Vocabulary in Context - tools Artists use tools such as brushes, pencils, and markers to make art. imagine Some artists paint real things. Other artists paint things imagine tools | illustrate scribbles sketches scribbles Most children make messy Scribbles before they learn to draw well. illustrate This artist has started to illustrate, or draw, pictures for | tracing research texturesStudy each Context Card. Discuss one picture. Use a different Vocabulary word from the one in the card. aI sketches Painters often make sketches, or rough drawings, before they begin to paint. tracing Using see-through ‘tracing paper lets you make an exact 7 research Sometimes artists eed to do research 0 find out what textures Paper can have different textures. It can look and feel smooth or rough. ~~ reeBecoming an Artist Do your drawings look like scribbles? You might imagine this means you have no talent. However, research proves this is not true. Sure, some artists illustrate well || as children. Their sketches look like those made by adults. Their paintings are full of rich colors and textures. Yet other famous Winslow Homer drew this artists drew poorly as children. Some could sketch at age ten. Compare not even draw with the help of fancy drawing __ it to the painting shown tools and tracing paper. So, keep on drawing. below. He made this Winslow Homer did! Painting as an adult.Comprehension Viccexexins Text and Graphic Features As you read What Do Illustrators Do?, pay attention to the text and drawings the author uses to help make her ideas clearer. Use a chart like this one to list special features, and tell why you think the author uses them. Ag oe Think carefully about the purpose of the text and graphic features in What Do Illustrators Do? Then evaluate, or judge, how well they help to explain the author's ideas.meee a imagine sketches tools tracing illustrate research scribbles textures Vm Text and Graphic Features Tell how words and art work together. ics sens Analyze/Evaluate Think about what you read. Then form an opinion about it. Informational text gives factual information about a topic. Look at the title and flip through the selection. What do you predict you will learn? MEET THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR Eileen Christelow Whenever Eileen Christelow speaks to students, they always ask, “What do you do?” To explain her job as both a writer and an illustrator, she created the books What Do Authors Do? and What Do Illustrators Do? The funny cat in What Do Illustrators Do? is based on her daughter's cat, Leonard. Actually, the cat in the book is orange because Christelow wanted a more colorful cat. Leonard is mostly gray and tan.What Do Illustrators Do? written and illustrated by Eileen Christelow a) y ten | How do pictures help to tell a story?What do illustrators do? They tell stories with pictures. This picture shows where two illustrators live and work. Suppose those two illustrators each decided to illiserate Jack and the Beanstalk. Would they tell the story the same way? Would they draw the same kind of pictures? Im going to retell and Tye been asked to illustrate JACK AND illustrate JACK AND THE THE BEANSTALK. Go lie BEANSTALK. Go away, down, Scooter! T'll take you for a walk later.oe First, illustrators decide which scenes in the story they want to illustrate ... There are so many scenes I want to illustrate! But I need to fit all of JACK AND THE BEANSTALK into 32 pages. That's a tight fit! . Most picture Are all Y books are. books 32A plan shows which pictures go on which pages After illustrators make a plan for their book, they need to make a dummy. (A dummy is a model of the book.) First they decide what shape and size the book will be. a Fee awe raBeaenet= "pases 1-2! Would you choose a square, vertical, or horizontal dummy?Then they make §KGEEHES of the pictures that will go on ~ each page of the dummy. The first sketches are often rough SGHBBIES on GAGE paper. As they are sketching, illustrators need to decide how things will look: the characters, their clothes, the setting. Mlustrators can use their imaginations or they may have to do some E686aFGh. T'll make Jack What is the I Jack lives look like me in shape of a in a small country cottage surrounded by palm trees... Ug. Ki PLA, B | Oia AL ts saw rat v STOP AND THINK Text and Graphic Features How do the graphic features on this page help you understand the text? eeeSome illustrators are also authors, They can change their story as they work on the sketches. Why does this story have to be about Jack? It could be about Jacqueline. She could live in this building. The beanstalk could grow on our roof! Hey, Mo. Jacqueline can look like me! make her book different from his.Each illustration has a different problem. For instance: From what point of view do you draw the magic bean being planted? Should I draw this picture froma ird’s-eye view? Close op? Faraway? A e view? The close up, bird's-eye view shows the bean ‘The mouse p_ best: can't see the bean at all. é CoGHow do you draw a beanstalk so it looks like it’s growing? You'll give the drawing scale. Hey! That's me! The beanstalk is smaller than me, then taller and taller... You are like a measuring stick or...ascale!Raised eyebrows? Eyes wide open? \_ Mouth open? Jacqueline ti ‘ the table. leat Whispered the hen. “She never sleeps for long!” How would it feel to run across a table right under the nose of a sleeping GIANT? Illustrators need to draw how their characters feel. Sometimes they make faces in a mirror to see how an expression would look. Other times illustrators need someone else to model for them.Each illustrator has a different style of drawing, just as every person has a different style of handwriting, Different styles for drawing Jack and Jacqueline . STOP AND THINK Author's Craft Why do you think We're trying a the author uses both text and new style. speech balloons to tell this story?When illustrators have finished their dummies, they show them to the editor and the designer at the publishing company. The editor decides whether the pictures tell the story. The designer makes suggestions about the design of the book. She chooses the typeface for the words and the cover, Tlove your illustrations! Okay, those But Jack looks too old things should be at the end of the book. easy to fix. And on page 21 the giant doesn’t look ‘mean enough. If she loves his book, Why does she want him to change it?Illustrators need to decide how they want to do the finished illustrations. ‘They can draw different kinds of lines and FEREHEGS with different kinds of €8B. Tm trying different kinds of lines... pencil, pen, brush. pen with flexible point felt tip penThey can color their illustrations with paint, pastels, pencils, or crayons. They can do an illustration without any black line at all! watercolors watercolor crayons Vz - colored pencils =e eect!Sometimes illustrators throw away their pictures and start again. Sometimes they change the colors. Or they may change the composition. It can take months to finish all the illustrations for a picture book. ‘Another messed vp picture! At last! I've finished all 32 pages and the cover!Before they are sent to the publisher, they need to be checked to make sure nothing is left out. Except here. You forgot the polka dots on Jacqueline’s shirt. She also forgot to feed me this morning! Don't worry! Once they finish the books, they'll pay attention to us again.Tlike the way yourjacket wraps around the book. Illustrators often do the cover of the book last. The cover tells a lot about a story: What is it about? Does it look interesting?Your cover is terrific! Jack is escaping right out of the border. The cover is a clue to how the illustrator will tell the story. Would these covers make you want to read the books? Yes! I'm STOP AND THINK going te Analyze/Evaluate Do you read them. agree that book covers are clues to how illustrators tell the stories inside? ExplaThis illustration tells how the two illustrators celebrated when they finally finished all that work!Grammar Verb Tenses A verb tells when something happens. The tense of a verb lets you Academic Language know whether something happens in the present, in the past, or in the future. Peer Se past tense future tense bags Past Tense a Now, the dog stays Yesterday, the dog Tomorrow, the dog inside. stayed inside. will stay inside. The artist The artist The artist will illustrates a book. illustrated a book. illustrate a book. Work with a partner. Tell whether the underlined verb is in the present tense, the Past tense, or the future tense. @ Andy works as an illustrator. Ore painted pictures in art class. © The teachers showed him other paintings. © Acompany publish his new book next year. © His friends will get a copy then.Sentence Fluency When you write, make sure your verbs all tell about actions that happen in the same time. This will help make your writing clear. ered ie Yesterday, Mary looked at a book. Then she paints an elephant. Last, she will color a shady tree. elie ied Yesterday, Mary looked at a book. Then she painted an elephant. Last, she colored a shady tree. Connect Grammar to Writing As you revise your compare and contrast paragraph, make sure all the verbs are the same tense.