After todays garp meeting I've decided that I need to organise myself better in order to not get confused with what I'm researching so the new focal point and plan of action for the next week and a half is...
*Write my introduction as soon as possible in order to get a better understanding of how the essay will take shape and to keep me focused on what it is I want to find out.
*Start to consider the following, What made me want to be an illustrator?How did it start to interest me as a career?Why children's books?What are my influences/where do I draw my ideas from and what is it that I want to say with my work?Alot of illustrators use draw on childhood memories, do I?What children's books did I like as a child?All this is relevant to my research and should be included in my introduction.
*One of the main things I need to research into (that I feel will be important in order to judge the merit of Fanelli's and Child's work) is, what factors makes a good illustrator? e.g.developing style over ability to draw?Discovering a new way of working,taking risks,a vision/flare for playing out a narrative over a sequence of drawings etc.Create a mind map to collate the information I find on this topic.
*Write to publishers asking general questions,e.g what illustrators work excites them at the moment and why?What do they look for when taking on new illustrators?How important is drawing ability in children's book illustration?How much control do they have over the overall look of the book and the illustrations?
*Collect more information on publishing, editing and art direction in children's books.
*Continue to gather information for similarities and differences chart for Child and Fanelli.In particular start to look at what else influences them with particular focus on childhood memories and any other influences that isn't other artists work.
*Start to think of interview questions for Child and Fanelli incase I get to interview them.
*New idea to think about interviewing other children's book illustrators to get a better idea about what they think makes a good children's book illustrator and to gain more information about what influences them as illustrators, etc.
*start to do surveys on Child's and Fanelli's books and which children/students/adults like more and why?Which do I like more and why?
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