Character Tic-Tac-Toe: Drawing Characters’ Actions and Expressions

Bring life and clarity to your character illustrations to let your stories shine. In this BIG BITE course, Stan Yan explores the expressive work of masters in the kidlit illustration field, and helps you deconstruct actions and emotions into their base components so you can build your characters back up in your own style and media via a hands-on workshop using deconstructive methodology based on game play.

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• By Stan Yan

Designing & Illustrating Covers with Kaz Windness and Jessica Lanan

Fast Track Your Children's Publishing Career, a BIG BITE Workshop for Writers or Illustrators

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• By Jessica Lanan

Discussion: Caricatures for Kidlit

Discussion with Dustin Resch (Professor Spike) and Stan Yan

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• By Stan Yan

Drawing Diversity

Building your portfolios and character designs with respect to reflect the world around us

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• By Stan Yan

EARLY READERS

Fast Track Your Children's Publishing Career, a BIG BITE Workshop for Writers or Illustrators

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• By Kaz Windness

Graphic Novel Boot Camp

A four week intensive course focusing on graphic novel creation process

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• By Stan Yan

HOOK! PLOT! PITCH!

Break Into Trade Publishing, a BIG BITE Workshop for Writers and Writer-Illustrators

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• By Kaz Windness

Heather Cuddle Coaching

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• By Heather Brockman-Lee

Mixed Media to Spark Your Creativity and Level Up Your Style

Learn new techniques to spark your creativity and help you stand out in the competitive world of Children's Illustration

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• By Heather Brockman-Lee

Storyboard for Kidlit

Make a Children's Book Dummy for Submission and Publication

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• By Kaz Windness

The Art of Critique

This 45-minute lecture is a behind-the-scenes look at the most crucial creative skill of them all: Critique.

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• By Lily Williams