Illustrating My First Children's Picture Book - My Creative Process & Thoughts - Part 2

I was so excited earlier this year when my first children's picture book was published in Australia! As an illustrator it's such a dream come true to illustrate a book and today I'm sharing with my creative process and thoughts for going about illustrating a project like this.
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[@MimimooIllustration]

Hope you guys enjoy taking a sneaky peek behind the scenes of my picture book illustration process! 🌷🖌💕

[@Cinetiste]

It is an instructive pleasure to look at your videos. This is generous of you to share your experience and your way to progress. It also gives us an opportunity to discover your works and your agreeable style. 🙂

[@nthacreative]

Oh thank you sweetheart, I sure did. Was busy illustrating earlier today and thus has sparked some other ideas. Thank you.

[@theswimmingowl]

LOVE seeing your process, Mimi. You are so kind to share this. I also loved your refreshing take on things being relaxed and not needing to have "perfectly drawn hands" or the characters needing to be on every page. lol

[@Belisacortes-on2bo]

thanks 😊

[@WillowRoseArlen]

Amazing getting to see such a detailed look at the process, thank you for sharing with us! Your videos always leave me smiling and optimistic. 🥰

[@itsdaksha]

Oh wow this has been insightful! I love that you're an open book 🌻

[@tylerwolfe4274]

I’m just finishing up my first children’s book illustration and I love what you have to say about energy and pacing! Thanks for sharing this video is super well done and informative!

[@jamieseroogy766]

These two videos have been very helpful - thank you for sharing Mimi! A friend of mine asked if I would be interested to illustrate her to be self published children's book and as an inspiring illustrator I immediately said yes - so now I have to figure out the process/steps and your video is super helpful!

[@prexytheartist]

This is so cool! I love how you made every page cohesive especially those hearts as easter eggs. 💖

[@sungly3007]

Thankk you very much Mimi, it is lovely to see the behind the scene, which is extremely helpful. I love the soft colors you chose and the artworks are beautiful and very lovely to look at. Thank you for all your advice, I rally appreciate it.

[@xeinakingdom]

I love seeing all the concepts and motifs 💕💕🌼!!

[@ncp2103]

Thank you for sharing! I love the colors and layouts that you used

[@sarafeartist]

Thank you so much for sharing the process, it’s super interesting and inspiring! 💕🎨

[@nelkedoet]

Such a great video, thank you for being such an uplifting, inspiring person! 💛

[@rivenharlow]

I adore your use of color and texture.

[@linsaraillustration]

Thanka for sharing, thats really helpful

[@JeniNeji]

You videos are always so nice and informative! Thanks

[@humphrey_bear_MDC]

Good story. Thanks.

[@angelbaby1811]

I’m working on my first picture book and your process is really inspiring. Keep us the great work.

[@YdolemArt]

This video is so useful, thank you so much!!

[@KarliinaAnna]

beautiful book and what an insightful video of your creative process 🤩

[@esthochaiart]

Wow never been this early to anything haha. Love your style and content :)

[@joanabessa8548]

♥️

[@petrap1785]

Beautiful! 😍 So happy for you, you deserve this. ❤ I enjoy so much watching you videos, love your calm voice and wonderful illustrations. You motivated me to start learning to illustrate. Can you give me some advice on useful tutorials for learning digital ilustrationing, especially in Photoshop? (Most of the ilustration tutorials are for Procreate...). Thank you. 🙏

[@SonaliS]

I am a new subscriber to your channel. Immediately loved the vibe of the channel as soon as I came across it today. Also editing is so good here , who edits your videos ??

[@glimpseofsol]

Mimi, you're amazing, the best! I have one question and I'll be very grateful, if you answer. You talk about the book designer. What do you mean by that specifically? I mean, are they doing something necessary to make all the process be finished or just the "final touches" to the file? I will probably be illustrating my first book and I'm afraid that what I do will be not enough for them - the file would be not "fully prepared".

[@eraserheadarts]

How long did you have to complete the illustrations?

[@danilesmes88]

How do you make your Mimi ilustration to move? so cute!!

[@SketcherAmitSharma]

Hllo mimi.. 👍👍👌👌

[@naturejelisabeth]

so lovely 😍 why did you choose to work with photoshop instead of procreate?

[@fuzzydragons]

we were taught in graphic design we were supposed to create the images in photoshop or other digital programs and then put pages together in indesign. seemed like an extra step to me at the time, guess i was right 🤪

[@MimimooIllustration]

If I were putting all of the pages together I would probably do that in InDesign, but since my publisher has their own book designer I can just hand over the illustrations and they put it all together with the text on their end 😊

[@lifeof5498]

Thank you so much for making this video! It's a great insight into the technicalities of illustration and you explained everything so well! And Congratulations on illustrating your first childrens book! I already know a lot of kids are going to love it! I did have a few questions if that's okay. I understand that the Harpers Childrens company gave you the dimensions, resolution, and bleed the pages had to be, but what if you aren't given those instructions? Are the sizes you used the standard for all books, or is there another way to determine that? Also, is it possible to draw pages by hand, and then transfer them to a digital program to color them? If that's the case, then how do you determine things like bleed, height, length and resolution?

[@MimimooIllustration]

So glad you found the video helpful! I always ask for the dimensions required for printing for any project, or if I were self publishing then I would find out what sizes the printers were offering and work to one of those. And yes some artists draw traditionally and then create high quality scans or photos of their work but I've not had any experience with that myself! 😊

[@jennymhulla]

I believe you've said it before, but how did you manage to get this commission?

[@Faramation]

Hello mei I hope you're doing great.... please create a step by step process of creating illustration as you posted on your Instagram and such beautiful character and whole illustration please create a whole video of selection of tools and everything...may be we can buy your course on skill share please please

[@MystiqSoul]

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