![]() From the desk of Phyllis Picture Book Author Ciao Writers, If you are writing a book that requires illustrations, you will need an illustrator. That may be you or someone else. Some helpful suggestions if you are looking for an illustrator and for working with one are as follows: Find someone … who you are comfortable working with, who has a style you fall in love with, and who communicates like you do. Then as you write your story think about how each sentence or idea on each page might be illustrated. Ask yourself, “Do these words provide a picture to the reader?” If yes, then the illustrator will be able to draw it. If no, you might have to revise. But, sometimes you won’t have to revise and that’s when you add a note to the illustrator. An illustrator note offers the idea of what you are saying. It’s easy to make a lot of illustrator notes (illo. notes), but try not to fall into this trap. Only supply an illo note if you know the meaning of the sentence is not clear or there is some meaning that is truly special to you that you would like to see it in an illustration. Share your text with the illustrator only after you have it paginated. Then discuss the story together. Have an open question and answer dialogue. Talk about the characters, the theme of the story, and be sure that the illustrator really understands how you see your pages. The illustrator will send you thumbnail sketches of each spread. Once you both agree on the design and development, expect the full sketches for each spread within the timeline agreed upon. After that, the final illustrations will fall into place. Happy Writing! See you next time. Cheers, 😊 Phyllis
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