Article · Diana McDermott
How I Illustrated a Children's Book from Start to Finish (Using Procreate + KDP)
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
A nine-step account of illustrating a self-published children's book entirely in Procreate, covering thumbnail templates sized to the book's trim ratio, managing Procreate's layer limits by splitting canvases, and converting RGB art to CMYK for print-ready Amazon KDP files.
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