Yancho

I participated in the Children's Book Pro course from SVSLearn.com these last several weeks. The course pacing is really fast. It was definitely tough to stay up with the assignments in the timeframe given. But, the material was great and I'll have continued access to it, so I'm going to go back and revisit it as I build out my portfolio and write and illustrate my own stories.  The course has guidance for the practical side of developing illustrations for a children's book. The instructors provide three manuscripts based on familiar fairy tales as source material to allow students to practice the various stages of illustration. My choice was Jack and the Beanstalk . To make it interesting for me, I tried illustrating the story as though it was a metaphor for a young upstart from rural America coming and stealing the political thunder of a dustbowl-era politician. The politician is the giant. The various items Jack steals (the coins, the goose, the harp) represent vari

 l have been working on a class on svslearn.com with Will Terry. His explanation and demo were great Can you see the additions I made on each image?