Picture Book Illustration: Reading for Research

Do you want to illustrate books for kids? But not sure how to improve your skills and move closer to your goals? 

In this fun class suitable from beginner to intermediate skill levels, you will learn how and why it’s important to read a lot of books and how to use published books to increase your skills in illustration. A book already published is like an instruction manual for success. 

During the class we will break down various ways to use books for reference, research, and learning, to develop your own skills in illustration so that you can improve and refine your portfolio. 

Materials needed for this class:

• Device with internet access
• Note-taking materials (digital or pen & paper)
• Library card highly recommended (but we will go over other resources if you live abroad or don’t have physical access to a library)

Book Tracker & Handout

I’ve created a book tracker that you can download/print and fill out useful information for every book that you have researched. Use it to keep track of progress, and keep all your information organized. From my own experience I forget titles, names and the detail information, so it’s helpful to keep it all in one place to reference again. The handout has useful resources, links and a long list of questions that help guide your research.