Today we received a lecture from freelance illustrator Emma Reynolds who is currently working at Kilogramme animation Studios. She gave us advice and info on our current children's book designs and for working in this in the future. These were the main points from her talk:
- A story can start from anything: script/text,character idea, situation, meaningful doodle etc.
- Minimal text: text for dialogue and main events in the story.
- The pictures do the describing that the text doesn't, each has own role in the book and have to compliment each other. Don't overstate things
-Break down the story, highlight key events, identify themes: how do I want this to be shown? How do I want the reader to feel here? colour scheme throughout book
-Vary readers angles/viewpoints: think of film shots
-Character development: do first hand research as reference (helps with colour/sizing/proportion/environment) Think of personality/how the reader would feel
-Shape/composition: do multiple drawings of each character from different angles, remember they are 3D figures (as shown below from Emma's website)
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