Design Outdoor Spaces For Picture Books

Do you want to illustrate books, but get stuck drawing more complicated environments?

Learn the ins and outs of designing environments for picture books in this in-depth class with award winning picture book author and illustrator Mirka Hokkanen. 

This class is perfect for beginner and intermediate illustrators wanting to illustrate picture books for kids. Mirka uses examples from her own work and from other picture books to illustrate each lesson, and we’ll complete 5 simple exercises to help you build up your skills.

In this class you will:

• Learn how to create a focal point for a piece 
• Learn how to move a viewer's eye with shapes and lines. 
• Learn design principles to help you make decisions 
• Learn how to balance in an illustration
• Learn how to light your scene for different times of the day
• Learn how to take a chaotic reference photo and create an organized illustration from it
• Learn how to choose the best point of view for your illustration 

Class Project:

We'll work on 3 short and 2 slightly longer exercises to take an idea for an illustration, to thumbnails, to a detailed sketch and finally to a completed illustration.