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Share Article Tweet. An illustration from Where are you, beloved lions? An educational book for children which helps the little ones learn English words with the help of awesome illustrations. In the stylization, we see the use of gradients, lights and shadows, textures, and eye-pleasing colors. The illustrations are arranged by theme and certainly make the learning fun.
The story tells about a child and a giant who are about to experience an adventure together that will change their lives.
The book certainly manages to captivate the viewer with beautiful art. The stylistics of the drawings include textures and fresh gradients. The story is about a loveable white bear who goes on an adventurous trip and faces different challenges along the way.
An illustration from Victor. The big trip. The fifth illustration asks the kids to name all the animals depicted. What a fun way to learn and to enjoy art! She also loves spending time with her animal friends from the circus. The full-page illustrations are drawn in beautiful bright colors and pastel textures. To conclude, children book art is such an imaginative field that every artist can learn from and get inspired.
Children book illustrations come in all forms and shapes but besides being beautiful, they have one mission — to make the children happy…. Like us on Facebook. All the styles from number 4 to 7 are also either cartoon or realistic. Whimsical drawings can also be stylized, and so on. Cartoon style drawings have exaggerated features and are not true to life. I divided cartoons into two main styles, the first being cute or childlike.
Copyright: Total Language Connections. Because of the exaggeration in the drawings, cartoon lends itself perfectly to funny or whacky illustrations. Copyright: Dr. Sketchy drawings are drawings that are unrefined and still look more like rough sketches than final illustrations. They can vary in their refinement and be rough, or hardly rough at all.
Sketchy drawings are often expressive, which can be a nice touch. They are often simplified, or made up of geometric shapes or patterns. They also often have flat colors. This is understandable, since the medium influences the appearance. For instance, watercolor is seen as a style. Though, in the stricter sense of the word, it is a medium.
While it has a distinct quality, you can create different styles of illustrations with watercolor. Here are four watercolor birds to show what I mean:. Then, these last two are a slightly different category, but we can divide digital illustrations as follows:. Watercolor is a painting method with water-based paint. Use more watery paint, and you get more transparent, softer images. These illustrations are mostly whimsical, delicate, gentle or sentimental. Less watery paint makes for sharper, brighter images.
Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint and can also be used watery or thicker than watercolor, making for more opaque colours and texture. Gouache is another type of paint and can again be mixed with water to change the consistency.
It can be used dry, for what is called a dry brush effect that is textured. Soonchild by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Alexis Deacon, is an example of charcoal illustrations.
Olivia the Pig has mainly charcoal drawings, with splashes of red added in. John Tenniel also illustrated Alice in Wonderland in pen and ink. There are more examples here: Book illustration: the woodcut. This method is uncommon today and would require a big budget for your illustrations. So if you like this style, you could get a similar look for your illustrations. Metal etching was the most common form of creating book illustrations from the late s to the early s.
It can achieve detail wood cutting cannot. There are different types of metal etching, but in brief it entails producing images on metal plates, which are then used for printing. As with wood cutting, metal etchings are now uncommon and expensive, but illustrators can imitate it with ink or digitally.
Lithography is another printing process. A flat surface is treated with oil in areas to create an image. The oil repels ink and thus an image is created by the ink only sticking to the desired areas, which are then printed.
Different colors can also be created in one image by doing multiple prints, one color at a time. The Terrible Troll-Bird is a good example of lithography. Collage is made by attaching different materials such as cut or torn paper, photographs or fabric onto paper or a backing. Eric Carle, author of the famous The Very Hungry Caterpillar , did all his book illustrations in collage. He painted tissue paper with acrylic for his collages. You can see examples here: Eric Carle Carle Museum.
This is a combination of different media. Examples include watercolor and pencil; or ink, charcoal and any kind of paint combined. These illustrations are created digitally, in various kinds of software. Freehand digital art is drawn as one would draw on paper. Thus the shapes and lines are organic not perfect geometry, exact straight lines etc.
There is also often shading. Raster illustrations means the images are drawn in pixels tiny dots on that make up the images on a computer screen. With vector illustrations the information is stored as mathematical statements. For our purposes, all that matters is the appearance. As digital illustrations software has advanced, there are more and more ways to make raster resemble vector and vector like raster illustrations.
But no need to get too technical in this article. Here are a few examples from the GetYourBookIllustrations portfolio of freehand raster digital illustrations:.
And here are a few examples from the GetYourBookIllustrations portfolio of freehand vector digital illustrations:. Here are a few examples from the GetYourBookIllustrations portfolio of stylized digital illustrations:.
There is more I could say on the subject, but this gives you a pretty comprehensive overview of the types of illustrations you can choose from. In short, the best way to choose the illustration style for your book is by combining your personal preference with doing research on what fits for your age group and genre. Then please let me know in the comments below so I can address your questions. At GetYourBookIllustrations it is our mission to provide beautiful, affordable illustrations to help you bring your book to life!
This may seem like a too-obvious question, but I find it is often neglected by new writers. A common question that…. There exist several story books published for children in Turkey. These story books for children which constantly increase in number bring about also certain qualitative problems in terms of their designs.
Various details that need attention in the design of story books come into play. The design of story books prepared especially for early age groups is likely to have positive or negative effects on the learning process. Therefore, the need emerges for the design of new story books which are designed by taking into consideration the developmental characteristics and needs of the target audience. Upon researches performed under this study, it was discerned that the number of story books which were composed by paying attention to the developmental characteristics of the target audience and in conformity with design elements and principles was far from being satisfactory.
This study addressed problems encountered in the use of external structure, internal structure, typography and illustration elements in story books published for children which made up the research sample and were analyzed on the basis of specified criteria. In this qualitative research, the review of literature and study field was carried out.
Article Outline 1. Objective of the Research 2. Coverage and Limitations 3. Research Model 4. Introduction 5. Book Selection Process and Analysis Criteria 6. Discussion and Conclusions Note. Coverage and Limitations This research was limited to the group of pre-schema children aged years.
In the research, story books published for children were selected as the research sample. Research Model In the research, qualitative research method was utilized. In this research in which the visual design of story books published for children aged years and selected as the sample was analyzed, the observation analysis, a qualitative data collection technique, was implemented. Images of contents and illustrations of story books intended for the targeted age group were captured and made available to the interpretation under the qualitative research.
Collected data were visually analyzed. In such books which are heavily under the influence of American culture, characters who are violently and forcefully engaged in adventures set as examples to children Mahserece, , p.
Sever , p. It is highly essential that families and teachers who guide the child about books be conscious and selective in this respect. When the book goes down to the core, its weaknesses show up. Inaccurate spellings which are perceived by children in books are received as information by them. Literary works intended for children must be designed in structures aligned with cognitive, affective and psychomotor development levels of children.
Neydim , p. As noted by Lene Mayer Skumanz, every type of fact can be communicated to the child individual. However, what matters is not what is to be communicated, but how it is to be communicated Yavuzer,
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