The Brilliant Kid Book bundle
Save a massive 20% on two incredible courses!
Don’t miss this amazing offer: two of art agent Lilla’s raved-about LIVE courses with a huge 20% discount!
Lilla Rogers has 30 years’ experience as top art agent, plus she’s an illustrator who previously had agents in London, New York and Tokyo. This bundle gives you highlights of her expertise at a great price.
In Illustrating Children’s Books, Lilla joins brilliant children’s book art director Zoë Tucker to give you everything you need to build or boost your picture book illustration career. In five intense weeks, you’ll create a show-stopping ready-to-send pitch and get all the tools, insight, and advice you need to succeed.
Then take your book cover to the next level with Lilla’s lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering. You’ll hone your lettering skills, explore a variety of lettering styles, and create a wonderful library of lettering that you can refer back to. As well as amping up your picture book cover, being able to do lettering is an incredible way to boost your portfolio and make more money from your art!
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- Do you want to illustrate children’s books?
- Do you want to hone your lettering skills and pack your artistic toolkit to give your art that extra edge?
- Do you want to make your art even more gorgeous?
- Do you want to land more the illustration jobs and make real money from your art?
… Then this awesome bundle is for you!
You’ll come away with an eye-catching ready-to-send children’s book illustration pitch that contains everything an art director needs to see to give you work, a mini reference guide of gorgeous lettering styles you can refer back to over again, and tons of tips and advice from your teachers, art agent Lilla and children’s book art director Zoë.
Boost your book cover! A book cover needs to do a lot of things. It needs to get you to pick that book out of thousands of others on offer. It needs to look good even when viewed as a thumbnail online. It needs to tease a little bit of the story, or at least set the mood of the book.
A book cover is an integral part of your children’s book illustration pitch, which is why Lilla and Zoë spend a full week on your picture book cover in Illustrating Children’s Books.
Then take your to the next level with beautiful hand lettering. You’ll learn how in Lilla’s Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering course, where you’ll explore and get inspired by 15 fantastic fonts while cranking out some fabulous art for your portfolio to show off your new skills.
Just some of the many gorgeous picture books art directed by Zoë – check out the lettering! (Fun fact: A Pinch of Love (left) was illustrated by Make Art That Sells student Tisha Lee after Zoë saw her art in class. She’s always looking for new talent!)
You’ll learn things like:
- What must go on your cover
- Top tips for designing a cover that sells
- How to use lettering to rock your cover
… with tons of examples from art director Zoë of books she’s directed and other books she loves to help you understand how to create a cover that will land you that dream picture book illustration gig.
llustrating Children’s Books (Jul 7 – Aug 11, 2025)
Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering (Sept 8 – Nov 24, 2025)
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In July, spend five weeks with Lilla and Zoë creating a ready-to-send children’s book pitch presentation, then join Lilla in September to learn hand lettering to boost your book covers AND your portfolio!
- Illustrating Children’s Books (July 7th – August 11th): Our student favorite is back for the twelfth time! You’ll spend five intense weeks with Lilla and Zoë creating a gorgeous ready-to-send pitch presentation that includes everything that an art director or publisher needs to see to give you a picture book illustration gig. You’ll get THREE exclusive texts to work from – meaning you can repeat the course after the live portion is finished, to help you build a really powerful illustration portfolio – plus weekly live reviews, and tons more.
Book cover for Illustrating Children’s Books by Arlene Bax
- Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering (September 8th – November 24th): Join Lilla as she encourages you to experiment with different styles of lettering, to find your own unique style, and to fill your illustration portfolio with beautiful artwork designed to get you paying jobs. Being able to do lettering opens up a ton of art markets, plus it’s something that art agents look for when viewing an artist’s portfolio. This course is packed with assignments and resources to help you level up your lettering skills, from the gorgeous downloadables you’ll get from Monday to Friday for the first week of every month to build up your own lettering reference guide, to assignments for different markets, video lessons and more. A fun course that will entice you to fall in love with lettering!
You’ll get fifteen of these cool Micro Mini Assignments, each with an optional bonus assignment. Paste them into a sketchbook to build your own reference source. Then build on this with the main assignment, each of which is aimed at one of the hottest art markets.
Lettering created in class by MATS student Robyn Skaley
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Sketchbook lettering by Robyn Skaley for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering. Let Lilla show you how!
The Brilliant Kid Book bundle is for you if;
- You love picture books and dream of illustrating children’s books – and getting paid for it!
- You want to hone your lettering skills to boost your book covers and open up all sorts of commissions
- You want the structure, deadlines and excitement of a live course
- You want assignments that will build your portfolio and help you land paying jobs
- You want to get your work seen by two children’s book art directors and maybe get it reviewed by an art agent with 30 years’ experience
- You want to be part of a supportive creative community of fellow artists and designers
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Lilla Rogers – former illustrator, art agent and co-founder of Make Art That Sells
As an art agent, Lilla sold art for products and ad campaigns worth over a quarter of a billion US dollars, with clients all over the globe. She’s assigned art for many hundreds of books, and knows exactly what art directors and publishers are looking for (and what to avoid).
Lilla is also a skilled educator and has taught everyone from little kids to professional artists. She prides herself on the effectiveness of her teaching and makes learning with her accessible, achievable and fun. As a creative person herself, she knows how to gear her teaching towards creative minds, and bring out the very best in them. You’ll be amazed by what you can do!
Zoë with her first book, Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine, which was originally written for Illustrating Children’s Books and published with illustrations by Make Art That Sells student Rachel Katstaller.
With over 25 years in the publishing industry, Zoë has worked on hundreds of books across all formats including board books, picture books and illustrated non-fiction. Her current client list includes Alison Green Books, Dorling Kindersley, Magic Cat Publishing, Quarto, and Scholastic UK. For the last 18 years she has been the art director and designer for the UK No.1 best-selling picture book duo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. She has commissioned numerous award winning books including most recently: Flooded, winner of the Klaus Flugge Award 2024; and Grumpy Fairies, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021.
Zoë has also written a number of picture books, three of which were originally created as texts for Illustrating Children’s Books. In other words, you’re working with professional level exclusive texts!
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Q: I’ve never taken an online class before. How does it work? Do I need to be at my computer at a certain time?
A: No, you only need to be online at a certain time if you want to join the live sessions. If you can’t join live, replays will be saved in the classroom for you to view at a time when it suits you.
Q: What format is the class taught in?
A: The classes consist of a series of fun and instructional videos, downloads, mini assignments and assignments delivered via a password-protected online classroom.
Q: What do you get in the bundle?
A: You get 2 exciting live courses, access to a private classroom and a supportive Facebook community.
Q: Do I need any special materials?
A: The course looks at art using a variety of media. We encourage you to try new things, so it is up to you. Use any materials you like – digital or traditional. Just get out your favorite art supplies! You can use a scanner or even your smartphone camera to photograph your work. You may find it useful to have access to a printer to print out course materials.
Q: Do I need any special software?
A: As with all MATS classes, it’s possible to complete the entire course using traditional techniques (painting, drawing, etc.), but if you wish to complete the assignments digitally you’ll need basic knowledge of Photoshop or Illustrator. Photograph or scan in your assignments to showcase your work at its best.
Q: Will I be able to communicate with others in the classes?
A: Yes, you’ll be able to communicate in the private Facebook groups (where you can also share your work). This is a great chance to connect with other artists and designers, get different perspectives and share your work.
Q: Are these art classes or a business classes?
A: Both, most classes are assignment-based aimed at helping you strengthen your portfolio and create commercially-viable pieces.
Q: I’ve already purchased one of these courses, can I still buy the bundle?
A: Yes, contact the team at [email protected] to discuss an upgrade.
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