Sign up for our career-changing course, Illustrating Children’s Books, right now and save up to 40% in our big Spring Sale! Imagine getting an email from an art director saying that they adore your art and would love to work with you … Imagine spending months creating winning characters and dreamy worlds for children (and adults) to fall in love with – and getting paid $$$ for it … Imagine getting a package in the mail and opening it up to find proof copies of your very own picture book, illustrated and/or written by you … Children’s books are a HUGE market for your art and one that many illustrators dream of breaking into. And no wonder – even in our increasingly digital world, nothing quite beats the feeling of curling up with a beautifully written and illustrated book. If you want a successful – and lucrative – career in

Our students get fabulous jobs, and we wanted to show you some more of them. We already shared one batch a couple of weeks ago, and today we’re sharing even more real-life stories from artists just like you. Bron Alexander Make Art That Sells student Bron landed a great job creating packaging for one of New Zealand’s most well-known household brands. Bron’s packaging as part of the Pams’ Emerging Artists range. Bron said: “It’s incredible to think that people are maybe going to have a little piece of my art in their home.” Bron told us: “I was knocked off my seat when one of New Zealand’s oldest and well-known household brands, Pams, selected me as one of three emerging artists to create artwork for their tissue boxes. As part of the promotion, Pams commissioned a video interview of each artist to go alongside a nationwide social media campaign, and

Last fall, art agent Lilla hosted a Zoom event with three of the artists she represents, Sarah Walsh, Tequitia Andrews and Lydia Graves. Watch the snippet below, or catch up on the full Zoom (scroll down to the next video) The whole discussion is worth a watch  – Catch up on the full Zoom below. – and it’s great to listen to while you sketch or draw, but today we just wanted to highlight this snippet from Sarah Walsh, because we love it so much. Here’s the transcript: “I’ll just say to everybody here the hype is real, and I don’t say things I don’t mean. I want to say something really quick about the way that Lilla teaches class. I think it’s really unique in the way that Lilla has an amazing business sense, she knows what she’s doing, she knows the markets. She’s been doing it for a