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Happy 2010!  This year has already proven to be wonderfully busy.

I recently completed some character designs for Melissa Williams, author of the "Iggy the Iguana" children's books series. I will continue to work with her throughout this year and provide illustrations for an activity book she is putting together. I've had a blast working on Iggy and his friends.

This month I will be attending my first ever SCBWI conference.  I am looking forward to meeting new writers, illustrators, publishers and learning new information. Patrick Collins, Art Director of Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, will be critiquing portfolios and I'm excited to see what he thinks of mine.  My portfolio will also be displayed with other artist's collections in a contest at the conference.  Attending the monthly SCBWI meetings has been really invaluable.  I'm meeting a lot of new people and am enjoying the guest speakers.  The last guest speaker, Roxie Munro, was phenomenal to say the least.

Finally, I will soon be starting up work on, "I Want to Grow Up," the book written by Edsil "Eddy" Logan that won the 2009 ABC Children's Book Competition. I will meet with Rita Mills next week to officially get started on this project. I am fortunate to have had constant work for the past year now illustrating.

2009 turned out to be so amazingly awesome in so many ways.  I can't wait to see what the future holds for me personally and professionally.  I am living it and loving it.
 


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silvia link
02/24/2010 11:23

Hi Ryan.
Thank you so much for the A Puppy not a Guppy book you dedicated to our girls and that your parents gave to our girls on your behalf.
We finished it today, and the girls enjoyed the illustrations, specially the dad who looks like Mr. David. My daughter likes the expressions you give to the characters, and we learned you can train fish, which we did not know.
We wrote a post in our blog for others to see and maybe buy the book too.(http://educandoenelhogar.blogspot.com/)
Good luck to you in your career as an illustrator!
Love,
Steve, silvia, Natalia and Victoria Cachia

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