Customizabooks Launches The Great Illustrator Kickstarter Project For Kids And Writers

May 17, 2013 By | Leave a Comment
The Great Illustrator Kickstarter Project

Customizabooks Launches The Great Illustrator Kickstarter Project For Kids And Writers   The Great Illustrator Kickstarter Project is well on its way to achieving funding goals! Create your own children's book app using amazing illustrators and one-of-a-kind children's customizable book app from Customizabooks. Customizabooks LLC today announced that it has launched a Kickstarter project called The Great Illustrator Project. The Great Illustrator Project features a group of 42 of the best children's illustrators, who will create artwork for the upcoming Blackfish Story Creator App. I'm thrilled to be a featured illustrator in the  { Turn the page … }

Create Your Own Children’s Book App: The Great Illustrators Project

May 13, 2013 By | Leave a Comment
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Create Your Own Children's Book App: The Great Illustrators Project I’m excited to tell you about one of the most inventive new ways to create your own Children’s Book App through The Great Illustrators Project! Blackfish Children’s Books (BCB) has created more than a digital platform. It’s a storytelling experience! Push a button and watch the graphics, text, narration, sounds, music and animations come to life. All the features are customizable, so adults and children can easily transform each page with different characters, illustrations and text. Using their Customizabooks engine, BCB works with authors, illustrators and  { Turn the page … }

Children’s Picture Book – I Want Cake!

February 17, 2013 By | Leave a Comment
Children's Picture Book: The Miss-Adventures of YaYa and Leen

Children's Picture Book: I Want Cake! ~ The Miss-Adventures of YaYa and Leen After months of creating and illustrating, I’m almost ready to launch my new children’s picture book! My first book, Sunbelievable, took several years to produce, but I Want Cake! emerged in under 1 year. Why so much less time? With Sunbelievable, I had to learn not just how to write a children’s book, but how to illustrate, produce, publish and promote. As a first-time, independently published author/illustrator, every task demands new knowledge and skills. I quickly became the master of mistakes—ones I shared in a guest article written for a  { Turn the page … }

6 Tips for Creating Digital Illustrations

December 26, 2012 By | 2 Comments
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Wondering How to Create Your Own Illustrations? With a few technical tools, you can create illustrations for picture books, social media banners, blog posts, and much more! Use your own photographs to construct your own, one-of-a-kind images. Take the image on the left, for example. Change colors, shapes and size. Give it a twirl. Blend with other objects for a digital art montage. The possibilities are endless!   I began making picture books several years ago. Using Photoshop’s digital image editing software, I learned simple techniques at first. I read lots of how-to books, watched online tutorials and experimented with digital  { Turn the page … }

New Customizable Children’s Book Apps!

November 29, 2012 By | Leave a Comment
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Easily Create Your Own Children's Book App Features - Choose an App and Customize It! * Want to add your own features to a children's book app? Select your own music? Narrate with your own voice and language? Even add special names and characters to delight young readers? * Easily customize children's book apps on your favorite mobile devices! * Sound interesting? Read on . . . One-of-a-kind customizable technology is now at your fingertips! Bring new levels of  fun and learning to your young readers' experience. I've been lucky enough to team up with Blackfish Children's Books and Customizabooks - a pioneer in developing innovative  { Turn the page … }

Children’s Book Illustrating – Killer Simple Award-Winning Ideas for Authors

August 24, 2012 By | 10 Comments
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Ever wonder how to make a children's picture book without hiring an expensive illustrator? In the past year, my first picture book, Sunbelievable, earned 6 top awards for story and illustrations. No one is more surprised than I am! Why? Because I have no formal art instruction/training. None! So how did this happen? And can it happen for you? Absolutely! I learned - and always am learning - how to create digital art using Photoshop. It started as a hobby. Like a typical grandma, I took thousands of photos of the new kids. Then I started making little picture books for them using online photo book company software. I wrote short stories to  { Turn the page … }