Posted: July 19th, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Farley
Over the last few (six-ish) months I’ve been working really hard on a children’s book I have written and illustrated. It’s the story of a bee that gets lost in a forest and meets a bird who helps bring him home with a few exciting adventures with other animals along the way. Cutting edge story telling or what?
I’m really pleased with the illustrations and delighted I actually finished it because it’s been touch and go several times with life getting in the way on a regular basis and I did go a bit blue in the face looking at the same stuff for long periods but I feel like I’ve achieved something good. But the REALLY HARD work continues – trying to get it published because that is, of course the aim.
That’s what I’ll be doing over the next few weeks, sending off copies of the book. I’ve finished all the pages rather than send off just one finished spread with the manuscript so I hope that will pay off. Here’s a few pages from the book. I’d love to post them all here being an exhibitionist and all that but then you won’t want to buy it when it gets published ; ) It’s aimed at 2 – 4 year olds, or any kid that like colourful pictures of striped animals.
If anyone has any tips for increasing the chances of getting published, I’m all ears. And if you happen to be a publisher passing this way … you’re very welcome here and would you like to see more? : )
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Posted: June 28th, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Farley
This post can be filed along with several others under the “I wish I could do this” category. Eric Drooker is a painter, illustrator and graphic novelist from Manhattan Island. He’s illustrated numerous covers for New Yorker magazine (which is what this post is about) but is also the author of Flood! A Novel In Pictures
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I’ve picked out twelve of his New Yorker covers which I absolutely love. I like the humour and occasional poignancy, not to mention the gorgeous painting style and colours used. You can see these and much more on Eric Drooker’s web site.
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Posted: May 24th, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Farley
Here’s another illustrated poem, this time just personal work as I build up my children’s illustration portfolio. The poem is called A TALL FISH TAIL / TALE and is written by Don R. Wilkins. The waves are made of scans of denim.
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Posted: May 17th, 2010 | Author: Jennifer Farley
I attended the Children’s Books Ireland conference at the weekend which was chock a block with inspiration and interesting speakers from the world of children’s literature and picture book illustration. I’m about 65% (past the middle hump anyway) of writing and illustrating a picture book so it was great to hear other people talk about their experiences. So in yet another post subtitled “I wish I could do this” I wanted to show some images from Spanish Illustrator Elena Odriozola
I first saw her work in the lovely book “The Opposite” a couple of years ago and was struck by how different and how beautiful her drawings were.
During her talk, Elena spoke about her needs or what she likes when she’s illustrating. These included:
- I need the size of my characters to stay the same throughout the story
- I need image and text to be as one – as long as the design allows it the image and text are one.
- I need to do the illustration life-size – if a book is 20×20cm I draw in that size but my next work is working in vignettes and will need to be made bigger.
- I need the image to spread over 2 pages – it has more to with continuity and one of my obsessions.
Here’s some images, mostly from The Opposite.
You can see more of Elena’s work at Pencil (and lot’s of other amazing artists too).
You can read much more about the Children’s Books Ireland Conference on David Maybury’s Blog.
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