The Art of ‘The Storyteller’

The Art of ‘The Storyteller’: Behind the Scenes, Part 2

Posted by on Sep 1, 2016 in The Art of 'The Storyteller', The Art of 'The Storyteller' | 4 comments

So, you would like to hear the story of how

THE STORYTELLER became a book?

Ah yes, well, not so long ago…

After I figured out the story I wanted to tell, I created a pagination of small thumbnails to decide how I wanted to tell that story in pictures.

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This helps figure out what images and symbols are important and how to emphasize them throughout the story. Even in the early thumbnails, you can see that the water/bird/yarn/stories were all blue and stood out against the rest of the palette.

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Along with the pagination, I did many small thumbnail sketches to figure out how the final art and characters might look.

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