All about children's book covers

Goodness, I can't believe our Middle Grade Mastery course is coming to an end. It's been quite the extraordinary adventure with students learning to make magic with their ideas and manuscripts and sharing their journeys and processes with us and each other! We've had a bonus illustrating middle grade books section each week and for Week 4 we look at Photoshop, including covers in your portfolio, and creating your own cover if you are writing and illustrating your novel. I thought this video might be helpful for folks here as the principles apply to picture books or whatever genre you are illustrating. Plus it's neat info to know. Because nearly all the books I shared didn't have jackets, I didn't talk about wrap around jackets. This is where there's a separate cover with a hard bound book that wraps around. The front flap will often have a pitch or something enticing about the book or even a quote, while the back will have enticing bios about the author and illustrator. So who's up for taking a peek at the 12 minute bio and letting us know what you think in the comments?