Children's Book Coaching & AI Illustration Blog | Story Quest

People often assume illustrating a children's book is mostly about being able to draw well. After more than a decade of doing this — first entirely by hand in Photoshop, and more recently with AI as part of my process at Story Quest — I can tell you that's only the beginning of it. Illustrating a children's book is a completely different craft than illustrating a single beautiful image, and almost nobody tells you that before you start. If you're a self-publishing author thinking about illustrating your own book, here's what I actually learned, not the polished version.