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The article discusses how digital illustration could reimagine the way books are illustrated and the way they work. Digital illustration has been made to mimic traditional techniques, but in the form of ebooks, it could do much more. Images could move across the screen in a way unimaginable on paper. Already, David Macaulay's "Black and White," Art Spiegelman's "Open Me...I'm a Dog!," and David Wiesner's "The Three Pigs" are playing with traditional ideas of books and paper.

The article explains the technique involved in pulp painting, a technique used in illustrating children's books. The technique involves pouring cotton rag fiber that is suspended in water through hand-cut stencils onto a screen, creating an image in handmade paper. The author describes the advantages and disadvantages of the technique.

The article presents a discussion of the author's favorite artistic medium, which he defines as "the one I haven't used yet." The author presents his criteria for the perfect artistic medium, and discusses the kind of medium he used when illustrating his picture book. He concludes that the perfect kind of art for a story is "something that could carry some story along."

In this article, the author discusses her preferred art medium for drawing, marker. The author specifically focuses on how she uses Sharpie markers in drawing. The article presents details of how the author designed her picture book "Best Friends Think Alike" and her favorite characteristics of marker drawing.