Why both illo and words are important…

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea.

For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described.

And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

Leonardo da Vinci

From the Children’s Picturebooks –
The art of visual storytelling
by Martin Salisbury with Morag Styles