I'm writing a post to appear at poetree tomorrow. If there's anything you'd like to know about any of the illustrations I've done of poems, or about illustrating for poetry in general, please feel free to ask!
The closest I've done lately is the CD cover for jjhunter's Hallelujah Dreaming album. That was very different from illustrating a poem, because the 'lyrics' consisted of only one word! I had only abstract impressions to work with, rather than a fixed subject.
Is poetry different than fiction, for illustration, and if so how?
If you're given a whole chunk of something, how do you pick which scene to illustrate?
How do you trouble-shoot scenes that are written well, but have something awkward to illustrate? Like when I wrote "Restoration" I was basically looking over the monsters' shoulders into the oven at the dragon, which is a lousy shot visually; but you made it work by flipping it around as if the 'camera' was in the back of the oven. I would just never have thought of that; it's brilliant and still amazes me, and I'm curious if there's anything you can think of explaining about how you do that.
I'll put a bit about my process in tomorrow's post, but as for "Restoration", it honestly just never occurred to me to do otherwise! There are some sketches that I have to do multiple thumbnails for to work out the composition, but that one doesn't really work from any other angle, so I didn't even think to try.
Ooo wow, I might do something like this with the totem stuff.
But in the meantime; when did you first know that you enjoyed illustrating poetry? Do you remember your first experience, and can you share it with us? :)
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Date: 2012-01-06 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-06 07:03 am (UTC)Hmm...
Date: 2012-01-06 08:59 am (UTC)If you're given a whole chunk of something, how do you pick which scene to illustrate?
How do you trouble-shoot scenes that are written well, but have something awkward to illustrate? Like when I wrote "Restoration" I was basically looking over the monsters' shoulders into the oven at the dragon, which is a lousy shot visually; but you made it work by flipping it around as if the 'camera' was in the back of the oven. I would just never have thought of that; it's brilliant and still amazes me, and I'm curious if there's anything you can think of explaining about how you do that.
Re: Hmm...
Date: 2012-01-06 09:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-06 09:25 am (UTC)But in the meantime; when did you first know that you enjoyed illustrating poetry? Do you remember your first experience, and can you share it with us? :)
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Date: 2012-01-06 10:04 am (UTC)