Sketching Scarlett Design Competition
The team at Big Thinking Publishing is busy making books, but we need your help!
Illustrators and Artists ASSEMBLE!
For the reprinting of Alice Barker’s Sketching Scarlett, we are launching a cover design competition.
We’re looking for an illustration of the badass Super Scarlett, based on a description written by the author. The illustration can be whatever size you like, as it’s just a concept/idea for the character based on the description below.
The artist who creates an image the author and the BTP team love the most will be offered a paid cover design project, turning that illustration into the new cover for ‘Sketching Scarlett’.
The upload form can be found at the end of this page.
We do not work with AI-generated images.
Deadline: Friday 18th April, 2025
Description from the Author:
Important: Super Scarlett is a wheelchair user.
I’d drawn her, cocky and confident, in a red and orange one-piece that is made out of metal, her dark hair with crimson streaks flying long and unbound over her shoulders, yet restrained by the helmet that is seated upon her head.
The armour glimmers with a yellow glow, so that it looks like she is on fire, and in certain places – like at her hips, throat and elbow –I’ve made the jointed pieces a nice hue of lilac; it contrasted the warmer tones well.
A corresponding cape, the exact same shade of red as the majority of the costume, billows out behind her… but it is threaded through the massive exoskeleton of outer armour in which Super Scarlett is seated inside.
Grey metal sneaks under her arms and round her back, so that she’s comfortably positioned, and yet it’s not too heavy-duty to detract from the striking superhero herself.
The armour continues down her sides and underneath, creating a futuristic chair for Super Scarlett to sit in, eventually culminating in one singular, solitary, giant wheel underneath her that is totally capable of crushing her enemies, should they annoy her enough.
A control panel is at her right hand, glowing with the bright blue of neon emissions and making sure that she’s totally in command.
Sure, she was drawn as a superhero.
That was what she’d wanted to be, what she’d asked me to do, but she could have easily just have been a super- soldier from the year 2134, or a human-machine hybrid that had survived the nuclear apocalypse.