Picture Book Illustration Mastery In Weeks, Not Years
Turn your ideas into publish‑ready picture‑book illustrations with a clear, step‑by‑step system you can follow at your own pace.
What is PBIC Self‑Paced?
PBIC Self‑Paced is my complete picture book illustration course, restructured from an 8‑week live program so you can move through it in your own time while still following a proven path from first ideas to finished portfolio-worth artwork. It includes video lessons, demos, and recordings of weekly interviews with picture book illustrators and industry experts.
Instead of piecing together random tutorials, you’ll work alongside the comprehensive 56‑page PBIC workbook and follow a start‑to‑finish process for designing characters, creating thumbnails, storyboarding, making a dummy book, planning your pages, and completing illustrations that are ready for your portfolio or a real manuscript.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
- Develop clear, expressive characters that feel consistent across multiple pages
- Plan page layouts and page turns that support the story
- Take an illustration from rough thumbnail to polished, portfolio‑ready artwork
- Confidently present your work to clients, publishers, or your own audience
How PBIC Self‑Paced works
- Work through structured modules in order, or pause and revisit as needed
- Each module focuses on a key stage of the picture‑book process (character, story, storyboarding, composition and page layout, dummy book, final art)
- Video lessons, demos, workbook exercises, and expert interviews guide you through each phase, step by step
What you get when you enrol today:
- Full access to all course modules and video lessons
- Recordings of weekly interviews with picture book illustrators and industry experts
- The comprehensive 56‑page PBIC workbook with exercises, prompts, reference material and resources to support each stage of the process
- Lifetime access so you can return whenever you want to refine or redo a project
Whether you’re starting your first picture book, wanting to illustrate your own picture book story idea, or levelling up your skills and portfolio, PBIC Self‑Paced gives you a clear, repeatable system for creating characters and picture book artwork you’re proud to share.
Jeanette Stampone
The course gave me the confidence to illustrate a picture book. I know I can go through the workbook to remind myself of the techniques and process. I have learnt an incredible amount in such a short space of time and feel I have reached a major turning point in my illustration work.
