As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.
Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.