Initial Research
Children's Book Illustrators
Janet McDonnell - http://www.janetmcdonnell.com/home/Welcome.html
Jackie Stafford - http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/jackie/id=50/
Kim Siebold - http://kimsieboldstudios.com/
Janet McDonnell
I chose to
look further at this illustrator as she has not only worked as an illustrator
but she has worked as an editor and writer for children’s books so she has
years of experience in all the areas of children’s books.
The illustrators
that I have looked at all have a similar style in their art work but with Janet’s
art style she explores the use of black and white illustrations as well as
colour illustrations, her style is still similar to many other illustrators but
her style is simple yet effective for children’s books.
Janet has illustrated
8 children’s picture books; her most recent work was for a book called ‘Adopted
and Loved Forever’ which was aimed at 4 to 8 year olds, most of the books that Janet has illustrated for are aimed at 4 to 8
year olds.
As she has always work for children’s books with the
same age range I think her work reflects the age range very well as they are
not over complicated and not to simple, her coloured illustrations are bright
and bold with a use of different natural colours, in addition to her black and
white illustrations she define the illustrations very well and they are also
very well-toned.
Overall, I think that this illustrator is very successful
in her work and her illustrations show well of her talent and also her
publications are a success with children.
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