Tucson Festival of Books

Illustrator Studio: Shapes, Forms & Colors


Shapes, forms and colors! Oh my! Zeke Peña, an award-winning illustrator, art director and professor of Illustration, revisits some fundamentals and experiments with new techniques to strengthen your illustration work. This workshop walks you through ways to improve your character designs and page layouts to grab readers attention. Zeke received a 2026 Caldecott Honor Award for "Sundust."


Panelist
Zeke Peña

Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, TX, the Sun City. His author-illustrator debut, "Sundust" is a love poem to desert culture and won a Caldecott Honor Award....

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Book:
Sundust
Zeke Peña
Children
Penguin Group
August 2025
ISBN 9780593700112
48 pages