Rachel Fia, Artist & Illustrator
The fifth step of illustrating a children’s book is creating the final artwork. I’m working with traditional media, in this case colored pencils. After I create the test drawing (see my previous blog for step 4), then I make any … Continued
Test Drawings to Scale The fourth step on the children’s book illustration process involves taking the small storyboard images and enlarging them to match the scale of the book size. The images will be fuzzy because they were just small, … Continued
This is the third blog post in the series of Children’s Book Illustration. It’s a behind the scenes look at the illustration process I use to create the preliminary work before illustrating a picture book. Storyboarding The Storyboard is the … Continued
If you read my previous blog post on Illustrating a Children’s Book, I covered Character Studies. In this post, I’ll cover Page Mapping and Thumbnails. There are several layers to story mapping including page breaks, thumbnails, and storyboards. Page Mapping The … Continued
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at one of my new custom illustrations “Jump”. It’s a photo of my friend Amber’s son. She’s the owner of Mt Nittany Creations, a wonderful Etsy jewelry shop with creative handmade pieces. My Illustration Process: I … Continued
Here’s a behind the scenes look at some of the steps involved in the creative process for the design “Forgiven”. It starts with an idea that I get or search for. I was doing a drawing for a prompt of … Continued