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

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

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Your final #MATSprep assignment: Put it all together!

Lilla here. Oh, man, you are a whole bunch of brilliant artists! You delight me with your imagination, sensitivity, talent. I’ve loved seeing all the art you’ve created over the past couple of weeks for this MATSprep. I love to teach my intensive live courses, like Illustrating Children’s Books, for exactly that reason: it’s amazing to see how the work blossoms over the five jam-packed weeks. The passion and achievement of our students are awe-inspiring. I hope that you’ve enjoyed taking part in this free #MATSprep as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it and seeing all your beautiful art. It gives you a taste of my teaching style, to see if it’s a good fit, and it’s also a great way to warm up and get ready for Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts NEXT MONDAY, May 23rd. Don’t forget, this course won’t run again until 2023 – don’t miss out:

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3 giant tricks to take your art to the next level from art agent Lilla!

Lilla here. Today we’re going to create magic together! I’m going to teach you three great tricks to create depth (distance) in your artwork, and explain why you might want to do so. It’ll help give your artwork a fresh vibrant edge and be another tool in your ever-growing toolkit. Last week, I published a series of FREE assignments to help you get ready for my LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts a week today, on Monday, May 23rd! There are still a few places available, so if you’d like to spend five weeks with me and my co-teacher, renowned children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, learning everything there is to know about childen’s picture book illustration, then book your spot now! Over the last week, we’ve created a new character and explored fantastic new worlds – if you missed out then head over to the

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#MATSprep: One weird tip from an art agent: find the magic in your environment

Lilla here. Today I’m going to make you flip out, literally. For the past days, I’ve been sharing some FREE assignments that I created for you to get ready for my online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. I hope you’ll join us: class starts Monday, May 23rd, so book your spot now! Today I’m eager to help you make some magic that will give your picture book illustrations more visual impact. Think about your audience. Children are so in touch with their imaginations: they even live in fantasy land a great deal of the time! They are going to love the imaginative worlds that you create: whether it’s dreamy, moody, whimsical or witty, digging deep into a manuscript and creating all those little details is one of the most rewarding parts of children’s book illustration. Art by Make Art That Sells student Jenny Miriam, who is now represented by Lilla Rogers

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#MATSprep: Get Part 2 of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment!

Illustrating Children’s Books 2022 starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, May 23rd! To help you get ready for class and warm up your creative muscles, we’re sharing a series of FREE assignments from course co-teacher and renowned art agent, Lilla Rogers: read on for Part 2! What’s Illustrating Children’s Books? It’s an incredible five week LIVE online course that will teach you everything you need to know to launch or boost your children’s picture book illustration career. It’s hard to believe that this will be the ninth time that your teachers, art agent and Make Art That Sells founder, Lilla Rogers, and acclaimed children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, have run this course – and each time, it just gets better and better! Every year, our students net dozens of wonderful book deals – read about some of them here – and we can’t wait to

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#MATSprep: You do NOT want to miss this photo

Our raved-about, career-changing LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, May 23rd (places are still available: book yours here)! It’s an incredibly rigorous course that’s also playful and fun, which is why our students take it again and again. Your teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director Zoë Tucker, will teach you everything you need to know about the wonderful world of children’s book illustration, in an accessible, step by step way that will break everything down and help you bring your A-game to every assignment: as Lilla always says, she tricks you into doing your very best work! You’ll get daily drawing prompts, weekly LIVE reviews with your teachers, and weekly assignments that will build into a show-stopping professional pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or editor needs to see to give you a kids’

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BREAKING: Sale extended for 24 hours – shop now!

We hope you enjoyed our All-Star Zoom event with art agent Lilla and the rest of the Make Art That Sells teachers as much as we did! We learned a ton from these incredible creative professionals, and they gave away a whole heap of FREE places in class too. If you want hot tips on building a stellar creative career from art agents, creative directors, illustrators and more then don’t miss this! If you missed out on yesterday’s Zoom catch up below. It’s perfect to listen to while you sketch, paint and draw, so grab a drink and your sketchbook and enjoy. BREAKING NEWS: An extra 24 hours to shop! Yesterday’s Zoom brought a flurry of activity to our big Spring Sale, with lots of students clearly feeling inspired and ready to build their creative careers. We’ve decided to extend our big Spring Sale for just another 24 hours, to

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LAST CHANCE! Sale ends TODAY! + Replay of All-Star Zoom

Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends TODAY! That means it’s your very last chance to snap up all of our fabulous career-changing courses at a 20% discount – or save even more (up to a huge 40%!) when you buy as part of a bundle. Explore everything that’s included in the sale and get insightful worksheets from top art agent Lilla Rogers in our beautiful Sale Guide. If you haven’t got it already, download your free copy here and enjoy pages of worksheets and dreamy student art. Download your copy of our Sale Guide here: it’s packed with gorgeous student art, handy info and insightful worksheets from art agent Lilla Rogers. Don’t forget: Today is your LAST CHANCE 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

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WIN FREE COURSES in our all-star Zoom event TODAY!

Do you have a burning career question you want to put to a top art agent or brilliant creative director? Do you have questions about any of our courses? Do you want to spend an hour or so in the company of an amazing creative community that will leave you feeling invigorated and inspired? Do you want to win a FREE place on one of our career-changing courses? Can we get a heck yeah? Then join art agent Lilla and the rest of the fabulous Make Art That Sells teachers for a FREE LIVE all-star Zoom event TODAY at 1.30 pm EDT/6.30 pm BST! Click here to find out when it will be on in your time zone, then set a reminder on your phone and stick a Post-it on your sketchbook! Meet your teachers in our FREE all-star Zoom: (l-r) Lilla, Beth, Zoë, Margo, Riley and Tamisha. Don’t miss

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Read how these artists got book deals!

Why should you sign up for Illustrating Children’s Books and save up to 40%? Don’t delay – our big Spring Sale ends TOMORROW! In just five weeks, you’ll build a powerful pitch presentation that contains everything an art director needs to see to give you a children’s book illustration deal … … while learning everything you need to know to land and do the job (like Cat, below, who landed her first deal before she’d even finished the course!) Weekly LIVE reviews to keep you motivated and inspire you to do your very best work (prepare to be amazed by how much your art grows!) Get your art directly in front of top art agent Lilla and renowned children’s book art director Zoë, who are always looking for new talent Right now you can save 20%, or up to a huge 40% when you buy as part of a bundle

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She drew her dream client – what happened next will amaze you!

She drew her dream client – what happened next will amaze you! We love boasting about our fabulous students and everything they’ve achieved, and fortunately they give us tons to boast about! We recently shared a selection of recent student success stories, with more coming up tomorrow and a ton on our website – read more here. Today though we’re sharing a fabulous success story that really caught our attention. Watch an extract from Lilla’s live Zoom event below where she reads the card from Sharisse and shows off Sharisse’s beautiful book. A couple of months ago, art agent Lilla picked up her mail right before a live Zoom event, and found a card from Make Art That Sells student Sharisse Steber, along with a copy of her book, Rise & Roar: A guided journal for outdoor adventure. Sharisse wrote that she had signed up for the MATS MBA (Money