Hi
I’ve been hired to illustrate my first kids book. I plan on working both traditionally in acrylic and digitally with procreate. We are going with 8”x10” book, so double spread pages will be 8”x20”. Should I work on acrylic friendly paper that is 8”x20” or go a bit bigger to make room for bleed? What size and type of paper do you suggest? Or does it even matter if I’m just going to upload to my iPad and can customize the size in there?

@Melissa-Bailey-0
Thank you so much for all this incredible information. It all seems so overwhelming right now but it’s been a dream of mine so I’ll work one step at a time. I’m sure I’ll be posting more questions as I go.

@Melissa-Bailey-0
Thank you so much for all this incredible information. It all seems so overwhelming right now but it’s been a dream of mine so I’ll work one step at a time. I’m sure I’ll be posting more questions as I go.

Hi
I’ve been hired to illustrate my first kids book. I plan on working both traditionally in acrylic and digitally with procreate. We are going with 8”x10” book, so double spread pages will be 8”x20”. Should I work on acrylic friendly paper that is 8”x20” or go a bit bigger to make room for bleed? What size and type of paper do you suggest? Or does it even matter if I’m just going to upload to my iPad and can customize the size in there?