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.

Posted on June 24, 2019.

Your free #MATSprep for Illustrating Children’s Books!

Do you dream of illustrating a children’s book (or books)? Imagine passing by a bookshop 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. Lilla is going to help you prepare for our hugely successful course, Illustrating Children’s Books which starts on Monday, July 1st. The Mats Prep (#Matsprep) is for everyone (even if you are not signed up to class) What’s a MATS Prep? It’s a fun free exercise to get prepared for class, or to have some creative fun, and a great way to see what Lilla’s playful, kooky teaching style is all about. Simply download Lilla’s fun worksheet here and fill it in! This will help you start to think about what your individual style is, what you

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Posted on June 20, 2019.

WOW! See the book that came out of Illustrating Children’s Books!

We’re just a couple of weeks away from the start of Illustrating Children’s Books, which is one of our most popular and most raved-about courses for very good reason: it’s super fun, it’ll help you produce a full professional children’s book pitch in just five weeks, and it really works! Want proof? Read on … ! Every single Illustrating Children’s Books course includes three brand new texts written exclusively for the course by co-teacher and children’s book art director Zoë Tucker (and last time art agent Lilla got involved and wrote one of the texts too!). The texts are designed to get the very best out of every student, whatever level they’re at, and are also bang on trend, which means they’re exactly what art directors and art agents want to see. In a previous class, MATS student Rachel Katstaller chose Zoë’s story about Ada Lovelace, Ada Lovelace and the Number Crunching Machine, as her text to work on

Posted on June 6, 2019.

Our brand new Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS course goes on sale today!

We’re thrilled that our brand new bite-sized Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS course launches today! Most spaces have already filled up pre-launch as part of bundles such as our fab new Illustrate a Kids’ Book Bundle, so we’re giving you, our newsletter subscribers, a head start on snagging your spot! Have you previously taken our raved-about Illustrating Children’s Books course and know that it always leaves you hungry for more more more? Would you like to dip your toe in the thrilling world of children’s book illustration but don’t want to commit to a full-length course until you’re sure that it’s for you? Would you like the opportunity to try out a new style or approach to children’s book illustration for your portfolio, because you know the more range you can show, the more work you’ll get? Would you like the chance to get *your* gorgeous illustration work in front of a top art agent and a renowned children’s book art

Posted on May 21, 2019.

REVEALED! Who is Lilla Rogers Studio’s newest artist?

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

Posted on April 25, 2019.

Get a FREE sneak peek into our magical life changing Illustrating Children’s Books e-course!

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,

Posted on November 19, 2018.

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

Posted on October 18, 2018.

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

Posted on October 17, 2018.

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,

Posted on October 17, 2018.

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

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Posted on October 15, 2018.

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!