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Win a FREE place in Illustrating Children’s Books TODAY!

Our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY! Every year, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students – we’ll be sharing some brand NEW stories on Thursday, but until then you can read about just some of them here! 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. 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

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Get the final part of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment from top art agent Lilla Rogers!

Lilla here! I recently shared the first two parts of a FREE three-part warm-up exercise that I’ve created for you ahead of my raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts NEXT MONDAY, May 20th. If you missed them, you can catch up on Part 1 and 2 here. How did you enjoy Part 2? I bet you had some fun accessorizing. Are you seeing that the more time and thought you spend on your character, the more interesting it is? An engaging character is so important to a successful children’s book, and that’s why my co-teacher, brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, and I spend so much time focusing on characters in class, and why we share boatloads of hints and tips from our decades in the industry. Want in? Book your place here. Today, we’re going to move on to the third and final part

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FREE childrens book illustration assignment Part 2 – plus bonus assignment!

Get Part 2 of your FREE childrens book illustration assignment! Lilla here! Last week I shared the first part of a FREE three-part warm-up exercise that I’ve created for you ahead of my raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts on Monday, May 20th. If you missed it, you can catch up here. In this hugely popular course, you’ll spend five weeks with me and my brilliant co-teacher, children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, creating a ready-to-send pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or publisher needs to see to give you work. 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 characters, and why Zoë and

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Get Part 1 of your FREE picture book illustration assignment!

Get Part 1 of your FREE picture book illustration assignment Lilla here! Today I’m going to share the first part of my FREE #MATSprep for my online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. This is the eleventh time we’ve run this hugely popular course, with dozens of students taking it two or even more times – it’s a great course to repeat even if you’ve done it before, because you get brand new texts every time and you’ll build a really powerful portfolio to help you get representation and jobs. Find out what the fuss is about – sign up here. What’s a #MATSprep? It’s a FREE warm up exercise to get you ready for class, and it’s open to everyone, whether you’re signed up for class or not. Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, May 20th, so over the next few newsletters I’ll be sharing

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FREE download: How to create childrens book characters

How to create childrens book characters: FREE download! Get your FREE download on how to create characters for kids’ books from brilliant children’s book art director, Zoë Tucker! Zoë teaches our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, alongside top art agent Lilla. As well as being a renowned children’s book art director, Zoë also writes all the texts for Illustrating Children’s books and has published seven acclaimed picture books since 2019 (read about some of them here). Three of her picture books were originally written for Illustrating Children’s Books, and one of them was illustrated by a Make Art That Sells student. In other words, you’ll be illustrating professional level texts on the course. Three of Zoë’s picture books, which she originally wrote for Illustrating Children’s Books. Ada Lovelace and the Number Crunching Machine (left) was illustrated by MATS student Rachel Katstaller. Greta and the Giants (middle) was read by

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Top tips from a top art agent: How to deal with envy

How do you deal with envy in your creative career? Art agent Lilla has decades of experience and shedloads of wisdom to share. She works hard to nurture creative people, both her students and her artists alike, and her courses often explore the psychological side of carving out a career as an illustrator. In her Illustrating Children’s Books course, for example, as well as a ton of incredible content about children’s book illustration, she also shares handouts on topics such as being yourself, dealing with competition, creating routines and more. Lilla has worked as an art agent, an illustrator, a speaker, a columnist, the creator of a national jewelry craft line, an educator, an author and more, and she has tons of wisdom to share. At the end of last month, we shared how we’d been asking Lilla some of the Big Questions about life as an illustrator. In March,

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Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends TODAY! All good things must come to an end, and that includes our big Spring Sale, with 25% off every single one of our job-snagging courses and up to 40% off our fabulous bundles. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet then explore everything that’s on offer here. That means that prices go up TOMORROW – and some of our amazing bundles won’t be available at all. Don’t miss out, get them now! Art by Paloma O’Toole, a Make Art That Sells student who is represented by Lilla Rogers Studio, for Illustrating Children’s Books. Sign up now and save up to 40% – but HURRY, prices go up TOMORROW! And of course, if you’ve already bought a course (or three) but want to upgrade to a bundle, that’s not a problem – simply email Louise at [email protected]

4 self-paced course success stories!

Today we’re sharing some brand new success stories from our fabulous self-paced courses – all of which are currently 25% off until TOMORROW only! Or get ALL of our self-paced and live courses for 2024 and save a huge 40% when you sign up for My Semester of Art School ALL – find out more here. The beauty of self-paced courses is that you get INSTANT ACCESS as soon as you sign up, and you can complete them at a pace to suit you and your schedule – you have access to all the course materials until January 31st, 2025, and can keep any downloadable materials forever. Why not sign up with a buddy or two for double the fun and for accountability? Explore all our self-paced courses here and save 25% – but remember, the sale ends TOMORROW! Here are some of the real-life student success stories we’ve heard

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A fabulous mix of cool products agented by Lilla Rogers. If you’ve ever looked at items like these and wondered how the artist got the gig … let Lilla show you how! Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends THIS FRIDAY, April 19th! That means it’s the last 48 hours to snap up all of our fabulous career-changing courses at 25% off – or save a huge 40% when you buy as part of a bundle. Don’t forget: Last 48 hours to snap up big discounts on all of our raved-about courses. Some bundles won’t be available after the sale finishes – grab them now. These are our best prices for 2024 courses – our next big sale isn’t until November. You’re probably going to sign up later in the year anyway, so you might as well get them for less now! Sign up now and see why

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More real-life books written by our students!

Some of the books authored and illustrated by artists represented by Lilla Rogers. Let Lilla show you how you can land your book deal! Imagine holding your very own book – written by YOU – in your hands … Opening a parcel and unboxing copies of YOUR own book … Walking past your favorite bookstore and seeing it in the window … and getting royalty checks for it! Here at Make Art That Sells, we love books, and we love spotting our students’ names on covers when we visit bookstores! Art agent Lilla now teaches not one but TWO book writing courses alongside her picture book illustration course, and we’re thrilled that so many more beautiful books are out in the world as a result. In My Arty Book Pitch, which is a LIVE course that starts Monday, October 14th, you’ll learn how to write, illustrate and pitch your very