Picture book composition

SAMPLE Picture book storyboard layout

This is a picture book about gratitude for simple but important things. Written by Mimi Ikonn for the publishing house Intelligent Change.

Hello and welcome to my tutorial on how I went about making my first published children's book, Ruan The Little Red Squirrel by Rachel McGaw. This tutorial will cover the creation of the cover...

Picture Book Illustrating Course Part 2 Composition and Narrative Last week we looked at the importance of style and characterisation in picture book illustration. This week I'm going to waffle on about the other two things that make a winning illustration portfolio - composition and narrative. The point of picture book illustrations are not (just) to add decoration to a written book, they’re there to convey not only the overall message and atmosphere of the book (style), but also, more…

The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen

The sci-fi master storyteller's picture book was written nearly 50 years ago to help his own children overcome their fear of the dark.This edition is published in Sofia, Bulgaria half a century after the first version. Published by BGkniga publishing ho…

Illustration, Character Design, Adobe Photoshop

My new book, Crocodiles Need Kisses Too , is out! Written by Rebecca Colby and published by Viking Books, I was thrilled to be the illustrator on the project! This is my second picture book and the process for this one was a bit different from my first book . I thought it’d be fun to share some of