| Things I found, things I am saving for winter Cory's Pinecone Mound Hi Fam! Here are some treasures I gathered this week: Watercress One of the most ambitious things a parent could hope for is that their children will learn to appreciate what they have. Watercress is about learning this lesson and about honoring the memory of family. The book does not have an overt message, instead, it is beautiful and subtle like Jason Chin's illustrations. It feels like the author is describing a personal experience. The girl is real, the family is real, the feelings are real. The moral is backed up by a strong story. By Andrea Wang Illustrated By Jason Chin Cornelia Funke interviewed me this week in her Magical Image Makers feature! I am flattered to participate. Cornelia is the author of Inkheart and many other children’s books in English and German. My Picture Book Writing Cheat Sheet will help you develop the skills to write, review, and revise a picture book. You can collect it when you sign up for this newsletter! This is my advice to illustrators who want to write their own books. This week I shared a blackout poem! This class by video producer Lilly Singh: Make Videos People Care About Lilly Singh’s class is on SkillShare, but you can get a 30% off an annual membership by using this link here: 30% Off Annual Membership with coupon: annual30aff Imagine loving to write so much that you write fan fiction between working on major productions . I found these incredible tips on drawing animals from Aaron Blaise. The hardest part about writing or illustrating is putting an idea, image, or story from your mind to paper. Creation is the transposition of something with only the spark of substance into something familiar and easy to understand for your audience. It is plucking the ethereal from your mind and making it tangible. During that process, it is easy for an idea to lose some of its original quality. Like the sound difference you hear between analog to digital media. "Stay faithful to the stories in your head." -Paula Hawkins While mediums like cassette tapes and mp3s sacrifice sound for benefits like physical space and convenience, other mediums like records can pick up the entire sound wave in its original form. Explore different mediums to get your ideas on paper. Try painting, sculpture, collage, oral storytelling—see if any of these can convey your ideas in a way that feels just like the moment you had them. If this newsletter resonated with you, subscribe using the links above. You may also visit my site for more content. Also, feel free to contact me with any thoughts or comments. Take some time today to favorite my products on Etsy! xx Cory Visit my Site This newsletter uses affiliate links. Let's gather pinecones together |
Things I found, things I am saving for winter
Cory's Pinecone Mound
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Hi Fam! Here are some treasures I gathered this week: | |
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Watercress
One of the most ambitious things a parent could hope for is that their children will learn to appreciate what they have. Watercress is about learning this lesson and about honoring the memory of family.
The book does not have an overt message, instead, it is beautiful and subtle like Jason Chin's illustrations. It feels like the author is describing a personal experience. The girl is real, the family is real, the feelings are real.
The moral is backed up by a strong story.
By Andrea Wang
Illustrated By Jason Chin
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Cornelia Funke interviewed me this week in her Magical Image Makers feature! I am flattered to participate. Cornelia is the author of Inkheart and many other children’s books in English and German.
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My Picture Book Writing Cheat Sheet will help you develop the skills to write, review, and revise a picture book. You can collect it when you sign up for this newsletter!
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- This class by video producer Lilly Singh:
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Lilly Singh’s class is on SkillShare, but you can get a 30% off an annual membership by using this link here: | |
The hardest part about writing or illustrating is putting an idea, image, or story from your mind to paper.
Creation is the transposition of something with only the spark of substance into something familiar and easy to understand for your audience. It is plucking the ethereal from your mind and making it tangible.
During that process, it is easy for an idea to lose some of its original quality. Like the sound difference you hear between analog to digital media.
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"Stay faithful to the stories in your head." -Paula Hawkins | |
While mediums like cassette tapes and mp3s sacrifice sound for benefits like physical space and convenience, other mediums like records can pick up the entire sound wave in its original form.
Explore different mediums to get your ideas on paper. Try painting, sculpture, collage, oral storytelling—see if any of these can convey your ideas in a way that feels just like the moment you had them.
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If this newsletter resonated with you, subscribe using the links above. You may also visit my site for more content. Also, feel free to contact me with any thoughts or comments.
Take some time today to favorite my products on Etsy!
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This newsletter uses affiliate links. | |
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Let's gather pinecones together | |
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