until its release. You can check out this post on the website’s News page for more information. You may have also noticed the many changes I made to the blog’s sidebar to reflect all these updates, including an Instagram widget and shortcuts to the Operation Awesome and Sammy Specific pages on the website. If you haven’t already checked it out, I hope to see you there!
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