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WOW! 🤩 Another text from our Illustrating Children’s Books course got published!

If you’re going to make portfolio art, illustrate professional level exclusive texts that will help you build a powerful children’s book illustration portfolio that gets you a book deal! Every Illustrating Children’s Books course includes at least THREE exclusive stories written especially for class by co-teacher Zoë Tucker, who is a children’s book art director and published picture book author, which means you get real world experience of professional quality texts! Class starts May 23rd, and right now you can save 20% in our big Spring Sale – sign up here! How do we know they’re so good? Because the THIRD story from class just got published! Full page spread from The Garden We Share, the third story written for Illustrating Children’s Books that has gone on to be published. Sign up now for real world experience of exclusive, professional level texts! Zoë Tucker, the children’s book art director and


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Make Art That Sells courses really work: here’s proof!

Hurry! Our big Spring Sale ends Friday! Imagine getting an email from an art director saying how much they love your art, that they’ve bookmarked your website and that they can’t wait to work with you Imagine getting paid real money to draw pictures – and getting so many jobs that you can pick and choose and have to turn some down Imagine getting The Call from art agent Lilla Rogers! For almost ten years, Make Art That Sells courses have boosted the creative careers of thousands of students across the globe – and we’ve got the receipts to back it up. We’ve got tons of alumni success stories to share – scroll down for some of the most recent, including how one of our students got picked up by Cartoon Network, or head over to our blog for dozens more. Do you want to make a career out of


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Get a children’s book illustration deal! Student success stories

Make Art That Sells courses really work. We’ve got dozens of success stories to share, from students at every stage of their journey, from setting up a new website or having the courage finally to send that email, all the way up to landing incredible book deals and representation. Why are Make Art That Sells students so successful? Here are just some of the reasons why: You’ll learn everything you need to know to get the gig: this is real world learning from experts. Our teachers, including top art agent Lilla Rogers, brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, renowned creative director Margo Tantau and smash-hit game creator Riley Wilkinson, have decades of industry experience under their belts. That means that not only do they have tons of insight to share, but they can teach you how to present your art so that you’re showing art directors, publishers


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Meet the TWO Make Art That Sells students now represented by Lilla Rogers

If you caught the recent free live Zoom event hosted by art agent Lilla and creative director and smash hit game creator Riley (and if you didn’t then you really should – catch up here) then you may already know that Lilla Rogers Studio is now representing yet another Make Art That Sells student – but Lilla actually offered representation to TWO more students (with a couple more in the pipeline!), and we’re thrilled to introduce them both today. Watch the moment when Lilla accidentally revealed her new artist in our recent live Zoom event below. You never know what will happen in a live Zoom! Join us for our next one on Friday, April 29th – details below. These are the first two students to be offered representation by Lilla so far in 2022, but we’re confident they won’t be the last – she took on a huge EIGHT


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Spotted by an art agent! Meet Lilla Rogers’ new artist

There’s no doubt that landing representation can make life as an illustrator much easier – they deal with all the messy business stuff so that you can focus on just making gorgeous art, plus an agent can provide exciting new opportunities for your art, a community, and more. How do you get an agent anyway? In simple terms: by getting your art in front of them. This might be by creating a website for your art and keeping it up to date, sharing your art on social media, sending out postcards of your art to agents you admire, or contacting them directly. Another fantastic way of getting your art directly in front of an art agent, of course, is Make Art That Sells courses – and now that Riley has joined the teaching team, several courses give you the opportunity to get your art in front of not one but


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Your incredible illustration career: 5 more success stories

Meet your teachers in a fab, FREE, content-packed, all-star Zoom TODAY at 2 pm ET/7 pm GMT! Do you still have questions about any of our courses? Do you have a burning career question you want to put to a top art agent or brilliant creative director? Do you just want to spend an hour or so in the company of an amazing creative community that will leave you feeling invigorated and inspired? Meet your teachers in our FREE all-star Zoom: (l-r) Lilla, Beth, Zoë, Margo, Riley and Tamisha. Join art agent Lilla for a FREE all-star live Zoom event TODAY at 2 pm ET/7 pm GMT, along with all of your amazing Make Art That Sells teachers: Beth, Zoë, Margo, Riley and Tamisha. This is your opportunity to ask an art agent – plus the Make Art That Sells teachers – anything! Lilla will be asking questions of the


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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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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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REVEALED: Meet Lilla Rogers Studio’s new artist, Tequitia Andrews!

Do you want to be represented by one of the world’s top agents? Top art agent Lilla Rogers is always on the lookout for illustrators to represent in her innovative art agency, Lilla Rogers Studio. And she’s particularly partial to Make Art That Sells students. Why? Because she knows they’ll have powerful portfolios that will get them work in a ton of markets from the Make Art That Sells courses that they’ve taken. Plus she gets to know them in class and see how they interact with other students, whether they meet deadlines, whether they conduct themselves professionally, and so on. In other words, taking Make Art That Sells courses is an amazing way to get your art in front of Lilla, and maybe land representation with this unique art agency. Does it really work? YES! Lilla has already announced that she’s offered representation to FIVE Make Art That Sells


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More children’s book illustration success stories, plus watch our FREE live Zoom event!

Who loves children’s book illustration success stories? We do! Our career-changing online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY! Every year, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students – we’ve shared some new children’s book illustration success stories below – and if you want more, find them here. What’s Illustrating Children’s Books all about? Over five incredible weeks, your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and 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. Art by Make Art That Sells student Erin Vanessa Sand, who