Mentoring and critiques for emerging children’s illustrators
Friendly and personalised support for new children’s illustrators looking to gain confidence, strengthen their skills and build their portfolio.
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Designed for early-stage illustrators looking for guidance and support through portfolio reviews and critiques at affordable prices.
This professional development service is to help you get clear in your mind where your strengths lie, what you can build on and what to do next.
Through friendly and helpful one-to-one video sessions, I will help guide you through this early stage in your children’s illustration career.
Typical sessions cover areas such as-
Overview of portfolio of work
Style and consistency
Character design and development
Narrative sequence and emotion
Focus, composition and page layout
Areas you are feeling stuck on
Building your confidence
Finding your artistic voice
Sessions are delivered in partnership with ICAN, combining specialist illustration expertise with ICAN’s extensive children’s industry network.
You do not have to be an ICAN member to book mentoring sessions, although ICAN members will receive a discount for a limited period.
ICAN member receive 10% discount on all mentoring sessions booked by 30th September 2026.
Enter ICAN10 at checkout for your ICAN members discount. ICAN memberships will be verified with the Indie Children’s Author Network..
This is your chance to say yes to yourself. No more self doubt, no more hesitation. Just clear, friendly and most importantly, actionable steps to help progress your children’s illustration career.
Professional development mentoring for new and emerging children’s illustrators.
Designed to support you in building your portfolio and developing your skills as an artist.
Through personalised feedback and practical guidance you will grow your craft through tailored, expert-led one-to-one critique sessions.
When booking please fill in the form to provide me with your details.
I will then email you to arrange your session.
You session will include-
• A pre-call email to discover what area of your work you’re looking for support with.
• A live, structured one-to-one critique call - 30 minutes
• Written feedback summary provided after the session
• Personalised homework and development tasks
• A discount for illustrators booking a series of follow-up sessions
ICAN members receive 10% discount on mentor sessions booked until 1st Sept 2026. Enter code ICAN10 at check out. Your membership will be verified with the Indie Children’s Author Network
Only book this session if you have had a mentoring session previously.
When booking please fill in the form to provide me with your details.
I will then email you to arrange your session.
You session will include-
• A 30 minute one-to-one video call to review your progress from our previous session
• Continued development of your work
• Suggested next steps for you
• Written feedback summary provided after the session
• Personalised homework and development tasks
• A discount for illustrators booking a series of follow-up sessions
ICAN members receive 10% discount on mentor sessions booked until 1st Sept 2026. Enter code ICAN10 at check out. Your membership will be verified with the Indie Children’s Author Network
This is your chance to say yes to yourself. No more self doubt, no more hesitation. Just clear, friendly and most importantly, actionable steps to help progress your children’s illustration career.
Professional development mentoring for new and emerging children’s illustrators.
This affordable bundle of three sessions is for new illustrators who are looking to take their work to the next level by investing in growing their talent.
Designed to support you in building your portfolio and developing your skills as an artist.
Through personalised feedback and practical guidance you will grow your craft through tailored, expert-led one-to-one critique sessions.
When booking please fill in the form to provide me with your details.
I will then email you to arrange your session.
You session will include-
• A pre-call email to discover what area of your work you’re looking for support with.
• Three live, structured one-to-one critique calls - 30 minutes each
• Written feedback summary provided after the session
• Personalised homework and development tasks
• A discount for illustrators booking further follow-up sessions
ICAN members receive 10% discount on mentor sessions booked until 1st Sept 2026. Enter code ICAN10 at check out. Your membership will be verified with the Indie Children’s Author Network
“Stacey is an excellent illustration mentor.
Her tips, advice and observations about my website and portfolio were insightful, positive and practical.
All of this was delivered in a supportive document that I can refer back to easily.
I cannot recommend Stacey highly enough as a highly skilled illustration mentor.
Thank you Stacey!”
Mentee Aimee Stevens