Becca Syracuse
@bookdesignbee
Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator Rebeccasyracuse.com She/her Rep'd by Natascha Morris/ The Tobias Agency
I've been totally obsessed with finding a way to make "Would You Still Love Me if I was a Worm" into a picture book. I'm envisioning a high-contrast board book? Maybe it's got a hole in the middle for finger and YOU'RE the worm 😂
The HARDEST part of needle-felting for me is patience. The process is SLOW, and it's hard to resist sharing in-progress stuff before the vision is fully realized. These guys are a small part of what will hopefully be a bigger composition if I can juuust figure out how to get them to stand upright
157 days until Halloween!!! Did you know that Halloween will be on a Saturday this year? We need to start planning our costumes!
I've been feeling SO inspired by Laura Venditti's felted Adult Swim spots, and wanted to try my hand at a short animated loop. This was....a total failure, and VERY hard lesson in pre-planning. It taught me a lot about set construction and lighting, but for now it's still-life.
Sprayed edges are all the rage right now (iykyk) and it's been so interesting to see how designers have adapted to having a whole new surface to design that wasn't available before. We're all still figuring out the limitations, but this was a fun first swing. Obviously it was BEGGING for teeth!
It's EXTREMELY cool to see "Black History is Your History" on The Jennifer Hudson show today! This title was a huge collaborative undertaking (years in the making!), and includes a trove of gorgeous interior portraits by the sensationally talented Adriana Bellet!!!
I could go anywhere with you 🎈☁️ (*Please dispose of your balloons properly! Don't let them fly away, no matter how big their dreams are*)
Today marks my 7th year at Simon and Schuster, and my 10th year in children's publishing!! I'm very emotional!
I've made the executive decision that I don't want to needle felt all the strawberry seeds from the original sketch. What should he be holding instead?? If you had a little mushy familiar, what would he help you carry home after a long day of foraging???
Tried my hand at needle felting for the first time, and I am very excited by the potential of it!! There were no coherent instructions included in the kit I ordered so I deviated from the script quite a bit, but I think it turned out super cute anyway!!!! He looks so polite!
Finished another Felt Little Guy!! I think he looks SO POLITE!! Would you give him treats?
Lots of new people here, so let me reintroduce myself: I'm Becca. I'm an Associate Art Director in Children's Publishing. I use this account to research artists, share my work, and hype up YOUR creative projects! I also love hockey and internet cats. Say hi sometime!
Would you still love me if I was a worm? I'd watch the whole Worm World from the pocket of your shirt.
SO happy to share that HAROLD THE ICEBERG MELTS DOWN was named as a Blue Spruce Honor Book at the Forest of r Reading Festival!!! What an enormous honor! Congratulations to the winners and nominees! I am positively overjoyed to be included on such a spectacular list of creators! 🥗💚♻️
In an effort to beat burnout, I've put away the iPad, and pulled out the Big Drawing Pad™️ and good ol' crayons. I love how much more confident my lines look when the medium is chunky and totally unforgiving!!
A VERY special Honorable Mention to this live-action Rainbow Brite Birthday video. I still get the birthday song stuck in my head.
I LOVED Sailor Moon growing up, but seeing "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" first (when I was probably waaaaayyyy too young) is what fundamentally changed my DNA and set the course for the next 30 years of my life.
Ok the lighting in my office is unforgivable but how SWEET did the slime-green spot color turn out on this latest F.T. Lukens jacket?! Another illustrated masterpiece by Sam Schechter 💚✨🔮
SO excited to see SATURDAY MORNING AT THE 'SHOP featured on CBS!!! Ken is such a tremendous illustrator and all-around kind soul, and I'm BEYOND grateful to have been a part of the team that made 'Shop. 💈♥️
The best part of being in love is the way your speech will devolve into nonsense sounds, but you'll still understand each other perfectly
I forgot to take better pictures before I gifted it, but here's the Shih Tzu portrait I sewed up for a very dear friend! Finding a tactile way to include her "meat beard" was the best part 😂❤️
Here's an in-progress little guy! After years of wrestling with right-handed tutorials, I finally learned how to do a French Knot left-handed! A triumph! Next I'll give him some presents to hold, and maybe boots/a hat. What do you think? 🎁🎅🎄❄️
