I thought it would be really fun to pull a handout from the upcoming Illustrating Children’s Books course (starts Monday!) and give it to you now so you could get started early.
This handout will help you choose which text to illustrate for the course. It focuses on examining your personality type, art style, and preferred art media.
I always want my students to be able to dive right into art-making, and the most effective way to accomplish this is by breaking everything down into tiny, bite-sized bits and making the process fun. This prevents procrastination and engages the creative brain.
Hear directly from one of our students just how terrific the course was. Watch this fun short video by Kirsti Davidson.
The first step in creating an illustrated children’s book pitch is this: You need to select a text that shows off your style! The cool part of this course is that we actually provide you with three carefully-selected texts that you’ll enjoy illustrating. Don’t worry—we help you every step of the way to do your best.
Join Lilla for a special Facebook Live TODAY at 12 noon Boston time (EDT) on the our Facebook page HERE.
ALL-NEW TEXTS
My co-teacher and top children’s book art director, Zoë Tucker, has written three charming brand-new, original texts for you to work from. Zoë has organized the texts into page breaks and she even gives you valuable art director tips. When you sign up for class, you’ll get the three all-new texts TODAY as the classroom is OPEN!
LIVE VIDEO
We’re excited to announce that we will be doing a few Facebook Live streaming videos exclusively for the students while the course is running. You’ll have an opportunity to interact with Zoë and me in a dynamic, real-time setting.
By the end of the course you will have a complete presentation ready to send to clients, including a character page, a double-page spread, and a front cover, based on a text provided in class.
Read more about the course here. Hurry! Sign up now for this fantastic course before it sells out! (It did last time!)
Yours in artful success, Lilla
P.S. Extra bonus! In class, you’ll also get five fun art technique videos where I teach you proportion, poses, facial expressions, creating backgrounds, scale, lettering, and more—all the key ingredients for a winning children’s book pitch.
Me emociona mucho comenzar este curso. Es un sueño cumplido. Muchas gracias por la oportunidad de aprender
Muchísimas gracias! :)
Do you have lifetime access to the course material, or just for the weeks of the class? Wondering because now isn’t a great time for me to take a class, but I’m interested in signing up for later.
Hi Jessica, you can print & make PDFs of the course content if you want to save it for later. We do offer access for several months but it isn’t lifetime as the content might change. We do plan to hold the course again next year if that helps. Thanks!
Hi! I am interested in the course. I just watched the video. To be clear, my work will not necessarily be reviewed. Correct? Is this something that we have to be selected for? We are not able to talk to the instructors and have our work reviewed just for taking the class?
Hi Lisa, all the work will be seen by the instructors but only some pieces will be selected for the live reviews each week. You can submit questions both in the classroom & in the private FB group that you get access to once you join. Please email [email protected] if you need more information. Hope to see you in class!