A Day Like This
10 years ago Chris Neal and I almost burnt a church down in Manhattan Beach with Peruvian hand-made candles. By 7pm that same day, my last name got longer and I would officially no longer have to go to the grocery store ever again. He gave me two crazy boys, a
Draw Me An Elephant or How to Hire An Illustrator
I often receive emails from writers who are interested in hiring me as an illustrator for their picture books. I tend to reply with the same questions and answers. I decided to create this post so it's easily accessible for future interested people. DO I NEED ILLUSTRATIONS TO SUBMIT MY MANUSCRIPT
Call to Hispanic/Latino Multicultural PB Artists
This post is an official call to other Hispanic/Latino Picture-Book Artists whose main focus of work is Multicultural Children's Illustration. The initial idea was to find an existing group of Hispanic/Latino Children's Illustrators to network with. Little did I know there was no such group. I looked online with no luck.
Sunshine Awarded
This week has been packed with exciting news. One of this-week's-great-happenings was getting an award for my blog. I'm overly excited since it's my first blog award ever :D The great children's illustrator and twitterer Laura Zarrin nominated my blog. Thanks Laura! She's all good vibes and a great person to
Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing Creativity
I had to share this! If you have 19 min and 32 sec to spare, listen to Elizabeth Gilbert in this video. Pure genius. This woman is brilliant in this speech about artist and creativity. > Stay updated via: email | rss | facebook
Bugs 2.9.2
apparent bugs in the update to 2.9.2 that require a post and a comment. otherwise you have a 404 error. all boring stuff for the non-web-techie but I got to resolve this. > Stay updated via: email | rss | facebook
are we still having problems, feed?!??
Let's see if this test shows up in my bloglines as new post. Argh!! Funny enough, google reader does show the older posts but not in Bloglines. I wonder if anybody is getting the feed. Must.investigate.now. > Stay updated via: email | rss | facebook
Oopsie, feed!
So apparently I posted the wrong feed address. The correct one should be: http://juanamartinezneal.com/feed This time I'm absolutely, positively sure. Huge mistake so I'll double posting in blogspot for a few more posts. At the same time what a best excuse for a new DOARD (Drawing Of A Random Day). This time
Website relaunch+Blog and Feed Move
My much neglected website has been relaunched and with tons of upgrades. Yay! I've also moved my blog here to wordpress so please update your feeds. Yes, but why?!?!! Well, there's a few reason so I'll get wordy: 1. My site was in desperate need of a re-do. I designed back in
hello wp!
I moved my site and blog to wp. Yay for technology and upgrades :D ¡Como te quedo el ojo, robona!