Making a Picture Book from Start to Finish

(NOTE: Please do not contact me for illustration work; I do not take on self-published projects and only accept work directly through publishers via my agent.) Hello Art Friends! I’m Anoosha Syed, a professional children’s book illustrator and today I’m going to go step-by-step in how I illustrate picture books. Specifically, I AM PERFECTLY DESIGNED, written by Karamo and Jason Brown, published by Henry Holt & Co (Macmillan) in 2019. I will be talking about the following: 00:00 - Intro 03:35 - How I got the Job (Through Twitter!) 05:48 - Character Design 10:46 - Designing a Cover 19:30 - Sketching Interiors 27:57 - Clean Up and Revisions 31:06 - Placing your Text 33:39 - Color Blocking and Color Palettes 35:34 - Final Color 37:43 - When You and Your Publisher Have Different Ideas 39:32 - Conclusion In my next video I’ll be talking about how to get an agent. Stay tuned for that! --- MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO