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As of August 2020 I have released my very own illustrated book out into the world: Sketchy Adventures Around The World Volume 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book is a collection of my ink and watercolour illustrations from the last 3 years of my travels around the world. There are over 130 illustrations from 15 countries across 4 different continents contained within this 60 page PDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me a number of months to put the book together. Luckily I had many aspects ready (such as hi-resolution scans of my illustrations already edited) and some notes from various trips I could edit down and add in. I also have previous experience using Adobe software and a reasonable grasp on graphic design principles. Oh, and I had the time too. Because, Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these things meant that what could have taken 6 months or even a year to put together took me about 2 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s quite hard to find any specific information on putting a book like this together. Whenever I searched for information on how to make an illustrated ebook, all of the results were related to children’s books and formatting them for Kindle or e-readers. It wasn’t quite the guidance I was looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I figured it out myself and I decided there may be some other people out there who could do with a bit of guidance too. For those of you out there who have a body of work and are keen to put your own ebook together then I really hope this post can help you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I cannot go into step by step details of how to use either Photoshop or InDesign, I will do my best to explain the overall process so that you can delver further into using these programmes if you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am going to focus on the book becoming an ebook, and more specifically a PDF ebook. However, if you wish to print your book I would encourage you to speak to a printer first who offers these services to find out what the requirements are in terms of size, number of pages etc so that you can set your book up correctly from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been toying with the idea of making this book into a Kindle format in order to sell via Amazon. I’m not quite sure if this will work or give me any decent kind of profit margin. This is the main reason I decided on the route of making this book a PDF and selling it directly myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we move on, let me just say, this is my process and what made sense to me. Generally there are many ways to skin a cat…so you may you have a better way to do things, and that’s fine…although, if you do, please let me know too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools & Materials Required <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to turn your sketches into an ebook you will need the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n