Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe

Learn to illustrate an original story by combining digital and traditional illustration tools to create friendly characters and bold scenes

• Introduction
• Thinking Inside and Outside of the Picture
• Drawing the Final Project: Alex in Their Bedroom
• Saving, Sharing and Selling Yourself
• Final project

Bring fun and energetic scenes in a children’s book to life through illustration. Freelance illustrator Maddy Vian has been drawing and writing books since she was a child. After graduating with a degree in illustration, she turned her hobby into a full-time career. Maddy believes in bringing empathy and kindness to the creative process when illustrating and has since worked in art direction, packaging design, and, most recently, illustration for children’s books.

In this course, she shares her expertise in children’s illustration to teach you how to imagine and draw a different world. Learn to create captivating narratives using color, objects, characters, and shapes to design scenes with stories behind them.

• About Me
• Influences
• Traditional Materials, Drawing Tablets and the Ugly Sketch
• Learning About Proportions
• How to Make Characters Younger or Older
• Dressing Your Character
• The Character in the Space
• Juggling Ideas and Moving Forward
• The Ugly Sketch That No One Sees
• The Details in Action
• Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 1
• Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 2
• Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 3
• Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 4
• Adding Details 1
• Adding Details 2
• Exporting the Illustration and Sharing Your Work
• Tips for the Future
• Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe