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Lilla here. Today we’re going to create magic together! I’m going to teach you three great tricks to create depth (distance) in your artwork, and explain why you might want to do so. It’ll help give your artwork a fresh vibrant edge and be another tool in your ever-growing toolkit. Want more tools in your kit? Book one of my classes today. For the past few weeks, I’ve been handing out FREE assignments to help you get ready for my LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts THIS MONDAY, July 27th! There are still a few places available, so if you’d like to spend five weeks with me and my co-teacher, renowned children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, learning everything there is to know about childen’s picture book illustration, then book your spot now! Over the past few weeks, we’ve created a new character and explored fantastic

Lilla here. I’m going to make you flip out today, literally. For the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing some FREE assignments that I created for you to get ready for my online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. I hope you’ll join us: class starts in less than two weeks, so book your spot now! Today I’m eager to help you make some magic that will give your picture book illustrations more visual impact. Think about your audience. Children are so in touch with their imaginations: they even live in fantasy land a great deal of the time! They are going to love the imaginative worlds that you create: whether it’s dreamy, moody, whimsical or witty, digging deep into a manuscript and creating all those little details is one of the most rewarding parts of children’s book illustration. Do you want a career in kids’ picture books? Register for Illustrating Children’s

This month, in the run up to Illustrating Children’s Books 2020, which starts on Monday, July 27th, we’re sharing a series of FREE assignments from course co-teacher and renowned art agent, Lilla Rogers, to help you warm up your creative muscles and get ready for class. What’s Illustrating Children’s Books? It’s an incredible five week LIVE online course that will teach you everything you need to know to launch or boost your children’s picture book illustration career. It’s hard to believe that this will be the seventh time that your teachers, art agent and Make Art That Sells founder, Lilla Rogers, and acclaimed children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, have run this course – and each time, it just gets better and better! Every year, our students net dozens of wonderful book deals – read about some of them here – and we can’t wait to see what

Our raved-about, life-changing LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts on Monday, 27th July (places are still available: book yours here)! It’s an incredibly rigorous course that’s also hugely playful and fun, which is why our students take it again and again. Your teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director 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 down and help you bring your A-game to every assignment: as Lilla always says, she tricks you into doing your very best work! You’ll get daily drawing prompts, weekly LIVE Facebook reviews with your teachers, and weekly assignments that will build into a show-stopping professional pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or editor needs to see to give you a kids’ picture book gig.