Task 4

1.

. Naturesbase School Camps, provide schools with outdoor activities. It is meant as an environmental educational experience for children outdoors."One of the best ways to describe it is a 24 /7 forest school experience where we live and learn outside, but with the comfort of our large stone barn for eating, teaching, relaxing and playing in if and when we need to."
.Bishop Cleeve Primary Academy, is offering similar activities. Bishop's website seems more sophisticated, so I am guessing that this website looking relatively more professionally might translate in a better internet presence.

2.
.Research similar books, and appropriate art style.
.No question at this stage.


Notes:
-Outdoor and environmental educational experience.
-Teach children about environment and nature.
-24/7 forest school experience.
-Using resources to teach children values.
-Kids, are persuaded to explore.
-Learning by mistakes.
-Learn to live outside.
-Activities to use natural resources.
-One school at a time for individual learning.
-Team building zones and attitude.-Learn laughing together.
-Focus on leadership, imagination, exploration and team work.
-Express creativity, re-using, recycling, exploring, travelling, working teams and to be nice to people.
-Other institutions doing the same: Girls scout, Learning scheme, Duke of Edinburgh, PGL, Go Ape and CAT.

Task 2

Amy Schimler's type of illustration has a variety of shapes, is colourful and also has pattern(s) as you can see in the background of this image above.

Seems appropriate for toddlers\babies, for first objects book.
My impression is that babies\toddlers like less realistic images. They also like colour and shapes and patterns. They tend to like more complex\confusing images.

Gary Swift's illustrations are more 'realistic' in the way the characters now seem to have a personality and show some facil expression than Schimler's. I think for children over 3 year old until the age of 6, this type of illustration might be appropriate. It is also very colourful, and cartoonish.

C.A.Martin's seems fitting for a older audience. It is much more realistic than the other two type of illustration mentioned above. I think the older a person gets the more realistic the art a person appreciates there are exceptions maybe.

Task 1 

Amy Schimler

I have been working as a children's illustrator for over a decade. I am inspired by the child that lives in all of us. I love experimenting with color, texture, and pattern. In particular, I enjoy working in mixed media and collage. 

My work has been sold and licensed for children's books and magazines, wall art, apparel, fabric, greeting cards, gift wrap, and much more. Recent clients include:

Little Simon, Oxford University Press, Piggy Toes Press, Ladybird Books, Scholastic Press, Highlights, Family Fun Magazine, Unicef, Peaceable Kingdom Press, Hallmark, American Greetings, Target, Fisher Price, Babies R Us, Baby Gap, Pottery Barn Kids, Oopsy Daisy.


This type of illustration seems suiting for little toddlers for its shapes and colours and patterns.

Sam Church

Sam Church has lived and worked as an illustrator in the sleepy West Country village of Bristol, England for 15 years.

A pen and ink man at heart, Sam works in a variety of media including 

gouache, watercolour and increasingly (despite a secret belief it is the devil's 

work), digitally. His trademarks are a sense of fun twinned with strong 

draughtsmanship.

Clients to date include,

Bloomsbury/A&C Black, Bristol Zoo Gardens, Cambridge University Press, Highlights High Five, Usborne Books

,The National Trust, National Wildlife Conservation Park, Parragon Books, Random House, Story Train Ltd (for CBeebies series 'Driver Dan's Story Train')

This type of illustration, in my opinion seems to be aimed at young children, around the age of 8.

Gary SwiftI have been serving clients around the globe for 18 years. Always solving creative problems within budget and meeting every deadline, however impossible it seems.

From Picture books to Flash animation projects I am constantly evolving to meet the demands of the Creative media industry.Clients include : Hasbro, BBC, Hallmark Cards, Scholastic Inc, Sterling Publishing NY, Bill Smith Studio, Oxford Univ Press, MacMillans, Pearson Education,Leapfrog, Hodder Education, Disney, Nickelodeon, Readers Digest Children's Books, Harcourt, Cambridge Univ Press, Simon & Schuster NY, Tesco Stores, Bill Smith Studio, Kingfisher Books, Thomas Nelson, The Times, Nestle, Emap, Kleenex USA, Microsoft, McGraw Hill, Capstone Publishers, American Greetings, Silver Editions and Emirates Airways Kids Magazine, HPL Interactive, Integra and Random House Children's Books.

I love the combination of real pictures with his own illustrations. 







Annabel HudsonSome time ago, I was lucky enough to win a place at Central Saint Martins, and left my city job as a lawyer to spend 3 happy years studying graphic design and illustration. I've been illustrating children's books ever since, (for the last 8 years). 

My clients include: Pan Macmillan, Puffin, Kingfisher, Ladybird, London Zoo, Lion & Hudson, Beam and Book Start (28 books to date).

Please do get in touch if you'd like to chat about a new project - I'm always happy to do samples, or pop in with my portfolio.

I like how minimalist these illustrations are, but still effective.

I like elements from the 4 artists. I like the colour shapes and patterns of 

Schimler's, I like the adventurous of Church's illustration in black and white. This is due to the fact that I still read manga which is printed in black and white. But it might be a bad move when it come to appeal children. I like Swift's style combined with realistic pictures, and from Hudson's illustrations I like the simplicity of it, very simple and effective in my opinion.

If I had to only pick a style I would most likely go for Swift's, because is is colourful, the line work and child-like appearance are fitting for a young audience. (Big eyes, big heads and small bodies)