Write your picture book!

  Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, is back as a LIVE course in 2026! Find out more and sign up here.

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FREE picture book illustration assignment – Part 1

FREE picture book illustration assignment – Part 1 Our student-favorite LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts in just over a week, on Monday, July 7th and there’s still time to sign up! Why is this course, which is now running for the twelfth time, so popular? Why do our students take it again and again? Because it’s incredibly rigorous but also playful and fun – and it really works. Tons of our students have gone on to get picture book illustration deals, land agents, and more after taking this course (you can read some of their stories here). Plus it’s led by industry experts. Your teachers, former top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, will teach you everything you need to know about the wonderful world of children’s book illustration, in an accessible, step by step way that will break everything

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HOW many picture book deals?!

Building a lucrative career in the dreamy world of children’s book illustration is totally possible – and we’ve got the receipts to prove it (see below!). It isn’t just about skill or style – for example, you also need to show an art director or publisher that you have what it takes to create a character that will appeal to children, and that you can recreate in different poses and with different expressions while still being identifiably the same character. That’s where our student favorite Illustrating Children’s Books course comes in! Now in its tenth year (and twelfth iteration), you’ll spend five intense weeks creating an eye-catching ready-to-send pitch presentation that contains everything you need to show an art director or publisher so they give you that gig! Meet your teachers! Former top art agent, Lilla (left), and children’s book art director and picture book author, Zoë (right), have tons

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Create your dream book cover

Create your dream book cover Everyone knows that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover … but from that pile of unused journals (we see you – and yes, we know, they were just too pretty to pass up) to browsing your local bookstore, that’s exactly what we all do. Plus it’s one of the key things that an art director or publisher will look at when they look at your picture book illustration portfolio. Some of the many thousands of books agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Check out those amazing covers – and see how the lettering can really add to the overall impact. A book cover needs to work hard to get you to pick the book up out of thousands of others on offer. It needs to look good even if viewed as a thumbnail online. It needs to tease a little bit of the story,

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HURRY! This incredible offer ends TODAY!

HURRY – our 72 hour flash sale on Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces ends TODAY! Usually £59 (approx. $80) you can grab it now for only £12 (approx. $16)! Being able to draw faces will get you more illustration work in tons of markets including editorial, books, children’s picture books and more – and more work means more money for you. It’s particularly useful for the children’s picture book market – and Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces includes extra teaching on how to draw children’s faces to help you boost your skills in this area. The ability to draw faces also makes your illustration career more interesting and more rewarding, plus it’ll give you confidence and – oh yes – it’s really fun! In Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces, former full-time illustrator Lilla Rogers will teach you how to draw faces in a completely new way, breaking everything down so

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HUGE NEWS for Illustrating Children’s Books students!

Illustrating Children’s Books 2025 starts in just over a month, on Monday, July 7th, and we have some fantastic news: Tamisha Anthony will be joining Lilla and Zoë for one of the reviews! Illustrator, educator, Make Art That Sells student and now author Tamisha with some of the books she’s illustrated. Who’s Tamisha Anthony, we hear you ask? She’s a busy working professional illustrator, with five gorgeous picture books under her belt since 2022 (her clients include Penguin Random House, Little Brown, Macmillan Publishers, and Chronicle Books), and another SEVEN on the way – including her very own author-illustrator debut! She’s a gifted and passionate educator, who’s taught at institutions including the New York Historical Society and the Harlem School of the Arts, as well as leading two incredible Make Art That Sells courses of her own: Redrawing Black History and Find Your Art Style with Style. She’s a Make

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Is this our best ever offer? Happy birthday to us!

Happy birthday to us! Make Art That Sells turns 12 this year, and to celebrate we wanted to share what might be our best offer ever: Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces for just £12 (approx. $16)! That means it’s reduced from £59 (approx. $80)! Sign up now and get Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces for just £12 (approx. $16) – but hurry, HURRY, this offer is only available for the next 72 hours! Grab your spot here. Faces get you jobs! Some cool products with faces from artists represented by Lilla (and Lilla herself!). Being able to draw faces hugely increases how much work you will get. Sign up now for just £12 (approx. $16 USD) in our 12th birthday sale! Being able to draw faces is great for creative career, because it can hugely increase how many illustration jobs you get. In this fun short course, former top art

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What should you do if your style isn’t on trend?

Lilla here! I was an art agent for 30 years, and I’m also an illustrator, an author, a columnist, a speaker, and an educator. I love sharing what I’ve learned from my decades in the industry. It’s just over a month now until the start of one of my favorite courses (spoiler alert: they’re all my favorites), Illustrating Children’s Books, which I teach alongside my brilliant friend and colleague, children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker. This will be the twelfth time we’ve taught Illustrating Children’s Books, and every year it just gets better and better! Children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker with three of her picture books. Zoë co-teaches Illustrating Children’s Books with me, and between us we have a wealth of expertise to share! As you probably know, I worked as an art agent for 30 years, during which time I agented many

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Get started with Procreate – FREE guide!

Make Art That Sells student Ruth Burrows is an artist, professional illustrator, and author of The Illustrator’s Guide to Procreate, and she’s created a fab FREE project especially for you to help you create some gorgeous florals that will look amazing in your illustration portfolio. Don’t miss this amazing FREE tutorial! Click here to download your copy. Florals are fantastic for your portfolio because they’re always in style and can be sold in so many art markets, like fabric, home décor, greeting cards, wall art, journal covers and more. Ruth is a professional illustrator and author of The Illustrator’s Guide to Procreate, which was agented by Lilla Rogers Studio and is filled with easy to follow projects to help you get started with digital art. In this project, Ruth will show you in an easy step-by-step format how to get started in Procreate by creating and arranging a beautiful bouquet.

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Don’t miss the My Arty Book Pitch LIVE review!

Date announced for the 2025 My Arty Book Pitch LIVE review! Would you love to write, illustrate and publish your very own art-driven non-fiction book? Whether you want to share a craft how-to, a travel memoir, a guided journal or anything else filled with dreamy art, writing and illustrating arty books can be a rewarding and lucrative career. Sandy Cousens created the pitch for her book, Creative Calm, in My Arty Book Pitch and it was picked up by David and Charles, who she describes as her “dream publisher”. Sandy and her book (left) and a spread from the book (right). Want to create your very own ready-to-send arty book pitch that contains everything a publisher needs to see to give you a deal? Art agent and author Lilla’s My Arty Book Pitch course will show you how to do just that, leading you step by step from coming up

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LAST CHANCE! My Arty Book Pitch flash sale ends TODAY!

HURRY! My Arty Book Pitch flash sale ends TODAY! This is just a quick note to say that the 25% flash sale on My Arty Book Pitch ends TODAY! Part of a fabulous pitch by Andrea Ringli – learn how to create an incredible pitch like this, which contains everything an agent or publisher needs to see! So if you’d love to take this fantastic course, for less … If you’re dreaming of holding your very own illustrated arty book in your hands … If you’d love to make money from writing and illustrating arty books – then don’t miss this great deal! Imagine building a lucrative career writing and illustrating gorgeous arty books like these, agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Plus, although this is a self-paced course, Lilla will be hosting a fantastically informative LIVE review of the Week 3 assignment, a spread in your book, on Thursday, June