2024 | Longlist | Children's Publishing
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She/her - Why did you create this work?
A picture book idea for older children exploring the intensity and drama of children’s play and the ambivalence of the big sister/little sister dynamic using Instagram’s FolktaleWeek23 prompts. I remembered how stories I told my little sister were often quite scary and how hands could magically become a stag, a crow or a rabbit and that a sheet could be a world. The baby can be found in each image - How were your illustrations used?
They were made for my portfolio and shared on Instagram for Folktale Week using the prompts Sea, Ink, Lost, Underground and Found. They were accompanied by a short story I had written.
- What materials and techniques did you use?
I made these in Procreate incorporating scanned in textures and original sketches of big sister Skye and baby Earth. I included an actual shadow ship made from my ink bottles! I also made pencil drawings of blankets stretched over my kitchen chairs. I chose to keep everything in black and white to best reflect the shadowy nature of the story. - Was this project commissioned?
Un-commissioned - Course and graduation date
The Good Ship Illustration Picture Book Course - current - Personal Website or Portfolio Link
samjonesillustration.com
- Instagram
www.instagram.com/bedroomfloorproductions - Biography
Sam Jones is an illustrator from the North of England; she spent much of her childhood travelling the world in rusty cargo ships, always dreaming, always drawing, always telling stories. Her work is playful, narrative and textured and describes fantastical worlds and everyday magic. She loves vintage children’s books, deadlines and prompts. She is a current AOI mentee. - Where are you currently based?
United Kingdom (UK)
