How to Illustrate for a Children's Book
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How to Illustrate for a Children's Book
Hi! I’m Angela Sage Larsen. On behalf of expertvillage.com, today, we’re going to talk about publishing your own children’s story. Please visit my web site at petalwinkthefairy.com. Let’s talk about illustrating your storybook. If you don’t have another illustrator and you’re going to illustrate it to yourself, here are some things to think about. When I did Petalwink Learns to Fly, I considered the whole page and how I wanted the page to look. Now, there are different ways you can do a design that’s broken up where you have a vignette image on one page and text on another. Or, like how I did it, I wanted the whole page, the whole spread, to be one big landscape, so that every time you turn a page, you had the whole view of the story. These are my original watercolors. You can see that in writing a story, I needed to consider where the text was going to go on each page. What was the story that I was going to tell with the drawings that would help support the text. Especially, when you are talking about young readers. They’re going to be looking for the story in the pictures. They’re also always looking for details. So, when you have a little something in the background, there’s a little humming bird, they’re going to notice that. This is one of my favorite pictures. This is Petalwink not being able to fly, but you can see the little characters in the background and the kids absolutely love that. In thinking about formatting your illustrations, you want to consider what is the bigger broader picture, but also what are some of the details. Here is Petalwink with her finger in the pond. You would be amazed, but kids notice those little details.
Hi! I’m Angela Sage Larsen. On behalf of expertvillage.com, today, we’re going to talk about publishing your own children’s story. Please visit my web site at petalwinkthefairy.com. Let’s talk about illustrating your storybook. If you don’t have another illustrator and you’re going to illustrate it to yourself, here are some things to think about. When I did Petalwink Learns to Fly, I considered the whole page and how I wanted the page to look. Now, there are different ways you can do a design that’s broken up where you have a vignette image on one page and text on another. Or, like how I did it, I wanted the whole page, the whole spread, to be one big landscape, so that every time you turn a page, you had the whole view of the story. These are my original watercolors. You can see that in writing a story, I needed to consider where the text was going to go on each page. What was the story that I was going to tell with the drawings that would help support the text. Especially, when you are talking about young readers. They’re going to be looking for the story in the pictures. They’re also always looking for details. So, when you have a little something in the background, there’s a little humming bird, they’re going to notice that. This is one of my favorite pictures. This is Petalwink not being able to fly, but you can see the little characters in the background and the kids absolutely love that. In thinking about formatting your illustrations, you want to consider what is the bigger broader picture, but also what are some of the details. Here is Petalwink with her finger in the pond. You would be amazed, but kids notice those little details.
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