Illustration Demonstration Inspires Young New Tampa Illustrators

Illustrator Leah Lopez shows Hunter’s Green Elementary second graders how she draws Fluffy McDuffy at the New Tampa Regional Library on May 9.
Illustrator Leah Lopez shows Hunter’s Green Elementary second graders how she draws Fluffy McDuffy at the New Tampa Regional Library on May 9.

By Matt Wiley

It starts as just a small, strange outlined shape. With a few more strokes of colored pencil to paper, though, that initial shape takes form and eventually evolves into the face of a dog, who is the star of Tails of Fluffy McDuffy, a children’s book written and illustrated by Tampa residents.Continue reading