✸ How to Illustrate Picture Book Covers! ✸

Hello Art Friends! I'm Anoosha Syed, a professional children's book illustrator and today I'm going to go step-by-step in how I illustrated the cover of my author/illustrator debut THAT'S NOT MY NAME! I hope this video will be helpful for anyone curious about my process!

This book is a labor of love and a very personal story :)

I will be talking about the following:

00:00 - Intro
03:07 - The Plot
03:53 - How I Got the Job + The Publishing Process
11:31 - Character Design Stage
15:55 - Sketching + Brainstorming
23:52 - My Sketching Process (Timelapse)
29:14 - Color Exploration
34:11 - My Painting Process (Timelapse)
39:51 - Timeline + Schedule

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[itssominny]

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DEBUT & NEW BOOK! ❤️❤️ wish nothing but the best to you and this beautiful project ✨

[satitovmasyan]

congratulations on publishing your book Anoosha!!! and your name by the way is certainly unique and beautiful, and I absolutely love the topic your book covers, as someone whose full name is a hard name to pronounce! even though I am not a kid this was inspirational so thank you.

[itssominny]

It would be amazing if you could do a video about copyrights, intellectual property and everything. That's one of the things that are very important to me. Thank you for all your videos and help! ❤️

[lunas]

I love how you break up your process into different parts and show your thoughts and advice! I could hear you talking for hooours, love hearing your videos while working!

[Enginejen]

Preordered through Amazon! Can’t wait! Your advice and information is so valuable. I’m a fan for life! 💗

[bittermelonbindery]

Wow I love how thorough you are about the process. I will be pre-ordering for sure!

[felishiarae]

This is so helpful! Thanks for sharing this.

[shrutika]

Yayy! So excited for you Anoosha! Will be pre-ordering your book soon! 😍 I loved the cover! 💃 Simple, elegant and very effective. ☺️

[soulplayexperiences]

I love your content, Anoosha! Thank you for all you share here!

[aPenasIllustrator]

Another great video! Thank you for sharing your process and all the tips :D

[PGr-iqom]

I am saving your advises I am soon starting a business with my artworks first with a website, however, I got things going on. I appreciate your teachings you sure are successful congratulations 🎉👏 God bless you Queen I like art too 💖🙏✌️😄🌏🌎🌍💖💯

[itssominny]

Hello!!!! This video showed up out of nowhere haha, I think it's a glitch or something. Anyways, just wanted to say that I really admire you. I watched all your advices videos and took many many notes. Now I know this is the path I want for me. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and knowledge. You're amazing! ❤️

[beingshifan]

Congratulations. Another great video! 😀

[nniieemmaanndd]

I love your new hair colour so much!! It suits you perfectly 🥺🥺🧡

[bamanimax]

really awesome information shared! i love the cover

[InvisionHopeHealthyLiving]

Congratulations on publishing your book. Thank you for sharing your thought process on writing and illustrating books. I have learned a lot from your videos.

[Christinalife]

I’m always worried I’ll do too much with the cover or not enough. This helps, thank you.

[eumaycondouglas]

Hi Anoosha, your videos are very helpful! Thanks for sharing all these lovely experiences and tips.
I am very new to this big world of book illustrations, so I have a lot of questions to ask, but I will start with one.
I saw on other video that you usually illustrate in procreate, so when you finish the letterings do you need to vectorize the words in another program or just save the file as one single image?
Im very confused about this, if you could record some videos about this kind of subject, it would be really useful!
Thanks! ❤

[twixie__]

Hello. Thank goodness found your channel. Helpful!
Can you please tell me when you do digital art for children’s book illustration, how many dpi and do you use rgb/srgb or cymk? Is it rgb as a digital file then before printing it turn it to cymk? I use procreate.. is it better to use 350dpi?
just started illustrating so i am quite clueless😅thanks in advance

[ailishi]

would love this book to read to my kids ….and myself. my name is Alizee and been miscalled all along my school time! thanks for sharing!