Watch & Draw with Barnes & Noble | The Bakery Dragon | Devin Elle Kurtz

Devin Elle Kurtz joins host Josh Sippie to talk The Bakery Dragon, starring quite possibly the cutest dragon ever. She talks about her creative process, crafting dragon characters and walks through a drawing demonstration where she crafts a brand-new character.
The Bakery Dragon stars Ember, a dragon unlike other dragons. Ember fears he’ll never collect a respectable hoard of gold until a chance encounter with a baker causes his fortunes to turn (and his stomach to grumble). As the little dragon soon discovers, the gold you make is way better than the gold you steal-and gold that is shared? That’s best of all.
Devin Elle Kurtz lives in Pasadena with her dog, Kira, and her thirty-three houseplants. She's been painting in Photoshop since the age of two when her artist mom first offered her a tablet pen. Her focus is magical scenes that combine fantasy elements with environments that feel visceral and real. She has worked in the animation industry as a background painter/designer and visual development artist since 2017. She was the lead background painter on “Disenchantment” at Rough Draft Studios from 2019-2021, and has contributed to publications such as Beasts of the Four Nations, Escape from Atlantis, How to Heal a Gryphon, and Mother of Sharks. The Bakery Dragon is her first picture book as an author-illustrator.