SCBWI Long Island Presents: What a Character! by Scott Magoon
Sep 19, 2026
Online event
"What a Character!" is a fun, visual dive into how we creators can use shape language, color psychology, and expressive features to give our characters life.
Scott Magoon
Scott Magoon is an award-winning author and New York Times bestselling illustrator of nearly 40 picture books.
SCBWI Long Island Presents: What a Character! by Scott Magoon
Sep 19, 2026 10:00 AM EST
Zoom Meeting
Member: $15
Non-Member: $25
"What a Character!" is a fun, visual dive into how we creators can use shape language, color psychology, and expressive features to give our characters life. Drawing on my years as an Art Director and author-illustrator, I also share practical tips on maintaining character consistency and using technical approaches—like line weight and texture—to silently tell a story. It’s an engaging look at how small design choices can make big emotional connection with readers—and it’s that emotional connection that keeps readers coming back to your work again and again. Please join us!
Critiques with Scott Magoon
Date: Saturday September 19th
Time: Starting at 11:30 AM EST
Zoom
Price: $80
Space for Critiques is limited to 8 participants
Critique session will be 20 minutes in length.
Present you work as a website or PDF
Submission will be mailed to [email protected] by September 12th
Subject: Optional Critiques by Scott Magoon
Bio
Scott Magoon is an award-winning author and New York Times bestselling illustrator of nearly 40 picture books, including Rescue & Jessica: A Life Changing Friendship by Jessica Kensky & Patrick Downes, the Misunderstood Shark series by Ame Dyckman and the Spoon series by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. He is also the author/illustrator of the Extincts series of graphic novels, Linus the Little Yellow Pencil, Breathe, The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot and There’s No Place Like Gnomes. With over two decades of experience, Scott's captivated young readers and their families with his digital art's warmth, humor, and heart.
A former children’s book designer at Candlewick Press and an art director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scott brings a keen eye for detail to his work, crafting stories and drawings that delight and inspire. When he's not drawing or dreaming up new tales, you’ll find him running, adventuring with his family or in record shops, hunting for jazz vinyl. He lives in the Boston area where he often enjoys a bowl of clam chowder.
Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
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