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Posted on November 21, 2023.

FREE courses and HUGE savings: open now!

Our huge annual sale starts TODAY, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our amazing value bundles! It’s our biggest sale of the year, so don’t miss out: if you’re thinking of taking a course with Make Art That Sells in 2024, you won’t find our courses cheaper than this! Plus we’ve got THREE new courses for 2024! To find out what they are, join art agent Lilla in today’s Zoom, when she’ll be spilling ALL the beans, look out for tomorrow’s blog for the big reveal, or download our gorgeous Sale Guide if you just can’t wait. Click here to download your FREE copy of our gorgeous sale guide, which includes everything that’s included in the sale plus handy advice to help you decide which course or bundle is for you – and details of our NEW courses for 2024. Plus

Posted on November 16, 2023.

Get your fab FREE Workbook, Year Planner and Sale Guide!

Our huge annual sale kicks off NEXT TUESDAY, November 21st, with savings across every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our fabulous bundles! Want help deciding which courses to take? Get your free copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide, packed with worksheets, and start planning your amazing creative career. Where will the next 12 months take you? This is our biggest sale of the year, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses and even bigger savings on our incredible bundles! Don’t miss out! Oh – and if you’ve been wondering about our brand NEW courses for 2024 … the guide might contain a little spoiler about those too 👀 Here’s what you’ll find in your gorgeous Sale Guide: Details of our brand NEW courses for 2024. Did you guess what they were? Details of all our course and bundles for the year

Posted on November 9, 2023.

NEW course hints revealed! 👀

Art agent Lilla is constantly thinking about what she wants you to know so you can build a successful creative career. Plus she assigns tons of jobs to her artists every week, so she knows exactly which art markets are huge right now – and she passes that information on to you via her online courses. In our blog and newsletter on Wednesday, November 22nd, we’ll be unveiling not one, not two, but THREE brand NEW courses for 2024! Plus you’ll be able to save 30% on every single one of our career-changing courses – including our new courses for 2024 – and save up to a whopping 50% off our fabulous bundles in our huge annual sale, which starts Tuesday, November 21st! We’ll also have tons of Zoom events with incredible giveaways, interviews with illustrators where they share their tips and advice for a lucrative career, and our Sale

Posted on November 2, 2023.

Get your FREE fall Color Match Game worksheets

Fall* has … fallen, there’s a crispness in the air, and spooky/pumpkin spice (delete as appropriate) season is finally upon us! (*With apologies to our friends in the southern hemisphere) To help you settle in to the turning of the seasons, art agent Lilla has created this playful Color Match Game for you using some of the dreamy greens, browns and neutrals found in nature. Pop on your cosiest sweater, pour yourself a mug of hot chocolate, dig out your art supplies and get ready to play. Simply click here to download your FREE Color Match Game worksheets, then print them out and see if you can match the colors Lilla found. You can use whatever media you like – this is a great opportunity to play and experiment without worrying too much about the end result. Making art playful and fun is a huge part of Lilla’s unique, whimsical

Posted on October 27, 2023.

NEW COMPETITION: Share your best clients!

Have you had a call from an amazing company to offer you your dream job? Or received an email from an art director whose work you adore, saying they love your art and would love to work with you? We know that tons of our students have landed amazing gigs, and we love sharing them on our blog. Today we’re asking you to tell us about your very best clients – and we’ll pick one entry at random and give them our brand new Best of Bootcamp: Market Mix 1 bundle to say thanks! Make Art That Sells student Sirjana Kaur created this art for a FREE #MATSprep assignment for My Toy Pitch. She shared it on Instagram, where it was spotted by Cartoon Network, who then asked her to do some freelance character design. To enter: Simply email Louise at [email protected] with the subject title “My best client” and let us

Posted on October 19, 2023.

See Lilla’s favorite art from our first quarterly Art Challenge!

Our first FREE quarterly Art Challenge kicked off on Friday, September 1st and we were thrilled that so many of you took part. Today we wanted to share art agent Lilla’s favorite art from the challenge, and, in case you missed it, let you know how you can take part in the next challenge. The assignment from Lilla was to create an Empress tarot card in just one week. Why did Lilla choose this assignment? She told us: “Tarot cards are in high demand, and publishers are searching for talented illustrators to bring them to life. This means that this assignment is a golden opportunity to showcase your skills, boost your portfolio and catch the attention of publishers. Plus they’re enormously enjoyable to create!” Lilla looked at every piece of art submitted before the deadline, and her favorite was by Nira Bar, who won a place on Illustrating Children’s Books.

Posted on October 12, 2023.

LAST CHANCE for Illustrating Children’s Books until 2024!

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,

Posted on October 9, 2023.

How to get your dream children’s book illustration gig

Our raved-about online course – and our last LIVE course for 2023 – Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY! Over five incredible weeks, your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and picture book 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 enjoy brand NEW interviews with industry experts including award-winning illustrators, a publisher and an art director – all completely revamped for 2023. Plus you’ll get weekly LIVE reviews with Lilla and Zoë, tons of beautifully designed downloadable worksheets, daily drawing prompts, and lots more. Book your spot here. Now running

Posted on October 7, 2023.

Replay of Live with Lilla and Zoë: Friday, October 6: Illustrating Children’s Books

Hi everyone, if you missed the fabulous live events with Lilla and Zoë, please find the replay below. We have also included the free text chooser pdf download as mentioned in the live. Illustrating Children’s Books begins on Monday, October 6th so grab your spot now so you can choose your texts and get ready for class! Download Your Text Chooser HERE

Posted on October 5, 2023.

Get Part 3 of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment!

Lilla here! Firstly, don’t forget to join me and my brilliant Illustrating Children’s Books co-teacher, children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, for a FREE live Zoom event TOMORROW Friday, October 6th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST. We’ll be talking about the #MATSprep, showing off some of our favorite picture books, answering your questions and giving away a FREE place in class! Don’t miss it! Set an alarm now! Join the Zoom here – you’ll also find a link in our Instagram Stories tomorrow, and on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com. I recently shared the first two parts of a FREE three-part warm-up exercise that I’ve created for you ahead of Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts THIS MONDAY, October 9th. If you missed them, you can catch up on Part 1 here and Part 2 here. How did you enjoy Part 2? I bet you

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