Ch.4

This chapter is about understanding artists and illustrators and how they the book out. The grammar of artists are lines color, shape, and texture. The lines suggest direction , motion and energy. The color is more of the contrast to the line. Sometimes color are associated with certain colors and evident in certain things. Shapes comes from lines because intersection between each other. Shapes can show the mood of the story sometimes and also how an event may occur. The texture of the book is how the picture is going feel. Designing the visual element is bringing all the grammars of art together. Artists use different types of materials or objects to bring the picture to life. Artist use watercolors, acrylics, pastels, and oils to bring the color to a picture. You can use all kind of artistic styles to make book feel real. Some illustrators will paste things or use abstract art. There are now art educational books are there to teach kids about art and show different elements in what goes into being a book. All great illustrators or artists have their own unique styles. You can tell when se a certain book that author has work on. Everything that an artist does takes time in developing what will describe the words that the author is trying to say. That's the difference between a good artist and a great artist. They give out awards every year for good illustration works called the Cadlecott and Honor Awards.