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Showing posts with label style for illustrators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style for illustrators. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

What's your style? by Hazel Mitchell

I'm pretty much surrounded by writers here on Turbo Monkey Tales, so choosing the first topic for my first blog post here has been a little perplexing. Should I try to address you writer folk out there, or stick to my knowledge base, illustration? Or try and talk about illustration and writing and how they work together ... oof! I put the kettle on and had a cup of tea. (It's what the British do when they have to solve a problem - it's what the Brits do at any given time really!)

And while the tea was mashing (Yorkshire speak for brewing) I thought of the first question that most beginning children's illustrators are burning to know the answer to:

HOW DO I KNOW WHAT MY STYLE IS?

and the second question

HOW DO I GET ONE?