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

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

Course dates: July-Nov 2020

Kid Book Combo

£757 / $957 (approximate)

your DREAM children’s book GIG IS WAITING FOR YOU!

Have you ever dreamed of writing or illustrating a children’s book, or even a whole series of books? Children’s book illustration is one of the hottest markets for your art, and it’s also thrilling and fulfilling: it’s wonderful to immerse yourself in a text and create characters and worlds full of magic and color.

Our amazing Kid Book Combo bundle gives you everything you need to build a successful children’s picture book career.

This bundle includes:

Sound good? Scroll down to find out more about this amazing bundle.

*USD values are approximate

Important note about payment plan installments: You have the option to pay for this bundle in 3 monthly installment payments if you choose to do so at the time of purchase. By choosing the ‘deposit’ option, you will pay 34% of the total bundle price at the time of purchase, pay 33% one month after the initial purchase date, and pay the remaining 33% two months after the initial purchase date. Please note that payments will not be taken automatically. You will be sent an automated email to pay the remaining installments one month and two months after the initial date of purchase and you will need to make your installment payments securely on our website when they become due.

 

✨ Imagine creating appealing characters for children to fall in love with over and over again

✨ Imagine bringing stories to life with your beautiful art

✨ Imagine sinking into the magical world of children’s book illustration and creating your own unique world, and getting paid to do it!

Children’s picture book illustration is exciting and rewarding, and art agent Lilla says that it also happens to be one of the hottest markets for your art! According to a report from the Association of American Publishers, revenue for children’s and young adult fiction grew by 11.3 percent to $3.67 billion in the five years to 2018, while in the UK, the children’s book market has grown for four consecutive years, and is now worth £383m. In other words, sales of children’s books are booming, and this means that art directors are on the lookout for artists!

Our amazing Kid Book Combo bundle gives you everything you need to build a successful children’s book illustration career.

The Kid Book Combo Bundle includes:

Book your spot now!

Illustration by MATS student Allistair Burt

Of course, we’ve included our raved-about, job-snagging online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. Consistently one of our most popular courses, you’ll spend five intense weeks with top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned 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. Children’s author and course co-teacher, Zoë Tucker, provides three new texts written exclusively for class, which are cleverly designed to bring out the best in all students, whatever level you’re at (and two of the texts which Zoë wrote for the class were published in 2019! – including one for which a Make Art That Sells student got the illustration gig. Next time it could be you!).

Illustration by MATS student Katie Mazeika

You’ll also get in-depth video lessons, daily drawing prompts, weekly assignments that will build your pitch, weekly LIVE video reviews, interviews, and more. By the end of the course, you’ll have a finished pitch ready to send off, including a front cover, character sheets, and a full-page spread – essentially everything an art director needs to see. Click here to read some of our Illustrating Children’s Books success stories.

Plus you’ll also have all the insider knowledge you need to identify and approach clients, and then to work with them in a professional way once you’ve secured the gig. And you will do all of this in the company of other like-minded artists from around the world in our supportive class community.

We know that artists love illustrating children’s books. It’s magical to sink into a project for months, creating their own signature characters and world.

That dream children’s book illustration gig can be yours!

 

Work by Agnes Ofner from our Illustrating Children’s Books course

What if you want to write and illustrate your very own picture book? If you’ve got a burning idea for your own book or you dream of writing and illustrating your own stories, art agent Lilla’s brand-NEW course, My Kid Book Pitch, is for you!

In this thrilling new course, you’ll learn how you can create and pitch a completely unique idea – the children’s picture book that only you can write! Led by art agent Lilla with contributions from children’s book art director Zoë and other special guests, you’ll discover a completely new way to come up with a strong pitch that an editor or art director will love. Right now, editors are looking for authenticity, books with meaning or a quirky story. Full of Lilla’s trademark playful but powerful teaching style, this course will use magical custom playing cards and fun idea generator worksheets to help you create your truly personal and authentic pitch. By the end of this [four] week course, you’ll have a fantastic, engaging character, a kick-ass opening line, a storyline and a double-page spread with text – everything you need to grab an editor’s attention and avoid the slush pile. For illustrators, writers and anyone with a story to tell, you won’t want to miss this new course.

Finally, we’ve thrown in Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces, because the ability to draw faces can make a huge difference to your creative career! This entertaining and instructive self-paced course will teach you how to draw faces in a completely innovative way that will boost your confidence and inspire your creativity, and it’s full of Lilla’s quirky touches, such as her incredible African mask and quirky international doll collections. You’ve never seen a course like this before!

Faces get you jobs – art by LRS artists

All our courses are delivered online in password-protected classrooms. We do not deliver physical products in the post, but rather send you an email with the URL of the classroom and the password you need to log in. This email is sent to the email address you used to register for the class and will be sent at least two days prior to the start of class (except where you register with less than 48 hours to go, in which case it will be sent within 48 hours of registering, which may be after the class has begun). If you do not receive your classroom login information within this time frame please contact us via email to hello [at] makeartthatsells.com so our team can assist you.

You can view our full detailed terms & conditions here: https://makeartthatsells.com/terms-conditions/

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Our career-changing online course, Illustrating Children's Books, starts THIS MONDAY, May 20th!  Head over to our blog for the final part of the amazing FREE #MATSprep assignment created by Lilla to help you warm up for class – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/  Plus don’t miss the FREE Zoom event on Monday at 12 noon EST/5 pm BST - you could win a FREE place in class!  Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Julia Freund @juliafreund_illustration

Our career-changing online course, Illustrating Children`s Books, starts THIS MONDAY, May 20th!

Head over to our blog for the final part of the amazing FREE #MATSprep assignment created by Lilla to help you warm up for class – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/

Plus don’t miss the FREE Zoom event on Monday at 12 noon EST/5 pm BST - you could win a FREE place in class!

Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Julia Freund @juliafreund_illustration
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Get exclusive texts written for you by a brilliant picture book author!  The texts for our Illustrating Children’s Books course are written by fabulous children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker @zoe_tucker_design – and so far three of the stories she’s written for class have been published (plus Zoë also has another four picture books under her belt). In other words, you’re getting exclusive, unique, professional level texts from a superb author.  And if you have any questions for Zoë, don’t forget we’ve got a FREE live Zoom on the first day of class, Monday, May 20th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST.  You’ll find the link to join the Zoom in our Instagram Stories on the day and on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com – set a reminder now!  Find out more about Illustrating Children’s Books and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/

Get exclusive texts written for you by a brilliant picture book author!

The texts for our Illustrating Children’s Books course are written by fabulous children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker @zoe_tucker_design – and so far three of the stories she’s written for class have been published (plus Zoë also has another four picture books under her belt). In other words, you’re getting exclusive, unique, professional level texts from a superb author.

And if you have any questions for Zoë, don’t forget we’ve got a FREE live Zoom on the first day of class, Monday, May 20th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST.

You’ll find the link to join the Zoom in our Instagram Stories on the day and on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com – set a reminder now!

Find out more about Illustrating Children’s Books and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/
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We are loving seeing all your amazing art for the #MATSprep warm up exercise for Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 😍  Mark your calendar for the third and final part, which will be on our blog and newsletter TOMORROW! If you’re not already on our mailing list, sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/newsletter/  Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Paloma O’Toole @palomaotoole, who is now represented by Lilla Rogers Studio after Lilla fell in love with her art in class. Lilla is always looking for new artists to represent – get your art directly in front of her with Make Art That Sells!

We are loving seeing all your amazing art for the #MATSprep warm up exercise for Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 😍

Mark your calendar for the third and final part, which will be on our blog and newsletter TOMORROW! If you’re not already on our mailing list, sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/newsletter/

Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Paloma O’Toole @palomaotoole, who is now represented by Lilla Rogers Studio after Lilla fell in love with her art in class. Lilla is always looking for new artists to represent – get your art directly in front of her with Make Art That Sells!
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🚨 Exciting news! We’re thrilled that award-winning art director at Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Tracy Shaw @tracybshaw, will once again be joining us as a guest reviewer for one of the weekly live reviews for Illustrating Children’s Books!  Tracy has more than 20 years’ experience in the publishing industry, and has worked on everything from board books to adult nonfiction.  That means that your art will be seen by:  ✨ ONE art agent and
✨ TWO art directors!  HURRY! Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 starts in less than a week, on Monday, May 20th! Find out more and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/

🚨 Exciting news! We’re thrilled that award-winning art director at Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Tracy Shaw @tracybshaw, will once again be joining us as a guest reviewer for one of the weekly live reviews for Illustrating Children’s Books!

Tracy has more than 20 years’ experience in the publishing industry, and has worked on everything from board books to adult nonfiction.

That means that your art will be seen by:

✨ ONE art agent and
✨ TWO art directors!

HURRY! Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 starts in less than a week, on Monday, May 20th! Find out more and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/
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In our raved-about course, Illustrating Children’s Books, you'll dig deep into the booming picture book art market, learn everything you need to show an art director in order to land picture book illustration jobs, and create a professional ready-to-send pitch presentation including a stunning full page spread, like this one by Make Art That Sells student Karen Casey @elizabethfiskstudio.  Plus, like any live MATS course, it’s a great chance to get your art seen by art agent Lilla – she’s offered representation to more than 30 students since MATS was founded in 2013, and is always looking for fresh talent (look out for news about the latest MATS student to be represented by Lilla soon 👀)!  HURRY! Find out more and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/

In our raved-about course, Illustrating Children’s Books, you`ll dig deep into the booming picture book art market, learn everything you need to show an art director in order to land picture book illustration jobs, and create a professional ready-to-send pitch presentation including a stunning full page spread, like this one by Make Art That Sells student Karen Casey @elizabethfiskstudio.

Plus, like any live MATS course, it’s a great chance to get your art seen by art agent Lilla – she’s offered representation to more than 30 students since MATS was founded in 2013, and is always looking for fresh talent (look out for news about the latest MATS student to be represented by Lilla soon 👀)!

HURRY! Find out more and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/
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✨ WIN a FREE place on art agent Lilla’s raved-about course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts next Monday, May 20th!  Do you want to build a career in the magical world of children’s book illustration? Illustrating Children’s Books is a career-changing LIVE online course co-taught by renowned art agent Lilla Rogers and brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker.  In just five weeks, you’ll create a professional children’s book pitch presentation designed to help you land your dream children’s book gig, with exclusive texts, weekly assignments, LIVE reviews, interviews with award-winning illustrators and publishers, and more, plus insider knowledge, hints and tips from the experts.  To find out more, click on the link in our profile or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/  THE PRIZE: We’re giving away a FREE place in Illustrating Children’s Books worth £399 (approx. $486) for one of our followers. Class starts NEXT MONDAY, May 20th.  TO ENTER: To be in with a chance of winning a FREE place in class, simply comment on this post tagging a friend whose art or illustrations is perfect for children’s book illustration. You can enter as many times as you like by tagging different friends, but you must tag each person in a separate comment on THIS post.  DEADLINE: Friday, May 17th, 2024. Winner will be announced here on our Instagram account on Saturday, May 18th.  THE SMALL PRINT:
- No purchase necessary.
- This giveaway is open to anyone over the age of 18 anywhere in the world.
- You can enter multiple times in separate comments as long as you tag a friend in each one.
- Only comments left on this post by 6pm BST on Friday, May 17th will be entered.
- The winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on this post by the deadline.
- If you win but are already registered, you will be able to gift your place to a friend.
- The decision on the winner will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- There is no cash alternative.

✨ WIN a FREE place on art agent Lilla’s raved-about course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts next Monday, May 20th!

Do you want to build a career in the magical world of children’s book illustration? Illustrating Children’s Books is a career-changing LIVE online course co-taught by renowned art agent Lilla Rogers and brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker.

In just five weeks, you’ll create a professional children’s book pitch presentation designed to help you land your dream children’s book gig, with exclusive texts, weekly assignments, LIVE reviews, interviews with award-winning illustrators and publishers, and more, plus insider knowledge, hints and tips from the experts.

To find out more, click on the link in our profile or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/

THE PRIZE: We’re giving away a FREE place in Illustrating Children’s Books worth £399 (approx. $486) for one of our followers. Class starts NEXT MONDAY, May 20th.

TO ENTER: To be in with a chance of winning a FREE place in class, simply comment on this post tagging a friend whose art or illustrations is perfect for children’s book illustration. You can enter as many times as you like by tagging different friends, but you must tag each person in a separate comment on THIS post.

DEADLINE: Friday, May 17th, 2024. Winner will be announced here on our Instagram account on Saturday, May 18th.

THE SMALL PRINT:
- No purchase necessary.
- This giveaway is open to anyone over the age of 18 anywhere in the world.
- You can enter multiple times in separate comments as long as you tag a friend in each one.
- Only comments left on this post by 6pm BST on Friday, May 17th will be entered.
- The winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on this post by the deadline.
- If you win but are already registered, you will be able to gift your place to a friend.
- The decision on the winner will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- There is no cash alternative.
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Get Part 2 of your FREE children's book illustration assignment from top art agent Lilla Rogers, plus a BONUS mini assignment!  A few days ago, we shared Part 1 of a FREE warm up exercise that Lilla has written for you ahead of her raved-about course, Illustrating Children's Books, which starts Monday, May 20th, and today we're sharing Part 2 on our blog. Don't miss it!  Lilla says: "This #MATSprep is a terrific warm up for class, because it will help you to start thinking about how you can create winning characters for your children’s book illustrations. Characters are absolutely central to children’s picture books, which is why we spend several weeks in class focusing on them."  Get Part 2 now, then look out for Part 3 on Thursday!  Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/  Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Marianne van der Walle @mariannevanderwalle

Get Part 2 of your FREE children`s book illustration assignment from top art agent Lilla Rogers, plus a BONUS mini assignment!

A few days ago, we shared Part 1 of a FREE warm up exercise that Lilla has written for you ahead of her raved-about course, Illustrating Children`s Books, which starts Monday, May 20th, and today we`re sharing Part 2 on our blog. Don`t miss it!

Lilla says: "This #MATSprep is a terrific warm up for class, because it will help you to start thinking about how you can create winning characters for your children’s book illustrations. Characters are absolutely central to children’s picture books, which is why we spend several weeks in class focusing on them."

Get Part 2 now, then look out for Part 3 on Thursday!

Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/

Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Marianne van der Walle @mariannevanderwalle
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In Illustrating Children’s Books, you'll build a show-stopping pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or editor needs to see in order to give you a picture book illustration gig, including a beautiful full page spread, a front cover, and character sheets like this by Make Art That Sells student Juanita Londoño @juanitalondo8o  Class starts Monday, May 20th, and won’t run again until 2025. Don’t miss out – book now!  Find out more and grab your spot – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/

In Illustrating Children’s Books, you`ll build a show-stopping pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or editor needs to see in order to give you a picture book illustration gig, including a beautiful full page spread, a front cover, and character sheets like this by Make Art That Sells student Juanita Londoño @juanitalondo8o

Class starts Monday, May 20th, and won’t run again until 2025. Don’t miss out – book now!

Find out more and grab your spot – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/
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Babe, wake up, new bundle just dropped 👀  Sign up for Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts Monday, May 20th, and get our bite-sized bolt-on course, Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS, *and* our picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, all for a tasty 20% off with The Children's Book bundle!  Check it out on our website now – link in bio – or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/the-childrens-book-bundle/  Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Violeta Serratosa @vforviu for Illustrating Children’s Books.

Babe, wake up, new bundle just dropped 👀

Sign up for Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts Monday, May 20th, and get our bite-sized bolt-on course, Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS, *and* our picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, all for a tasty 20% off with The Children`s Book bundle!

Check it out on our website now – link in bio – or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/the-childrens-book-bundle/

Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Violeta Serratosa @vforviu for Illustrating Children’s Books.
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Get your questions about children’s book illustration answered by a top art agent and a children’s book art director!  Join art agent Lilla Rogers and children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker for a FREE Zoom event on Monday, May 20th at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST!  They’ll be showing off some gorgeous children’s books, talking about our FREE #MATSprep warm-up assignment, and taking your questions.  You’ll find the link to join the Zoom in our Instagram Stories on the day and on the front page of our website at http://www.makeartthatsells.com/ .  Don’t miss it – set an alarm now!

Get your questions about children’s book illustration answered by a top art agent and a children’s book art director!

Join art agent Lilla Rogers and children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker for a FREE Zoom event on Monday, May 20th at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST!

They’ll be showing off some gorgeous children’s books, talking about our FREE #MATSprep warm-up assignment, and taking your questions.

You’ll find the link to join the Zoom in our Instagram Stories on the day and on the front page of our website at http://www.makeartthatsells.com/ .

Don’t miss it – set an alarm now!
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🗣️ FREE art assignment!  Woo hoo – our raved-about picture book illustration course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, May 20th!  To help you get ready for class, we’re sharing a fab FREE #MATSprep warm up assignment from art agent Lilla Rogers.  It’s open to everyone, whether you’re taking the class or not, so grab it now!  Get Part 1 in today’s blog then look out for Parts 2 and 3 coming up soon – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/  Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Eleasha Mortley @eleashadraws

🗣️ FREE art assignment!

Woo hoo – our raved-about picture book illustration course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, May 20th!

To help you get ready for class, we’re sharing a fab FREE #MATSprep warm up assignment from art agent Lilla Rogers.

It’s open to everyone, whether you’re taking the class or not, so grab it now!

Get Part 1 in today’s blog then look out for Parts 2 and 3 coming up soon – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/

Image shows art by Make Art That Sells student Eleasha Mortley @eleashadraws
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✨ Imagine getting a call from an art director saying they adore your work and would love to work with you …  ✨ Imagine getting an email from one of your favorite authors saying that your art is exactly what they’re looking for …  ✨ Imagine getting to spend your time creating adorable characters and whimsical worlds – and getting paid for it!  Are you dreaming of building a successful career in the magical world of children’s picture book illustration?  Then don’t miss out - Illustrating Children's Books starts Monday, May 20th, and won’t run again until 2025!  In five intense weeks, you'll learn a TON about the picture book illustration market, and create your very own professional pitch presentation ready to send off to art directors and publishers.  Register now! Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/

✨ Imagine getting a call from an art director saying they adore your work and would love to work with you …

✨ Imagine getting an email from one of your favorite authors saying that your art is exactly what they’re looking for …

✨ Imagine getting to spend your time creating adorable characters and whimsical worlds – and getting paid for it!

Are you dreaming of building a successful career in the magical world of children’s picture book illustration?

Then don’t miss out - Illustrating Children`s Books starts Monday, May 20th, and won’t run again until 2025!

In five intense weeks, you`ll learn a TON about the picture book illustration market, and create your very own professional pitch presentation ready to send off to art directors and publishers.

Register now! Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/illustrating-childrens-books/
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