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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Feb 16, 2019 7:55:27 GMT -5
I've finally got around to watching the video -- thanks for recommending it, because it was really interesting. I always find it fascinating to see how other illustrators approach their work.
I know Handler has advised people who want to get into writing to look at their favourite authors and take apart their work like you might take apart a clock to see how it works, and that's what I have always done with my favourite illustrators: look at their work, figure out how they do it, figure out what I would do differently and what I can learn from them, and move on to creating my own work. So this sort of insight into someone else's creating process is so valuable.
(Oh and yes, they're definitely tomatoes!)
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Post by Foxy on Feb 18, 2019 11:09:07 GMT -5
I know Handler has advised people who want to get into writing to look at their favourite authors and take apart their work like you might take apart a clock to see how it works, and that's what I have always done with my favourite illustrators: look at their work, figure out how they do it, figure out what I would do differently and what I can learn from them, and move on to creating my own work. So this sort of insight into someone else's creating process is so valuable. This is off-topic, but I have to make a book suggestion to you. It is called The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, and she says things kind of similar to this. I have found it to be an extremely helpful book, and you might also.
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Post by Reba on Feb 18, 2019 14:02:02 GMT -5
i also recommend chicken soup for the writer’s soul
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Feb 18, 2019 16:06:25 GMT -5
Thank you, I’ll definitely check those out! I’ve always found it quite frustrating that advice for getting into illustration is very patchy — there will be so much about one specific area but just radio silence on other areas, so any advice or books with good information are always very welcome.
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Post by Dante on Feb 20, 2019 11:14:55 GMT -5
A couple of mysterious incidents related to this book must be reported: First, Amazon.com has made available a Look Inside preview for the book; however, somewhat bizarrely, all of the internal pages lack colour, and display only the black portions of images, rendering the illustrations not entirely comprehensible. Second, I'm issuing a slight retraction, as it looks like I may have jumped the gun a bit; or rather, I think that somebody else, somewhere, must have jumped the gun a bit: The cover appears to have been revised slightly, from the below to the further below: I don't appear to have kept a record of exactly which site I found the "revised" cover on, but every single publisher page and online retailer listing I've seen for Swarm of Bees is now using the original cover again; the only places I can even find the revised cover are on outdated thumbnails for Australian and New Zealand Penguin webpages via Google Images. However, I would not have presented the second cover as a revision if I had found it only from a particularly obscure source; in addition, as it stands, the full-size image above isn't available online at all. So I've come to the conclusion that a major retailer, likely Amazon, must at some point have updated their listing to use the second cover; and then, some time afterwards, swapped it back for the original cover again. Mysterious business.
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Post by Foxy on Apr 15, 2019 8:48:16 GMT -5
I enjoyed this book. I was kind of confused about how the bees were angry, and the boy also seemed angry, like were the bees and the boy one? I liked how there was forgiveness and also the boy cleaning up after himself.
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Post by Dante on Apr 15, 2019 14:27:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the review, Foxy. I can't get it here for a couple of months yet, and I don't feel pressed to import it, so it's good to hear that it holds up.
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Post by Reba on Dec 3, 2019 19:51:11 GMT -5
another iconic title for what will probably be a lazy, lousy book confirmed
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