Writing with Pictures

Second-Hand (Hardcover)

Excellent condition

How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books

Everyone interested in children's books will be fascinated by Writing with Pictures.

With more than 600 illustrations, Writing with Pictures is an exciting learning experience. Examples of storyboards and book dummies show how to plan the flow of a book. Sketches and step-by-step demonstrations provide in-sights into drawing figures and developing characters and settings.

The effect of scale, the impact of composition, the range of styles- all come alive through pictures, including many by well-known illustrators. Particularly invaluable are the practical exercises in illustration techniques and color preseparation, a process widely used in children's books.

And, at the very end, there are helpful suggestions for finding a publisher

A unique feature of the book is its emphasis on a visual approach to writing.

Award-winning author and illustrator Uri Shulevitz reveals how pictures can communicate the action of a story and how words can evoke images. Learning to
see the story in pictures can help artists to write and writers to avoid wordiness.

Writing with Pictures is an important source of information for illustrators, art directors, writers, filmmakers, students, teachers, and editors. But it is far more than a book of instruction - it is a source of inspiration for anyone interested in the creative process