Illustrating Children’s Books: Creating Pictures for Publication
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, … More >>
- ISBN13: 9780764127175
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Illustrating Children’s Books: Creating Pictures for Publication
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Highly recommend for anyone who is looking into illustration in general, especially children’s books. Great high quality graphics throughout the book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a perfect gift for an aspiring writer and/or illustrator for children’s books. It gives great detail and shows perfect examples.
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you’re interested in illustrating for children’s books and such, don’t miss this book. Full of information, how-to’s, pictures, experiences, this book could very well be the aspiring children’s artist’s Bible! Believe me, you won’t be wasting your money and this book will easily help you break into the industry as well as teaching you HOW to illustrate for children. Buy this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5