Hello everyone :)) My name is Mariona, I’m 22 and I live in Spain. I’m currently studying illustration, almost finishing year 2 out of 3!
Year 1 and 2 have been about the fundamentals & learning different techniques. Next year I’ll see how it’s like to work as an illustrator, because the teachers will pretend to be clients with a brief! I’m excited for that.
I’m also considering the children’s book illustrator course, if anyone has done it please do tell me about it!
I have a Carrd & an Instagram, but soon I’ll have a web like most of you, I mean it just looks so much more professional!
yamiyume.carrd.co
@yamiyumeart
I look forward to meeting you! I’ve been wanting to be in an art community for a while, but I never took the leap until I found this :))
https://merionsart.carrd.co/
@merionsart_
Hello. Welcome here
Welcome! Glad you are here with us 
Welcome Mariona!
thank you everyone <33
Hi and welcome!
I did ChildrensbookPro in Fall 2022. What do you want to know?
They always have live Q&A-Sessions on Youtube beforehand. F.e. tomorrow there will be one, and you can also watch them later on.
I can highly recommend CBPro! When I booked it I thought "Hm, I already know SO much about picture books, I guess they will only add 20% to my 80% knowledge", but man was I wrong! It was more like "I knew 20% and had additional 80% to learn". 
It's self learning, so getting feedback from one of the four tutors is rather rare. They have a weekly zoom meeting with the attendees, in which two of them answer questions and give feedback to work that was posted in the discord channel. You can heighten the chances by submitting homework stuff every week and keep the pace up.
Most participants don't post anything anyways. In my course we were somewhat 80-90 participants, but only up to 15 were active and posting things.
So if you keep up with the schedule until the very end you will be one out of... I guess three.
But it shouldn't be the feedback of the tutors that makes you attend.
The 15 active participants in my course gave feedback to each other, so you yourself should also be willing to give feedback to others.
CBPro is also there to find your own critique group. Sadly in my course I didn't find people with whom the contact lasted longer than 6 months or so.
BUT there is also another discord channel called "CBPro alumni" and all participants of any CBPro course can enter, if they want. I found two friends there, whith whom I met during Bologna Bookfair this year. 
@MimiHecher Thank you for sharing your experience. I know this is not a thread dedicated to it but if you don't mind if I ask: was the course for picture books only or also for other types of illustrated children books (like chapter books or middle grade).
I can't join this time, hopefully in the fall or next year or whenever it will open next time.
@evka8D In my opinion it's 95% for picture books. Of course you CAN use a lot of the information about visual storytelling, character design and so on also for chapter books and middle grade, but as the training material one gets - three picture book stories - is clearly for picture books and all homework assignments are about how to turn one of those stories into a picture book... it's clear that if you have no intent to ever illustrate a picture book, it is the wrong course for you.
They are once in a while on the podcast talking about making a (shorter) course about cover design which might be geared towars chapter books and middle grade. I assume this would be a better fit then.
@MimiHecher Thank you for your answer. ai actually decided to take the course and I am enjoying it so far.
@MimiHecher Thank you for sharing your experience. I know this is not a thread dedicated to it but if you don't mind if I ask: was the course for picture books only or also for other types of illustrated children books (like chapter books or middle grade).
I can't join this time, hopefully in the fall or next year or whenever it will open next time.
