Tomide

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Hi, I’m Tomide, a professional children’s book illustrator, book writer, formatting specialist, and publishing and book promotion expert.

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Hi, I’m Tomide, a professional children’s book illustrator, book writer, formatting specialist, and publishing and book promotion expert. I help authors, entrepreneurs, and publishers turn their ideas and manuscripts into beautifully designed, professionally formatted, and market-ready books.

From engaging children’s book illustrations and creative storytelling to book layout design, paperback and Kindle formatting, Amazon KDP publishing, and strategic book promotion, I provide reliable, end-to-end support tailored to your goals.

Whether you’re publishing your first children’s picture book, preparing a nonfiction manuscript, or looking to increase your book’s visibility, I’m here to make the process smooth and stress-free.

My goal is simple: to bring your vision to life, deliver quality work, and help your book stand out in a competitive marketplace.

Let’s turn your ideas into books readers will love!

  • Joined October 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • Spanish; CastilianAdvanced
  • FrenchAdvanced
  • GermanAdvanced
  • ItalianAdvanced

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services
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Projects · 10

Educational Children's Book Illustration

A premium children's book illustration and creative visual layout project designed for an indie author launching an educational, culturally rich picture book across global print-on-demand networks. The Challenge: The manuscript required a soft, inviting digital watercolor aesthetic that could capture deep emotional nuances and diverse character identities. The technical hurdle was balancing heavily saturated background color fields with light, legible areas specifically optimized for future text wrapping and multi-lingual interior book formatting. My Solution & Execution: Using advanced digital painting tools within Adobe Photoshop and Procreate, I crafted a whimsical, detail-oriented visual narrative: • Inclusive Character Concepting: Structured highly relatable, diverse character models with consistent proportions, vibrant clothing styles, and clear emotional ranges across 24 full-color pages. • Pre-Press Canvas Calibration: Built every scene template with exact bleed setup, safe zones, and trim size specifications matching the precise technical requirements of Amazon KDP and IngramSpark. • Strategic Visual Framing: Used creative framing techniques (like vignetting and asymmetrical white borders) to direct the reader's eye toward key character actions while preserving safe layout space for typography. • Print-Ready Mastering

  • 3D Animator
  • Book Illustrator
  • Children’s Book Illustrator
  • +2
Children's Storybook Illustration

A premium, end-to-end children's storybook illustration and narrative layout project executed for a self-published children's author launching a playful, high-quality picture book on global retail platforms. The Challenge: The author needed a vibrant, friendly art style capable of keeping toddlers and early readers fully engaged. The structural challenge required designing continuous background elements across several double-page spreads while mapping out clear, unobstructed zones for future text placement and interior book formatting. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing professional digital painting applications and vector platforms like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, I managed the creative visual pipeline from initial thumbnail sketches to finalized assets: • Expressive Character Development: Created a memorable cast of characters with exaggerated expressions and distinct silhouettes, ensuring absolute brand consistency from the front cover to the final page. • Strategic Visual Pacing: Designed a dynamic storyboard layout, alternating between tight character close-ups, wide landscape backgrounds, and fun multi-panel sequences to match the rhythmic reading pace of the script. • Flawless Full-Bleed Geometry: Constructed each canvas spread with precise bleed setup, custom margins, and trim size specifications to clear the strict print-on-demand guidelines enforced by Amazon KDP

  • Book Illustrator
  • Children’s Book Illustrator
  • Comic Illustrator
  • +2
Comic Book Design, Panel Layout, & Graphic Typeset

A premium, comprehensive comic book design and technical interior typesetting project executed for an independent graphic novelist launching a multi-page illustrated comic book across print and digital platforms. The Challenge: The manuscript was a highly detailed graphic story featuring dynamic, non-traditional panel layouts, expressive character dialogue, and vivid, action-packed artwork. The core challenge was to structure the panel geometry safely within printing thresholds, manage smooth visual panel-to-panel narrative pacing, and keep dialogue bubbles legible on smaller digital reading devices. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing advanced digital publishing software including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, I developed a rigid, high-end production framework. The comprehensive scope of work included: • Dynamic Panel & Geometry Optimization: Established mathematically exact bleed setup, safe zones, and gutter margins tailored specifically for high-ink graphic page signatures on Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, and global comic print houses. • Graphic Typesetting & Dialogue Lettering: Standardized comic-industry typographic families, manually adjusting word balloon spacing, leading, and tracking. Strategically positioned dynamic sound effect graphics (SFX typography) to flow naturally with character eye-line movements. • Color Profile Calibration (CMYK/RGB)

  • Book Illustrator
  • Children’s Book Illustrator
  • Comic Illustrator
  • +2
Custom Magical Storybook Art

A premium children's book illustration and creative world-building project executed for a self-published author launching a magical, animal-themed picture book across global print-on-demand networks. The Challenge: The manuscript followed a cast of unique animal characters through a vibrant fantasy landscape. The primary creative objective was to make the animals highly expressive with distinct human-like personalities, while technically ensuring the colorful environment layout left perfectly balanced negative space to accommodate future text blocks and interior book formatting. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing advanced digital painting brushes and vector design tools within Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, I mapped out a striking, high-contrast visual landscape from early sketches to finalized assets: • Whimsical Character Design: Built a cohesive cast of talking animal characters, giving each creature distinct facial expressions, clothing textures, and a recognizable silhouette to maintain storytelling continuity. • Dynamic Environmental Storyboarding: Engineered immersive, deep-perspective backgrounds (forests, skies, and magical environments) that utilized strategic gradients to provide a clear, high-contrast backdrop for story text typography wrapping. • Flawless Full-Bleed Geometry

  • 3D Animator
  • 3D Designer
  • Animator
  • +2
KDP Paperback, Hardcover, & Kindle Cover Design

A premium, comprehensive book design and visual branding project executed for a self-published author launching a high-profile title across global retail marketplaces. The Challenge: The author needed a cohesive visual identity that effectively bridged the external book cover artwork with the internal layout aesthetic. The final assets required precise technical optimization to meet the strict production standards of modern print-on-demand networks. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing advanced design suites like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, I developed a striking, genre-specific visual blueprint. The scope of work encompassed: • Exterior Book Cover Design: Engineered a high-impact front cover, back cover, and spine layout tailored exactly to the target audience. Calculated a precise spine width formula based on final page count and paper type (white vs. cream) for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, and Barnes & Noble Press. • Dust Jacket & Hardcover Layout: Designed a full-wrap hardcover jacket layout, including case laminate configurations, flap copy placement, and barcode formatting. • Creative Interior Motifs: Translated the cover's theme into the book's interior by designing custom chapter header graphics, ornamental scene breaks, stylized initial drop caps, and bespoke page dividers. • Digital Assets & Marketing Mockups: Rendered hyper-realistic 3D book mockups

  • 3D Designer
  • Book Cover Designer
  • Content Designer
  • +2
Amazon KDP Book Promotion

A strategic, high-yield Amazon KDP book promotion and digital marketing campaign executed for an independent author looking to launch a new release, rank in competitive categories, and establish a profitable, long-term sales funnel. The Challenge: The author had a beautifully formatted interior layout and a stunning book cover design, but the title lacked market visibility. The primary objective was to drive targeted traffic to the retail page, lower a highly inefficient initial ACoS (Advertising Cost of Sales), and build sustainable organic ranking momentum within the Kindle marketplace. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing advanced Amazon advertising dashboards, marketplace scraping software, and data-driven e-commerce marketing models, I engineered a comprehensive book marketing strategy: • Deep-Dive Competitor & Keyword Research: Extracted hundreds of highly profitable, high-intent buyer keywords, ASINs, and category targets using professional software to maximize indexation. • Amazon PPC Ads Architecture: Structured a multi-layered Amazon PPC advertising matrix, including Auto campaigns for continuous data discovery, manual Exact Match keyword campaigns for scaling search ranking, and Product Targeting campaigns to siphon traffic from bestseller detail pages. • Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

  • Conversion Rate Optimization Expert
  • Digital Marketer
  • Growth Marketer
  • +2
Amazon KDP Book Publishing | eBook & Paperback

A comprehensive, end-to-end self-publishing launch project executed for an independent author, successfully publishing their book asset across all three major formats—Kindle eBook, paperback, and jacketed hardcover—on the Amazon KDP platform. The Challenge: The author had completed their manuscript but required an expert to handle the complex, multi-step technical backend setup, metadata optimization, and formatting validation rules required by Amazon's quality control algorithms to ensure a flawless launch. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing advanced knowledge of the Amazon algorithm and KDP publishing dashboard mechanics, I managed the entire deployment cycle. The scope of work included: • Multi-Format Interior & Cover Optimization: Inspected and validated all files to ensure the print-ready PDFs met exact trim size, bleed, and margin requirements for both paperback and hardcover print-on-demand specs. Adjusted digital layouts for a fully responsive Kindle version. • Advanced KDP Keyword Research: Utilized advanced SEO tools to extract high-search-volume, low-competition backend KDP keywords and phrases to drive organic visibility. • Strategic Category Mapping: Analyzed real-time marketplace data to target the most profitable, highly relevant browse categories to maximize the book's potential to earn a "Best Seller" badge. • SEO Metadata & Blurb Formatting

  • App Store Optimization Specialist
  • Book Illustrator
  • Digital Marketer
  • +2
KDP Print PDF & Kindle EPUB formatting

A premium, comprehensive interior book formatting and advanced literary typesetting project executed for an independent author launching an emotional, full-length memoir across global print-on-demand and digital networks. The Challenge: The manuscript was deeply personal and required a classic, dignified design style that matched the narrative's tone. The technical challenge involved integrating historical family photographs, quote callouts, and complex family tree diagrams smoothly into the text without breaking the rigid baseline grid or causing awkward page overflows in digital formats. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing industry-leading desktop publishing systems like Adobe InDesign, Atticus, and Vellum, I engineered a beautiful, custom typographical architecture. The complete design process included: • Classical Typography Selection: Curated high-end, highly legible serif typefaces specifically engineered for extended narrative reading, meticulously adjusting tracking, leading, and kerning parameters to optimize reader comfort and completely eliminate eye strain. • Bespoke Chapter Openers: Designed elegant, customized chapter title pages featuring elegant initial drop caps, themed graphic dividers, and custom-styled numeral text headers. • Flawless Text Geometry & Cleaning

  • Children’s Book Illustrator
  • Content Designer
  • Graphic Designer
  • +2
Book Interior Layout and Book Formatting

A premium, comprehensive interior book design and architectural typesetting project executed for a self-published author seeking a high-end, retail-grade aesthetic for a major book launch. The Challenge: The manuscript contained complex structural elements, requiring a sophisticated design system that balanced visual beauty with absolute readability. The final assets needed to transition seamlessly into print-ready layouts and flawless, fully accessible digital editions. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing industry-leading publishing suites like Adobe InDesign, Atticus, and Vellum, I engineered a bespoke internal layout structure tailored explicitly to the tone and genre of the book. The meticulous design process included: • Custom Typography Pairing: Curated an elegant selection of premium body text and header fonts, meticulously adjusting kerning, tracking, and leading to maximize reader comfort and prevent eye strain. • Bespoke Chapter Aesthetics: Designed striking, custom chapter title pages featuring ornamental drop caps, stylized thematic chapter header graphics, and matching scene break dividers. • Advanced Text Geometry: Handled advanced typesetting geometry—establishing balanced page margins, precise gutter allocations, and exact trim sizes while correcting uneven line breaks, orphans, windows, and word hyphenations.

  • Children’s Book Illustrator
  • Content Designer
  • Graphic Designer
  • +2
Children's Book Illustration & Character Design

A comprehensive, premium children's book illustration and visual storytelling project executed for a self-published author launching a vibrant, full-color storybook across global print-on-demand networks. The Challenge: The client required a highly engaging, whimsical visual style with relatable, emotionally expressive character models. The primary technical challenge was rendering the artwork across complex full-bleed layouts and double-page spreads, ensuring critical visual storytelling details were kept completely safe from the physical printing gutter and trim lines. My Solution & Execution: Utilizing advanced digital painting and vector suites within Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, I brought the author’s script to life. The full creative and technical scope encompassed: • Bespoke Character Design: Developed unique, memorable protagonist concepts with consistent facial expressions, dynamic poses, and distinct color palettes to maintain narrative continuity across all scenes. • Full-Bleed Composition Strategy: Engineered beautifully composed background environments, leaving mathematically calculated negative space specifically dedicated to future text placement and typography wrapping.

  • Book Cover Designer
  • Book Illustrator
  • Children’s Book Illustrator
  • +2

Work experience

Book Formatting & Publishing Specialist · UpworkAug 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Designed and formatted print books, eBooks, journals, workbooks, magazines, and catalogs for independent authors, publishers, and businesses worldwide. Prepared publication-ready files for platforms including Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Lulu, Barnes & Noble Press, and Draft2Digital. Created professional book interiors using Adobe InDesign, ensuring compliance with industry publishing standards. Designed and optimized layouts for fiction, nonfiction, children's books, memoirs, cookbooks, journals, planners, and educational materials. Converted manuscripts into reflowable and fixed-layout EPUB formats for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, and other digital platforms. Assisted authors with book publishing, file uploads, print specifications, and troubleshooting publishing errors. Developed custom templates, typography systems, and branding elements to enhance readability and user experience. Collaborated with authors, coaches, entrepreneurs, and publishing companies to deliver high-quality, market-ready publications. Successfully completed numerous publishing projects while maintaining excellent client satisfaction and long-term working relationships. Key Skills: • Book Formatting & Layout Design • Adobe InDesign Expert • Amazon KDP Publishing • EPUB & Kindle Formatting • Print & Digital Publishing • Book Interior Design • Journal & Workbook Design • Magazine & Catalog Design • Typography & Page Layout • IngramSpark & Lulu Publishing Tools: Adobe InDesign | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Microsoft Word | Kindle Create | Acrobat Pro

Education

Specialized Coursework: Children’s Book Illustration · Udemy | Continuous Professional Development2023 – 2024

Focused on character design, visual storytelling, and creating age-appropriate color palettes.

Professional Development: Book Formatting & Self-Publishing · Coursera2024 – 2025

Focused on print/eBook layouts, typography, typesetting, and KDP/IngramSpark publishing pipelines.

Certifications and awards

Vector Art Mastery2023 – 2024

Expert-level creation of scalable, clean assets using Adobe Illustrator.

Professional Book Formatting & Publishing Certificate2024 – 2025

Formatting flawless fixed-layout and reflowable EPUBs for digital readers.

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