Monday 19 October 2009

What Comes First, the Story or the Illustration?


Of course for most stories (mine at least) the story comes first. But I've found that as soon as I lay the story out page by page, working out what and where the illustrations will be, the story changes.
 
Sometimes as soon as I draw the key character (boy, pig, tortoise etc) the nature of the story changes.
 
A story about a smart pig which was going to be my first (currently on hold) was quite a dark story. But having drawn only a few illustrations it made me change the story - to make it much lighter and hopefully funnier than it initially was.

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