20191231 An Idea for the New Year
Dec. 31st, 2019 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrlich So I’m thinking about trying my hand at illustrating children’s books. I want to create my version of some classic fairy tales in an art nouveau influenced style. My style is already pretty heavily Nouveau influenced, but I want to push it a little further for this project.
I’d also like to accomplish a few other things with this project:
1. Have finished products that I could actually sell more than once.
2. Include under represented groups in my telling.*
3. Possibly even produce prints of individual pages for sale at shows?
4. In my more ambitious moments, I like the idea of telling fairy tales from under represented groups / regions. *
* - As a middle aged CIS white male, I won’t lie that this makes me nervous. I feel it’s EVERYONE’s job to lift others up, but I wonder at how such efforts will be received by the world at large. ie - how many times will I hear “Why didn’t you hire someone from those same groups to write or illustrate your book?!”
I’d also like to accomplish a few other things with this project:
1. Have finished products that I could actually sell more than once.
2. Include under represented groups in my telling.*
3. Possibly even produce prints of individual pages for sale at shows?
4. In my more ambitious moments, I like the idea of telling fairy tales from under represented groups / regions. *
* - As a middle aged CIS white male, I won’t lie that this makes me nervous. I feel it’s EVERYONE’s job to lift others up, but I wonder at how such efforts will be received by the world at large. ie - how many times will I hear “Why didn’t you hire someone from those same groups to write or illustrate your book?!”
