More homework goodies

/ Teresa 何 Robeson

Lesson 5 of Children’s Book Illustration: Thinking In Pictures is kicking my butt, but I loooved one of the exercises which I’ll share a panel of here. We were assigned a picture book each and had to do a storyboard/thumbnails of the book, copying, in a much simplified form, the entire story. This is to help us see how a professional artist handles the artwork and to understand the flow of a story through its illustrations.

I was given The Iridescence of Birds (illus: Hadley Hooper). I loved that book before, but having to copy art gave me an even greater appreciation of the book. I also realized that I am incapable of drawing stick figures or “simplified” anymore. Featureless faces is as simple as I can get myself to do now.

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41 thoughts on “More homework goodies”

  4. So well done. I think I’d benefit from doing this as well to understand the word/picture placement and the need for sparing amount of text.

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  34. Sometimes an assignment or task sounds so simple on paper, but when you get down to do it, it’s way harder than it looks. You made a hard task look simple, and did a wonderful job with it. I love the idea of going faceless to go simple, it allows the viewer to imagine the looks on the faces, which is almost like when a writer writes with a minimum of detail about what a character looks like, and leaves it up to the reader to fill in the details for themselves.

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  37. Oooh, yeah, then I definitely recommend this class if you want to write PBs! There is another class that I recommend for beginning PB writers, and that is Shadra Strickland’s The Art of the Picture Book through Craftsy. That one is self-paced so it’s not as intense. 🙂

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