Lilla’s artists work on tons of kids’ picture books every year. Let her show you how they got the gigs in her raved about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books Do you dream of illustrating your own children’s book (or books)? Imagine passing by a book shop and seeing your art in the window, or visiting the library and hearing a child exclaiming over the pictures you created! There’s something really magical about immersing yourself completely in a text and bringing it to life for generations of children to enjoy. Work from a previous Illustrating Children’s Books course by MATS student Agnes Ofner In our raved-about e-course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which runs for the seventh time from July 1st 2019, you’ll create exactly what an art director needs to see for you to get a children’s book gig: a full page spread, a character page, a front cover and more, in just five weeks. Plus,
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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’ Illustrating Children’s Books 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.
The courses you’ve been asking for: brand new MATS courses launching in 2019! Plus find out how to snag your place – with a big discount!
We are thrilled to announce that, due to popular demand from art agent Lilla’s students all over the world, we’ve decided to launch three brand new courses in 2019, and we hope you’ll love them just as much as we do! Drum roll please! Our new courses are … Editorial Live Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS Home Décor PLUS Did you guess right?! Read on to find out more about these fabulous new class formats … Lilla Rogers is not only renowned art agent but has many years’ experience as a top illustrator. In this course she’ll be sharing her wisdom, expertise and top tips from her decades-long editorial and agenting career working for top clients such as Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Magazine, the Grammies, the New York Times, top ad agencies, Chronicle Books and hundreds more. Imagine working in the fun and lucrative editorial market! In this four-week live
Read our amazing Illustrating Children’s Books alumna success stories!
Do you dream of finding work in the magical world of children’s book illustration? Would you love to create memorable characters and see your work in print? Our outstanding online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, started Monday and there’s still time to sign up. Just think: in just five weeks you could be holding your very own stunning book pitch in your hands, ready to send off to potential clients! But HURRY: registration closes tonight! Click here to grab your place now. MATS works! To celebrate our the launch of our course, we’re thrilled to be able to showcase some of our recent MATS alumni successes, focusing on the illustration jobs our students have landed in the children’s book industry after taking our courses. ANDREA STEGMAIER Through sharing her work for the Illustrating Children’s Books class on social media, Andrea got her very first illustration job: making an activity page
Alumni success ‘spotlight’ interview with Devon Holzwarth
We are so proud of our Make Art That Sells Alumni, and we are pleased to feature a series of spotlight interviews showcasing their successes and artwork. We’ve asked them to share how the MATS courses have helped them learn and grow. You can see more Alumni Success stories here Today, we have an interview with Devon Holzwarth who has taken MATS A, MATS Bootcamp, Global Talent Search, Creating Collections for Home Decor and Illustrating Children’s Books Tell us a little about how you got started in art and design As a child growing up in Panama with a teacher mom and an intelligence agent/artist dad, I was surrounded by many cultures, lots of books, art supplies, ginger and lemongrass on the stoop, chirping marmosets in the garden, and mahogany trees that rained helicopter seeds over the house. I’m still constantly inspired by my childhood. I attended the Rhode Island School of Design,
Alumni success ‘spotlight’ interview with Andrea Stegmaier
We are so proud of our Make Art That Sells Alumni, and we are pleased to feature a series of spotlight interviews showcasing their successes and artwork. We’ve asked them to share how the MATS courses have helped them learn and grow. You can see more Alumni Success stories here Today, we have an interview with Andrea Stegmaier who has taken Illustrating Children’s Books + My year of Art school (all classes held in 2018) Tell us a little about how you got started in art and design Since I was a little kid I have made art, but never thought of it as a profession to earn money, so I learned something serious and became an architect. Last summer I posted a doodle on social media and got some likes. I kept on posting little drawings and a few weeks later I discovered MATS and the Illustrating Children’s Books class, took
Illustrating Children’s Books begins today! FREE download with Zoë’s top tips on creating memorable characters!
We’re thrilled that our highly acclaimed live online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, begins today! In just five weeks you’ll create a show-stopping children’s book illustration pitch and learn everything you need to know to land your dream children’s book illustration gig! Creating memorable, relatable characters is absolutely key to snagging your dream kids’ book job, which is why we spend the first two weeks learning all about characters: how to develop appealing characters in your own style, what art directors look for in a character, how to make the reader connect, and so much more. And to celebrate the first day of Illustrating Children’s Books today, we’re giving you a FREE download with Zoe Tucker’s top tips for creating winning characters. Grab it here! This beautiful character design by Andrea Stegmaier demonstrates her ability to illustrate a character with lots of emotion and personality. Super cute! And that’s not all!
Jester Hipster or Madam Bodoni: What’s your children’s book illustration personality?
Do you dream of getting work in the magical world of children’s book illustration? Our highly acclaimed online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts Monday! Plus to celebrate we’ve got a delicious serving of freebies for you to enjoy: read on! Work created in our last ICB course by student Heather Manning. This piece shows to the art director that Heather can illustrate a powerful environment. One of the reasons that the course works so well is that we break everything down into easy manageable steps so that you can avoid procrastination, engage your creative mind and, most of all, enjoy the process! In just five weeks, you’ll create a brilliant children’s book pitch which will help you land the work you want. The very first step towards creating a kickass pitch is to understand your own illustration style and which text to choose to let your art shine. Is your
Alumni success ‘spotlight’ interview with Caitlin Murray
We are so proud of our Make Art That Sells Alumni, and we are pleased to feature a series of spotlight interviews showcasing their successes and artwork. We’ve asked them to share how the MATS courses have helped them learn and grow. You can see more Alumni Success stories here. Today, we have an interview with Caitlin Murray, who has taken Assignment Bootcamp four years in a row, Creating Collections for Home Decor and Illustrating Children’s Books. Tell us a little about how you got started in art and design It was a long and winding road! I originally studied teaching Drama and English, then went on to study Gold & Silversmithing and Millinery, before eventually studying illustration full time in Melbourne in 2001-2002. After that, I freelanced as an illustrator for a year before getting a job as an in-house designer for a fashion company who designed kids’ clothes for
Zoë Tucker’s Insider Review of the Bologna Book Fair
Zoë Tucker is our beloved co-teacher of the Make Art That Sells Illustrating Children’s Books course and a highly regarded children’s book art director. Earlier this year she attended the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, so we jumped at the chance to catch up with her and get her insights about the show. We also asked our MATS students who attended the fair to share images and their experience, so you can read their thoughts here. Zoe writes: Hi everyone! I haven’t been to the Bologna book fair in years and decided this year it was high time I reacquainted myself with it. It didn’t disappoint! Aside from the fact that Bologna is a beautiful medieval city and a great mini-break, the international Bologna Children’s Book Fair is a one stop wonder of inspiration and excitement – especially if you love children’s books like I do! You can download this report from Zoë
MATS Students at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is held in the Spring every year in Bologna, Italy. The Fair is the event in the publishing year’s calendar, built around children’s content today. Zoë Tucker, our beloved co-teacher of the Illustrating Children’s Books course and a highly regarded children’s book art director, attended in 2018. Zoe wrote a report about the fair here and we also asked some of our MATS students who went along to send us some thoughts. So in today’s post, MATS students share a few images and thoughts on attending the fair in person! Caroline Bonne-Muller This is me in front of the fantastic artwork created by Chloe Almeras and a photo of a 1.5 hour line for a portfolio review at Nosy Crow. I was at the fair with my 16 year old daughter, who has ambitions to go to the art academy, so I thought it was nice to