Week #5, Part I: Let's Start Illustrating: The Thumbnail Stage

The Picture Book Academy: The Elite Experience

Welcome To The Picture Book Academy!

Week #1: Setting Foundations, Ideas, & Choosing Your Concept

Week #2: Let’s Start Writing: Understanding Your Book’s Audience, Create Draft #1

Week #3: The Anatomy of a Picture Book, Create Draft #2 With Appropriate Anatomy Layout

Week #4: Book Interior Design Elements: Page Design, Typography, Book Flow, and Book Mapping

Week #4: Book Interior Design Elements: Page Design, Typography, Book Flow, and Book Mapping (17:08)
Week #4 Checklist

Week #5: Book Interior Design: Let’s start illustrating: the thumbnail stage

Week #6: Character Design Part I: Concepts, personas, and style development

Week #7: Character Design Part II: Emotions, anatomy, medium, and final stylization

Week #7: Character Design Part II: 360 Anatomy, Expressions, and Emotions (13:00)
15 second snippet showing painted 3d model (0:16)
Week #7 Checklist

Week #8: Develop Your Book’s Style, Part I: Creating Sample Illustrations

Week #8: Develop Your Style, Part I, Putting It All Together: Creating Samples (15:43)
Week #8 Checklist

Week #9: Develop Your Book’s Style, Part II: Sample style creation and illustrative strategy

Week #10: Put it all together: Dummy Draft #1

Week #11: Final Revisions, FINAL Dummy & Cover Design

Week #12: Create Your Final Dummy and Professional Illustrator Tips

Week #13: Marketing Hacks: Create Marketing Pieces As You Go!

Week #14: Create Your Author Website

Week #15: Compose Final Book Dummy Ready for Proposal!

Week #16: Where Do You Go From Here? & Course Wrap Up

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