How to Create a Children's Book Storyboard • CANVA • Free!!
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Published 2021-11-24
This video is about making a STORYBOARD TEMPLATE or an OUTLINE for your children's book illustrator to follow. Use this as a tool, Please do not attempt to use Canva to create a final print book project (Uploading a book made with two page spreads will not work on KDP/Amazon platforms.) Also, some Canva features shown in this video are now only available in the Pro version.
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You've finished the manuscript to your children's book. Time to get illustrations done! Before your illustrator jumps into the project, create a storyboard template for them. This will help them understand your story and how their illustrations will interact with the text.
0:00 - Intro
01:21 - Canva Pro vs Free
01:49 - Creating a New Storyboard Document
03:26 - The Importance of "Bleeds"
04:41 - Creating a Dividing Line
05:32 - The Purpose of the Storyboard
05:42 - Adding a Backdrop Color
05:58 - Ordering Objects (Front/Back)
06:13 - Adding a Text Box
06:50 - Adding Clip Art or Images
07:12 - Changing the Color of an Object
08:51 - Copying Objects to a New Page
09:20 - Creating a Two-Page Spread Illustration
09:45 - Composition Tips
10:32 - Duplicating and Moving a Page
10:53 - How to Delete a Page
11:49 - Hotkey for Ordering Objects Front to Back
12:09 - Downloading the File as a PDF
12:45 - Shareable Links for Viewing or Editing
13:07 - Viewing the PDF with Acrobat
13:19 - Explanation of Crop and Bleed Marks
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All Comments (21)
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I'm in the process of writing my first children's book to showcase children on the autism spectrum. I really appreciate this video as I will be self-publishing and don't want to make this first iteration overly complicated and ensure the focus is on the learning and the illustrations to support that. Thank you so much for this video as it was so easy to follow along with you using my canva account!
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Thank you so much for amazing content sharing
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I'm so glad you made this video. It was so helpful. No one shows you exactly how a book can be made and you did. I'm glad to have a starting point in this process
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Thanks, Becky! This is so helpful in understanding how I make fully illustrated pages. I love your kind explanation.
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Thanks for sharing, this is amazing!
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This was very helpful. I’m in the process of trying to design a children’s book for the first time. Perfect ‼️
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Ma'am it's great. Thank you so much 🥰
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Perfect. Thanks!
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I appreciate this thank you so much Becky. God bless you!
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thank you so much, I've been searching desperately to know how to make the spread interior, watched like 15 videos and no one was helpful. and finally i found your video. Miliion thanks.
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This was an awesome video! You made it look so easy and you inspired me to write my first children’s book!!! Thank you so much!
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Yes, Ma'am, this is one of THE BEST videos I have come across, by far!! A MILLION THANKS TO YOU for providing this very necessary information!! I, too, am working on My 1st Children's Book and had no idea of how and where to start. Thank you for being such a blessing to us all!! 💕🤗 💯
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I’m like I’m bout to subscribe. I was already subscribed. You don’t know how much you’ve helped me. Clefto the mouse in how to be safe can finally come true
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Great video Becky using the step-by-step guidance, really helpful. Thank you.
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Thank you so much , I wrote stories for my grandson and wanted them in a book form , with your video , I think I can do it myself .. thank you so much
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Nice job, this was so clear. You made this so easy for me to understand. 👏
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Huge help for my finals project, thank you 🙏🏽
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Without a doubt, this is one of the most helpful videos I have come across. I hope to work with you in future if my books take off 🙂
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Amazing amazing
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This was so helpful!!!
