Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
Submit Your Story
A course by Kayla Stark , Illustrator
About the video: Submit Your Story
Overview
“I’ll show you where and how to find submission guidelines and contact info online for pitching your book idea or querying an agent. ”
In this video lesson Kayla Stark addresses the topic: Submit Your Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration. Find your artistic style by exploring various combinations of materials, mediums, and techniques to create special illustrations for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“Submit Your Story We have a consistent set of illustrations. In this lesson, I'll show you how to pitch your idea to a publisher or agent. In this lesson, I'll give you some tips on how to submit your work and things to think about when submitting your manuscript to publishers or agents. I hope you have everything ready. From the last lesson, you have your manuscript, illustration samples, loose sketches, if the publisher or agent wants to see more, and characters sheets. Once you have all of those ready put them in a PDF... or a zipped folder. Remember to back up your files. I will go over...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

Kayla Stark
A course by Kayla Stark
Kayla Stark is an illustrator from Tennessee, USA, who has been in love with drawing for as long as she can remember. She believes in using your own individual perspective on the world and using it to create illustrations with a unique perspective. She studied Graphic Design at university and worked in a number of graphic design roles after graduating before pursuing her first love: illustration.
Since becoming a full-time freelance illustrator, working both digitally and traditionally across projects. Kayla has illustrated several books, including an interactive board book she wrote, Friends at the Firehouse, and her work has appeared in magazines and on posters. As well as this, Kayla sells her art prints online. Inspired by fellow illustrators, graphic designers and other creatives in her area, Kayla co-founded a working studio The Warren in Nashville, home to workshops, gallery shows, and other community events.
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