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The same girl on page eleven as on page two

Keeping a character consistent across twenty pictures is the hard part of an illustrated book. It is most of what we work on.

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Reference sheet for Rosie: front, side and back views in her yellow raincoat and red wellies.Rosie in a yellow raincoat and Lucas with his torch sit on a doorstep with a map, while Comet the dog looks up at them. The cobbled street runs down to a harbour with a green light and a red light at the ends of the piers.

  • Reference sheets first

    Before any page is drawn, everyone appearing in the book gets a reference sheet: what they look like, what they are wearing, how tall they are next to the others. Each page is then drawn with the sheets for the characters on it, which is what stops the hero quietly turning into somebody else by the end.

  • Nothing is drawn until you say so

    The story is written, then everything stops. You read the words and the picture instructions, change whatever you like, and only then press the button. It is the single most useful thing in the app, and it exists because a book you did not want is worse than no book at all.

  • Every picture is checked

    Each illustration is reviewed against what the page actually says before it is kept, and redrawn if it does not match. If one page still comes out wrong, you can redo that picture on its own without touching the rest of the book.

  • Full pages for the youngest

    For a three year old the picture is the story, so their books are drawn edge to edge with the words set into the artwork. Older children get a layout with more room for text.

Reference sheet for Rosie: front, side and back views in her yellow raincoat and red wellies.Reference sheet for Lucas: front, side and back views in his green coat, striped jumper and blue wellies.Reference sheet for Comet: a small sand-coloured terrier with one ear up, from the front, the side and behind.Rosie in a yellow raincoat and Lucas with his torch sit on a doorstep with a map, while Comet the dog looks up at them. The cobbled street runs down to a harbour with a green light and a red light at the ends of the piers.Rosie and Lucas stand in a wet street at dusk in their raincoats and wellies, Comet beside them, the harbour lights glowing behind.Seen from above, Rosie and Lucas lie on a wooden floor over a hand-drawn map, Lucas shining his torch on it while Comet sniffs at the corner.
The sheets first, then the pages. The same three from the doorstep to the map on the floor.
Reviewing the draft of a harbour book before anything is drawn: page one's text, and under it the instruction the illustrator will get, which you can change.
The first drawing of the age 3 nest page, with the words of the page lettered into the picture.The same page redrawn: the bird on her nest inside the lamp, lit by a torch, and no words in the picture.
The first drawing came back with the page's words written into it. The parent asked for a redraw from the page itself, and the second one was clean.
A page from the harbour book retold for a 3 year old: one big picture of the bird on her nest, and one short line of words.

Where it still slips

Consistency is very good and not perfect. Hands, crowds and complicated actions are the usual places a picture comes out odd, and you can regenerate any single page when it does. We would rather tell you that than have you find out at bedtime.

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