Maybe you would want to read it, I think you would like it. This month Fred Durbin talked about how much he likes your art on his weblog. Have you already finished the very last painting for the last part yet? My favorite picture is still the one when Loric and Cymbril talk through the stone, but all the art in part 8 was so great and I can't wait to see how it ends. I really love your art and it is fun to see what the next part is going to be in the story and how you are going to illustrate it. I hope you like the designs, and I can't wait to hear your comments! I had so much fun doing all of these drawings!'Ĭlick below to see Emily's instructions for HOW TO DRAW the characters from 'The Star Shard.'Ĭlick below to see Emily's sketches for 'The Star Shard.' I tried to include ideas for any important accessories on each page of characters, such as Cymbril's hairpin and Rombol's goose-headed cane. You can see some of my sketches by clicking below, along with parts of the e-mails I sent explaining my ideas to the Cricket art director. I sketched many ideas for the characters of Cymbril, Rompol, Loric, and Urrt. 'I'm thrilled to be illustrating 'The Star Shard,'' says Emily, 'and I'm really looking forward to hearing comments and questions about the illustrations from Cricket readers. She lives with her husband, Vinod, in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, where she can be found playing video games for too long on breaks, baking cookies at 1:00 a.m., or talking to her guinea pigs Cedric, Mims, Momji, Chester, and Peppi. In her spare time, Emily enjoys sculpting. She is currently illustrating the original fantasy series 'The Star Shard' for Cricket. Emily's illustrations can also be seen on the covers and interiors of the Mirrorstone young adult novel series Knights of the Silver Dragon, and in the New York Times bestseller A Practical Guide to Dragons, also published by Mirrorstone. Emily has done illustrations for numerous Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks, including Monster Manual II, Ghostwalk, and Races of the Dragon.

After working for one year as a product designer at The Franklin Mint, Emily returned to her childhood dreams of creating creatures and characters when she began freelancing for Wizards of the Coast. Later (much later), with support from said family members, she attended art school at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, and graduated with honors and a BFA from the Illustration program in 2001. Emily Fiegenschuh's art career began at a very young age when she set up a card table in the hallway of her home and sold her drawings of monsters and animals to family members for five and ten cents.

Emily wants to play fan art