Create Your Children's Book Illustrations Using Canva

Did you know that you can use Canva to create the illustrations for your children's book? No drawing talent needed! In this video, I'll show you how to build scenes for your book in Canva in a way that looks seamless and professional.

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📚 Lay out your children's book page in Canva
(Explains how to calculate page size, bleed, etc)

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📚 My Light Shines Bright All Through the Night
(The book I laid out using all Canva illustrations)

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(Boy version of My Light Shines Bright)

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[HeatherCashArt]

Hi guys! I've had a ton of questions lately about how to illustrate your children's book if you don't think you can draw, and can't afford to pay an artist. Here's the answer! I hope this helps! If you do create your book using Canva illustrations I'd love to see - link it in the comments below!

Here are the links I mentioned in this video 🙂

📚 Lay out your children's book page in Canva
(Explains how to calculate page size, bleed, etc)

📚 My Light Shines Bright All Through the Night
(The book I laid out using all Canva illustrations)

📚 How to Catch a Dream
(Boy version of My Light Shines Bright)

🎨 Join my Creativity Club, where we discuss our projects, and motivate each other! 🎨

Have fun creating!! ❤

[norinelane]

Heather, this tutorial gave me the step by step to create my first ebook. I’m so happy I found your page Thank you!😊

[JodiSutcliff]

You are so awesome !!!! This video is helping me so much! I had nightmares last night about my illustrations and how to do them. I was actually going to give up on my dream of writing picture books until I saw this video. I can't Thank You Enough for getting me re-motivated You are amazing!

[SaraSmyle]

I am not a fan of Canva but you may have just changed my mind. Lol. This was so easy to follow. You explained everything well. Thank you!

[nishantipillay]

Thanks for this tutorial, Heather. I use Canva for low content books - your tutorial has opened up new ideas. However, printing in color might be costly for newbies on a tight budget.

[jessmusclepower-xf]

Thank you so much for the tutorial this is a great start for my new e-book ideas .

[RebaKennedy]

Thanks for sharing your expertise on this channel -- much appreciated! Some really good stuff here!!!

[laureendonato]

I always learn something new from you! I would have chosen a few different elements in my book, “Related By Love” if I was using the pro version at the time. So many more options! I’ll use it for the next one! Thanks Heather for all of your tips!

[aezag]

This was SUPER helpful and I'm glad I came across this!

[aramispa]

Thank you so much!!! I love how simple you explain step by step how to use Canva. I've learned a lot. Thanks again!!!

[xeniadelsol]

Lovely tutorial. i'm so happy I found your channel! However I would warn you about using canva fonts. Not all of them can be used for your commercial creative projects. It's not the same as with the images that you can use them if you create something new with them. Before I'd use any font, I would first google it to see if you can use it for commercial purposes. Just to be on the save side, because I have heard of cases of KDP accounts being suspended for using fonts without buying the commercial licence.

[piscena]

Thank you for doing this video. It’s extremely helpful!

[ioanaszel]

I've just discovered your channel through this video. Thank you so much for sharing! Best of luck in your work!

[catherinestafford]

Great tutorial! I just tried my first attempt at using Canva for illustrations and it's so great (not perfect yet but really amazing how it's coming together). Your tutorial got me started. Thanks so much!

[sammantharobinson]

I am so glad I came across this video! I've been trying to illustrate a children's book but I've been having trouble finding an affordable artist. Now I can do it myself, and it's fun! Thank you!

[karencopeland]

Heather Cash, you are the Bomb Diggity! Thank you so much for this video. Tremendously helpful to me as I am not ready to pay for an illustrator. Like you mentioned in the video, I want to see if my children’s book sells before investing money for an illustrator. I think my stories are great 😅 however a child or parent might think differently.

[joyfullyimperfect]

Thank you so much! That was very helpful, I usually do my own illustrations, but this is great for future books.

[marybooth]

Thank you so much for the information!

[michaeljarmstrongjr]

Charming video tutorial!!💐💐
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Gratitude 🙏

[ItsintheBible-puxf]

Hi Heather, thanks for the video. Following the use of the free license creatively and uniquely, one in combination with other elements, can I check the copyright part on KDP? Can I say I own the copyright knowing I combined several elements to make the book and book cover?