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Get your play on! Bootcamp Special 2025 starts TODAY!

Hurry HURRY – Bootcamp Special: Character Play, starts TODAY! Join brilliant children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, and art agent, creative director and smash-hit toy creator, Riley Wilkinson, and get ready to give your creative career a huge boost! ✨ Are you ready to tap into that huge, quirky imagination of yours and learn how to create unique characters? ✨ Do you want to see your gorgeous art on toys, games, books and more? ✨ Do you want to dream up kooky new characters – and get paid for it? Then you won’t want to miss out on Bootcamp Special: Character Play! Don’t miss the fab FREE live Zoom event with all your Bootcamp Special: Character Play teachers TODAY at 12 noon EDT – get your questions answered plus you could win a FREE place in class! Here are your teachers: top art agent and illustrator Lilla (left),

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See incredible student art on toys and games!

We’re so excited that Bootcamp Special: Character Play starts THIS MONDAY, April 7th! Over the past couple of blogs and newsletters, we hope you’ve seen how simple and enjoyable it can be to create cute and quirky characters that you can license for children’s books and toys and games – two of the biggest and most lucrative art markets for illustrators – as well as tons of other markets, like partyware, home décor, apparel for both adults and children, bags, journals, packaging, and more. In Bootcamp Special: Character Play, you’ll create two gorgeous pieces of art for your portfolio every month for three months, like these by Make Art That Sells student Lisa Blakeborough. Sign up now! Now it’s time to build on what you’ve learned and start creating a powerful portfolio that will help you land work in these amazing art markets! Sign up for the class now! In

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What getting mentored by Lilla really looks like

What does getting mentored by Lilla really look like? And what can it do for you and your creative career? In a recent live Zoom event, illustrator and Make Art That Sells teacher Tamisha Anthony opened up about the transformative effect that getting mentored by Lilla had on her own career. Tamisha talked about how she’d always been around books but hadn’t really taken any steps towards making illustration into a career. Lilla looked at Tamisha’s art and made small tweaks, like suggesting that Tamisha include more of her own self, her love for fashion and design and home décor, in her art. Even such a tiny change had a huge effect, and since then Tamisha’s career has exploded! Since being mentored by Lilla, she’s got [seven] picture book deals, with another [four] on the way, and landed her first author-illustrator publishing deal. She’s taught two incredible Make Art That

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The plates have eyes Get Part 2 of your FREE assignment!

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing Part 2 of the FREE #MATSprep illustration assignment I created for you to get you warmed up for Bootcamp Special: Character Play. Today you’re going to find out exactly how easy it is to create winning characters for some of the hottest art markets right now. Children’s books and toys and games are both huge markets for illustrators – but you could also license your characters for products like gift, stationery, partyware, apparel, fabric, greeting cards and more. (One of our students recently landed a gig illustrating children’s food packaging after taking Bootcamp Special: Character Play – read more here.) What’s more, this course really is for all levels – and it’s just £99 (2approx. $126)! Win a free place in class! First I need to remind you to join me and my brilliant Bootcamp Special teachers, Zoë and Riley, in a FREE live Zoom

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FREE warm-up exercise on creating a character

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing the first part of a FREE two-part #MATSprep illustration assignment I’ve created for you to get you warmed up and ready for Bootcamp Special: Character Play, which starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, April 7th! I can’t wait for Zoë, Riley and I to show you how easy it can be to create winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more. Q: Hold up. What’s Bootcamp Special: Character Play? A: Bootcamp Special: Character Play is a playful, relaxed course that’s designed to boost your creativity and give you more income streams for your art, so you can make more money doing what you love. It focuses on two fabulous art markets – children’s picture books and toys and games – and is taught by two top experts. Art by Make Art That Sells student Valerie Hamill for Bootcamp

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Why being able to create characters is amazing for your career

Learning how to create characters is fantastic for your art career! Here’s why: 1. 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 lots of things that you probably haven’t even thought of – clothing for kids and adults alike, cushions, bedlinens, tea towels and oven gloves, phone cases: basically anything you can decorate. 2. Let your personality shine It’s 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 you dream up will reflect that. 3. You can create characters no matter what level you’re at A character can be as simple as a stick figure or putting eyes on a sock or a lamp. Make eye-catching

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Replay of Live with Lila – end of our Spring Sale!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale closes TODAY!, with 25% off our career-making courses and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! Now is the time to snag those courses you’ve had your eye on – you won’t get our courses for 2025 cheaper than this! Did you miss the fabulous live with Lilla on the last day of the sale? If you missed the live Zoom (or just want to watch it again!), catch the replay below – it’s perfect to listen to as you doodle or sketch. Enjoy!

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Last chance to SAVE!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends TODAY! If you’re planning on taking any of our career-changing courses in 2025, you won’t get them cheaper than this – so if you’ve had your eye on something for a while, grab it now and save! Don’t forget: Tonight our prices will go up – you won’t get our courses cheaper than this! Last chance to grab the option of paying in installments on our amazing bundles – check them out here. Don’t miss out – shop the sale here! Gorgeous products agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Lilla has decades of experience to share – let her show you how you can get your art on cool products like these. (And if you’ve already bought a course or two and wish you’d got one of our incredible value bundles instead, that’s not a problem – simply email us at [email protected] and

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FREE career mentoring – don’t miss tomorrow’s Zoom!

Do you have questions you’d love to have answered by an art agent of 30 years, an illustrator, educator, columnist and all round creative powerhouse? Would you like to get FREE live career mentoring? Want the chance to win a fabulous FREE class? Our huge Spring Sale ends TOMORROW, but we’re going out with a bang with a fab FREE live public Zoom event with art agent Lilla! With decades of experience as an art agent, illustrator, author, speaker, columnist and more, Lilla has tons of wisdom to share, and she wants to help artists like you prosper and thrive! Lilla will be popping a volunteer up on the screen with her for free live 1:1 career mentoring! Plus she’ll be taking your questions about Make Art That Sells courses or anything else you want to ask her so you can benefit from the wealth of her decades of experience. Plus

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Make art + live your best life

It feels like there’s a lot going on at the moment, right? Some of us may be struggling to stay positive when it feels like we’re constantly being bombarded with bad news and negativity. We reached out to art agent and wise fairy artmother Lilla Rogers to ask her advice on how to stay positive when it feels like there’s nothing but doom and gloom ahead, and this is what she told us. Lilla told us: “I’ve lived through many tough times, and I can tell you this: focus on what you can control, which is your art and your art career. It can be very empowering to give yourself permission to focus on something positive that you can affect. I find that my art and the courses that I teach through Make Art That Sells, are a wonderful focus that brings joy and is uplifting, and my students tell