Saturday, July 26th at 10: LIVE course! Mastering Your Busy Schedule

Final day to sign up is July 25th! A live workshop with all our instructors best advice on the best tips and tools for illustrators.

Jul 23, 2025

Saturday, July 26th at 10-11 AM Mountain Time

What's In This Workshop?

Gain skills and insights to manage your time and maintain a healthy life-work balance as you level up your children's book publishing career. Perfect for picture book illustrators, graphic novelists, and any creative with a busy roster of clients. In this workshop, you'll learn about creating an efficient workflow, scheduling and maintaining your deadlines, and receive calendar and project management tools, including 5 free downloadables, exclusive to you. Come learn from successful and award-winning authors and illustrators, Jessica Lanan, Heather Brockman Lee, Stan Yan, Lily Williams, and Kaz Windness!
Whether you're a published or pre-published illustrator, this class is for you. Gain skills and tips you'll be using for many successful publishing years to come.

Sign up by the morning of July 25th, 2025 to receive an invite to the 1-hour live BIG BITE course on Saturday, July 26th, 2025 at 11AM Mountain Time.

The recorded class will be available on July 27th.

All the professors in one place!

This class will be taught by all five of our award-winning children’s book authors and illustrators: Stan Yan, Lily Williams, Kaz Windness, Heather Brockman Lee, and Jessica Lanan. Each of them brings years of experience, expertise, trial and error, and many negotiations under their belt to this discussion. Whether it be work logs and spreadsheets, tips on the mental game, or advice on juggling a job with pursuing your passion, our professors have done it all and are here to help!

Meet Your Instructors

Stan Yan is the author and illustrator of the upcoming graphic novel The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang and the picture book There's a Zombie in the Basement. Visit Stan at https://www.stanyan.me/

Lily Williams is an award-winning author and illustrator of nonfiction picture book series, If Animals Disappeared (which includes critically acclaimed titles like If Sharks Disappeared) and Eisner-Nominated Go With The Flow and it's sequel Look On The Bright Side. Visit Lily https://lilywilliamsart.com/

Kaz Windness is an award-winning author and illustrator of over a dozen books including "Bitsy Bat, School Star," "Cat vs. Vac," "Swim, Jim!," "Worm and Caterpillar are Friends," and "Go! Go! Dino!" She has been a professor of illustration for over 12 years and loves inspiring the next generation of writers and illustrators. Visit Kaz at www.WindnessBooks.com

Heather Brockman Lee is an award winning children's book illustrator, a mentor and an illustration professor. You can see her illustration work in The City of Jasmine (words by Nadine Presley, Harper Collins) When You Love a Book (words by Kaz Windness, Flamingo/ PRH) She is Mama (words by Mackenzie Porter, Simon and Schuster) A Poem Grows Inside You (words by Katey Howes, The innovation Press) Hattie Hates Hugs (words by Sarah Hovorka, Beaming Books). Visit Heather at https://www.heatherbrockmanlee.com/

Jessica Lanan is the Sibert honor winning author and illustrator of Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider and The Fisherman and the Whale. She has illustrated over a dozen books and brings 20 years of experience with traditional watercolor technique and on-location travel and nature sketching. Visit Jess at jessicalanan.com

You will be provided with 5 downloadable worksheets/guides to help you plan your projects like a pro.

Learn everything you'll need to know about managing your schedule as a busy illustrator.

Students are raving about our classes!

"This course is amazing! I love the worksheets, the samples, and the way you explain things. I could have listened to it for hours!"
- Orsolya, Children's book Illustrator