Here is my entry for the SCBWI draw this competition. There is some great work out there already for this new challenge.
I pen and ink with some Illustrator and Photoshop to make the final product. Below are some stops along the path.
Thanks to fellow SCBWI members Annina and Stephen for some suggestions. 
This picture was a runner up for the 2013 Tomie dePaola award from SCBWI.
Here is the quote from Tomie dePaola:
I am very excited to receive this honor and it was incredibly fun to do the illustration. I used traditional pen and ink and Arches hot press watercolor paper.
SCBWI Boot Camp with presenter Mary Kole and Anita Nolan.
The workshops were informative and I came away with fresh approaches for my character and story, and hopefully a better pitch.
I found the critique with Ariel Colletti insightful, and I will be taking her advice in shaping my story.
The venue at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen was great. What an amazing building.
Thanks SCBWI. Great program.
Submission for the Tomie dePaola award. Used traditional pen and ink on hot press watercolor paper. Loved the downward motion of the strokes and tried to have everything move towards the bottom of the page by using bold strokes.
Very happy with the outcome.
I was recently inspired to play with a ink wash after seeing some beautiful work from a fellow artist. I took some Walnut ink that was sitting with my supplies, pulled out a sheet of hot press watercolor paper and began to play with the brush.
I am pretty happy with the work, though I wish the line work was a little thinner. It has been some time since I have done a complete work in brush that wasn’t digital.
I mixed a small bit of black ink to try to darken certain sections and to give it depth.
The subject is for the SCBWI bulletin, which has to do with book reviews.
The best compliment is that my son wants it on his wall.
https://stepheningram.com/2012/09/dinosaur/
Pen and ink illustration on Borden and Riley Paris Bleedproof Paper for Pens.
This is one of my favorite mediums to work. I have found that the Broden and Riley paper is the best to work with, though I do use hot press if I intend to watercolor the picture.
This is another sample for my art group of an illustration that I am going to submit to the SCBWI bulletin. I like the detail and I think mermaids are a pretty hot commodity, since everyone is getting tired of vampires.
Working on a image to submit to the SCBWI bulletin with my art group.
Wanted to draw a young girl that seemed to dress a little different from the regular mainstream.
Decided to do this completely in traditional pen and ink. I did an underlying drawing in pencil, inked on top, erased and scanned.