Make Your Splashes; Make Your Marks!
- Four modules, 23 comprehensive sessions!
Make Your Splashes; Make Your Marks teaches how to incorporate good drawing, composition and color into your children’s book illustrations. Fun home study modules guide you in the basics of building your pictures up from small gestural thumbnails into full scale paintings.
Written and taught by author-illustrator Mark Mitchell, Marks and Splashes includes video and written lessons, monthly group critiques, an online community/resource sharing site and interviews with professional illustrators.

- Module 2 – “Power Color”

- Module 4 – “Finding Your Place (In the Marketplace)”
Covers shown are for graphic presentation purposes only. Videos and written content come to you as instant digital downloads. Read more about the “Marks and Splashes” course.
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Pullouts from the ‘big course.’
Power Color - Teaches the secret of unlocking beautiful color in every scene you paint. Now available as a stand-alone course. Click here for details.
Dauntless Design – or How to enchant your scene’s rectangle is also available as a stand alone short course. For more information, e-mail Mark@HowToBeAChildrensBookIllustrator.com




