Even if they say they do, most people don’t want original.
Category: Making
How to: read poetry
If you’re curious about poetry, but don’t know where to start, here’s one method, the one that worked for me.
Children’s books and intergenerational knowledge transfer
Are picture books the last remaining object, disconnected from the internet, where two generations can share and discuss an idea together?
What am i doing differently?
Let’s face it, these days, it’s easy to be the same. To conform. To take a nice, comfy seat high up on the bell curve of what’s ‘on trend’. If I want to buy some new clothes, it’s easy for me to pull up a Pinterest board and see, in an instant, what the world… Continue reading What am i doing differently?
Adding signs of life to settings
Backgrounds give the illustrator a rich opportunity to tell stories using only pictures. It’s almost always what a child that notices first.
The sky isn’t blue
Once an artist has found the formula to capture reality, we get to move beyond it, and capture what imagine it could be, like when we were kids.
Pictures are for kids, right?
In an increasingly visual, connected world, why does visual literacy play second fiddle to words? Why is the path to literacy paved in language?
What is your story about?
Until I work out the relatable human need in an idea that I’ve had, my story is just a sequence of events, and not ‘about’ anything at all.
Optimising your life to encourage boredom
‘Avoiding boredom’ is something that we’re trained to achieve in a bid to be ‘more productive’. But it’s not until you permit yourself to be bored again that you truly see the power of it in helping you make more lateral and inventive connections, more often.
Colour palette reference: Hilda
A handy colour-guide to the wonderfully-controlled colour palettes of the Hilda comics series.