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You have been thinking about making illustrations for a children's book.

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Stunning Children's Book Illustrations from Top Illustrators in UK

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Stunning Children's Book Illustrations from Top Illustrators in UK

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Stunning Children's Book Illustrations from Top Illustrators in UK

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Proudly representing 74 popular Children Illustrators worldwide specializing in children's book illustrations, fairy tales, covers and kids illustrations

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Best Illustration Practices: How to Illustrate - Blog

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Best Illustration Practices: How to Illustrate - Blog

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The only difference between good and great illustration is experience. What follows is a helpful walkthrough of what I have found to be the best practices to uphold when creating illustrations. This is not a guide on how to create your own illustrations, but is a general overview of what it takes to make fantastic illustrations.
What Is 'Illustration'?

Before we get started, you should have a good understanding of what an illustration is and what it isn't. Without delving into its history, illustrations have always been depictions of an artist's imagination or of what the artist perceives in a moment.

In a sense, 'illustration' has become interchangeable with the term 'art', but they are in fact not the same. Though an illustration can take the form of a doodle, an infographic, an animation, or even a comic strip, they only take a two-dimensional form-a book has illustrations in its pages, but the book itself is not an illustration; a sculpture can illustrate a story, but is also not an illustration. See the difference?

Digital vs. Traditional Media

So which medium is better for creating illustrations? Trick question! As far as what is the best medium to use, it will always be a personal preference. (That said, what makes a difference in an illustration is skill level.) What's wonderful about creating illustrative work is that you're not limited in what you can choose or what different mediums you can combine.

What Makes a Good Illustration

Color, shapes, and textures notwithstanding, good illustration must have an intention. Nothing looks more unprofessional than an illustration without purpose, function, and looks as if it has been thrown together. This means understanding what your client and his or her business is trying to achieve. To learn more about how to incorporate your client's needs, read this previous blog post.

Good illustration also takes a lot of practice, and multiply that by a million. Practicing your art skills really does make all the difference, and your supervisors, coworkers, and clients will notice too.

References
Sites that are great to look through:
As an illustrator, always make sure you have a good list of references at your disposal. By researching different art styles, artists, culture, and practices, you can really expand your horizons and keep your skills fresh. Don't limit yourself by only creating art that you are comfortable with.
Sites that can help you become better:

Google
I'll admit thatGoogle is most likely the last site you'd think to find in a reference list, however I'd be a liar if I didn't say that it was one of my go to sources to search for just about everything. One really useful feature is that Google allows you to grab an image that you've found, drag it into the search bar, and find other images that are similar in look and/or by the same artist.

Tumblr
Tumblr is a great site as there are many Artist and Art blogs that you can follow.

Kuler
Kuler is an Adobe tool that helps you create color pallets. My favorite feature would have to be the Explore section, as it is great for browsing through color combinations that other people have put together.

Youtube
Need more than just astep-by-step walkthrough to help you draw something? Look no further than Youtube. No seriously, there are amazing videos up on the site that can demonstrate just how to get that look you are going for.

I See What You Did There

Though not everyone in the world is an artist, they most certainly know what looks appealing and what doesn't-use that to your advantage. Call on your fellow artists, clients, or friends as helpers as an extra pair of eyes. You can always use a little perspective to help finesse your work. In my experience, I've never not needed a different point of view to help improve my work.

That said, don't let just anyone look at your work. Beware having too many cooks in the kitchen; they might just confuse you more than help you.

The Takeaway

There really is no one way to make great illustration, but there are a few best illustration practices to keep in mind. Good illustration certainly takes skill, but I've found that it is more about having a good and trustworthy process that encourages awesome illustrations to emerge from it.

Curious to learn more about WDG's design process? Check out our work and drop us a line today.

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Best Illustration Practices: How to Illustrate - Blog

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The only difference between good and great illustration is experience. What follows is a helpful walkthrough of what I have found to be the best practices to uphold when creating illustrations. This is not a guide on how to create your own illustrations , but is a general overview of what it takes to make fantastic illustrations.

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18 things you need to know to illustrate a children's book - YouTube

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18 things you need to know to illustrate a children's book

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a selection of detailed points to use when illustrating a book for children. you might like to see the follow-up video "18 things you might find useful after you illustrate your children's book", which gives some details about contracts etc.

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The Making of A Children's Book Illustration: Sophia the Pig! - YouTube

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The Making of A Children's Book Illustration: Sophia the Pig!

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This color sample is going to be part of a picture book package my agent will be shopping around to publishers next week! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for watching this video. www.paigekeiser.com

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Learn how to develop memorable, believable characters for all types of illustration: cartoons, comics, feature animation, gaming, kid's books, and advertising.

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5 tips for illustrating children's books | Creative Bloq

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5 tips for illustrating children's books | Creative Bloq

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The world of picture books is currently experiencing a golden age. Sales are good and talent is abundant. As such it is a hugely competitive arena.

Rob Biddulph is the art director of the Observer Magazine. He is also an award-winning author and illustrator. His first book, Blown Away, is a bestseller and won this year's Waterstones Children's Book Prize. His second, GRRRRR!, has just gone on sale. Here, Rob shares his tips on illustrating books for children...

01. Draw!

I think that the key to being a successful children's illustrator is developing your own unique style. To my mind that can only be achieved through (and this is going to sound obvious) drawing.

Draw, draw and then draw some more. Have a sketchbook with you at all times. Draw at home, draw at work, draw in the park, draw in the library and draw on the bus.

You'll find that your style will begin to reveal itself pretty quickly and once it does you will easily be able to apply it to a wide range of subjects.

When I'm designing a character for a book I draw him or her again and again either on my Wacom Cintiq or I fill up several pages of a sketchbook.

Then, the next day, I have a look back over them all with fresh eyes and tick the sketches that work.

I then rework the images digitally using my tablet and Photoshop as the basis for the final characterisation and go from there.

02. Build up a portfolio of kids' book staples

One of the first things my agent said to me was that I needed to build up a portfolio of children's book staples. So I drew a pirate scene, a dinosaur scene, spacemen, aliens, dragons, monsters etc etc.

Again, it really helped me to hone my style. It also ensured that publishers could see that I was versatile enough to (hopefully) have a long and varied publishing career.

03. The devil is in the detail

Picture books tend to be read and re-read night after night. Well, the good ones do anyway! So you need to include layers of detail so that children (and parents) can spot things on the second or third reads that they didn't notice the first time around. It makes for a much more rewarding reading experience. It's also a lot of fun thinking of little visual gags to hide away in the pages.

To produce my artwork I use a Wacom art pen and Cintiq tablet with some bespoke brushes to draw the artwork. I then build up the final illustrations layer-by-layer Photoshop.

My Wacom tablet offers such a natural, lovely way to work because it's proper drawing/painting but with the additional bonus of tweakability. I can produce artwork very quickly to a print-ready standard and am able to change anything right up until the last moment. Here is a step-by-step example of how a spread in Blown Away was built up:

04. Simple faces say more

As odd as it sounds, less is more when it comes to conveying emotion on the faces of picture book characters.

Two black dots for eyes are as good as anything, mainly because it's all about the placement of the eyebrow. It's amazing how a slight positional alteration of a simple line can totally change the expression, from happiness to surprise to anger.

A common mistake, and one that lots of people make, is to try and do too much. That's when it tends to become a bit too cartoony.

Children like to project their own emotions onto those of the character and I think that a relatively blank canvas in terms of visual expression allows them to do this much more easily. Look at the work of Jon Klassen and Oliver Jeffers for further evidence.

05. Variety is the key

Once the story is written and the characters designed it's time to plan your book. Most picture books tend to be 32 pages long and by the time you have taken out the title page, endpapers and the publishing credits you are left with just 28. Which isn't many!

I start by drawing 14 rectangles each divided in half to represent the double-page spreads of the book and set about crow-barring the story into the pages.

One thing that's really important to consider at this stage is pacing. A book flows much better if you mix it up a bit in terms of how busy the pages are.

So a page which has every square inch covered with dense detail should be followed by something much more simple and pared back. Maybe lots of white space. Loud, quiet, loud, quiet. That's the way to go.

Also, the colour palette should flow harmoniously through the pages and should only change dramatically if you want to surprise the reader.

An example of this is the jungle scene in Blown Away that I mentioned earlier. Up until this point in the book we had only really seen whites and pale blues so the bright greens are really quite arresting.
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5 tips for illustrating children's books

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The world of picture books is currently experiencing a golden age. Sales are good and talent is abundant. As such it is a hugely competitive arena. Rob Biddulph is the art director of the Observer Magazine. He is also an award-winning author and illustrator.