August 5, 2024 - Halil Ural Thumbnails This is a brief follow up to the last post I wrote. Illustration is visual story telling.  The image is a picture sentence.  A memorable or thought-provoking illustration is well planned.  Planning well for it means plenty of rehearsal before execution.  Part of that rehearsal is your career; everything you have done up until now has led you down the path towards the finish of each new piece.  This certainly shapes your confidence to execute another piece.  To keep hitting grand slams every time you create takes a carefully planned and thoroughly dissected approach each and every time. The bulk of the problem solving is done early on in the preliminary stages.  In addition to sketches of models and scenes, objects and effects, there is all the preparation work done in the…