#shoo rayner

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I tried this drawing tutorial and it was awesome! I got a pansy that was very similar and just as pretty without having to try and figure out what he was doing. Pansies are my very favorite and now I know how to draw them!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIVzWWqfjYg) 

Support Shoo Rayner please, he’s a sweetheart and a great inspiration.

Also @detectiveashcroft it’s a cutie for you :3

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The Shifty-eyed First Vlog!

Last week I attended a great workshop at the Society of Authors called “imovie Magic: promoting you and your books”, which was given by the fab Shoo Rayner.

 Shoo is a practised and expert Vlogger. He’s embraced technology and the benefits gained from it’s use in self-publicizing, notched up hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of views and has now generously shared his knowledge and experience in a very well put together workshop. There was a broad cross-section of Authors, spanning different ages and categories, all of whom seemed to absorb Shoo’s tutorial as he took us through, step by step.

 I enjoyed it immensely and I learnt a great deal, so I decided to put aside my self-consciousness, take the plunge and make my first vlog, which you can see here below:

Though I know I definitely have a way to go, (as indicated in my Blog title!) it was fun and relatively easy to use this technology, having been guided in such a clear and concise way.

 We all know that we have to embrace this form of communication in order to promote our work and I would absolutely recommend doing this workshop to fellow Illustrators and writers as it provides the perfect guidance, without being overwhelming or too technical.

  Well done Shoo and the Society of Authors and thank you!

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How to draw 50 Shades of Grey by Shoo Rayner About 100 times more entertaining and erotic than the movie or the book.

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Why YA is not a Scam

In a little corner of the internet, a debate happened on Twitter between Patrick Ness (@Patrick_Ness) and Shoo Rayner (@shoorayner). Patrick Ness is the award winning author of Chaos Walking, a dystopian YA trilogy, and Shoo Rayner writes for younger children. Rayner wrote a blog post on why he thought Chaos Walking was not suitable for children, the glamorization of violence in YA, and if YA is a genre caught up by the “glamour of Hollywood”. You can read the article here. Ness responded, and what resulted was an interesting, civil discussion between them.

I am utterly on Ness’ side with this, as I think Rayner has not acknowledged three things about YA literature. The teen reader, the purpose of reading, and why YA is necessary.

Let’s start with the teen reader, the target audience that Rayner had continuously failed to recognise. I think the confusion cropped up between the differences between teens and children. Rayner kept throwing around the fact that Ness had won the Carnegie medal (an award for children literature) despite his book being not aimed at children.

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I Love his style!

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Motivation for artists and creatives - Shoo Rayner

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Shoo is one of my personal heroes.