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The Picture Book Academy: The Elite Experience
Welcome To The Picture Book Academy!
Syllabus Video (9:07)
Week #1: Setting Foundations, Ideas, & Choosing Your Concept
Video #1: Intro to the PBA (12:46)
Video #2: Week #1, Ideas and Choose Your Concept (12:54)
Get Into The Marketplace: Printable Bookstore Sheet
Week #1 Checklist
Week #2: Let’s Start Writing: Understanding Your Book’s Audience, Create Draft #1
Video #1: Your Buyer & Audience Fulfillment, Part I (16:34)
Video #2:: Let’s Start Writing, Part II Clarify, Final Concept, Draft #1 (8:19)
Week #2 Checklist
Week #3: The Anatomy of a Picture Book, Create Draft #2 With Appropriate Anatomy Layout
Week #3: Comparison Titles & The Anatomy of a Picture Book (8:33)
Week #3, Part II: The Anatomy of a Picture Book (6:55)
Week #3 Checklist
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 #5, Part I: Let's Start Illustrating: The Thumbnail Stage (11:18)
Week #5, Part II: Bring Out Your Inner Art Director (12:25)
Week #5 Checklist
Week #6: Character Design Part I: Concepts, personas, and style development
Week #6: Character Design Part I (21:11)
Week #6 Checklist
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 #9: Develop Your Style Strategy, Part II (16:53)
Week #9 Checklist
Week #10: Put it all together: Dummy Draft #1
Week #10: Put it all together and Demo! (31:07)
Week #11: Final Revisions, FINAL Dummy & Cover Design
Week #11: Revise & Refine & Cover Design (21:26)
Week #12: Create Your Final Dummy and Professional Illustrator Tips
Week #12: Create Your Final Dummy and Professional Illustrator Tips (10:09)
Week #13: Marketing Hacks: Create Marketing Pieces As You Go!
Week #13: Creating Marketing Pieces As You Go (2:50)
Week #14: Create Your Author Website
Week 14: Create Your Author/Illustrator Website (5:35)
Week #15: Compose Final Book Dummy Ready for Proposal!
Week #15: Create Your Dummy Book (5:37)
Week #16: Where Do You Go From Here? & Course Wrap Up
Where Do You Go From Here? & Course Wrap Up (10:45)
Week #10: Put it all together and Demo!
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