Creative process behind a children book Illustrations design

The general idea behind the picture book story was to support the children who are getting prepared to start primary school and are worried about that. It uses a quite classic approach to the kidlit aimed at preschoolers and primary school readers when the fairytale uses animal characters featuring human traits and behaviors. The main character is Little Puppy, and the story is about his first day at school, his feelings and worries, and three big lessons about friendship that are very important to learn. So, through the story development, he meets a bunch of secondary characters and deals with the typical primary school background and environment.

In our case, the process of a picture book creation started with deciding upon the general idea, plot, and approach to the type of character reflection. Afterward, the writing part was done first to let the design team understand the entire volume of textual material and define the scenes that are the best for visualization to make the storytelling emotional and engaging for little readers. However, it doesn’t mean that the writing stage was accomplished independently: to make the process more effective, the writer worked on the text advised by the illustrator and kept in mind the possible visual presentation options for different parts of the story.

When the story was completed, the process of making it live with pictures started.