I want to include illustrations throughout my small leaflet. My initial idea is to use a set of drawings to subtly accompany my type, this will make the experience for the young reader more enjoyable while learning the Green cross code. I looked at children's book illustrations and one which stood out to me is the rough sketchy drawings of Quentin Blake, best known for the illustrations of the Roald Dahl novels, the rough scratchy drawings are playful and fun as well as simplistic. I want to do some simple line drawings without colour to keep it serious as well as fun.
I looked at a couple of books which use similar styles to quentin blake. I looked at 'Illustration Now!' which looks at a range of new illustrators with a fresh new idea of drawing style, I found the image at the top of the woman the drawings are rough and simple yet effective especially with one block colour behind them. I shall attempt this style by using one colour as the background or even coloured stock paper and print directly on to that. I also found these two images below from the book 'Sketch Your world' by James Hobbs, again Hobbs has a rough style of quick drawings which are simple and in a sense quite childlike in there playful use of line and block colour with no shading just simple drawings. I feel that children will relate well to this style as it is similar to the way that they draw and enjoy. If I use the technique of black line drawing on coloured paper it gives the audience (Children) chance to possibly colour the drawings in if they wish.
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