Illustrating Children's Books Online Art Course

All our courses are written to be your comprehensive guide into each of their subject matters. We understand that students appreciate clarification about various aspects of their work from a course tutor, whom provide reassurance that techniques are put into practice effectively. 

Each courses has its own dedicated Tutor. The tutor keeps the course up to date and relevant to today's students. They are available to the individual student for advice and encouragement. Each course has regular exercises and assignments that are constructed in such a way as to give the student the opportunity to practice the techniques learnt on the course and to test themselves as they go along. Students are encouraged to submit the assignment work to the college for the tutor to critique.

Coursework can be submitted online, as digital photographs, in your individual art room account and the tutor will upload their critique for you to download and retain forever.

 On many courses the assignment work may be suitable for inclusion in a student's Portfolio of Work that could be very useful later. The college will use the assignments submitted as the basis for your award of a diploma.

On successful completion of this course you will have studied new skills and gained knowledge for your own enjoyment and development.

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Below are a few images from the course.

I really enjoyed studying this course I found the subjects interesting and felt it taught me different skills. My tutor was also amazing when it came to feedback that helped me improve my skills.

I loved this course. I already work in an artistic field but am looking to develop a career in children's book illustration, so this course was perfect. It really stretched my imagination.

I have recently completed the Illustrating Children's Books Course and gained a Merit Diploma. I found the course extremely interesting and Maggy's feedback was quick and very constructive and made me think about my artwork differently as well as giving me more confidence in my approach to each assignment, loved every moment of my journey through the course, especially assignment five.

I really enjoyed the course and found Maggy's detailed critiques of immense benefit and will continue to refer to them long into the future.

I thank London Art College and my tutor Maggy for a course that help me to use other techniques and skills to produce a good children's book.

This was a worthwhile course for me. I learned a great deal and feel ready to apply for work with publishers.

An absolutely wonderful course from start to finish. I feel my skills have improved massively from the challenging and rewarding assignments. Maggy's feedback was really helpful, and I now feel much for confident in my art.

I really Loved this course curriculum and learned a lot from this course. It really helped me improve a lot on my skills, as well as my thinking processes.

Having completed this final assignment, I have looked back over the journey. There is a lot of useful information in the study units and I’ll continue to look back over the course material because I’m sure that I can continue to learn from it. I have learned to persevere with a task and not to accept my initial efforts as the limit of my ability. I have shown myself that when I think I can’t draw… a person… a cow… a tortoise…etc, that it is possible if I do the required research. There is no room for laziness! Colour schemes work best when selected carefully to reflect the mood of the story. Composition is important and needs planning. I know that when I get sloppy or careless I regret it afterwards because that is when I make marks that don’t sit well in the image. I feel quite positive about the improvements that I can make in my illustration skills in the future and I think that I can continue to try different things to develop my own style. Thank you for your support and your valued comments.

I have enjoyed this course and I believe my artistic skills have improved due to Maggie Robert’s detailed feedback.

I have had a lot of experience with courses, exams, programmes etc in various fields and I found Maggys feedback to be exceptional. It was very fast, full, really helpful. Thanks so much for that.

Thank you for helping students in remote areas through the digital services you offer. It gave me the opportunity to develop my skills as an artist.

Maggie was great at helping me understand the course and the assignments at hand, giving me advice on what to improve on, super happy with her.

The college does not provide materials with its courses as most students can obtain what they will need locally at lower cost.

For this course we suggest the following rough guide to the materials you will need :

• A range of Graphite pencil 2B – 6B 
• Soft eraser or putty eraser
• Marker pens 
• Cheap sketchbook for practicing mark making
• Dip pen and ink (waterproof for use with washes and water soluble for use alone) and more detail on pens on page 34 of the course materials.
• Pad of cartridge paper - try different types for different media
  
• Water colour paints in half pans
  
• Brushes
  
• Board
• Watercolour paper - a Not surface to begin with and then experiment with Hot pressed and a Rough surface
• Other materials may be suggested to you individually as the course progresses.

The course can be completed using digital media if preferred.  There is one assignment which required watercolour.

Maggy's recommended reading material  -

Children's Picture books: The Art of Visual Storytelling
Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles
ISBN-13: 9781856697385
This can be purchased online and we have added two links below of the book on Amazon. 

Amazon UK
Amazon USA