Illustrating Childrens Books 2025 starts TODAY!
Our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY – and you could win a FREE place on this career-changing course in today’s free Zoom event! Scroll down for the Zoom link.
Every year, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students – we’ll be sharing an amazing student story on Thursday, but until then you can read more student success stories here.
Over five incredible weeks, your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and acclaimed 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 to give you work. 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 Lilla and Zoe, tons of beautifully designed downloadable worksheets, and tons more. Book your spot here.
Meet your teachers! Join top art agent Lilla (left) and brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë (right) for a FREE live Zoom TODAY!
Join Lilla and Zoë for a FREE live Zoom event TODAY at 12 noon EDT/5 pm BST. They’ll be sharing some of their favorite children’s picture books and talking about what makes them so spectacular, giving away a FREE place in class, and more.
Don’t miss it! Set an alarm on your phone now and join 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.
Jester Hipster, Empathetic Superhero or Madame Bodoni: what type of children’s book illustrator are you? Our THREE 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: 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.)
Art by Make Art That Sells student Brigida Magro for Illustrating Children’s Books. Brigida was commissioned for a children’s book illustration job by Zoë after Zoë spotted her art in class – she’s always looking for new talent! Book your place here.
Amazing industry expert guest reviewers!
We’re thrilled that amazing art director at Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Tracy Shaw, will once again be joining us as a guest reviewer for one of the weekly live reviews – and she may well be looking out for artists for picture books!
Tracy (left), art director at Little Brown Books for Young Readers, and some of the books she’s worked on.
Tracy has more than 20 years’ experience in the publishing industry, and has worked on everything from board books to adult nonfiction. She led the art direction of James Patterson’s children’s imprint, Jimmy Patterson Books, for eight years, and is now back to doing what she loves best: picture books. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her two children and her husband, who is a creative director at Macmillan.
And in case you missed it, illustrator, author, educator and Make Art That Sells teacher (and Illustrating Children’s Books graduate!), Tamisha Anthony, will also be joining Lilla and Zoë for a live review!
Tamisha has illustrated five picture books so far for publishers including Penguin Random House, Little Brown, Macmillan Publishers, and Chronicle Books, with another SEVEN on the way – including her very own author-illustrator debut. Read more here.
Illustrator, author and teacher Tamisha Anthony with some of the picture books she’s illustrated. She’ll be joining Lilla and Zoë for a live review, with tons of insight to share.
Want to get your art in front of TWO art directors? Hurry! Class starts today – don’t miss a minute! Book your spot here.
- TODAY: Illustrating Children’s Books starts TODAY! Join me and brilliant children’s book art director Zoë, for five incredible weeks where you’ll learn a ton about the picture book industry and create a ready-to-send pitch that contains everything an art director needs to see to give you work! Sign up here.
- TODAY: Join Zoë and me for a FREE live Zoom event at 12 noon EST/5 pm BST TODAY to celebrate the start of Illustrating Children’s Books and you could win a FREE place in class! You’ll find the link to join the Zoom in our Instagram and Facebook Stories and on the front page of our website on the day.
- Available NOW! Sign up for the Brilliant Kid Book Bundle and save a whopping 20% on art agent Lilla’s last two LIVE courses for the year, student-favorite Illustrating Children’s Books and the wonderful Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering. Find out more here.
- Next newsletter: Illustrating Children’s Books works! Read an amazing student success story from Martina Stuhlberger.
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
P.S. Don’t forget – registration for Illustrating Children’s Books closes THIS THURSDAY, July 10th, and the course won’t run again until 2026. Do you want to delay your children’s book illustration career for another year? Don’t miss out – register now.
