Illustrated album

A illustrated album is, in Illustration, a book comprising of the illustrations, generally accompanying a Texte, account, educational or documentary.

Creation of an illustrated album

The text

During the creation of a illustrated album, a text is generally chooses. Starting from this text, one imagines a graphic style and images to accompany this text. Whatever the graphic style used for the illustrations, the text is paramount. Because the account of the album must be included/understood by the reader, and lead it to discover new things.

The railroad

A Railroad, (kind of Scénarimage, is then made up to describe the placement of the images and the text all along the album.

illustrations

The illustrations will be created by the illustrator, according to his own pictorial affinities and of the text. In a good illustrated album the images should not be a repetition of the text but its complementarity, in the contrary case it has little chance to be accepted by an editor or a librarian. Possibly, the images can post a diverted representation of the text. Only possible exception, the books for smallest which play of the repetition in order to learn from the simple words or sentences.

Presentation with an editor

Nowadays, in the majority of the cases, the illustrator, will thus create the railroad and some final images and will canvass the editors with these 2 preparations. If the editor is interested, it will finance the end of the production of the album.

Various illustrated types of album

Illustrated albums of youth

The illustrated albums of youth are certainly the most plentiful category, of the thousands of works in French language appear each year. The Living room of the book and the press youth, living room national which is held each year in November with Montreuil, city bordering on Paris, in France, is an good example of the diversity of these creations.

The albums banked-up bed and adults

They are certainly fewer, but the illustrated albums banked-up bed or adults also exist. As regards narrative, they generally rather target underground mediums or artistic, either are rather documentary or educational. The Living room of the book and the press youth comprises every year an adult section, for the increasingly many fans of this type of works.

Documentary albums

Whatever the age bracket targeted, the documentary one generally needs illustrations. Whether it is in the artistic scientific disciplines, techniques or. These illustrations can be photographs in certain cases, but it is often preferable to call upon an illustrator which will be able to better synthesize the idea in a graphic way, and without the cumbersome elements surrounding the subject in the photographs. The encyclopedias are marvellous examples of documentary illustrated.

Educational albums

That is to describe the use of a software, the pictorial techniques, the practice of a sport or a science. The educational ones generally are very provided in illustrations. That it is a capture of screen, a mathematical formula, the graph of a curve, the position to be held in such or such sport etc, the number of illustrated elements essential in the majority of the educational books is very high. Some go even until comprising more image than of text, such as for example of the books on the techniques of dance or martial arts.

Albums illustrated bound for not and badly indicators

There exist albums illustrated bound for not or badly indicators. These books are generally white and out of paper. The illustration is printed there in relief and the text in Braille. Certain albums for indicators are translated in this way in order to make it possible these people to acquire useful techniques, or to be pleased to discover illustrated stories.

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