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REVEALED: Your favorite jobs and clients

Way back in 2023 (remember that?), we asked you to share your very best jobs and clients. We loved reading your stories, and we’re thrilled to share some of them here today – look out for another batch coming up soon. Jemma Jamie Skidmore Our favorite story was from Jemma Jamie Skidmore, who told us she was commissioned by Galison Puzzles to make a puzzle from an assignment she got as part of the My Year of Art School bundle, plus a children’s book illustration job that we’ll share more about in a later newsletter. Jemma’s art for the assignment from art agent Lilla (left) and her puzzle for Galliston (right). Jemma wins our Best of Bootcamp: Market Mix 1 bundle, which is packed with more fabulous assignments from art agent Lilla – we hope it helps her land lots more brilliant jobs! Want to get what Jemma won? The

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FLASH SALE: Open now for 20% off My Kid Book Pitch!

Get 20% off art agent Lilla’s hugely popular children’s book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, for the next 72 hours ONLY, and get access right now! Make Art That Sells student Katie Vernon wrote her first author-illustrated picture book, Ari Arranges Everything, while beta testing My Kid Book Pitch. Her THIRD book comes out this May! Have you ever dreamed of writing and maybe illustrating your very own children’s book? Imagine creating characters and worlds that will entertain and enchant children for generations – and getting paid for it! Imagine walking past your favorite bookstore and seeing your book in the window – or opening a magazine and seeing your first positive review! Art agent Lilla created her picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, specifically to show creative people like artists and illustrators how they can harness their huge, magical imaginations and write engaging stories that will

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See some of the latest books illustrated by Make Art That Sells students turned LRS artists

Check out these gorgeous books illustrated by Make Art That Sells students! We’ve still got a few months to go until the start of Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 – but that doesn’t mean we can’t treat ourselves to some gorgeous eye candy courtesy of some of the Make Art That Sells students who are represented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Meet Lilla! Lilla is co-founder of Make Art That Sells, a born educator, and a top international art agent – she’s offered representation to more than 30 Make Art That Sells students and is always looking for more! One of the (many) great things about Make Art That Sells courses is that they’re led by a top international art agent, who not only sees exactly what work her artists are getting and thus knows what clients are looking for right now, but who’s also always on the look out for new

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Wow! Even more real-life success stories from our students

We already shared one batch of our students’ actual real life success stories a week ago, but we have so many that here’s another bunch for you. Why? Because we want you to know that it’s perfectly possible for you to build a full-time career in illustration. Q: Why do we have so many success stories to share? A: Art agent Lilla cleverly designs every course to help you to fill your portfolio with art designed to attract paying customers, grow your art so you get better and better (while loving every minute), and make real money from making pictures. We love sharing these. Read on to find out who credits Make Art That Sells courses as setting them on course for their dream career and more. But first, a quick reminder: our huge annual sale is on NOW! So if you’re thinking of taking ANY Make Art That Sells

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Imagine holding your very own book, written and/or illustrated by you, in your hands … Imagine spotting it in the wild in the library or bookstore … Imagine getting invited to your favorite local bookshop or school or radio station to do a reading … Imagine this being your job that you’re getting paid to do! Make Art That Sells students with books they’ve illustrated and/or written: l-r, Lynn Gaines, Erica Root, Darcie Olley, Maruga Koops and Sharisse Steber. This could be you! Books are a fabulous market for both artists and writers, because they’re constantly in demand, and hugely satisfying to work on. Books written and illustrated by artists represented by art agent and Make Art That Sells teacher Lilla Rogers. Imagine building a career working on gorgeous projects like these! Let Lilla show you how. Which of these appeals to you the most: “I want to sink deep

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Replay of Live with Lilla: Ask the Artists

If you missed the fabulous Live with Lilla and three of her artists, we have posted a replay below. Our huge annual sale is here! 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.

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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

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Read how MATS changed these students’ lives

We often talk about how Make Art That Sells courses are career-changing. Today we want to share how they changed the lives of three artists. Sometimes it can be a little lonely being an illustrator, right? Working by yourself for hours on end. That’s why we think one of the very best things about Make Art That Sells courses is – well – YOU. Our Make Art That Sells community. More than 30,000 students from across the globe, from dozens of countries and both hemispheres, who have come together with one aim: to make better art and to make money from doing it. And at the same time, they’ve created something else too: a global community of creatives just like you, who can give advice on works in progress, share tips on everything from which brushes to use to how to format a contract, sympathise with frustrations and celebrate successes.

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REVEALED: Meet the 32nd Make Art That Sells student to land representation with Lilla Rogers!

If you’ve been following Make Art That Sells for a while then you’ll already know that one of several things that makes our courses unique is that they are taught by a top international art agent, Lilla Rogers – and she’s always looking for new artists to represent. In fact, since Make Art That Sells was founded in 2013, Lilla has offered representation to a whopping 32 students whose art she’s fallen in love with in class. Huge congratulations to #32 … Fay Ford! Oxfordshire, UK, based Fay is a long-term Make Art That Sells fan who has taken Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio, Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Part B, Creating Collections for Home Décor, Illustrating Children’s Books, My Toy Pitch, our FREE art history course, Redrawing Black History, and the MATS MBA (Money BadAss) – some of them several times. All this means that she’s created a

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Increa$e your income! Student success stories

  Create winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more A strong character is the backbone of stories, games and more, and that’s why they’re such a great addition to your illustration portfolio. In this playful but powerful course, you’ll get something from your teachers – brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker and art agent and smash-hit game creator Riley Wilkinson – that will help you create some amazing art that’s specifically designed to get you paying jobs. Every month for three months, you’ll get a mini text and an assignment from Zoë, along with some top tips and tricks to help you start illustrating characters. Then, the following week, Riley will help you take those characters you created in week one and make them into an amazing toy pitch. And art agent Lilla will add her insight along the