Ask me questions about poetry illustration!

[meeks]

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!

Comments

[mdlbear]

Have you ever tried illustrating a song? If so, how did it differ from illustrating a poem?

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

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.

[moonvoice]

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? :)