Narrative Illustration. Introduction

My new Project Brief is Narrative Illustration. I will need to treat this brief as if it were an actual client job.  I was given a list of various books covering children’s novels, adult novels graphic novels and screen plays. From the list below I need to choose a book which fits best with my illustration style as I would need to make ten illustrations based around the story of my choice. Another point of this task is to learn how to construct an industry stranded illustration, I will be shown how to do this over the next couple of weeks. After considering all the books shown below I am most interested in “James and the Giant Peach” as this is a story I both love and think my drawing style will fit with the feel of the novel. 

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Princess Bride – William Goldman

James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl

The Big Book of Nonsense – Colin West

The Three Mulla-Mulgars – Walter de La Mare

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkin

Northern Lights – Philip Pullman

Batman: Arkham Asylum – Grant Morrison / Dave McKean

Sin City Volume 4: That Yellow Bastard – Frank Miller

Judge Dredd: Shooters night.

Listening to the Earth Turn - Jason Aaron

Chain of Command - Andy Diggle

Nobrow – Graphic narrative – Exclusion – Sam Arthur

The Castle – Franz Kafka

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Fifty Shades of Grey – E L James

White Bones – Grahame Masterton

Blow by Blow: The story of Isabella Blow – Detmar Blow / Tom Sykes

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales – H.P Lovecraft

A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Artificial Man – Leslie Purnell Davies

Dracula – Bram Stoker