Ozzy was the coolest. He just wanted everyone to have a great time and for the world to be more loving and kind to each other. Doesn’t get more metal than that!
Author: SJD
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Unicorn Pizza Party
My second activity book for kids is available from Get Creative 6 Publishing! This was another super-fun project for me to work on this and (just like before) the people at Get Creative 6 were a pleasure to work with. Pippa is a unicorn who loves pizza, but doesn’t know how to make it. She sets off on a journey to ask all her friends for help her make her own pizza. The book features pages to color, scratch-off artwork, puzzles, games, and, of course, plenty of pizza for everybody! Available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Pippa the unicorn goes on a quest to learn how to make pizza so she can have a party with all her friends in the kingdom. Activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. -
Scratch Magic: Cute Baby Animals
My first activity book for kids is now available from Get Creative 6 Publishing! I had so much fun working on this and the people at Get Creative 6 were really a pleasure to work with. The book features pages to color, scratch-off artwork, puzzles, games, and, of course, plenty of cute, baby animals. Available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Baby sloth hanging from a tree. Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Cute kittens playing with yarn and pouncing on each other. Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Baby sea turtles swim with their mother for Scratch Magic: Cute Baby Animals. Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
A baby koala and its mommy. For Scratch Magic: Cute Baby Animals. Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Educational activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar. -
Brain Quest 30th Anniversary Artwork
Kids flying a spaceship from Earth to Mars, encountering robots, asteroids, aliens, and more. Brain Quest Grade 4 Fold-out poster. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Colorful frogs enjoying their rainforest habitat. Brain Quest Pre-K Deck Cards. Art Director
Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar.
Mom helps her son with his Brain Quest Grade 6 Workbook. Art Director Erica Green.
Illustration by Scott DuBar.
A family has fun together watching butterflies. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar. 
Helpful robot holding up a large pencil. Brain Quest Grade 4 Workbook. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar. Brain Quest 30th Anniversary series of educational workbooks and deck cards.
I’m so happy I can finally share SOME of what I’ve been up to for the past 2.5 years. First off is artwork for the Brain Quest 30th anniversary series of bestselling workbooks and deck cards. Over 2,500 spot illustrations along with some half and full-page, and four fold-out poster illustrations!
The Brain Quest series includes kids from age two all the way up to age twelve, which provided me with a fair amount of variety in terms of drawing style and subject matter. From exotic creatures and landmarks, to Model Ts and spaceships, I was constantly kept on my toes as an illustrator!
This was truly a dream project for me. The magnitude of this project didn’t fully sink in, however, until I paid a visit to Barnes and Noble and saw a display of all the workbooks and deck cards. Seeing a whole shelf display filled with Brain Quest products with my artwork in all of them was an amazing moment.
Big, heartfelt thanks to Dawn and Kevin from Fan Works Design, Art Director Erica Green, and the great folks at Brain Quest and Workman Publishing for bringing me on board and being so great to work with!
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Mural Design for Hollymead Elementary
Inked illustration by Scott DuBar in collaboration with Hollymead Elementary and the Charlottesville Mural Project. Here’s some pics of a completed mural I designed in collaboration with Hollymead Elementary and the Charlottesville Mural Project two years ago.
My role was to combine three winning ideas submitted by students into one design. The solution I came up with was to include likenesses of the three kids daydreaming about the things they each had drawn. I think my favorite detail was including the cat of one of the kids, named Tofu, and making it shaped like a block of tofu!
Once my design was approved, volunteers at the Charlottesville Mural Project went to work tracing the line art onto four 8×4 panels. The panels were then brought to Hollymead along with all 14 of the paint colors needed for the students to complete the project.
Hollymead had some delays in finding the best location to display the mural and in getting it mounted nicely, so it didn’t go up until last August. It now hangs proudly in the school cafeteria. Everyone involved did a great job!
Mural design for Hollymead Elementary by Charlottesville illustrator Scott DuBar.
Thanks to Art Teacher Molly Foster and Alan Groffinski of the Charlottesville Mural Project for reaching out to me. This was my first time doing a project like this and was easily the most fun I’ve had in a long time. -
Interview With VPM Focal Point
Illustrator Scott DuBar interview with VPM Focal Point VPM Focal Point interviewed me recently for a show they did on working artists in Virginia. You can see my segment in the player above. I’ve been so busy lately working on a big project I’m not yet allowed to discuss (more on that later!) that I really had no idea what I had said during the interview. I had to wait until it aired to find out if anything I said was even coherent! Thankfully, the good folks at VPM Focal Point picked a suitable clip. Coherency accomplished.
They also posted a nice blog article that covered a bit more, including a nice picture of my dad’s old sketchbook which was a major influence on my desire to become a professional illustrator.
DuBar is literally drawing on his past, saying he learned to love cartoons as a child, inspired by his father Jules DuBar’s depression-era doodling.
”He created his own neighborhood newspaper,” DuBar recalls about his dad. “He would write stories and interview people in the neighborhood and he would do the comic strips as well. He still had a few of those and that was really, when I was a kid, that really blew my mind.”
Angie Miles and Samantha Willis | VPM NewsYou can see the full article here: https://vpm.org/news/articles/31614/a-promising-future-for-virginias-professional-artists
A big thank you to Angie Miles, Samantha Willis, and Emanuel Tambakakis for including me and for doing such a great job! It’s not often that artists or illustrators get featured on tv, and I’m grateful to have been a part of that.
VPM Focal Point | Photo by Emanuel Tambakakis 
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Zippy Buzzy Bee Wins Platinum MarCom Award!
My third children’s book, Zippy Buzzy Bee, won a Platinum MarCom Award in the Cartoon category of the international 2021 MarCom Awards! Thanks to the MarComs, author Deborah Cross, and to Fabi Preslar at SPARK Publications for entering Zippy Buzzy Bee (and for being so great to work with)!
Administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, the annual MarCom competition is one of the largest for creative professionals and receives submissions from nineteen countries around the world.
Order your copy at https://my.epublishyou.com/zippybuzzybeebook
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How To Learn Spanish | Client: Hikari Press
I’ve been so busy lately with a really big, super-secret project that I almost forgot to post about this!
Cover art and spot illustrations I did for the book How To Learn Spanish. Published by Hikari Press. Written by Maria Blanco, Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Westminster and a language learning strategies specialist.
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Dreamwalker and Chloe
My latest children’s book, Dreamwalker and Chloe, is available now for Kindle. Written by Callie Michael. Published by Heavy Crown Press.
Dreamwalker and Chloe is a chapter book about a young horse who is separated from his mother too soon. When a back injury renders him “unrideable,” his owners treat him very badly. Once two loving new owners take him on, however, he finally finds his forever home. 
Click here to order your copy in the kindle store.
Print version available soon!
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Slow Motion Crush
Promotional photo for Texas metal band Slow Motion Crush. Drummer Scott Zook sporting his Screaming Chicken t-shirt by illustrator Scott DuBar. 
Funny horror themed shirt featuring a chicken letting out a blood-curdling scream. Cartoon illustration by Scott DuBar. I was so excited to see Slow Motion Crush drummer, Scott Zook, sporting my screaming chicken t-shirt for his latest band promo pic! Scott’s an old friend of mine from way back in middle school when I was doing cartoon parodies of Star Wars and He-Man.
You can get your very own Screaming Chicken t-shirt in my zazzle store here: https://www.zazzle.com/collections/t_shirts-119424357672922732
And you can check out Austin metal band, Slow Motion Crush here: https://www.facebook.com/slowmotioncrushatx
