Ready for your kid book deal? Let art agent Lilla Rogers and children’s author and children’s book art director Zoë Tucker teach you everything you need to know!
There’s something magical about a picture book, isn’t there? Opening the pages, the feel, the smell – and of course the beautiful art. How must it feel to get to illustrate a book of your very own: to spend weeks or months digging deep into the text and bringing it to life for generations of children to enjoy – and getting paid to do it?
How do you get a picture book gig? By showing art directors and publishers exactly what they want to see in your portfolio and pitch. And that’s what top art agent Lilla Rogers and recently published children’s author and brilliant children’s book art director Zoë Tucker are going to do.
If you’re dreaming of illustrating – or maybe illustrating and writing – your very own picture book then you cannot afford to miss our extraordinary Write and Illustrate a Children’s Book Intensive bundle: everything you need to know in one great bundle for a whopping 30% off! This bundle will only be available during our Giant Cyber Sale, which ends TOMORROW (although you will still be able to buy the live courses individually at full price when they open for registration again in 2020 and Drawing Faces will be available at full-price after the sale ends).
Full page spread by Make Art That Sells student Wen Sylvestre. Would you like to create magical worlds like this? Book your spot now!
Here’s what you get:
- Illustrating Children’s Books (LIVE): Spend five intense live weeks with top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned art director and author Zoë Tucker, and create a brilliant children’s book pitch to help you land your dream gig. By the end of the course, you’ll have a finished pitch ready to send off, including a front cover, character sheets and a full page spread – everything an art director needs to see! Click here to read just some of our Illustrating Children’s Books success stories.
Full page spread by Make Art That Sells student Sarah Hinrichs.
- My Kid Book Pitch (LIVE): In this thrilling new live course, you’ll learn how you can create and pitch a completely unique idea – the children’s book that only you can write! Led by art agent Lilla. You’ll discover a completely new way to come up with a strong pitch that an editor or art director will love. See the video below to hear Lilla talking about her new course and why she created it.
Faces drawn by Kate Mason, represented by Lilla Rogers, while doing Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces. Being able to draw faces will get you more work!
• Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces (self-paced): The ability to draw faces is key to illustrating children’s books. Don’t let the fear of illustrating children’s faces and expressions hold you back! This beautifully filmed and instructive self-paced course will teach you how to draw faces in a completely innovative way that will boost your confidence and inspire your creativity.
Artwork by Make Art That Sells student Imke Soennichsen. MATS courses are also a fab opportunity to get your work directly in front of art agent Lilla, who is actively looking for new artists right now!
Here’s just some of the things you’ll get with this bundle:
- Weekly LIVE sessions in the two live classes, in which you can interact with your teachers, top art agent Lilla and renowned children’s book art director Zoë in real time, add comments and ask questions
- LIVE reviews by Lilla and Zoë featuring a selection of class work loaded with even more tips and pointers: your teachers review every single piece of art submitted to the class gallery and choose their favorites, so it’s an incredible opportunity to get your art seen by them (art agent Lilla has told us she’s actively looking to scoop up more artists from class!) but even if your art isn’t chosen you’ll still learn a ton
- Three exclusive inspiring texts for you to choose from in Illustrating Children’s Books, allowing you to dive in instantly: our texts are written especially for class and two of them were published in 2019, including one that was illustrated by a former Make Art That Sells student!
Below: Lilla talking about her kid book illustration courses and showing off some of the beautiful children’s book illustration gigs her artists have gotten.
- An insightful Text Chooser worksheet to help you dig down into your style and personality and decide which text is best suited for you
- In-depth videos on every aspect of the creating and pitching of your children’s book, growing your creative business, and Lilla’s art technique demonstrations
- Interviews with top art directors and successful illustrators: we ask them everything you want to know
- Boatloads of beautifully presented downloadable worksheets
- Carefully structured and motivating weekly assignments that build your pitch in a highly effective step-by-step approach
- Lilla’s magical custom playing cards to explore what makes you unique and come up with a fresh, authentic book idea
- Lilla’s playful Make a Story recipe to build your book pitchA ton of bonus content on pacing, trends, what Art Directors look for in a character and more
More student artwork, this time from Make Art That Sells student Eamon O’Neill. In five weeks you’ll create everything an art director or agent needs to see to land your book illustration gig.
Want a taste? Today we’re sharing a fabulous handout on feeling brave enough to send your work out and how to deal with rejection – get it here. This is just some of the incredible bonus content that we share with you in our Illustrating Children’s Books course, which includes weekly interviews with industry experts, weekly Art with Lilla videos showing drawing tips from art agent and former illustrator Lilla Rogers, and weekly handouts from Lilla that explore the psychological side of carving out a career as an illustrator, including being yourself, dealing with competition, creating routines, and more. There is so much goodness here, just waiting for you!
Artwork by Make Art That Sells student Eunji Yung. Each Illustrating Children’s Books course includes three exclusive texts written by co-teacher Zoë Tucker, two of which were published in 2019!
Your dream children’s book gig is waiting for you! What are you waiting for? Our amazing Write and Illustrate a Children’s Book Intensive bundle will give you everything you need to build a successful children’s book illustration career – but HURRY: sale ends TOMORROW!
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
