Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration

Kick-start your career as a children's book illustrator by building a powerful portfolio that captures the attention of publishers

• Introduction
• So You Want to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator
• Planning Out Your Book
• Bringing Your Book to Life
• Final Touches
• Final project

Children’s illustration gives you the opportunity to connect directly with young minds who are just developing a taste and love for literature. Illustrator Jimena S. Sarquiz has illustrated numerous children’s books for publishing houses including Edebé, Pearson, and Capstone Publishing. She also shares her work online under the name Monitos Bonitos.

In this course, she teaches you how to develop a powerful portfolio of children’s book illustrations. Create a chapter book project from scratch and discover how to grab the attention of agents and publishers with Jimena as your guide. Draw your way to a job as a children's book illustrator.

This is Jimena’s third course with Domestika. Her first two, Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate and Children’s Publications: Editorial Design and Illustration, are ideal for anyone with an interest in diving deeper into the world of children’s book illustration.

• About Me
• Influences
• Introduction to Kid Lit
• What Are Clients Looking For?
• Choosing a Portfolio Project
• Let’s Read a Book
• Planning My Illustrations
• Sketching Your Characters
• Storyboarding a Book
• From My Sketchbook to My iPad
• Making Your Sketches
• Working with Multiple Images
• Your Final Image
• Working with Different Color Profiles
• What Do I Do With My Project?
• Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration