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Do you want to know how YOU can have a successful career in children’s book illustration? We absolutely love sharing our students’ many success stories, and with just five weeks to go until the start of Illustrating Children’s Books 2020, our emphasis today is on our former Illustrating Children’s Books students who have gone on to land book deals and build amazing children’s book illustration careers in this wonderful art market. Imagine getting a call from an art director to say they adore your work and would love to work with you … Imagine going into a bookstore and seeing your own beautiful art on a front cover … Imagine holding your very own children’s picture book in your hands! This has been a reality for huge numbers of our students – let Illustrating Children’s Books co-teachers, renowned art agent Lilla Rogers and brilliant children’s book art director and author

Just imagine – in just six weeks’ time, you could be holding your very own fabulous children’s book illustration pitch in your hands, containing everything you need to land you great jobs from art directors and publishers!  Our next Illustrating Children’s Books course starts NEXT WEEK and we couldn’t be more excited about it! This will be the sixth time we’ve run the course, and it just gets better every time. Hurry, hurry – spots are going fast! As ever, there’ll be three exclusive, brand new texts for you to get stuck into, written by our brilliant co-teacher, children’s book art director Zoë Tucker: we can’t give away too much, but rest assured they’ll be bang on trend and designed to bring out the best in every student, no matter what level you’re at.    Plus, as Lilla and Zoë review a selection of the work submitted, it’s a unique opportunity to get your beautiful

We recently revealed that Lilla Rogers Studio is taking on a new artist who is also a Make Art That Sells student. This week we’re thrilled to be able to tell you that LRS’s newest artist is …  Kelly Anne Dalton!   Congrats, Kelly Anne!  Lilla said: “Kelly Anne’s work is so strong, cool and eccentric, plus her work demonstrates a charming, quirky imagination.  Her children’s book work in particular is incredibly strong: she’s taken Illustrating Children’s Books a number of times. It was obvious to me that she worked really hard in class and she always delivered: I always knew that her assignments were going to blow me away. You could tell that she was really taking in what Zoë and I were saying, absorbing the information from class and applying it to her work, and that told me that she was willing to work with me and that we could