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1. Intro: Have you ever wanted to want
your own children's book? Have you ever wanted to get this beautiful idea that's
up in here onto paper, Either for your own kids,
for a family member, or just to be able to say published book behind
your Facebook name. Whatever your reason is for
wanting to create a book, the book dummy is a
good way to start. I've designed this course, think imagination to get you
started on this journey. To help you take an idea or to find an idea if you
don't have one already. And to get it out onto paper. Then later on in
different classes, we will refine and we will
actually publish your book. But this class has
been designed to help you with that first
step, just to get going. And so that you can have
a physical book dummy in your hand and
that you can show to other people that you can
taste out in the real world. So by the end of this class, you will have created
your very own book dummy, very much like
this one, that you can taste out in the real world. Remember to upload your
project either in video format or in a series of pictures
under the project's tab, so I can give you feedback
on what you've done. Remember to ask for
help if you need it and take part in
class discussions. We are all here to learn
and grow together. Now, this class is
great for beginners and for more experienced artists. You might have published
a few books in the past, but there might
have been a bit of a mission to put together now. I'm here to help you with that. If you're just beginning,
great, I'm happier here. This class is super easy
to follow along with. You don't need any
special equipment. You pretty much need
some paper pins, but we'll go over that
in the material section and you don't need any
specialized knowledge. I will walk you through
every step of the way. You're also going to get
a practical workbook under the Resources tab. Please go download that
and work along with us. Everything you're going to
need is right in there. Again, ask questions
if you have any. Who am I? Hi, I'm She and
I'm here to help you out. I have published a few
books, self published. I'm an author, I'm
also an artist and all around creative widow,
I just love all things. Arti Farsi, and I love
love, love learning. You can go and have a
look at all the things that I've created in
the past. Right over. Yeah. So now that you
know a little bit more about me and what you're going to be doing in this class, I'm super excited
to get started. How about you? I'll see
you in the next class.
2. Materials: Hello and welcome to
the first lesson. We need to discuss
your materials. What are you going to use in this clause? It's
really straightforward. The cheaper, the better because it does not
have to be perfect. So what I've got is, firstly, some paper, plain printer paper. Doesn't have to be
anything fancy. I've got some Al Chipo paints, which is perfect for what
we need watercolors. Bam, you can use in too. I simply use stamp ink. And I love my calligraphy pain. You could use that too. I've got my trusty little pain
that's lost the strawberry, and I love the fine
liner on this. It feels codd rights. Then I've got a pencil
or an alternative, and I've got some
brushes to work with, and that is literally all you're going to need
for this class. So I get your supplies
and let's get started.
3. Market Research for Your Book: Hello and welcome back. Now we need to talk a little
bit about train tracking. And we're starting
off in a bookstore. Why do we want to track trains? Because that will enable us to understand what people
are actually buying. Because it's kind
of pointless having a wonderful book and
nobody is ready to buy it. Firstly, visit bookstores,
This will give you an idea. For example, this table
is a prominent display of children's books that
people are obviously loving. So if you go to a bookstore, look out for their
special tables and see what they
feature and why. Another good way to do market research is by looking
at base seller lists. Now I'm currently on Amazon. Yeah. You can pick
according to age, but we can also go featured
categories, base sellers. Now this is where we want to be, this is where you have a look at what is actually selling. Well still, you will see that the very hungry caterpillar is normally on a
base seller's list. Which is crazy, because
that book is ancient. So classics are classic, or classics for a reason. Classic stories still sell well. It doesn't have to be shocking. It can be simple and
wholesome and cute. For example, Good Night Moon and Chicka, chicka, boom, boom. These books are so old, and look where they are on
the base seller's list. Still right up there. Another place that
you can check out for base seller lists is
Barnes and Noble. Barnes and Noble. You
can also go and scroll. You will see pretty much
the same type of thing, but you can also look for their base seller
lists over year, there's their kids
books according to age. It's always interesting
to see what is out there and how you can
make your stuff unique. Stand out, don't date the
pigeon, drive the bus. This is a spin off of that book, is a delightful
story and it is as simple years based
books of 2023 so far. So you can go have a look at
all of these lists and get a whole bunch of inspiration
for your own story from. Another great idea is
to go to good reads. Well, I log all of the
books that I read on, which is a lovely
way to keep track of what you've read and what
you still need to read. But you can also
go under Browse, and over here you can
click Children's. And then it will bring
you back to this page. Then you can go even
further and say picture books as a subcategory. And this will give you
some delightful book lists pertaining to picture books. Here is wordless picture books. What again, most requested children's books based books of four new child's library based
picture books, NDE books. There's a whole bunch
of reading lists that you can have a look at
to get some inspiration for your specific story,
blog, book blogs. This is a lovely
little book blog, nothing but picture books. And they literally just
review picture books. There's a whole bunch of
reviews about picture books, so you can see what people
like and what they don't like. Another thing that you
should totally do is to go on social media,
on Instagram, go have a look at
hashtag kiddlet, and also going around
searches for things like children's books and
hashtags like that. That will give you
another idea on what is out there. Lots
of inspiration. And as a bonus, it'll give you some
ideas on what you can post on your socials to
promote your own book. Once you're done with
it, Dream big hey, also follow publishers on Twitter so you can stay up to
date with the latest news. And so you are always
apprised of what's going on in the world of literature. Something that you really
should checke out is the Caldcott and the
Newbery Award winners. Now, the Caldicott stamp label Thingy Thing looks a
little bit like this. You can click here, Download a complete PDF list
of Caldicott Award and Honor books from
1938 until present. And here's the list
after downloads, this is quite a bit of reading, but you can go through
here and if you just have a look at the
most recent winners, that's already going
to give you an idea of what people are liking
and buying right now. Now what you will see when you go through all
of these things, through all of
these websites and through all of these awards and the training books
and the base sellers is there's a whole
bunch of new themes, for example,
inclusivity and nature. And inclusivity is a big one. But again, you will see a whole bunch of classic
books still selling. Well, the Cat Man is out
a very simple concept, so it doesn't have
to be complex. It doesn't have to
be over the top. Now we're on the Newberry
Award winners page, and as you can see,
it gets this stamp. Now over year, you see these little stamp
things on the books. Those are for the
Caldicott winners, that's for the Newberry Awards. And these things give your
book some extra merit. Now, I mean, again,
go through year, have a look at what is happening here and get some inspiration. I hope you're feeling
inspired because I sure am. I can't wait for us to get brainstorming on
our own stories. In the next lesson,
I'll see you there.
4. Unique Story Ideas: Now that you've done
your research for your book and you know what
direction you want to go, we need to talk
about how you come up with unique
story ideas, right? Your story needs to be unique because it needs to stand out. You don't want to be one of many in a sea of
sameness, right? You want to have a
free flow of ideas. You want to come up
with creative ideas. You want to blow your
readers out of the water. You want to have
something that sticks. You don't want some
that is forgettable. So a few books that I've recently really
enjoyed is Flotsam. Flotsam is Flotsam. English is my home language, so I'll mispronounced things from time to time.
Please bear with me. And the book is amazing because it has no words
and it has only pictures. And it's the traveling story of this camera and how it goes
from person to person. So you kind of have to
tell the story either to your children or the child has to make up the story themselves. Another book that I really
enjoyed recently was Circle, And I'll link all of
these in the description below so you can go
find them on Amazon. Really, really lovely book. Circle is really cool because
it is a very simple story, but it has a very
open ended ending, so I don't want to
spoil it for you, but it kind of puts
the ball back in the child's hand so the child can finish the
story for themselves, which is really awesome. And then another
book that I must mention is Interstellar
Cinderella. And that book I just love
because they take it classic. They take the
Cinderella story and they turn it completely
on its head. I mean, it's based
in ****** and it is such a fascinating story
from beginning to end, and the illustrations
are just gorgeous. Now that we've got
a little bit of an idea on books that I love, which books do you love and why? A book needs to be
interactive, right? As far as possible, the child
needs to be involved in the story because this is the child that you're
actually writing for. Now, a few things
that we can do to come up with unique story ideas. The first one, I mean
everyone's done it before. It's a mindmap, you draw a
little circle in the middle. You write your story
name idea thing. And you just start
branching it out, right? Connects to more,
connects to more ideas. Very straightforward,
very simple. Another one that I really
love is word association. How that works is
you start with word. Let's say you want to
do a story about a cat. What word do you connect to? Cat. What word connects to that? For me it's cat, mouse cheese, yellow sun cake, right? Like you can carry on connecting words until you can pick a
few out of there and be like, oh yeah, this will
make a good story. Another thing that you
can do is ask what if questions simply start
with something like, what if the moon was
actually made out of cheese? What if was a little mouse
that lived on the moon? What if this mouse is
actually a robot mouse? What if this robo mouse
came from Earth originally, and he was an
experiment left behind. His creators don't know
that he's been left behind. What if this little
mouse calls home? You can have really lots of
fun with what if questions. And you can go
down a whole bunch of rabbit holes and come up with some really cool
ideas for your storybook. If you just continue
asking what if questions, think of yourself as
a child and do what a child would do another thing. And these are a little
bit more boring, but think back on
personal experience, things that happened
to you as a child, things that you enjoyed
reading when you were little. Things that you can write from
personal experience about. For example, if you're a biker, you can totally
write a story about a little girl who learns
how to bike, right? So write from your
own experience. If you know nothing
about fishing, don't write a book
about fishing. Another thing that you can do is literally scroll Pinterest. And you can have a
look through them. And any pictures like Pinterest,
Board of inspiration, anything that kind
of triggers for you, drop that idea down. So use pictures as inspiration,
even magazine Cooper. Another thing that you can
do is unusual associations. You could use online
random word generator and throw those two things
together and see what happens. For example, matchbox and kite. What do you get? Horse and jellyfish.
What could you get? You don't necessarily need
to make a jellyfish horse. Your horse could, for example,
befriend a jellyfish. What adventures could
they go on together? Or what if the jellyfish
could actually walk on land and people would
ride it like a horse? I mean, that could be a
very interesting story. Unusual connections is
a good one to try out. Another thing that you
can do is a circle tows. Roman Empire was not
built by humans, but it was built by
a bunch of mice. What would that look like
in a historical context? Victorian England was run
by tigers. All right. Do a bit of a historical twist, or what if something
in history didn't happen the way that
we know it happened? What if it happened
in a different way? What if somebody else won? What if the outcome
was different? All right, so play around
with historical twists. Another thing that you could
do is unusual friendships, which we've already
mentioned with the horse and the
jellyfish thing. But you could look
at other things like a lion and a bunny, or what else doesn't
go together. Or like a leopard and a gazelle. They normally
wouldn't be friends. But what would happen if they actually turned
into friends or could your story be about how
they turned into friends? Right, another thing
that you could do is something like what we
spoke with, with Flotsam. Where you take an object and you follow the
journey of that object. So it's not about a person, but it is, or it's
not about characters. The object is kind
of your character, so the characters in
the background change. But your story is
about where this thing travels to and what people do a certain how it
goes on this journey. Right, So now that
we've got a few ideas, I'd like to do a pick
any one of them. Right? And join me for a quick, quick, I'm going
to speed this up. Join me for a quick rainstorm
session and jot down ideas on what you want
your story to be about. For Alan's story,
what I've decided I'm going to do is
a book about ADHD. So we spoke a little bit
with Mark Research about inclusivity being a theme that is doing really
well right now. And I personally have ADHD and it's been,
life has been hard. I've got some coping
mechanisms in place to help me figure things
out and stay on track, but it hasn't been
an easy journey. I will tell you that.
And throughout my life, I felt alone a lot. So I want to kind of
go with that theme for other neurodivergent kids
that feel alone at times, who just need to kind of
find their people, right? So I went with ADHD. I did a quick word connection. So ADHD, attention,
misunderstood, frustrated, forget,
sad, friendless, alone. Emotions control
motivation, tasks, chores, fun, reward,
friends like me. So that is what I did
for my brainstorm. My story needs to
have a beginning, a middle, and an end. So what I think I'm going to do is my beginning is going
to be my little girl, or a thing I might go with, a creature is going to feel
very misunderstood and alone. And then she's going to go
through all of these things because in storybooks we
have the rule of thirds, not the rule of thirds
Goldilocks rule, which means three times she tried the
porridge once twice. It was wrong both
times. And then the third one was just right,
so with the chairs right. So we have try something fail. Try something fail, and the third time, get it just right. That's usually a bit of a foolproof thing to
chuck into a storybook. And you could use it. You don't have to,
but I'm going to. I can't wait to see
what you come up with. So let me know in the
class discussion below. I'd love to see what you're up to see you
in the next class.
5. Choosing the Right Book Format: Welcome back to the class. Now we're going to talk a
little bit about book formats. You have probably
in a bookstore, seen some differently
shaped books, right? We normally have landscape,
portrait and square. Now, what's the difference
in why should you care? Well, let me tell you firstly, let's talk about
the landscape book. Unfortunately, I cannot find any in my collection right now. But this sort of format would work well
for scenic stories. If you want a scene to play
out across the page and it needs to flow and
somebody really needs to be pulled into the landscape, then a landscape format would
be really, really good. It's also a great for action. So if you have lots of movement, people jumping things,
flying, ballet, happening, anything that involves
lots of movement across the page or where the
environment is really important, they would low landscape. Another thing is
this stands out on a bookshelf in the bookshop. When this is on a shelf, it's going to stick out. Let's say all of the other
books are packed like this. This is in the stick out like
a sore thumb which might just have somebody pick
it up That usually wouldn't talk about Portrait. Now, Portrait is the
most well known, familiar format for books. There's a reason
for that. It's a classic and people love it. And people like familiarity, some people like familiarity. This is also if your book or your story
is more characterized. If you are going to zoom in
on your character's feelings, if you really want to focus on what's happening on the face. If you want to close ups, it's also great for if you
have somebody walking, because that fits better than on a landscape where they
would look very alone. If the story is
about your character and not about the landscape. Another one that we need
to talk about is square. Now, square is great, it's also foolproof,
especially little kids. If you're going to
do a board book, a square is pretty much what
you're going to go with. This is great for symmetry, it's good for balance
when you have things that need to even out, things that need to
look aesthetically. Very simple illustrations work really well with
square book two. Also, some parents buy it literally because it's
aesthetically pleasing, because it fits very neatly on a small bookshelf in
their child's room. So those are all
things you kind of consider for my story
since we've discussed. I'm going with HD. I'm going to go with a
little character who goes through this journey and then figures out there's
others like her. I think symmetry is something that's going to
be very important for me. So I think I'm going
to actually go with a square format
for my storybook. Let me know in the glass discussion what
you are going to go with. And I can't wait to see
what you come up with. So you in the next class.
6. Writing Your Story: Hello and welcome back. So now we've
brainstormed your story, we've figured out
the book format. We've done a market research
way at the beginning. And now we're going to
get to the exciting part, actually writing your
story. This is exciting. Firstly, you need to decide
who your target audience is. Are you writing for toddlers? Are you writing for
78 year old kids? Are you writing for
slightly older children? Is your book going to be
read to the child or are you writing a first reader type of book where the child
reads it themselves? Once you figure out
your target audience, I will have that in the document linked in the resources type. A breakdown of all the
ages and what goes into each things that you should consider when
writing for that age group. Now if you know which age
group you're writing for next, you need to figure
out your genre. Are you going to write a
fantasy story? Is it a mystery? Is it a friendship story? Is it an adventure story? What type of story, or genre, or theme are you going for next? After we know that we
need to figure out who our main character is and what the supporting
characters are, if any. The next thing that
you need is a plot. So you need to figure out
where is your story going? So we spoke about the
beginning, middle, and end. What is, how are you going
to introduce your character? And then how are
you going to have this character overcome
some obstacles. There needs to be some conflict. It could be external conflict. For example, a literal mountain
that they have to climb. Or it could be an
internal conflict. Something like shyness
about giving a speech, but then having the courage
to do it anyway, right? So it could be external
or internal conflict. And then you need to
build your action, have it as a rising action, and then have a have the
great aha, wow moment. And after that, you need
to have your resolution. Your resolution is your end. That is where you tie up
all of your loose ends. You make sure that the reader
walks away satisfied and they don't feel
like there's things up in the air are unresolved. Right? Remember to write
in a really simple way. You don't want to use
extremely big words like ambiguous or on a matapio, use small words, but try to use the most correct word
that you can, right? Don't talk down to the children. Do not preach at them
because kids are clever and they will see through it and they will
not like your book. So speak to them on their level. Another thing to consider if
you are writing a character. If you're going with
a human character, your character should be about the same age as
your target audience. Say for example, you're
writing for an eight year old. You would have a
character that's maybe nine or ten years old. Slightly older than your reader themselves because they can associate well with
that character. Whereas if you make it a 15
year old or a two year old, they're going to be
like, I don't care, it's not related to me. Another foolproof thing
that you can do is inanimate objects or little
critter creature things. Or you could even do animals. Humanoid animals are always
a hit in children's books. There's a reason
it's a classic type. Whatever you do, remember that your book should
be child friendly. Exclude things like excess of
gore and general craziness. Aim at, at kids. If you were a kid, would
you want to read that? We're going to get to actually
tasting your idea to, to make sure that it is child friendly and you
don't need to amend it. Another thing that you can use in your writing
is your senses. Write, Sensory experiences
include things that you see, smile, feel, because that also brings
it to life for the child. Now we're going to get to
actually writing our stories. Join me and pause
this video if needed, and I'll see you in
a little bit grand. Okay, that was quite a thing. Okay, I've got my story. I wrote a lot more than I
expected to, but we've got it. My little nelly often
misplaces things and she forgets important dates and was constantly
late for events. I realized as I was writing, this is what we're
getting to now. After you for it in your story, you have to read
through it again. As you're writing.
You'll also pick up some things that you want
to change later, right? You might want to
change some things like the tenses aren't coinciding
or there are detls. For example, she gets angry because she doesn't
want to be this way, but she doesn't
know how to change. I want to rephrase
that a little bit. And then she often
gets sad and alone, and wish she could talk to other blobs about her struggles. One day Nellie goes for a walk
with the dog in the park, but she forgets this
water and she gets upset. So she goes to the car
to go and get his water, but she locks her keys in
the car by accident instead. And then she sits
down and cries. Then another blob comes by. Now, I haven't named
the other blob, I need to name the other blob. And I need to have
this blob help her in some way so she
overcomes this obstacle. Maybe the blob helps her to
open her car or something. I need something there, so she has a win, right? And then this other blob says, so she bubbles out everything. Because ADHD people,
we tend to do that. We just bubble out our life
stories to random strangers. So she does that. And
then the other blob, she expects to run away
or to think she's weird. The other blob is like
me too. I'm a soul. So the blob then
says that there's a meeting of other blobs just like them in
the park right now. See again, Tens is
that I need to fix. And she invites Nellie Worth, and Nee goes and chills
with them at the picnic. And then she realizes
that she is not alone. She is what at our
right here, Nettie did. And realized with a happy
heart that there were others like her,
she wasn't alone. Okay. That's my story. Yes. So now we're going to go through and we're going
to edit all of this. Now after you've edited
your story, and it reads, Will tasted it out
on some frames, tested it out on
some little kids. See if it makes, says, read it to your grandparents
if you need to. And then I'll see you
again in the next class, because then we're going to
start thumbnailing stuff. This is where the
fun really begins. Now, the editing was quite a
process, right, wasn't it? Now, welcome to the
really, really fun part. You will see your
editing is going to look something like this. My whole story changed,
but it's okay. My Nellie turned into Nora, and instead of taking
the dog for a walk, she ended up instead
getting lost, looking for water
for her fluff ball, and so on and so forth. But that's why editing is good, because you can take
your base ideas and you can refine
it very nicely. Now we're going to get
into thumb nailing all of this and
it's going to start to look like a legitimate book. Gago supplies, ready Gago Paint and Piper. And let's do this.
7. Illustration Thumbnails: For this part of the closure, either going to need
a piece of paper or the print out of the
resources for your book, Planning for your thumb nailing or a notebook like I'm using, pen, pencil, whatever you
need to get your stuff done. So now firstly, we need to decide how many pages your
book is going to have. Children's books need
to have something in a multiple of eight because
of the way that they bind it, the envelopes that they
used with binding, it needs to be
816-20-4302 or 40 pages. Now, most children's
books have 32. I'm going to go for 24 on
this book because it is a shortish story and I am writing specifically for
children about six years of age. So it's about coping and
emotions and all of that jazz, so not too many words. Now what I've done
with my story is I've broken it down into what
I want on each page. So you need to kind
of look at what do you want on a
double page spread. And the other thing
that you need to take into consideration
is your pages. So this is going to
be my front cover. Let me just write that
in your front cover. So this is going to
be my front cover. Then I've got pages, which is pretty much in a book. When you open the
book, the back of the front cover is normally
a pretty decorative element, as well as the next page, and then you flip
it over, you have your copyright and you
have your smaller title. Then, only on page 5.6 does your story
actually truly begin. Now we're going to do that, we're going to
thumbnail this in. You literally draw
little rectangles like this to show your
page designations. Then you check your pictures. How are we going
to balance this? So the words and the illustrations
together make sense? My first two pages needs to be, Nora was a little blob
that lived in blob world. I need to introduce Nora. She often misplaced things, forgot important dates, and was constantly late for events. I'm going to go really
simple on this. I think I'm going
to go with Norah, the blob on one side.
Keep it simple. Don't worry about artistic
ability in this stage. And then my other one is
going to be misplaced, things forgot, important dates. So we're going to maybe have
one lone sock over year. And then I might have
a calendar over year. Was constantly late for events. Let's have a little
balloon or something. But now I need to make
sure that I've got enough space for my words. So this is going to be
Nora's little blob. Then, over year I want
to be able to fit in. She constantly misplaced things. She was late for events. She forgot important days, and she was late for events. Now you quickly do the same. Have a look through your words. Have a look through your
story, thumb, oil it in. And then pause this video
quickly if you need to, and I will see you right back. Just like that, I
am done with mine. Are you done with yours?
How's it looking? I've decided to only
go with 24 pages. I've added in just some quick
splotches for my pages. I've got a bit of a mark up
going for my front cover. As you can see, it's
really, really simple. Simple is fine,
because I realized halfway through that I
allocated too many pages. I did not account
for the end pages, so I had to condense
some things. With my planning, make sure
to allow for your end pages. And this is literally
how easy it is. Now our next step, after
we've done our thumb nailing, we kind of know where
things need to go. We know that our words
are going to fit. Now we're going to make our
book mark up, our book dummy. Which is then something that you can take and taste and read to other children and see if your concept for your book is going to work the
way that it should. I will see you in
the next class. I'm excited for this final
lesson. Let's do it. A.
8. Making Your Book Dummy: Welcome to the book mock up, book dummy portion of this class, I'm
excited to have you. This is where it
gets really fun. Now we're going to actually
create our physical book. So what I've done is taken two pages of normal
printer paper. You want to make this as
cheap as you honestly can, because it doesn't have to be expensive to bring
your dreams to life. You take them two together
and you fold it in half. I've made, this is what
we call an envelope. I've made 123 envelopes. Now all I'm going to do
is staple these together, align them nicely, and
we're going to staple them. Super simple. Don't get complicated
with your stapling. It really doesn't
have to be perfect. The idea is just to have something that you
can physically hold in your hands
and show to others. There we go, That's
our little book. Good shot. Now what we're going to do is
quickly and roughly, don't try and aim for perfection quickly and roughly,
with our watercolors, blob in all of our
different things, I'm going to make my Nora
pink, because overall, she is a very loving creature, and she is not usually
in a bad mood. I want to go bigger on this
because putting it on paper will give you an idea of how big you can go with it, right? It'll give you an idea of how much space it's
going to take up. I'm going to just roughly
blob her in over. I should have taken
a bigger brush, because this little brush is
going to take me forever. Cdc There is my quick and
easy Nora Now I want to see, I want to have it, as I want to call my book, neurodivergent Nora But I wanted to come across the
top like those. Let's see if we can
make that work, nor okay, when I do my final
I'll space it out better. But that's not bad,
the idea is there. Then I want to go up and have a, you know, like our thoughts are kind of all over the place. I think that'll work well then at the bottom year I could have by my name, he, my book. I think that works really well. You should think
during this stage, you should also think about
what you're going to use for your final
illustrations in your book. Are you going to go with lot, are you going to go
with watercolor, or are you going
to go traditional, or are you going to go digital? What exactly are you going to do with your artwork
if you're a beginner, if you're not very arty far so you can still illustrate
your own stuff. You can literally go
as simple as this. You do not need to
overcomplicate things. I'm going to just give her
a n, this is too watery. I'm going to give her
a nice open mouth where she's greeting everybody. It's bleeding a little
bit, but that, again, is okay, because this
is just a quick markup. It does not have to be
perfect. That's gorgeous. I think afterwards I'm going to be illustrating
this digitally, and then I'll add some eye highlights and things like that. But this is just so we can get a general idea that
is quite lovely. I love it so far, so I'm going to wait for this to dry,
start on your cover. I will see you back
here in a few seconds. Now, remember once
you're done with this, remember to leave space
open for your end pages. I'll get to mine a
little bit later. Your copyright and title. Page 1.2 3.4 you can
leave open for now, and then you carry
on from page five. Also, keep in mind when you are busy working
over a spread like this, do not put anything important, like words or important part of the illustration in the middle of the page because this is
where it's going to fold, this is where it gets bound. You don't want to go there and you also do not
want to go around the bleed lines or around the
outside edge of your paper. You want to concentrate
your important elements a little bit more
towards the inside. I'm going to put my nearly
the blob over here. This is the part where it
talks about her being. I want to see the color
that I need to use. This is the part
that talks about her being a little blob
that lives in blob world. She often miss places, things for gets important diets and constantly
allowed for events. I'm still going to have her pink because that's just a
little bit frustrating you pretty much your own self
when things like that happen. Let's add her eyes again
quickly. There we go. This is a way to water. There we go. There we go. We can make it look really cute. And then I'm going to
have the sock over here. Also, I have a set color palette that you want to go
for with your book. Limit it to three or
four colors if you can, and try and look for
complimentary colors. For example, I want to go with a bit of a
warm color scheme, but I'm going to add in
some splashes of blue. Just to jazz things
up a little bit, I'll go maybe with
a red sock with blue lines just to make
it pop a little bit more. That's going to be so I'll add
some blue lines to it now. Then the calendar again, I can read along the outside and then maybe a
bit of yellow on the inside. No? Yes. Okay. That will work. Still with my warm color scheme. Can go yellow there. And then with my balloon, maybe yellow on that too. Or maybe add in a bit
of orange to my socks. I'll stick to my
warm color schemes. I've got pink, red, yellow. Let's add in a little
bit of orange there. And then this, we can maybe
add in some orange over there and maybe a little
orange string instead over. Yeah, I like the idea of maybe
incorporating some blue, but I'm not going to
do this on this page. We'll see how it comes out on the later pages get. What I've ended up
doing now is all of my pages are painted, all the rough drafts
are complete, and I quite like how
it's turned out. I'm going to let this
dry and then we will have a final discussion
about what comes after this. So once we have done our book, mock up our book dummy,
what comes after, because you will find
that I figured out, I need to shift this
up a little bit that way or some way because
this doesn't work very well. I need more spicier. So you see all of this stuff as you're busy making
your book dummy. And you can see if the
colors are working, what is working, what isn't. You might change some
words and things still. But this is your book dummy. Done. Good job. You've completed it. I'll see you in the next
class. Well done.
9. Whats Next: Hello and welcome to the
final lesson of the glass. You've done so well. You created your book dummy. I'm so proud of you. Good job. How does the field to
actually hold something that you made in your hand that
you can show to other people, that you can read
to other people? Oath. I'm so happy with how
everybody's things turned out and remember to go and follow me on Instagram
under Ala Design Studio. The link is in the
description for this class so you can go and connect with
me on the socials. It's also on my Skillshare page. Remember to follow
me as a creator. So when I bring out new videos, when I bring out new classes, you'll be able to see those. And you don't have
to miss out on some awesome, cool new content. After this class, I'm also
going to be working on a class on how to turn your book dummy into a physical book that you can hold in your hand. So how to self publish this
book using Canva on KDP. So I'm excited for that. Do all the things, Good job. Remember if you
haven't already done so to upload your video or your photos to the
class project area below. Have a good one. I'll see
you in the next class.
Maché Myburgh, Artist, Writer and Creative Weirdo
