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.
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.
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!
Illustrator Scott DuBar contributed over 2,500 illustrations to the 30th Anniversary Brain Quest Workbooks and Deck Cards editions.
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.
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.
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.
Cover art for Chicken Feathers. Written by Stephnie Cameron and illustrated by Scott DuBar. Published by Clear Fork Publishing.
I’m happy to announce that Chicken Feathers is now available from Clear Fork Publishing just in time for Christmas reading! This is my second children’s book, and my first chapter book. It’s a timeless tale of good fashion, dog rescuing, and standing up to bullies. Written by Stephanie Cameron.
Synopsis:
Lissy is a fashionista with a thrill for reuniting lost dogs and their owners. When she falls in love with her latest neighborhood rescue, she’s shocked to learn his owner is the one person in school she would never want to help. Will she hold herself together at the dog delivery of a lifetime? Based on a true story.
Illustration for the poem, Hello Up There!, from the children’s book Short Pump Bump by author Angie Miles and illustrator Scott DuBar.
I did this illustration about five years ago for my first children’s book, Short Pump Bump. This was actually the first illustration I did, which was done as a proof-of-concept for inserting cartoon characters into photos of well-known places in and around Richmond, Virginia.
At first, I was not very happy to see a Confederate statue was going to appear in the book. After giving it a lot of thought, I felt what better way to show the failure of white supremacy than to draw a healthy, well-dressed, well-educated, and well-loved black girl looking up at a statue that was meant to invoke fear, but rendered impotent and comical by a humble bird on its head?
Today that statue is no longer there! It is a long-overdue victory dear to my heart. America does not need monuments to hatred, brutality, and treason. We deserve monuments that remind us of the highest ideals and aspirations of all people. I am proud that the former capital of the Confederacy is now choosing to set a good example and to not allow itself to be defined by the mistakes of its past. Goodbye, Matthew Fontaine Maury. And good riddance.
Here’s a cute, little rainbow bee I did at the request of a client who loved my bee illustrations. After seeing it, though, she realized she wanted me to go in a different direction in terms of the overall design. I think she made the right choice since her bee character is part of a bigger project (more on that later!) and the new design fits in much better for that.
It will probably be awhile before I can share anything from the project this was intended for, so I thought I would at least share something fun from the initial design stage.
Author Angie Miles and I are happy to share a free coloring booklet featuring some of the characters from our picture book Short Pump Bump, available now in my shop as a PDF file parents can print out. It really is free, but you’ll still have to add it to your shopping cart and go through the motions of checking out (no credit card info needed).
