Monday, January 9, 2012

Kids Illustrations, something children will always look forward to.

When it comes to visuals, kids prefer colors, colors and colors. The colorful and action oriented kids illustrations play a very important role when it comes to illustrations created for children books. Still, the children in different age group need different treatment, when it comes to presenting them with the storybooks.

Book which is read by the parents with the kids beside, needs a lot of pictures/illustrations as the kid will be interested only and only in the illustrations. A child will relate the entire story looking at the illustrations only, so it is very important to add a lot of illustrations to the small children story books. A child, who is learning to read, also shows interest if she/he finds very small interesting words. So adding the illustrations and relating them with small words attract the children around 5 to 7 year old. Children 10 and above can do with the less illustrations, but importance of illustrations will never be reduced, as visuals can always impress the human eye of any age.

Various styles of illustrations can be seen in the market, but good presentation of illustrations in a book format is also equally important.

Book Cover Design - Tips and Tricks

It is correctly said that a book is judged by its cover. When a person visiting book store, picks up a book when he gets attracted to the cover, whether it is the color combination, the subject of title or the graphics used to make the cover. The overall presentation of the book cover attracts a person to get him further interested in browsing through the book. I have many a times experienced that my visits to a local library gets me back with a book I never had an intention to buy originally, I generally get attracted to a book through a cursory glance.

The overall concept of a book cover design is a combined effect of its title, the font, the text placement, the graphics and the color combination. Any of these elements if weak can take away from the effect of the front cover.

I also have seen books which has a very attractive cover, but the inside artwork and content is totally mis-match. The cover designer must keep the text theme as a focal point while designing the front cover.

And last but not least. The title of the cover should be eye catching that can draw attention from a distance, and the overall cover should look equally attractive and readable when reduced into a thumbnail size for all the web users who browse for the books on online stores.

Illustrations for Publishing, an Idea to Attract Potential Readers


      Illustrations help to define the motive behind the publishing and written content. They are backed by creative writing, pictures, texts, and colorful visualization. In simple, illustrations for publishing is an idea to attract readers with the right balance between written content, pictures, and themes.

There are various types and styles of illustrations. Each kind is dependent upon various factors. Cartoons, digital drawings, digital pictures, sketches, drawings, artistic drawings, children related illustrations, also, books, magazines and advertisement material use the illustrations. All can be created based on the requirements. Pictures speak more than words. A good artist can create illustrations which can convey more than the written text. Illustrations could be colored or black and white; each will have its own effect. Illustrations though used a lot for the web market; there is a huge demand for the illustrations for publishing industry.