If you're an illustrator looking for a creative space to help hone ideas and bring character sketches even more alive on the page, this workshop is exactly what you need.
This session with illustrator Viola Wang makes up part of our inaugural online Children's & YA Fiction Festival. Viola will take you through the process of creating a picture book, covering everything from character development to finding your own style and technique, as well as provide the sort of inspiration and advice that will leave you itching to go back to the sketches you're busy developing.
30 minutes will be reserved for a Q&A.
Exclusive Content
All attendees reserving a place at this event also receive free access to An Introduction to Children's Publishing in 2021, a video interview with Alysoun Owen, Editor of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and the Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook. A link to the interview will be circulated by email and will remain available to view for one week.
We are partnering with independent bookshop Bear Hunt Books and attendees will have the opportunity to purchase all festival books directly with them.
Viola Wang is a children's book author and illustrator. Born in China, Viola graduated from Tsinghua University with a major in oil painting. She moved to London in 2004, where she completed masters in animation and illustration while working as a graphic designer. Viola is also a graduate of the Children's Book Illustration MA at Cambridge School of Art, and a winner of the Sebastian Walker Award. She is a lecturer in illustration and has taught at Cambridge School of Art, Kingston University and UCA.
Growing up in a family of printers, Viola developed a profound interest in printmaking, which has been a significant influence on her own practice. She is now working on her own authored/illustrated books with Hodder, Hachette Publishing. Her work focuses on diversity and inclusion and aims to empower children through picture books.
All workshops are available to purchase separately but come as part of our Children's & YA Fiction Festival 2021.
The workshop fee of £30 (inc. VAT) is payable in full online and includes a £5 charitable donation to the National Literacy Trust.
This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date.
All materials used by the author in the workshop session will be available for us to share with attendees at the author's discretion.
If you would like to book three workshops, you can do this at a special combined price of £70. W&A Admin will contact all customers booking at this special price w/c 22nd February to confirm their workshop choices.
