Learn to Illustrate: Children's Book Illustrations

Explore the World of Children’s Book Illustrations

Are you or your child an aspiring children’s book illustrator or a budding cartoonist? Do you want to learn how to tell stories through art? Learn to Illustrate: Children’s Book Illustrations can help you do just that! This course, designed for grades 5 and up, guides students through learning the entire process of illustrating a children’s book from imagining the characters, developing the setting, mapping out the story, and bringing it all together in a final spread. In 12 engaging lessons, your students learn foundational drawing skills and show them off in a finished full-spread illustration that looks like it belongs in a real children’s book! 

Bring the Story From Your Imagination to the Page

Learn to Illustrate: Children’s Book Illustrations takes a complex, multi-step process of illustrating a children’s book and breaks it down into manageable, creative, and engaging step-by-step lessons. Learn how to create characters that come to life: give the characters unique personalities, draw the characters’ emotions, and get tips for keeping character illustrations consistent throughout the project. Bring the author’s story to the page by building your character’s world through setting, mood, and developing storyboards. This consumable course includes sketch stops throughout and a bonus lesson for students to experiment with drawing new characters right in the book. When the course is complete, students can place the completion sticker in their My Electives Badge Book. In Learn to Illustrate: Children’s Book Illustrations, you’ll dream up unique characters, design your character’s world, and then use your creations to tell your story to the world!

• 103 pages + completion sticker page; consumable
• Full-color illustrations
• Wire-binding; paperback; 8.5"x11"

Learn to Illustrate: Children's Book Illustrations is a new offering in the art electives for grades 5+ from The Good and the Beautiful. To check out Drawing 1, Drawing 2, Oil Painting and other fun art courses, see our growing collection of Electives! We recommend one Learn to Illustrate: Children's Book Illustrations book per student.

Learn to Illustrate: Children's Book Illustrations is also available in PDF format.