Your consultation questionnaire template looks really useful. I'm a freelance illustrator for board and card games, but I've been approached a handful of times about children's book illustration and I've always been a bit too overwhelmed about how much work that would be, honestly. I would have this arbitrary list of questions in my head for the client about their project, but just letting them look over this questionnaire would be SO much more helpful for them and for me! Thank you!!!

Thank you for this video😊. I am Mathematics professor but now i want to change my career as a illustrator, i am always want to change my passion of drawing into profession. Your video motivate me a lot, i hope so i will publish my own children book.

Always a joy to watch your videos! Now, I've never done a children's book, but I've done loads of art for clients and many of your suggestions help in a lot of creative worlds. And I learned the heard way sometimes - if you make an expensive mistake once, you tend to remember it next time, haha! I think the two most valuable things I insist on now are two you brought up as well - communicate up front, get clear direction and set expectations, etc... and then stick to your boundaries. I have done loads of patent illustrations for attorneys and something that would happen is that the patent design might change, and the illustrator (me!) would need to modify a stack of drawings to reflect the change. So I learned I needed to let my clients know I would work from the information I was given, and if I had already completed the work and the drawings needed to be changed, there was going to be a charge for that. (it's amazing how quickly attorneys learn to check their information before giving it to me now! Haha!) I think I'd love to write a book, but maybe not a children's book - I might scare little kids 🤪 But some sort of illustrated book might be lots of fun! Thanks for the insight into the back end of this profession... it's valuable information!

Thank you for this video! Your kind advice and professional perspective mean a lot. I learned a lot and cannot wait to see more videos of yours in the future!

Saving this video for the future in case I get requests to illustrate children's book again :D My main takeaway is probably setting boundaries. Since I like drawing, and most the time I draw for free anyway, I never gave much thought about time and effort, and getting compensated for those in change orders. Probably because I never thought of seeing this from the business point of view. So thank you for that tip!~ I noticed also that you're close to hitting 1k subscribers!!!! Things are getting exciting Chika!!!!!! What are you gonna do when you get 1k subscriber? Live stream? Sing a song while playing ukulele? Or are you gonna create a character named 1k-Man (like One-Punch Man)? Just kidding! Can't wait ^^

Thank you! This was so thorough and helpful!

This was very insightful! The advice about having personal projects was really good and being a illustrator that draws their own stories.

I think this will be the video that gets you to 1000 subscribers! Or at least this will be the last week under 1k lol It's been great watching you grow so quickly over the last few weeks!

Interesting video Chika, i like your art style, i've never tried drawing a children's book, but i draw anime style characters sometimes