How To Get Into Child’s Book Illustration
Magical love stories, the world of friendly dragons, a magical land with no or fewer problems, adventurous tales and beyond logic. We find this luring in children’s books. The artists are mind-blowing and their imagination powers are so trained and creative. Who wouldn’t want to spend their lifetime in illustrating for kids, and living their fantasy world? Creating all about bravery, sincerity, honesty, and love.
As the entertainment world is moving forward, this artistic field for children book illustrators is becoming tough and tough. It is squeezing due to a large number of artists. According to research, the market in the UK grew by 7% in the first quarter of 2016. Many artists have been rejected numerous times, but they kept learning from their mistakes. So, what should you do to avoid rejection and getting into the world of illustration for children’s books?
Dig more into your imagination
Working as an artist, you must have an active imagination. The process of your imagination will help you to develop the characters, and how you must continue with your story. You must be passionate about the illustration, that passion must be seen in your illustration to the audience.
Develop the capacity
You need to keep going on and on with the designs and drawings for the particular stories. There are times when you draw something, after sometime when you look at your drawing, there is an urge to make it more perfect or make it again. These instincts need patience and more practice. When you are focused and you know what you want, immediately the illustration is done perfectly by you.
You can always start with the already published book’s cover. Make them within your capacity and improvise them until you feel the perfectness. Drawing and illustration is not an easy and quick task it needs patience as well as tolerance. These designs may take a day or two or sometimes months but this all depends on how you try to train your mind with creativity.
Nothing is simple!
There’s an illustrator who says, most people go to the children’s illustration and believe it’s really easy to do, but this isn’t. Not only is it a challenging and competitive market to get into, but it’s also a difficult language to learn–particularly because it’s not always about drawing well. It’s more about focusing on plot, sentiment, and powerful colors than it’s about having it beautiful.
You have to have both from technical to practical perspective, while you are illustrating for children’s book which is a tough task. There is a dizzying range of styles on sale – from mythology to fairy tales; for babies to young adults – and often the easier the theme, the tougher it is to construct.
Engage your inner child
The older you become, the more you lose contact with your inner child. If you want to become the best illustrator, so that the kids remember you for the long run, then you have to bring out your inner child. So that you can understand the needs and the fantasy that is in the imagination of kids.
Of course, there are limitations involved when you creating for kids. Kids have weird imaginations and you cannot question them about their fantasy. And if you are still excited about illustrating something weird yet exciting for them you are halfway on it.
Befriend with the theme and the style
Like many children’s book illustrators, you can operate collaboratively with authors and publishers to bring to life real tales rather than drawing of your own. For you, making photographs that beautifully reflect and contribute to the plot must be one of the most interesting parts of the work.
Nevertheless, other authors tend to depict their works. As Leonard acknowledges, it can be a challenge to try to bring someone else’s dream to reality.
Emotional connection with the story
Eventually, you will start to create an emotional connection between your story and readers. For this, you need talent and skills, no prior experience is required for this. Many fresh graduates from the animation or advertising field start working in an agency, where they work with the clients and illustrate their stories in art formation rather than words. And these illustrated stories make a good connection with the viewers.
Just like that, for children, you need to have the element of connection so that your readers can feel the story as their own.