The Dinosaur & Dragon Juice Café by James Anthony Crabb
ILLUSTRATING A BOOK, EASY?
Before doing children’s books illustrations, I never realised the complexity of illustrating a book.
Apart from drawing, reading text over and over again, matching drawings to text, being sure, because changing text or drawings can lead to ongoing problems later on throughout the book, researching, using models etc, stabilising characters features, working with colours and making many notes for future reference, is there no end ?
Planning most importantly, putting together a mock up book, scanning, copying, doing test prints and final printing, and hopefully lead on production.
Was it worth it? YES.
My first book is in the process of printing and will soon be on sale which is a very exciting feeling.
I would like to say a big thank you to Picnic Publishing for giving me the opportunity to become an illustrator.
Thank you, (this is not a goodbye though as I will be publishing my last and best blogpost tomorrow!)
James A. Crabb