Project : Working for children part 1

exercise ; Working for children

research for Pre-reader ( 0-2  years )

Bing Bunny series created by Kate Greenaway illustrated by Ted Dewan

                                    












"Chocolate moose for Greedy Goose" Julia Donaldson  illustrated by Nick Sharratt.

 

"Come on, Daisy " written and illustrated Jane Simmons .

"The very hungry caterpillar "written and illustrated by Eric Clare .

"Hug " written and illustrated by Jez Alborough .



" Where is Maisy ? " written and illustrated by Lucy Cousins .




 " Orange Pear Apple bear "written and illustrated by Emily Gravett



 

 

Pre- school ( 3-5 years )

'Angelina Ballerina' by Katharine Holabird  illustrated Helen Craig.

 

 

 

'Charlie and Lola'  created by Lauren Child

        

 

 

 

'Dogger' by Shirley Hughes

 

         

 

 

 

 

'the Gruffalo'  written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler

 

     

 

 

 

5-7

 

 

'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' written by Lewis Carroll 

 

   

 

 

 

'Esio Trot'  written by Roald Dahl illustrated Quentin Blake

 

     

 

 

'Horrid Henry'  written by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross

 

  

 

 

'Tales from the Moomin Valey’by Tove Janson and Sophie Hannah

 

    

 

 

I cannot believe how many different styles of illustrations I managed to find so far.  I know I could spend hours and hours on researching and still be amazed.

Different age of children and different approach of the subject.  The illustrations from ‘Tales from the Moominvaley’ represent the style that I like the most.  They have very simply line but they create interesting look of the character at the same time.

Brainstorm

 

Scary, wild and sad.  These are the three words I picked to play with.

 

I created a simple image of a rabbit.  Later I tried to imagine what it means to be a little rabbit in the big world and then the first word that came to my mind was ‘scary’.  I picked the pre-school age group as they need more descriptive illustrations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is my little rabitt created partly with Adobe Illustrator and partly with Adobe Photoshop .

I tried to give this rabbit sweet and fluffy look to achieve contrast between his soft nature and danger around him.

 

 

 

 

 

Working on illustration- stage 1

 

 

( rabbit on the left side )

 

I am not happy with location of my rabbit; therefore, I will check few more options.  

 

 

 rabbit on the right side)

 

 

 

 

 

 ( rabbit in the middle of illustration )

 

 

( rabbit on the left side but not in the center of page)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The colours were chosen according to the mood, therefore everything is dark and gloomy.  The rabbit looks scared as he feels that there is a danger hiding behind the tree.  I used different textures for this exercise.  I wanted to give something to look at and to be interested on different levels for the young audience.  The wolf is hand-drawn, the rabbit is partly hand-drawn, and partly created in Illustrator.

 

I decided to be brave with the dark colours and made only one place quite bright.  There is a corner of the page where the tree has two eyes.  I wanted to make it more interesting, so the kids can wonder ‘is there an animal in the tree or does the tree have eyes?'.

 

 

                                                                  Finished illustration