First picture book workshop experience
English日本語 This week, I attended the first of the 10 ahiru picture book workshop held at Nijino Picture book store in Tokyo. Face to face class of 14th term consisted of 5 students, 1 past student (who can join a class or two) and the instructor who has edited award...
Joining Ahiru Picture Book Workshop
I was accepted into Ahiru Picture Book Workshop’s 14th term which will start next week! What is Ahiru Picture Book Workshop? It’s a workshop for picture book creators to think about picture books and work from concept to making a picture book with fellow...
My bilingual picture books are available in store!
English日本語 From April 5th 2025, a range of my bilingual and trilingual picture books including stories about Pigeons, sushi making white cat, avocado and tomato’s adventures are available from a cute little toy store called Regenbogen in The South Park, in...
Revisiting Picture Book illustration for Pigeon, 鳩, Tauben
English日本語 In 2023, I created a trilingual picture book titled Pigeon, 鳩, Tauben in English, Japanese, and German. I used Procreate to digitally illustrate each page after sketching pigeons by hand. Since then, I’ve shared the book with two publishers and several...
Artist-highlight-Miura-Taro
English日本語 As part of my “36 goals in 2025 to become a picture book author”, one of the goals is to “Research ‘the winning formula’ (i.e. research picture book authors that I admire and their path)”. In this post, I’ll highlight one of the...Announcement – Yukari Wilson picture book will be available in store! 店舗での絵本販売が決定しました！
English日本語 Announcement!From April 5th 2025, my picture books will be available from Rainbow toystore, Regenbogen, in Chiba prefecture in Japan! Regenbogen, meaning rainbow in German has been operating since 2023 and focuses on European wooden toys and handmade items...
36 goals in 2025 to become a picture book author | 絵本作家の夢に近づくための36の目標
English日本語 I have wanted to become a published picture book author for as long as I can remember yet I thought it was an attainable dream. During my twenties, I didn’t even think it’ll happen and I stopped making picture books. However, since I...
Research for writing picture books for 5 years old
Since my first nephew was born nearly 5 years ago, I have been making a trilingual picture book for them every birthday. It started with “Avocado and Tomato” picture book because I had something that I wanted to share with my nephew (and many other mixed...
Highlights and inspirations from 2024 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrator’s Exhibition
17,500 Illustrations were submitted by 3,520 participants from 81 countries and regions in 2023 for 58th Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrator’s Exhibition (‘the BCBF exhibition’ from now on). 344 finalists were narrowed down and 79 artists...About Yukari
Dreaming of becoming a cardmaker and illustrator, Yukari Wilson is a digital marketer by day who indulges in drawing and painting any other time. Find out more about Yukari.