The successful book illustrator starts by understanding his author's flight of fancy, then rendering the ideas and actions imaginatively in pictorial terms. This unusual and inspiring book was written for art students and ambitious beginners. It instructs on methods of developing both imaginative powers and the technical artistic skills to produce high quality illustrations that will please authors and children's book editors. Separate chapters focus on:
Media, materials, and techniques
Developing different drawing styles to fit specific storytelling methods
Instilling visual personality traits in story characters
Creating effective sequential images for storyboards and picture book outlines
Design, typography, and preparation for print
Illustrating story books for older children
Illustrating nonfiction and educational books
Breaking into the children's book publishing business Here is solid, practical instruction for students of book illustration, enhanced with more than 250 how-to illustrations in color and black-and-white.
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Illustrating Children's Books by Martin Salisbury:
Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication This is a short overview of the general basics of children's book illustration. It is not a "how to" or in-depth discussion of illustration or story line, and it is not meant to be. It is well written, illustrated, and organized and will give you a general sense of what goes into this type of book.
Beautiful Possibilities:
This wonderful book walks you through the world of illustrating children's books. The many colorful examples show you that there are no limits to illustrating styles and materials. A good practical companion book is "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books" by Harold Underdown.
A different take on illustrating:
Many artists might be searching for a book on the techniques for illustrating children's books, and although this book does not show an artist HOW to draw, it does go into detail about what is behind illustrating for children's books that makes the illustrations successful.
Great resource for the starting Illustrator:
This is an excellent, easy read for those interested in illustrating children's books. I bought this book along with Writing with Pictures (which I do not recommend) and found this to be an incredibly valuable resource for someone NEW to the field or illustration student. The book is filled with interesting insights into the minds of various illustrators, tips for processing ideas, understanding how the basic process works when dealing with a publisher and writer, etc. It also has a great brief history of... more info
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