![]() This is a scene that comes directly out of thin air. Then most times I will draw my favorite scene in the whole book. I divide the words in the story to flow from one page to the next. ![]() ![]() I make a dummy out of heavy paper…a piece for every page in the book. This is a big demand.Īfter I have chosen the story, the process seems to go along in the same way for every book. I have to remain enchanted by the characters and deeply moved by the point of the story from the beginning. So I want to be sure I am going to love the story for a long time. In the case of The Nutcracker, it took three years. Illustrating a book takes me a very long time, usually a year. ![]() ![]() Here is Susan Jeffers, some of her gorgeous artwork and a description of how she worked to make illustrations in The Nutcracker.įor me, the most difficult part of making a picture book, is finding and choosing the story that I would like to illustrate. The book reminded me of how much I love her illustrations, so I contacted Susan to see if she would like to be featured on Illustrator Saturday. While browing through some of my picture books doing research for this blog, I came across The Wild Swan, illustrated by Susan Jeffers. ![]()
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