Illustrating Courses:

Mastering Graphic Novels is coming to you live May 2022! If you've ever wanted to create graphic novels, this is the course you have been waiting for! Imagine many conferences and many courses rolled into one learning smorgasbord with Editor/AD Mira Reisberg, Graphic Novelist Aron Nels Steinke and a week each with art director Andrea Miller, illustrator Larissa Marantz, graphic novelist Dave Roman, and a mystery acquiring editor!
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The classic course is live, but now available as a self-paced, INSTANT ACCESS course!  Five fabulous weeks of learning, growing, making art and kid's books, opening all sorts of career doors and opportunities. With lessons and recordings from Senior Designer at Abrams Books Andrea Miller, and Editor and Art Director, Dr. Mira Reisberg, and many more. Find out more here!!

With ProCreate for your iPad you can easily, draw, insert, tweak and create spellbinding art and illustrations and save them for sending and submitting to editors, publishers and agents. This course is a game-changer because you can do fabulous fast art indistinguishable from traditional media in a fraction of the time and without any mess! Find out more here!

Only available as part of our Writer's Bundle, An INSTANT ACCESS Workinar on Rhythm, Pacing and Page Turns that keep your readers excited for what's to come and create an environment that is interactive and stimulating with HMH AD Andrea Miller and Mira Reisberg. Find out more here!

Digital illustration with Photoshop is more popular than ever before! Bring your artwork to a whole new level in this user-friendly course with Leda Chung. Find out more here!

Only available as part of our Illustrator's Bundle, this course was created to share the secrets of writers and illustrators who have learned from classic literature, fine art, current events, and pop culture, in order to write or illustrate their own contemporary children's books that engage editors, art directors, and agents (oh, and of course...children, teachers, and parents). Find out more here!

A book dummy  is the clearest most effective way of showcasing your work, so make sure to make it as engaging, exciting, emotional, funny or dramatic as possible. The dummy makes it easier to think about page turns and incorporating different angles and points of view within the images.  Learn how to make each page of your dummy and eventual children’s book a surprise and a pleasure to see with this course. Find out more here!

Join very beginning to accomplished artists, illustrators and writers wanting to learn process-oriented art skills while breaking through old blocks. This course gets rave reviews!! With Mira Reisberg. Find out more here!

Join the Artist and Letterpress Printer, Knitter and Creator Extraordinaire Bri Davey in this exclusive course for discovering and developing your text and bringing your font to the next level. Find out more here!

This wonderful compendium of courses includes Fun with Photoshop, The Pleasures of Procreate, Steal This - Using Cultural References for Writers and Illustrators, Creating Awesome Author Illustrator Sites with Weebly, Hand Lettering and Calligraphy, Creating Dummies, and Mastering Social Media.  An irresistible educational bundle! Find out more here!

In this mini course, you'll learn what board books are, who is publishing them, what kinds of language to use, some of the many topics that are of interest to this age group, and how to illustrate them. You will learn lots about this delightful and adorable niche market. Find out more here!