Setting inspiration paint play for one of my picture book projects
I didn't get a chance to post over the weekend since Inktober started and that sort of took over everything. I'll share more on that later. I also discovered the Bullet Journal system and had a ton of fun setting that up. It may be exactly what I need to get organized and settled and get stuff done instead of hummingbird fluttering from project to project and idea to idea, around and around.
Anyway, back to the topic of this post, Pirate Island. I had fun working out this setting for a picture book of mine. It involves a dragon and has a pirate flair. The kick-in-the-seat-of-the-pants I needed to get this image and concept out of my head and onto paper (so to speak) was, surprise-surprise, #colour_collective with the color prompt, Old Lace (the top part of the sky.)
Now that I have an image of the world my MC lives in, I can sketch out the scenes of her and her brother and a dragon interacting in the world easier. I'm excited to finally get the dummy book done for this one. I'm quite in love with the final story and this setting.
Picture book writers, do you find it helpful to have a setting image available while writing to ground your characters in their world? This question goes for illustrators as well, actually. I previously have created character sketches (see below) before doing the dummy book, but not often the setting.
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Character exploration art for the picture book project
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These are fantastic, Traci. The one of the island in purple is one I'd hang on the wall and imagine the many possible ways the ship wound up where it did.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mirka. I'm considering putting the island castle on a poster in my new Redbubble store.
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