Creating emotion

Students consider how creative choices made by illustrators help to convey emotions.

Student activities

Task no. 1

Exploring the power of illustrations to evoke an emotional response

Dog is a picture book that portrays the relationship between humans and dogs over thousands of years. It is an emotional story, and for Shaun Tan it was extremely important to convey those feelings to the audience through the illustrations.

Watch the video of Shaun Tan speaking about the importance of conveying a feeling through his illustrations.

Shaun Tan - Creating emotion

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View the two illustrations and complete the table below.

A oil painting showing a war scene with a railway line through the middle. A soldier and a dog are shown on opposite sides of the railway line — Share

WW2, Series 1: Original artworks for the book Dog / by Shaun Tan, 2017
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