“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”

Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”

But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.

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“I use a mix of medias and have a spontaneous approach,” she remarked once, in an interview with Bibelot Magazine. “It’s often collage, but not necessarily photo-based.” Sometimes, the collage work is based on painting and drawing. “I draw and paint, then I cut things up and see what happens,” says D’Aquino, adding that “being contrary by nature,” she doesn’t like to stay inside any box that is too pre-defined.

Based in New York, she has illustrated three books so far, on top of regular features in publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. But D’Aquino’s experimental approach to illustration and collage art, has also attracted commercial brands, collaborating with brands as big as Anthropologie, Conde Nast Traveler, and Chronicle Books.

“Some of the best things I’ve made are mistakes,” she says, “however – this does not imply sitting and waiting is any kind of effective choice.” Take a look at some of her creative observations in the gallery below:

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Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.

“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”

Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

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Orlov loves horror movies and children books. She loves the playful and bright colors of the kids illustrations and using these elements, she came up with the whimsical forest where horror movie animals live. But instead of scaring the kids, she recreates the horror characters into adorable animals. Scroll down to see her creations below.

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“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”

Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”

But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.

The post Marianna Coppo Works Hard — Plays Harder appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I use a mix of medias and have a spontaneous approach,” she remarked once, in an interview with Bibelot Magazine. “It’s often collage, but not necessarily photo-based.” Sometimes, the collage work is based on painting and drawing. “I draw and paint, then I cut things up and see what happens,” says D’Aquino, adding that “being contrary by nature,” she doesn’t like to stay inside any box that is too pre-defined.

Based in New York, she has illustrated three books so far, on top of regular features in publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. But D’Aquino’s experimental approach to illustration and collage art, has also attracted commercial brands, collaborating with brands as big as Anthropologie, Conde Nast Traveler, and Chronicle Books.

“Some of the best things I’ve made are mistakes,” she says, “however – this does not imply sitting and waiting is any kind of effective choice.” Take a look at some of her creative observations in the gallery below:

The post Andrea D’Aquino’s Creative Approach Is Messy and Spontaneous appeared first on TettyBetty.

Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.

“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”

Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

The post Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way appeared first on TettyBetty.

Orlov loves horror movies and children books. She loves the playful and bright colors of the kids illustrations and using these elements, she came up with the whimsical forest where horror movie animals live. But instead of scaring the kids, she recreates the horror characters into adorable animals. Scroll down to see her creations below.

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