By Lisa Goudy
Ruth Ohi loves to see her characters brought to life on the page.
“When
I’m coming up with an idea, I see the storyboard, the pages, what I
would like to see in the picture book in my head and I can see the
character alive in my head. So it is satisfying to illustrate my own
stories,” she said.
“All my author
illustrated books, they’re emotional reactions to something that I’ve
experienced or seen or read in a newspaper. I write and draw from that
and ask myself, ‘What if?’ and that’s usually my starting point for a
story.”
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