What Do Illustrators Do?

What Do Illustrators Do?

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Steps Illustrators Takes

Step 1: Illustrators decide which scenes in the story they want to illustrate.

Step 2: Then the illustrator decides the size and shape of the book.

Step 3: Then the illustrator uses his imagination or does research to decide how everything will look as he makes sketches for each page.

Illustrators can change the story

The female illustrator turns the main character from a boy named Jack into a girl named Jacqueline.

She uses her daughter as the model for Jacqueline. She makes her building's rooftop the setting for the beanstalk.

How can a mirror help illustrators in their work?

When illustrators make a face in the mirror, they can see their own expressions and use it as a model to draw a character's expression.

Tools Illustrators use

Illustrators use different types of tools. With each tool can give different lines and textures.

Tools for coloring

Illustrations can show the different ways illustrators can color their pictures.

It takes months to complete an illustration

Illustrators have to draw 32 pages plus the cover.

Sometimes illustrators make mistakes or need to change oclors or the composition. Then they might throw away their pictures and start over.

Illustrators always check their work

The illustrator needs to make sure that nothing is left out in their illustrations.

When their work is complete they send it. to the publisher.

Cover

Illustrators wait until they've finished illustrating the entire book to focus on one important scene to show what the book is about on the cover.

Multiple Choice

What is the first thing an illustrator does when working on a book?

• Finds people to act as models
• Makes a dummy book
• Chooses which scenes to illustrate
• Makes a sketch of each picture

Multiple Choice

How does one of the illustrators make her story of Jack and the Beanstalk different?

• She changes the ending

• She gets rid of the beanstalk

• She changes Jack's name to Jim

• She makes the main character a girl

Multiple Choice

How do the pictures of the man and the woman help the reader understand the information in the book?

• They show how each illustrator looked.

• they show which books needed illustrators.

• They show how illustrators and authors are alike

• They show what each illustrator was thinking and doing

Multiple Choice

An illustrator would use a mirror while drawing to-

• see how different expressions look
• sketch objects behind him or her
• trace the shape of the mirror
• take a break from the drawing

Multiple Choice

When do illustrators usually work on the cover of the book?

• Last
• After the book is published
• First
• Before the have finished the dummy

Multiple Choice

The cat and the dog help the reader by-

• illustrating the books

• showing the reader 32 pages

• showing the reader how to do research

• asking questions and giving the reader facts

Multiple Choice

How did the illustrators celebrate finishing their books?

• they went to sleep.

• They ate ice cream.

• They had a big party.

• They sent them to the publisher.