Sarah DeMars Draws

For my Independent Illustration class I decided to paint a few editorial illustrations. I found this type of illustration to be one of my favorites over the years, very expressive and engaging, pulling readers in, which I is something I really appreciate. I took a few articles that I liked and made an illustration(s) for each. This first one was based on the article, Feminism's Toxic Twitter Wars from The Nation - you can read it here - https://www.thenation.com/article/feminisms-toxic-twitter-wars/ There is definitely some room for improvement and it might change later....

Salamanders and Sea Turtles  During my time here at Ball State I was invited to join the Conservation Tales team, a children's book series teaching children's grades 3 - 5 about the importance of conservation of animals in the wild and introducing many different species of endangered animals. My first book was about Salamanders, the book was completed this past winter and is available for sale at  http://www.conservationtales.com/   This semester I am working on the next book about Sea Turtles! We just got back from a research trip down in Florida, investigating and researching about our next set of animals, Sea Turtles, Manatees, and Seahorses. We were also personally invited to Mote Marine in Sarasota Florida to learn more about how to help these animals in the wild as well as accurately portraying these animals. It was amazing and I'm ready to go back. But most of all I am so, so happy to have started my career as a children's book illustrator, a dream come true....