People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.
I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color.
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.