On today’s Illustrator #HFGather, host Shadra Strickland and Pat Cummings talked about:

• How lucky the #kidlit community is to have existing connection in this time of crisis
• Finding your style: there’s no right or wrong
• How to grow as an artist by letting other people and things influence you
• The key is to “keep making the work”
• The process of creating a book cover
• Lighting in a piece is the kind of thing that can lift your work out of the pile

They shared a color challenge: limiting your palette to 4 colors, design an illustration depicting a ray of hope. If you do it, be sure and share it with us @HighlightsFound on Twitter and Instragram, and use #HFGather!

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