Style Research

Maurice Bernard Sendak was born on June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children’s book. He became wildly popular after writing the book, “where the wild things are” which was first published in 1963. He had a terrible childhood due to losing family members in the holocaust, this quickly taught him about mortality and used this as inspiration.

Sendak used his imagination to illustrate his books, he creates wild creatures that look mean at first glance, but talk to children who become accepted as one of them. He uses pale colours on the creatures to make them stick out against the night sky and the bright green tree.

I could use Sendak as inspiration with the creatures that he has created, i would want to make new invented creatures that haven’t been see before.

 

Emma Rios was born on January 6th 1972 and is a Spanish comics artist, writer and editor and well respected in the comics industry. She has worked for some of the largest comic publishers in the world such as Marvel and Boom. She has done the illustrating s  on the Dr. Strange comics and has thanked Mark Waid who was the writer who pushed her to do other comics such as The Amazing Spider Man comics.

Many of her Illustrations use darker colours and are aimed at a older audience, the darker colours make the primary characters stand out where as making the enemies dark to contrast the two characters.

 

Rould Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and poet. His books have sold more than 250 million copies world wide. He served as a air force pilot in the second world war and became an intelligence officer.

Most of his stories took place from the child’s perspective, this helped the child relate to the story. He said that his stories had came from his past when  he attended boarding school

He tried to inspire children with his stories telling them to let there imagination run free. In his book he used words that not everyone would understand, he did this so children could interpret his message in different ways so in a way each child would get a different story.