Picture Book Masterclass: Write, Illustrate, and Publish Your Story! 📚
New Class Available Now!
Well by golly, I’ve done it. The one thing I wanted to do in 2025 (besides you know… grow, deliver, feed, and care for a new baby). This week I published my new class, Picture Book Masterclass: Write, Illustrate and Publish Your Children’s Picture Book!
Don’t have a Skillshare subscription, but want to take this class? No problem! You can get 1-month of free membership with the link above!
Why a Masterclass?
Over the past 10 years, I’ve taught 25 Skillshare classes with more than 125,000 students. Two of my earliest Skillshare classes are also my most popular, Picture Books I: Write Your Story and Picture Books II: Illustrate a Story. These two classes were originally created in 2014 and taken by over 14,000 students. They have now been updated, expanded, and combined into Picture Book Masterclass: Write, Illustrate, and Publish Your Story.
I wanted to remake my two most popular online classes because I made them over 10 years ago and a lot has changed since then! Not only are the audio and video quality of those two classes poor compared to today’s standards, but I’ve also learned an enormous amount about bookmaking since then—I’ve published 8 books, with 4 of those published by Scholastic!
This new masterclass has been upgraded, updated, and expanded with everything I’ve learned over that decade of work, including brand-new information on traditional publishing and self-publishing.
Picture books are an unusual art form, combining a unique blend of writing, illustrating, and designing. This class demystifies the entire picture book-making process so you might could make your own!
Through 27 modules, I’ll guide you through the process of molding your jumbled-up story idea into the 32-page picture book structure. Using my picture book, We Are Fungi, as an example, I’ll show you how to do it all:
writing your story idea,
refining your manuscript,
designing your characters,
drawing your storyboards,
crafting a book dummy,
and creating the final art.
Then I’ll show you how to finish your book whether you want to focus on:
Traditional Publishing by submitting your book dummy to publishers, or
Self-Publishing by designing, distributing, and promoting your indie book!
Prefer to read?
As you may or may not know, a version of this masterclass was self-published last year as a printed book called Might Could Make a Book! You can order a copy of the printed book on Amazon or the ebook on Skillshare.
Got your own picture book idea?
I’m really proud of how this masterclass turned out—it’s something I’ve wanted to make for a long time. Making books is one of the most fun, most fulfilling, and most challenging things I’ve ever done. It’s a lifelong passion that never lets go!
So if you have an idea for a picture book (and I bet you do!), this is your kick in the booty to put pen to paper and try and bring that story to life! It’s hard work, but there’s nothing like it.
Thanks for checking out the class and I’ll be back next week with some new sketchbook drawings! :)
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Christine
Ahh! I now know what my first Skillshare class is gonna be this year! 😍