This series is an introduction to making a children’s book for beginners. My goal is to show how you can create your first book using only a pen and paper and your mobile phone.

I used this method to make my own book that I was able to add to the Amazon book store.

In this lesson…

This first video covers ways to come up with ideas for stories and artwork. One example is a simple method that involves “scribble drawing”. A way to visualize your pages, story and drawings.

Table of contents

Here is a time-line for the topics covered in the video.

• 01:50 - Intro to creating digital picture books
• 06:32 - What you can learn from creating a digital book
• 09:43 - To get what you need from this training
• 11:24 - Intro to design
• 12:28 - Let’s talk about design
• 14:42 - Style
• 15:25 - All you need to get started
• 15:46 - Types of stories
• 16:59 - Who is your book for?
• 17:38 - Storyboarding
• 17:47 - Using picture references
• 18:48 - Scribble sketch method
• 19:56 - Setting the stage
• 20:30 - The “one picture story” exercise
• 22:29 - Speed drawing exercises
• 26:07 - Lesson homework

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