🎨 Calling all Black-British illustrators! 🎨Join us and our Illustrator in Residence cabbi charles on Thursday 10 October at 7pm for a FREE online workshop! Learn how to craft emotive characters for children's books and connect with fellow creatives 👉🏿 bit.ly/CabbiEvent

Calling all emerging children’s book illustrators!📕🎨 Our mentoring programme will give your craft a final polish and help you launch your career as a fully-fledged children’s book illustrator. (1/3)

Fantastic opportunity for new children's book illustrators with Picture Hooks! Check out the thread below for all the details and get your application in by 28 October!

Applications now open for the Picture Hooks Mentoring Programme! Hone your craft alongside established illustrators, attend masterclasses, meet publishers, & take part in a touring exhibition. 📅 Deadline: midnight, Mon 28 Oct 🎟 £15 entry fee Apply: picturehooks.org.uk/mentoring_prog…

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Polish artist Robert Czajka. Light-hearted graphics with a retro look, primary colours and absorbing detail, from Earthlings: Alien Insights into Earth’s Secrets by Ewa Solarz. Out from ⁦Big Picture Press⁩ on 10 Oct. ⁦⁩⁦Robert Czajka⁩

Check out this fab event tomorrow evening at Waterstones Edinburgh West End, featuring Joseph Coelho and Kate Milner in conversation with Vivian French!

Less than a month to get your entries in for 'What's Inside?'!

Step into a world of wonder! 💫 Our new #StorybookWay exhibition in partnership with @picturehooks is open, featuring enchanting artwork by Amy Steele and a breathtaking mural by #EilidhMuldoon. Visit the Tonic Gallery at the RHCYP and DCN at Little France. #TonicArts

Huge congratulations to Jacqui Mulvagh, unanimous winner of our ‘What’s Inside?’ competition! 🏆 Our judges were drawn in by the storytelling and sense of surprise created here, and loved the fantastic use of body language. Great detail and craftsmanship. Runners-up to come!

A huge well done to Eleanor Lavender, whose illustration pair ‘Squirrel’s Surprise’ was selected as one of the awarded runners-up in our ‘What’s Inside?’ illustration competition! Our judges loved the expressive face and body language here, emotion just bursts from the page!

Congratulations to Rachel Bevan Baker, the second awarded runner-up in our ‘What’s Inside?’ competition! Our judges loves the storytelling here, and the creative reveal in the second panel - as well as the lovely use of detail and colour! Well done Rachel.

Our free webinars are always super popular – so many of you tell us that they're a really helpful resource for you as emerging illustrators. So, we wanted to hear your requests for topics for the ones we'll be running this year! Post what you'd like to learn down below ☺️