How We Express Ourselves:Illustrators

WHAT IS AN ILLUSTRATOR?

An illustrator is a storyteller with a drawing board.An illustrator can express a lot of different surroundings, situations, emotions and the physical appearances of characters.Illustrators are as important as the authors of the book.

Illustrator:1. An illustrator is an artist who specializes in

enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the text or idea.

2. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe, which is the reason illustrations are often found in children's books.

3. Illustrations have been used in all sorts of things including: advertisements, greetings cards, [posters, books, novels, newspapers, cartoons and video games!

A Career as an Illustrator

• Children's Book Illustrator: Education and Career Facts

• Being a creative and talented artist is necessary for becoming a children's book illustrator, but you will likely need more than that to be successful in this field. Employers prefer illustrators to hold at least a bachelor's degree, and master's degree programs are also available. Continue reading for information on career prospects for illustrators.

Types of Media:• Collage• Cut Paper• Fabric• Pencil Drawings• Photography• Chalk• Watercolor• Tempera Paints• Oil Paints• Pastels• Paper Pulp• Digital Arthttp://www.picturingbooks.com/slides/artistic-media.html

The Very Hungry Caterpillarby Eric Carle

Form: COLLAGE • noun 1 a form of art in which various materials are arranged and stuck to a backing. 2 a combination or collection of various things.

Function:How does it work? various materials are

arranged and stuck to a backing

Brown Bear Brown Bear by Bill Martin, Illustrated by Eric Carle

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

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•My Studio•How I Paint My Tissue Paper•How I Create My Pictures

http://www.eric-carle.com/photogallery.html

Form: Cut Paper

Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert

Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

Red Leaf Yellow Leafby Lois Ehlert

Tar Beachby Faith Ringgold

Illustration on Fabric

Form: Quilt

• A coverlet or blanket made of two layers of fabric with a layer of cotton, wool, feathers, or down in between, all stitched firmly together, usually in a decorative crisscross design.

Don’t Let the Pigeons Drive the Bus!words and pictures by Mo Willems

Mo Willems uses stunning photographs with illustrations to illustrate his book, Knuffle Bunny and Knuffle Bunny Too.

A Drop of Waterby Walter WickP

HOTOGRAPHY

Stevie by John SteptoeChalk Drawings

Creating a picture with lines using chalk.

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

Pencil DrawingsHatching is the use of fine, parallel lines drawn closely together...Crosshatching is an extension of hatching, which uses is the use of fine parallel lines drawn closely together, to create the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing.

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

OIL Pastel Illustrations

The Polar Express

Oil Pastel Illustrations

The Snowy DayThe classic children's book by Ezra Jack Keats turns 50 this year. When it came out in 1962, it was one of the first major kids' books to feature a black protagonist. It became a huge hit, and was embraced by parents, teachers and children of all colors.

Keats' InspirationIn 1940, Life magazine published a short photo essay focused on a little boy in Liberty County, Ga., who was about to undergo a blood test. Keats was struck by the sweet

images of the child, and cut the group of photographs out of the magazine. That little boy was the inspiration for Keats' character Peter, the African-American protagonist of

The Snowy Day and six books that followed.

Digital Art:

1. Computers dramatically changed the industry and today many cartoonists and illustrators create digital illustrations using computers, graphic tablets, and scanners.

2. Software such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop are now widely used by those professionals.