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Category: visual literacy
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By Tony Flowers Introduction: A Changing Landscape in Children’s Illustration The rapid rise of AI image‑generation tools has created a seismic shift in the visual arts, and children’s publishing is no exception. While AI can now produce polished images in seconds, the role of the traditional illustrator remains central to the craft, integrity, and emotional…
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How Single‑Point Perspective Illusions Work Single‑point perspective illusions use one vanishing point to trick the eye into seeing depth on a flat surface. When all the lines in a drawing angle toward the same point, your brain automatically interprets the image as 3D, even though it’s completely flat. This is the foundation (used below) behind…
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These teacher notes have been created to support classroom exploration of the research, creative process, and visual storytelling behind This Old Thing. Inside, you’ll find a set of practical activities that invite students to investigate objects, history, memory, and the ways we can bring personal stories to life. The resource is designed to give you…
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If you’ve already read my first post, Understanding the Elements of Design, you’ll know that those building blocks, line, shape, colour, texture, and so on, give us the raw materials we use to create images. This second instalment looks at what comes next: the principles of design, the ideas that show us how those elements…
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Elements and Principles of Design Introduction When I first started out as an illustrator, no one ever sat me down and explained the elements and principles of design. I wish they had. These concepts aren’t just academic theory, they’re the practical tools that help you see images more clearly, create with more intention, and talk…
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I lucky enough to stumble across an original ink drawing in an antique shop recently. The image was in a tatty old frame with no artist listed on the work(image below). On closer inspection, I could just make out the faint remains of the pencil sketch work in places and see the ink nib marks,…
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I thought that I might post some images from my current sketchbook. Some of these have been posted on Facebook in the past, but not as a collection with an explanation (albeit a rambling one). I have shown my sketchbook to a number of people, all of whom focus in on these images. This may…
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I’m making final preparations for my trip to America on Wednesday. I am heading to the International Visual Literacy Conference which is being held at the Leslie University in Cambridge Massachusetts. At the conference, I will be presenting a paper on ‘Illustrating Visual Language Research” at 10 am on Sunday the 17th. In which I…
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I have been lucky enough to have a paper accepted for the International Visual Literacy Association Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For those of us not from the States, that is right next to Boston and the home Harvard University and a number of other universities, I will be presenting at the Lesley University. The conference…
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I will be taking parting in an event organised by the ACT Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) on Tuesday evening, 5:30 pm to 9 pm, on the 20th of June. The event, “building your story” will be a great night if you’re interested in creating your own stories or just love children’s…
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