Do you dream of getting work in the magical world of children’s book illustration? Our highly acclaimed online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts Monday! Plus to celebrate we’ve got a delicious serving of freebies for you to enjoy: read on!
Work created in our last ICB course by student Heather Manning. This piece shows to the art director that Heather can illustrate a powerful environment.
One of the reasons that the course works so well is that we break everything down into easy manageable steps so that you can avoid procrastination, engage your creative mind and, most of all, enjoy the process! In just five weeks, you’ll create a brilliant children’s book pitch which will help you land the work you want.
The very first step towards creating a kickass pitch is to understand your own illustration style and which text to choose to let your art shine. Is your art full of goofy humor, loveable critters or dreamy landscapes? Do you love detail, hand lettering or glorious mess and colour? Are you a Jester Hipster, an Adventurer or Madam Bodoni?! Find out here with our FREE download all about understanding your children’s book illustration personality.
You’ll watch Lilla and Zoë show you exactly what works and why.
In each Illustrating Children’s Books course, we’ll give you three fantastic texts written specifically for the course so that you can dive right in and start creating your best work. (And we think that the three stories for this round of Illustrating Children’s Books might just be our best yet! From Zoë Tucker, renowned children’s book art director and co-teacher on the course, we have a valuable and completely on-trend story designed to help children cope in a fun and sweet way in My Quiet Imagination, and a dreamy, moving homage to grandparents in My Grandmother’s Garden. Plus, for the first time ever, top art agent and co-teacher, Lilla Rogers, has contributed her own unique text, a visual kooky tale full of wit and humor!)
Work created in our last ICB course by student Marianne Van Der Walle. This part of the pitch demonstrates
to the art director that Marianne can illustrate emotions. You’ll learn how to make your own winning pitch.
Plus join us on Monday for our FREE Facebook Live on the first day of class, when Lilla and Zoë will be discussing how to choose which text is right for you and doing a show and tell of their favourite children’s books. Even if you’re not joining us for Illustrating Children’s Books this time round, it’ll be an amazing opportunity to find out what kind of text you should choose for your book pitch, whether it’s witty, moody, historical, or something else. Download your free text chooser here so that you can follow along and get masses of insight into your unique artistic style!
See you in class!
The MATS team xxx
P.S. Not enough freebies for you?! Get your FREE LESSON from Illustrating Children’s Books here!
