Lauren Child

I chose to research Lauren Child as her work inspires and interests me. I like the way she uses multimedia in her work by layering up her work in order to add textures and depth to the usually flat imagery. When researching into one of her most popular illustrations and books, Charlie and Lola, I discovered that she uses real life people as inspiration and then fits the stories around the characters. She also used experiences from her life when she was a child which in my opinion adds so much personality to the books and the characters as it is realistic.

The use of illustrative drawings in Lauren Child's specific style matched with some cut outs of real life objects and textures such as the real wood texture for a wooden table adds a large amount of depth into the drawings that would otherwise be relatively flat images. She uses materials such as magazine cut outs, collages, drawings, photographs, materials and watercolour paints which adds a traditional feel to the illustrations.

Her illustrations look childlike but they are not childish. They are far too detailed and advanced for a child to draw but they are drawn and designed in a way that children would be able to relate to them as they are far enough away from a real photograph. The different textures such as a real image of wood for the wooden table also allows the child to piece information together as they would be able to recognise what wood or a wooden table looks like from previous experiences.

Despite Lauren Child's having more than one character which could mean that the target audiences are different depending on the book, she still has the style which is suitable for a target audience of three to seven year old children. Although many older children and adults watch or read her many books or can at least appreciate her illustrations. From looking at the Charlie and Lola in particular, I would say that the target audience for this book and TV programme is for three/four to seven year olds which is the same for the rest of her characters. 

http://www.milkmonitor.com/home/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Child
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_Lola
http://www.theguardian.com/books/lauren-child

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