PiBoIdMo Day 20: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words to Jo Swartz « Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) By Jo Swartz The expression “A picture is worth a thousand words” for me, is very true. Sometimes inspiration comes from an idea, sometimes the words just come, but mostly the idea creeps up on me and surprises me when I least expect it out of something else. The only scary feeling accompanying it is “can I pull it off?”.
Will the finished product turn out as fabulous as I imagine it? Lately I have been quite surprised by the source of 3 of my newest picture books—all ‘works in progress’. They each began as a simple, single drawing. One was for a licensing line I am hoping to develop, another was just a portfolio sketch based on a fairy tale, and my shiniest new idea began while trying to think of a single picture to show my illustrative abilities for the upcoming SCBWI conference in New York. As I was working out what the picture should look like, my family became the source of inspiration for the theme, and suddenly there it was—the whole picture book. Like this: Like Loading...
Illustration Portfolio : Little Jo : Directory of Illustration. Jo swartz on the Behance Network. Welcome - little jo lit. Illustration Friday.