​​Playful Hand-Lettering for Children’s Book Illustration

Learn to create joyful lettering compositions for your book illustrations that appeal to readers of all ages

• Introduction
• Composition and Lettering
• Using Lettering for Storytelling
• Once Your Illustration Is Done. What’s Next?
• Final project

Through hand-lettering you can take an author’s story and give it a playful visual language for children. Hand-lettering artist and illustrator Shauna Lynn specializes in creating compositions for children’s publications and a whole host of other clients including Adobe, Samsung, and Facebook. She is also the co-author of Creative Lettering and Beyond.

In this course, she teaches you how to design and incorporate hand-drawn lettering into your children’s book compositions. Shauna guides you through how to create a vibrant spread featuring both lettering and illustration that appeals to children and those who are children at heart. Illustrate beautiful messages that make young readers happy.

• About Me
• Influences
• What, How and Why of Lettering
• Inspiration and Mood Board
• Three Composition Styles
• Lettering to Convey Movement
• Fitting into a Composition
• Refining Sketch for Legibility
• Lettering and Sound
• Expressing Moods
• Themes and Time Periods 1
• Themes and Time Periods 2
• Color Blocking and Final Details
• Preparing the Artwork
• Creating the Work You Want to Get Hired For
• Other Applications
• Playful Hand-Lettering for Children’s Book Illustration