Article
Article · Kathy Temean's Writing and Illustrating
Crafting a Book Dummy
By Leeza Hernandez
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2012
About this lesson
Guest post by illustrator Leeza Hernandez on Kathy Temean's long-running SCBWI-adjacent blog, giving physical construction steps for a 32-page dummy: photocopying spreads, folding and numbering pages, gluing on text, and binding a scored poster-board cover.
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