Children's Book Illustration 8 Week Evening Course

This extensive evening course teaches you how to bring your children’s book ideas to life. Whether you have an idea for a book or would like to illustrate books for a living then this course gives you a brilliant head start. The course includes a guest speaker. Please view the full eight week activities listed below.

8 week evening course
One session each Wednesday, 6pm- 9pm
@inc Studios in Bury St Edmunds.

Contact us: 07305 923293

Week One 

• Course Introduction 

• Best sellers in the world and why 

• Recipe for a winning book 

• Ideas generation

• Homework 
  

Week Two 

• Age Groups - Pitching to the right age group 

• Colour – Pallet choices 

• Trending 

• Mood, Techniques 

• Homework 
  

Week Three 

• Composition 

• Scale, drama 

• Page Layout rules 

• Homework 
  

Week Four 

• Collage 

• Photoshop overview 

• Collaboration 

• Homework 
  

Week Five 

• Children’s Book Illustrator - Guest Speaker  

• Book Covers  

• Homework 
  

Week Six 

• Book Dummy

• Testing/feedback steps 

• Self-publishing 
  

Week Seven 

• Overview - InDesign, Publishing layout programme 

• Homework  
  

Week Eight 

• Marketing 

• Tea and Cake  

View course dates here
Contact us: 07305 923293