Empowering Through Visual-Storytelling: Rascally Ravens Picture Book Process by SHeli Petersen

The exhibition features the visual-storytelling process of illustrator and educator Sheli Petersen, Texas Woman’s University Professor of Graphic Design & Illustration, for the picture book Rascally Ravens of Greystone farm, written by Patricia Petersen. Sheli and Patricia are life-long birders and a daughter-mother team who based their book on their direct observations of ravens in the wild.

Learn about the step-by-step process of designing and illustrating a picture book. This includes designing characters and world-building from photographic references and life-sketches, storyboarding for planning and sequencing layouts, and applying traditional and digital techniques to finish the illustrations.

Participate in the Rascally Ravens maker space and have one of your wildlife drawings included in the exhibition!

View the video version of Rascally Ravens, with motion graphics by Texas Woman’s University graphic design majors Shayan Bangash and Ayah Shalabi, voice over by author Patricia Petersen, and soundtrack by Jon Petersen.