Hurry hurry – LAST CHANCE to sign up for our career-changing Illustrating Children’s Books course until 2024!
✨ Imagine building a lucrative career in the magical world of children’s book illustration …
✨ Imagine walking past your favorite book store and seeing a book you illustrated in the front window …
✨ Imagine spending months digging deep into a dreamy children’s book manuscript, creating unique worlds and memorable characters – and getting paid for it!
Our outstanding online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, started Monday, but there’s still time to sign up.
Art by Make Art That Sells student Claudia Marianno for Illustrating Children’s Books. You’ll build a professional pitch presentation that includes everything an art director or publisher needs to see to give you work, including beautiful character sheets like these.
Just think: in just five weeks you could be holding your very own stunning book pitch in your hands, ready to send off to potential clients! But HURRY: registration closes TODAY!
What’s Illustrating Children’s Books all about? 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.
Art by Make Art That Sells student Brooke O’Neill for Illustrating Children’s Books. One of the class texts always features an object, so you can take part even if you’re not confident drawing people or animals yet.
You’ll get fabulous interviews with industry experts – all freshly updated for 2023 – plus weekly LIVE reviews with your teachers, tons of beautifully designed downloadable worksheets, and lots more.
Get your FREE Text Chooser
Sign up now and you’ll get instant access to three brand new original texts written especially for class by Zoë Tucker. These are exclusive, professional level texts – so far three of them have ended up in print.
So far, three of the texts that Zoë has written for class have ended up being published. Zoë with Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine (NorthSouth, 2019, left), Greta and the Giants (Quarto Kids, 2019, centre) and The Garden We Share (NorthSouth, 2022, right).
To help you dive straight into class, Lilla and Zoë have created this insightful Text Chooser Tool, to help you dig deep into your personality and find the right text for you.
Jester Hipster, Sherlock or Madame Bodoni: what type of children’s book illustrator are you? Our three unique texts ensure that everyone can create their best art. Hurry, last chance! Register now.
The texts include animals, people and objects and a range of moods, and 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!
Art by Make Art That Sells student Fay Ford for Illustrating Children’s Books. Fay is now represented by Lilla after Lilla saw her art in class – she’s always on the look out for new talent!
(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.)
Are you ready to give your children’s book illustration career a huge boost? Illustrating Children’s Books won’t run again until 2024. Don’t miss out! Book your spot here!
- October 12th: Registration for Illustrating Children’s Books closes TODAY! This course won’t run again until 2024! Sign up now.
- Next newsletter: See gorgeous art from our first FREE quarterly Art Challenge, and find out how you can take part.
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
P.S. Illustrating Children’s Books works! Find our student success stories here.
