{"id":10,"date":"2013-01-16T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/2013\/01\/illustrators-are-too-cool-and-other-random-thougths\/"},"modified":"2013-03-18T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:04:42","slug":"illustrators-are-too-cool-and-other-random-thougths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/2013\/01\/illustrators-are-too-cool-and-other-random-thougths\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrators are too cool and other random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, I wanted to take a moment to thank Peggy for commenting on that last blog entry. Thank you, Peggy. You are part of an elite group now – of, I think, maybe three people. Thank you, Peggy!<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, to the actual thought of the day. Why must illustrators be so awesome?<\/p>\n

Case in point: Word Disco blog<\/a>\u00a0 A friend (and librarian extraordinaire) directed me to this new blog (thank you, Kim F.). She thought I might enjoy it. Holy Mac. Do I ever.\u00a0But the thing that strikes me is that, while I recently wrote a blog post with a similar topic, without the illustrations showing how I change characters, setting, angles, etc… it’s just not as cool. I also try to tack down a story by introducing new characters, removing characters etc…\u00a0(for years, in fact — just like Stephen Shaskan), but\u00a0I do not have the awesome illustrations to share with you. No, no I don’t. I have sheet after sheet of paper with scribbles. Not nearly as interesting to look at. Stephen has ILLUSTRATIONS which is just so cool.<\/p>\n

\"lsp_notes_on-bbb\"<\/a>In fact (now this might make you shake your head and judge me harshly) it never even occurred to me until I saw some illustration revisions on my first two books that illustrators even revised in this way. I KNOW – silly right? But somehow, I never thought about it. Text revisions, heck yes! But even though I knew how much work I put into a story and how many times I revised — I just made this terrible assumption that illustrators didn’t need to revise like that. Like they were just born all-knowing and amazing and talented beyond belief.\u00a0 I am so relieved to learn that illustrators revise too. For years. Just like me.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I continue on this journey, I’m learning that everyone on the planet revises all the time — even if you’re not a writer. Even if you’re not an illustrator. We are all allowed to make changes for the better in any area that we want to. How cool is that?<\/p>\n

Thank you, Stephen for sharing your work — I look forward to reading more of your blog!<\/p>\n

-Jamie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, I wanted to take a moment to thank Peggy for commenting on that last blog entry. Thank you, Peggy. You are part of an elite group now – of, I think, maybe three people. Thank you, Peggy! Now, to the actual thought of the day. Why must illustrators be so awesome? Case in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h4TT-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}