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Extreme Weather
Children's Book
I liked to read books about scary storms and predator animals as a kid, but as much as I thought they were cool, they scared me at the same time. In this project, I attempted to balance the feelings of dread with cats that stood in for the audience. This is because I loved Richard Scary books. As a child I loved to see what each animal was doing on the page. In this process I drew many cats separately so I could place them around text.
Date
April 2023
This is a proposed children's book under the direction of Esther Kim. I wanted to create a nonfiction children's book based off of what I was interested in as a kid.
Below are some of the spreads I completed for this project. They are in no exact order, and combine finished pages with their first concepts.
In these spreads, my main goal became trying to cut down as much text as I could, and pulling together a consistant and readable style. This is evident in this last spread of mine, where the left page had too much text grouped together, and the art on the right page made the text hard to see.
The process throughout the semester was one of endless cutting down and revising to make the most polished concept possible.
The Ideation
When my Children's Book Illustration course began, our first task was to go into bookshops and study the types of children's book we wanted to create. I gravitated towards nonfiction, and took notes on how information was conveyed to a younger age group. We then had to create many pages of ideation and composition.
This is a page from the "history of meteorology" I had to cut. I'm a history nerd and would have loved to make this a part of the book, but then the book would just have been about the science of meteorology instead of the actual storms.
