How To Choose Colors for Your Children's Book: Focus on Characters & Setting
Take a deep dive into your setting & characters for color inspirations & revelations that will emphasis your story in amazing ways!
Jul 10, 2025
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10 min read
How To Choose Colors for Your Children's Book: Focus on Emotion, Theme & Subject
How to create the right emotion or mood using colors in your illustrations. PLUS: communicating the theme & subject of your book with color choices!
Jul 22, 2025
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9 min read
3 Tools to Help You Choose Colors for Your Children's Book
How do you pick the right colors for your children's book illustrations? Keep it simple with these three tools and you'll find the perfect colors.
Jun 11, 2025
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6 min read
How to Use Color as Story in Children's Book Illustrations
Color tells a story in kids books—but is it telling the right story?
Jul 5, 2024
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9 min read
Planning Your Color Palette in a Children’s Books
How to pick colors in your illustrations for kids books—keeping it simple, consistent, and unique!
Jul 5, 2024
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9 min read
3 Craft Activities for Your Kid's Book Launch & Events
Whether it's a book launch, school visit, or other publishing event—here are three fun customizable activities you can create for the kids to enjoy!
Sep 22, 2025
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4 min read
How Do You Start an Illustration? — Thumbnails for Kids Books
How do you start an illustration? Looking for examples of thumbnails for children’s books?
Sep 19, 2025
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8 min read
Illustration Portfolio Reviews — Now Available!
Are you a future children's book illustrator?
Sep 11, 2025
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4 min read
How to Make Surface Designs on Fabric for Spoonflower
Create flatlay surface patterns and learn all about Spoonflower and printing fabric!
Sep 10, 2025
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6 min read
Customize A Bookmark Activity for Your Kid's Book Launch Event!
Let the kids relive the book with craft bookmarks at your book launch, school visit, or publishing event! They can bring home their own souvenir—and a story to remember.
Sep 6, 2025
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5 min read
How to Draw Between the Lines When Illustrating Children’s Books
Can kids book illustrators add things that aren't in the text? Yes! And you should!
Aug 29, 2025
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9 min read
How To Direct the Viewer's Eye in Illustrations
Design your illustrations to lead the reader’s eye where you want it to go in your kids book!
Aug 21, 2025
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10 min read
How to Use Texture Files in Your Illustrations!
Create unique art by adding paint texture layers to your pictures! Grab my free paint sheet downloads and try it out.
Aug 7, 2025
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4 min read
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Jul 23, 2024
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10 min read
Six Different Perspectives to Use in Your Illustrations for Children’s Book
Using different visual perspectives throughout a children’s book will keep the reader engaged while also showing more detail, story, and emotion!
Jul 30, 2024
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11 min read
How To Direct the Viewer's Eye in Illustrations
Design your illustrations to lead the reader’s eye where you want it to go in your kids book!
Aug 21, 2025
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10 min read
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3 Craft Activities for Your Kid's Book Launch & Events
Whether it's a book launch, school visit, or other publishing event—here are three fun customizable activities you can create for the kids to enjoy!
Sep 22, 2025
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4 min read
Customize A Bookmark Activity for Your Kid's Book Launch Event!
Let the kids relive the book with craft bookmarks at your book launch, school visit, or publishing event! They can bring home their own souvenir—and a story to remember.
Sep 6, 2025
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5 min read
5 Free Paint Texture Sets to Download!
Over 150 free texture files to use in your illustrations! Get creative with these paint texture scans at high resolution.
Aug 1, 2025
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3 min read
Create A Paper Mobile Craft for Your Children's Book Promo Events!
Free customizable, digital template on Canva that is easy to edit, download & print. Keep kids engaged with a paper mobile craft at school visits, book launch party, and promotions!
Jan 22, 2025
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6 min read
