Category:Course: Illustrating Children’s Books
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Learn how you can build a lucrative career in the dreamy world of children’s book illustration with Make Art That Sells’ Children’s Book Illustration Course and Illustrating Children’s Books Plus courses!

Designed for newbies and pro illustrators alike, this career-changing course covers everything you need to know to give your children’s book illustration career a huge boost. In just five weeks, you’ll create a ready-to-send pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or publisher needs to see to give you work. Taught by industry professionals, you’ll gain real-world insights into the thriving children’s book market, whilst honing your skills through weekly assignments, live reviews, downloadable worksheets, video lessons, interviews with publishers and illustrators and more. Get all the tools, insight, and advice you need to succeed with Illustrating Children’s Books.

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Posted on January 7, 2017.

Illustrating Children’s Books Student Showcase part 2 {Oct 2016 class}

We are so proud of our wonderful Make Art That Sells alumni and are pleased to showcase a series of gorgeous student work that was produced in our first session of Illustrating Children’s Books. Here is part 2 in the showcase series. *** Margaux Kent | Peg and Awl This is Ada Lovelace from Expressions, Week 2. I prefer my photograph of the cut-outs to the photoshop version that I submitted. This is my favourite because these expressions gave me confidence in drawing – I believe I actually spoke out loud to my submission, an “I can do this?” kind of realization. How did the ‘Illustrating Children’s Book’ class help you grow? I stumbled into this class, and, spying the talent in the FB Group, definitely felt like an imposter. It didn’t take long before it didn’t matter whether or not I was an imposter – I was having so much

KellyFrederickMizer illustrating childrens book class

Posted on January 6, 2017.

Illustrating Children’s Books Student Showcase part 1 {Oct 2016 class}

We are so proud of our wonderful Make Art That Sells alumni and are pleased to showcase a series of gorgeous student work that was produced in our first session of Illustrating Children’s Books *** Kelly Frederick Mizer I really liked being able to tie everything that I learned into the cover in week 5. For a long time, I have been seeking ways to bring more of my painting and drawing into my illustration work and by week five, I felt I was on to something. How did the ‘Illustrating Children’s Book’ class help you grow? Week five also drove me to revisit the illustrations I have worked on for the last several months for a story I wrote called Greta and the Angels. Previous to the course, I believed those illustrations to be complete, but finding my groove in the course motivated me to reassess them with a more critical

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Posted on July 5, 2016.

Behind the Scenes, filming for “Illustrating Children’s Books”

The Make Art That Sells Team spent a wonderful week in Brighton, England, filming for the new ‘Illustrating Children’s Books‘ ecourse which starts 3 October, 2016. Registration opens Tuesday 12 July (we already have a massive waiting list so get on it here if you are interested!) As this class is in high demand, we will be capping registration numbers for the first session. In this class, top art agent Lilla Rogers and highly regarded children’s book art director Zoe Tucker provide everything you need to launch your children’s book illustration career or bring it to the next level. Lilla says: “We’ve created a course that breaks down the process into totally manageable chunks so that you can focus on having fun creating your very best work. I know you’ll be surprised at how much progress you make over the course of the 5 weeks. I’ve seen it over and

Posted on February 28, 2015.

The inside scoop on the picture book market

Get Industry info on the picture book market! The picture book market is a huge market for artists, and not only that – it’s also magical to spend months digging deep into a manuscript and bringing it to life for generations of children to enjoy, plus it can be very lucrative too! If you want to explore the incredible picture book market and learn how you can make a career from illustrating children’s books, be sure to check out our career-making Illustrating Children’s Books course. Plus don’t miss our instant access self-paced courses, Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS and Hot Markets for Your Art Part A. To bring you the inside scoop on the picture book market, we caught up with industry insider Megan Tingley of the Hachette Book Group. She tells us what she’s looking for, the one thing she wishes artists would change when pitching to her, and how