Aining Wen
📖 Children's Books
🎄 Little Music Forest Series
🎨 Illustrations
🌟 Sketches
About & Contact Aining Wen
Aining brings deep passion and extensive practical experience to the creation of picture books, continuously exploring and innovating in the field. How to Make Picture Books? is a comprehensive guide designed especially for beginners, offering clear guidance to those who dream of creating picture books but are unsure where to start.
The book contains 200,000 words and over 600 illustrations and reference materials, covering a wide range of topics including material gathering, story writing, book structure, character design, text-image interplay, storyboarding, illustration techniques, media usage, art style selection, graphic design, multimedia interaction, and the future of AI in picture books. Drawing on more than a decade of experience producing over twenty picture books, Aining combines practical insight with theoretical understanding.
Each section also features in-depth interviews with twenty-nine leading illustrators, writers, and editors from around the world, ensuring that the book is comprehensive, academically rigorous, and immediately applicable. It establishes a complete methodology for aspiring picture book creators, guiding them from capturing inspiration to realizing fully developed projects.
How to Make Picture Books? has been included in reference lists at numerous art colleges for picture book majors and has become an important teaching resource, nurturing a new generation of children’s book creators globally.
Rights
World rights available excluding Simplified Chinese.
All rights held by Aining Wen.
Publishers and agents are welcome to inquire for international editions.