Learn how to get paid for illustrating children’s books!

  Our hugely popular online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts May 20th

Get your FREE Text Chooser – Illustrating Children’s Books starts TODAY!

Our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY! Now running for the ninth time, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students every year – read about just some of them here!

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Over five incredible weeks, your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, will lead you step by step to create a fabulous pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or publisher wants to see. And on the way, they’ll teach you everything you need to know about the wonderful world of children’s book illustration in a way that’s both fun and fascinating: you won’t want it to end.

You’ll get daily drawing prompts, weekly LIVE reviews with your teachers, Lilla and Zoe, tons of beautifully designed downloadable worksheets, and tons more. Book your spot here.

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Join us for a FREE Zoom Live event today!

Join your teachers, Lilla and Zoë, for a FREE Zoom Live event TODAY at 12 noon EST/5 pm BST and you could win a FREE place in class! They’ll be sharing some of their favorite children’s picture books and talking about what makes them so spectacular, doing Lilla’s famous career tarot (giving targeted career advice for a lucky volunteer), giving away a FREE place in class, and more. Don’t miss it! Set an alarm on your phone now and join here.

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Art by Make Art That Sells student Tisha Lee for Illustrating Children’s Books. Tisha is now represented by Lilla Rogers after Lilla saw her art in class – she’s always looking for new talent! Book your place here.

Get your FREE Text Chooser

Sign up now and you’ll get instant access to three brand new original texts written especially for class and your first daily drawing prompt. And so you can dive straight into class, Lilla and Zoë, have created this insightful Text Chooser Tool, that will help you dig deep into your personality and find the right text for you.

Make Art That Sells Get your FREE Text Chooser – Illustrating Children’s Books starts TODAY!

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Jester Hipster, Sherlock or Madame Bodoni: what type of children’s book illustrator are you? Our FOUR unique texts ensure that everyone can create their very best art. Hurry! Register now.

Covering animals, people and objects, and in a range of moods from tender to humorous to dreamy, these unique texts have been carefully designed to ensure that every student does their very best art, whatever their level (you’ll be rubbing shoulders with everyone from beginners to professional artists in class): you’ll be amazed at what you can achieve in just five short weeks. Book here!

(Finding it hard to choose? You can go back and repeat the assignments with the other texts after the course is over, so you build a really strong children’s book illustration portfolio.)

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Art by Make Art That Sells student Sirjana Kaur for Illustrating Children’s Books. Our original texts are written specially for class and are carefully designed to help every student shine. And they’re professional level texts – the THIRD one just got published! Read more here.

Hurry! Class starts today – don’t miss a minute! We can’t wait to see what you’re going to do. Book your spot here.

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See you in class!

Lots of love

The Make Art That Sells team xxx

P.S. Don’t forget – registration for Illustrating Children’s Books closes THIS THURSDAY, May 26th, and the course won’t run again until 2023. Do you want to delay your children’s book illustration career for another year? Don’t miss out – register now.

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