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Part 2 of your FREE #MATSprep: Plan your amazing art career

Cups, containers, vases, mugs. You can absolutely make a living from art. Here are some products illustrated by some of the artists I represent: cat cup by Helen Dardik and blue floral travel mug by Carolyn Gavin Lilla here. Today I’m sharing the second part of your FREE #MATSprep illustration assignment. I want you to start thinking about your amazing art career for the year ahead. What will it look like? What do you want to focus on? What are your dreams? How will you get there? You can have a successful art career I promise you it is absolutely possible to make a real living from making art. I did it for many years when I worked as a full-time illustrator in NYC, and now I help other artists do the same both as an art agent and through my illustration courses with Make Art That Sells. Thousands of

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How to make a living as an illustrator: 5 MATS success stories!

Do you want to learn how you can make a living as an illustrator? Do you want to make your art better and better and discover how you can make real money from drawing pictures while wearing your pajamas and listening to your favorite music? Let art agent Lilla Rogers show you how! Don’t forget that every single one of our career-changing courses is currently a big 25% off in our giant Cyber Sale, plus you can save even more – up to half price! – when you buy one of our tasty bundles. Check out everything that’s available in the sale here – but hurry, the sale ends next Tuesday, November 30th! Today we’re sharing a fantastic quiz that Lilla has created for you to work out which of our sale bundles are best for you, plus we’ve got some fabulous success stories to share! Here’s the first part

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#MATSprep: Get your FREE art assignment to help you figure out 2022

Get your free art assignment Lilla here. We’ve had a rocky 18 months or so, but I have some good news for you: there are so many opportunities for creative people right now! Some of the biggest art markets – home décor, children’s books, games and toys – are booming right now, and the need for your gorgeous, unique art is only increasing. Art from the last time I gave you this #MATSprep, by Madeline Norris (left) and Valerie Hamill (right). I want to help creative people – people like you – make money from their art. That’s my thing. I’ve been helping thousands of artists do just that for the past eight years through my Make Art That Sells courses. I truly believe that they are game-changers and there’s no better basis for building a successful and lucrative art career. Plus, once a year, we slash our prices in

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The Make Art That Sells Sale starts TODAY! Get your FREE sale guide!

Hooray! The Huge Make Art That Sells Sale is here! Our biggest sale of the year will be running from today right the way through to Tuesday, November 30th, with 25% off every single one of our career-changing courses and even bigger savings on our incredible bundles! Don’t miss out! Click here to download your FREE copy of our gorgeous Giant Cyber Sale guide so you can start planning your amazing art career. It’s packed full of gorgeous student art (maybe yours!), worksheets and more to help you plan for 2022 and beyond. Where will the next 12 months take you? Get your FREE copy of our beautiful Sale Guide here. Let Lilla help you make 2022 the year your art shines! Take a minute or two to think about what you want to achieve in the year ahead: Do you want to build a powerful illustration portfolio that will

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WIN a MATS course TODAY! FREE Zoom with art agent Lilla!

Win a MATS course TODAY! Download your FREE copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide and explore everything that’s included here. Lilla here. Join me for a FREE Zoom event TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT and plan your awesome creative career in 2022! The Make Art That Sells giant Cyber Sale starts TOMORROW, with at least 25% off everything and up to 50% off bundles. If you’re thinking of taking any of my courses next year, these are the best prices of the year, and I want to show you how to make the most of it. There are so many illustration gigs out there that you may never have dreamed of – socks, chocolate packaging, embroidery patterns, toothbrushes and more! Let me show you how to get gigs like these. Let me help you figure out the next steps to your brilliant art career and turn your vision

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NEW for 2022: How to create characters for toys, books and more

Imagine getting paid to dream up engaging characters that children (and adults) will love! Look at all the markets! Books for all ages, gifts, toys, socks with a plant face! A coin purse! And look at all the different styles too: there’s room for everyone. Learning how to create characters is fantastic for your art career Here’s why: You can get tons of work. You can license your characters for children’s books and toys and games (plush toys, play sets, card and board games and so on) of course, but there are shedloads of things that you probably haven’t even thought of – clothing for kids and adults alike, cushions, bedlinens, teatowels and oven gloves, phone cases: basically anything you can decorate. It’a a great way to show an agent or art director that quirky, unique personality of yours. Whether you’re witty, dreamy, playful, nerdy or whatever else, the characters

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MASSIVE FREEBIE: How to get an art agent and more!

A free gift for you: Discover how to get an art agent, tips for illustrating children’s books and more! Our incredible teachers – including top art agent Lilla Rogers, award-winning entrepreneur and author Beth Kempton, children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker, creative director Margo Tantau, and game creator and agent Riley Wilkinson – have decades in the creative industry and tons of insight and wisdom to share. Click here to get your FREE copy of this incredible tip-stuffed freebie. Today we’re thrilled to be sharing a fabulous FREE bonus that’s absolutely stuffed with valuable information and gorgeous art. Learn how to get an art agent, get tips for illustrating children’s books, see how arranging your home décor designs as collections can help you sell more art and more! We’ve dug deep into some of our raved-about, career-changing online illustration courses and put together some fascinating insider

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REVEALED: Discover the latest MATS students offered representation by art agent Lilla!

Do you want to land representation with an innovative international art agent? Every live Make Art That Sells course offers an incredible opportunity to get your art directly in front of art agent Lilla Rogers and maybe get offered representation with her agency, Lilla Rogers Studio – Lilla is always on the lookout for new talent! Get represented by a top international art agent Here are just some of the reasons why being represented with Lilla is so amazing: Every year, Lilla runs a fabulous retreat for her artists at her studio, which is hugely inspiring and includes wonderful events like Speed Art Dating with some of the top art directors and editors in the industry. Lilla gives her artists exclusive assignments just like the ones she writes for Make Art That Sells, to fill their portfolios with gorgeous, bang on trend art. Her artists get free access to any

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Join our NEW course for FREE!

Join our brand NEW art history course for FREE! Sign up now! Finally the big reveal! We’re incredibly excited to announce an amazing NEW course from art historian, illustrator and Make Art That Sells student, Tamisha Anthony, together with art agent Lilla Rogers. Redrawing Black History is a fascinating and visually rich online course that will run for four weeks from January 10th, 2022, ahead of Black History Month in the USA. We know you’re going to love seeing the images that Tamisha has put together for you, and creating art inspired by this brand new course. Lilla says: “You’re going to love how Tamisha uncovers the richness of the Black American experience, teaching us about little-known but fascinating Black Americans from four incredible eras. She dives deep into the creativity of each era: the clothing, hairstyles, and more. I know students are going to be enthralled with the visuals

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LAST CHANCE! You should write a kids’ book. Here’s why (and how).

Hurry hurry hurry – registration for art agent Lilla’s children’s book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, closes TODAY! This course won’t run again until 2022, so if you want to write a kids’ book with Lilla this year then grab your spot here now! Here’s why you should write a kids’ book Sales of kids’ books soared during the first year of the pandemic, as we locked down and schools closed across the globe. Parents and carers turned to books to help educate their children, to show them a world outside the confines of their homes, to entertain them, to make up for lack of social interactions with their peers, and to share an enjoyable moment of mutual comfort and bonding. And honestly every five minutes that they didn’t spend on screens was a win back then, am I right? And with the pandemic still ongoing, the boom is