Imagine holding your very own book, illustrated – and maybe written – by you … Imagine spotting it in the wild in the library or bookstore … Imagine getting invited to your favorite local bookshop or school or radio station to do a reading … Imagine this being your job – that you’re getting paid to do!
Just some of the hundreds of books agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Ready to hold the book YOU illustrated in your hands – and get paid for it? Grab one of our career-changing courses in our giant annual sale. Clockwise from top left: Hsinping Pan, Daniel Roode, Hsinping Pan, Sarah Walsh.
Books are a fabulous market for both artists and writers, because they’re constantly in demand, hugely satisfying to work on, and a great source of income.
Save big with our fantastic Get Me a Picture Book Deal Bundle! Give yourself the best possible chance at landing yourself that picture book deal you’ve been dreaming of with the amazing value Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle – one self-paced and two LIVE courses aimed at helping you create a powerful portfolio and ready-to-send pitches, all with a whopping 40% off! Get this fantastic bundle here.
Create a ready-to-send children’s book illustration pitch that contains everything an art director needs to see to give you that dream children’s book illustration deal in Illustrating Children’s Books. Art for class by Make Art That Sells student Kristina Skutlaberg.
Get all this – and save a huge 40%!
- LIVE! Illustrating Children’s Books: Our student favorite! Spend five intense weeks with top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, who together will help you to 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 containing everything an art director needs to see to give you work.
- LIVE! My Kid Book Pitch: Back as a LIVE course for 2026, My Kid Book Pitch will give you everything you need to write your own authentic, unique children’s picture book and avoid the slush pile.
- Bootcamp Special: Character Play: Now self-paced, meaning you can start as soon as you sign up! Join children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, and creative director, art agent and toy creator, Riley Wilkinson, to create unique characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more.]
We have a fantastic Zoom for you today!
Join former art agent Lilla Rogers and brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker in a FREE live Zoom TODAY at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT!
They’ll be talking all about children’s picture book illustration, showing off some of their favorite books and explaining what makes them so great, answering your questions, and giving away FREE places in class!
Join art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers (left) and picture book art director and author Zoë Tucker (right) in a FREE live Zoom TODAY!
Here’s who you’ll meet:
- Lilla Rogers needs no introduction to her many thousands of students! She’s an illustrator who has worked on hundreds of projects and previously had agents in New York, London and Tokyo, a former agent who ran an innovative art agency for 30 years which represented 48 artists, an author, a columnist, a speaker, and more. She is a co-founder of Make Art That Sells and teaches or has input in every single one of our raved-about courses. All told, she’s got buckets of wisdom to share!
- Zoë Tucker is a renowned picture book art director with 25 years in the children’s publishing industry. She is the art director for the picture book dream team Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler alongside many others, has commissioned numerous award-winning books, and her client list includes Alison Green Books, Dorling Kindersley, Quarto, Wide Eye Editions, Scholastic and Magic Cat. She’s also a renowned picture book author, with some seven picture books under her belt. She teaches Illustrating Children’s Books, Illustrating Children’s Books Plus, and Bootcamp Special: Character Play.
Zoë with some of the fantastic picture books she’s written. All of these were originally written as texts for students to illustrate in Illustrating Children’s Books – you’ll be working with professional level texts!
This is an incredible opportunity to learn directly from industry experts, get your burning questions answered – and maybe win one of our career-changing courses! Don’t miss it – set a reminder now and join us at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT.
Our giant annual sale is on NOW! Save up to 50% on our raved-about courses. Download your copy of our fab free Sale Guide here, packed with worksheets and more to support your career, and explore our sale pages online here.
- ON NOW! Save up to 50% off our career-changing courses in our huge annual sale! Click here to explore our sale pages, or download your FREE copy of our Sale Guide here.
- TODAY, Thursday, November 20th: FREE ZOOM with Lilla and renowned art director Zoë Tucker at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT. Get the inside scoop on children’s book illustration and maybe win a FREE class!
- Tuesday, November 25th: FREE ZOOM with Lilla plus special guests top art agent Margo Tantau and brilliant author-illustrator Tamisha Anthony at 3 pm ET/8 pm GMT. Learn how to submit your art to agents from two agents with decades of experience plus an author-illustrator who has been there. Plus FREE course giveaway!
- Friday, December 5th: Celebrate the final day of our huge annual sale with Lilla in conversation with the brilliant and much-loved Meera Lee Patel at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT in this FREE Zoom. Plus a FREE course giveaway!
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
P.S. Make Art That Sells courses get you jobs! We can’t wait to share some of our latest student success stories in our next few newsletters. Plus art director Zoë is always looking for new artists to commission, and she loves to commission students she finds in class! Sign up now to save big and maybe land a picture book illustration deal of your own!
