Sometimes to tell a proper story you need the freedom to break with truth and reality. I’ve found that in the picture books I make I can paint what something feels like and not just what it looks like. Something about getting older dulls our ability to imagine and tolerate the absurd. I have learned, however, that young children have an easier time appreciating where a story wants to take them. The principles of design and timing speak to all age groups, I think. No matter who the book audience is, I try to use the same approach to visual storytelling.
I’ve made picture books, did a novel cover, and when I was first starting out I got to illustrate some serial books for the Kansas City Star newspaper. Jules: If you have illustrated for various age ranges (such as, both picture books and early reader books OR, say, picture books and chapter books), can you briefly discuss the differences, if any, in illustrating for one age group to another?ĭaniel: I’ve gotten to try a variety of book-type projects.
Spreads and cover from Pardon Me! (Simon & Schuster, 2014) Ĭlick here to see early sketches and development work from the bookĭaniel: I use inks, watercolors, gouache, acrylics, and digital tools to build my images. Twain (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2012).Īs author/illustrator: Pardon Me! (Simon & Schuster, 2014), Float (Simon & Schuster, 2015) and Bring Me A Rock! (to be published by Simon & Schuster, Summer of 2016) Jules: Can you list your books-to-date? (If there are too many books to list here, please list your five most recent illustrated titles or the ones that are most prominent in your mind, for whatever reason.)ĭaniel: I’ve illustrated: Waking Up Is Hard To Do (Imagine Publishing, 2010) and Bambino and Mr. Visit this 2015 7-Imp post for sketches from the book Spreads and cover from Float (Simon & Schuster, June 2015) Jules: Are you an illustrator or author/illustrator?ĭaniel: Author/Illustrator, but my entry point into a story idea is usually the visual narrative. Hey, I’m in Tennessee and get this, so biscuits and tea it is.ĭaniel is relatively new to picture books, at least in the grand scheme of things, and I thank him for visiting today to tell me and my readers more about his career, his books thus far, and what’s next on his plate. “I grew up in South Carolina,” he tells me. (“She gets me,” he adds.) If he’s taking the time to sit down and eat in the mornings, he says, he goes with biscuits. Normally, he tells me, he has merely a hot cup of Earl Grey tea with a splash of milk in the fabulous mug his wife gave him, pictured below. Author and illustrator Daniel Miyares-whose most recent picture book is Float, published by Simon & Schuster in June (and the subject of my Kirkus column here)-visits for breakfast this morning.
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