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Wow! Alumni success interview with Siski Kalla

We’ve got a fabulous student success story to share with you today! Art agent Lilla’s main motivation in founding Make Art That Sells is helping creative people prosper and thrive and make real money from their art, and that’s why we love to share success stories from our wonderful community. Make Art That Sells student Siski Kalla recently got in touch to let us know that since taking Make Art That Sells courses, she’s landed multiple traditional book illustration contracts, is now represented by an agency, and has worked with lots of self-published authors too. She told us: “It’s now my full-time career! I always recommend Make Art That Sells. Best fun ever too!” We knew we had to find out more about everything Siski has been up to, so we reached out with some more questions: enjoy our alumni success interview with Siski below. Siski Kalla Siski (left) plus

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Want to learn how to get YOUR dreamy art on cool products like these, agented by Lilla Rogers Studio? Here’s your teacher, Lilla Rogers! As an art agent for 30 years, an illustrator, an author, a regular columnist, a speaker and more, she’s got shedloads of wisdom and advice to share! Find out how from top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers – plus save up to 45% in our huge Spring Sale, on now! You won’t get our courses for 2025 cheaper than this, so if you’ve had your eye on something for a while, sign up now and save at least 25% and up to 45% – but hurry hurry HURRY, the sale ends SOON! Lots of love The Make Art That Sells team xxx

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Lettering is BACK! See gorgeous student sketchbooks

Learn how to do hand lettering with top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers! Being able to do lettering can get you a ton of work. Last year, Lilla launched her brand new lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, and it was such a huge success that, due to popular demand, we’re bringing it back for 2025 with all new dreamy content to amp up your art and help you get more paying jobs. In this three month bootcamp, you’ll spent 12 amazing weeks with Lilla with ALL NEW assignments to build up an incredible library of lettering you can use in your work going forward – and because it’s all new, you can take the course again if you took it last year, to create a really powerful reference tool to refer back to. NEW FOR 2025: enjoy a brush lettering demo with Lilla! Learn tips and tricks from Lilla

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Replay of Live with Lilla, Zoë And Riley!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale is on NOW, 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 plus brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker and creative director and smash hit game creator Riley Wilkinson? 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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See the beautiful books our students have illustrated

Picture books are one of the most magical and rewarding art markets out there, and we couldn’t be more excited to see so many of our graduates landing incredible picture book illustration deals! Here’s your teacher! As an art agent for 30 years, Lilla has viewed thousands of artists’ portfolios and agented many hundreds of picture books, so she knows just what you need to show in your portfolio. Today, we’re celebrating some of the amazing picture book success stories our talented students have shared with us – they’re truly inspiring! (Love these? You can explore even more of our alumni’s fantastic achievements right here.) And don’t forget—our huge Spring Sale is happening right now! That means 25% off every single course – and if your dream is to get paid for illustrating picture books, don’t miss our game-changing Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle, packed with even bigger

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Look who’s represented

You know what’s great? Making art and getting paid for it. You know what’s also great? Getting an agent. Having an agent is amazing, because they negotiate contracts and fees and promote you, and leave the best part – making art – to you. Make Art That Sells courses are really effective at helping artists land representation, because they help you build a powerful illustration portfolio that contains everything an agent needs to see in order to get you work.  And let’s face it – Lilla should know! As an art agent for 30 years and a full-time illustrator for over a decade, she’s created our raved-about Make Art That Sells courses to help artists like you land agents and get commissions. In fact, if you check out our amazing public Zoom event with Lilla and illustrator Tamisha Anthony from earlier this week, you’ll see that Tamisha talks about how

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4 reasons you need My Semester of Art School 2025

Hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale is on NOW! If you’re still trying to decide which of our career-changing, job-snagging courses to take then why not just take them all with My Semester of Art School? Q: Hold up. What’s My Semester of Art School? A: Simply put, it’s ALL of our raved-about online art courses for the rest of 2025, at an incredible 45% off. Q: Intriguing. Is this for me? A: It’s for anyone at any stage or level who wants to transform their art career, explore new art markets, build a portfolio aimed at landing book illustration and writing gigs, make their art even better, and make real money from making art. Oh – and all at a brilliant price. Art by Make Art That Sells student Colee Wilkinson for Illustrating Children’s Books. Discover how to make gorgeous art like this for your portfolio, designed to

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Replay of Live with Lilla! Our Spring Sale is on!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale is on NOW, 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! To celebrate the start of our Spring Sale, Make Art That Sells co-founder and course creator, Lilla Rogers, who is also an art agent with 30 years’ experience, an illustrator, an author, a columnist, a speaker and more, hosted a live Zoom event with Make Art That Sells teacher Tamisha Anthony, who is herself an educator and illustrator with a ton of picture book illustration gigs under her belt. 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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HURRY! Our giant spring sale starts TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale is on NOW, with 25% off every single one of our courses and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! Now is the time to snag those courses you’ve had your eye on! Testimonial from Make Art That Sells student Julia Christians – the courses also got her spotted and represented by Lilla Rogers Studio! Art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your art. Plenty of the hot art markets – including children’s books, non-fiction books for adults, greeting cards, and toys, games and puzzles – are booming right now, because people always want books, puzzles and cards. Whether you’re looking for a change of direction, you’re ready to take your illustration career to the next level, or you simply want to grow your art and flex your creative muscles, we’ve got everything you need. If you want to grow your

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It’s baaaaaack!

You asked so here it is – our fabulous Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle which hasn’t been available since our big sale in 2024 is now back on offer, so grab it while it’s hot! Do you love picture books and would love to land jobs in this amazing art market? Have you already had some success with picture books but want to get booked solid with picture book illustration work? Are you always dreaming up quirky characters and unique storylines, and now you want to see them in print – and get paid for it? The picture book market is huge, as well as being dreamy to work in: according to market research company Cognitive, it was valued at $4,715 million in 2024, and is expected to grow by 4.3% from 2024 to 2031. No matter how digital, online or automated the world becomes, there’s nothing quite