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  Our hugely popular online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts May 20th

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Learn how you can build a lucrative career in the dreamy world of children’s book illustration with Make Art That Sells’ Illustrating Children’s Books and Illustrating Children’s Books Plus courses!

Designed for newbies and pro illustrators alike, this career-changing course covers everything you need to know to give your children’s book illustration career a huge boost. In just five weeks, you’ll create a ready-to-send pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or publisher needs to see to give you work. Taught by industry professionals, you’ll gain real-world insights into the thriving children’s book market, whilst honing your skills through weekly assignments, live reviews, downloadable worksheets, video lessons, interviews with publishers and illustrators and more. Get all the tools, insight, and advice you need to succeed with Illustrating Children’s Books.

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Children’s book illustration success stories for spring 2021 (Part 1!)

Children’s book illustration success stories – Part 1! When you’re investing money in an illustration course, what do you really want to know? That it’s enjoyable, sure. That your teachers have good credentials, of course. That it’ll grow your art and teach you new things, naturally. But what’s the number one thing you want to know? That it actually works. Make Art That Sells courses really work. We’ve got dozens of stories to share, from students at every stage of their journey, with children’s book illustration success stories ranging 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 our students so successful? Here are just some of the reasons why: You’ll learn everything you need to know to get the gig. Our teachers, including top art agent Lilla Rogers, brilliant children’s


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Children’s book illustration styles: how Lilla’s artists illustrated her story

Same story, different children’s book illustration styles! Imagine getting a call from an art director saying they adore your work and would love to work with you … Imagine getting an email from one of your favorite authors saying that your art is exactly what they’re looking for… Imagine getting to spend your time creating adorable characters and whimsical worlds – and getting paid for it! Are you dreaming of building a successful career in the magical world of children’s picture book illustration? Our raved-about career-changing course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, April 12th, and there’s still time to sign up! Each course includes three brand new texts written especially for class and carefully designed to let every student shine, no matter what stage you’re at. Our texts are usually written by brilliant children’s book art director and course co-teacher, Zoë Tucker – and


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What do our Illustrating Children’s Books students REALLY think of the course?

read Illustrating Children’s Books course reviews by our students! There’s just over one month to go until the start of our career-changing children’s book illustration course, Illustrating Children’s Books – class starts Monday, April 12th! In just five incredible, intense weeks, you’ll learn everything you need to know to build a successful career in this dreamy art market from your teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author, Zoë Tucker, while also creating a powerful pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or publisher wants to see. Plus, right now you can sign up at a 20% discount – book your spot now! We’re always sharing success stories – but what is the Illustrating Children’s Books course really like? The good news is that some of our fabulous students have been sharing their Illustrating Children’s Book course reviews in blogs and


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REVEALED: See the brand new books from Make Art That Sells teacher Zoë Tucker

Meet Zoë Tucker! We love sharing our amazing students’ incredible success stories – but it makes a nice change to be able to share some of our wonderful teachers’ success stories too! Meet Zoë Tucker! Brilliant children’s picture book art director (here holding up the award-winning How to Hide a Lion, which she art directed and designed), acclaimed picture book author, and co-teacher of Illustrating Children’s Books. Zoë Tucker, who co-teaches our raved-about Illustrating Children’s Books course alongside art agent Lilla, has just published two more children’s picture books, alongside her previous titles. And all this as well as years of experience as a brilliant children’s book art director whose clients include top author-illustrators Axel Scheffler, Nick Sharratt, Helen Stephens, and Guy Parker-Rees! Full page spread from Ada Lovelace and the Number Crunching Machine, written by Zoë Tucker for Illustrating Children’s Books and illustrated by Make Art That Sells student


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How to become a children’s book illustrator: more student success stories!

Find out how to become a children’s book illustrator Make Art That Sells courses really work – and right now you can grab them for at least 25% off in our huge Cyber Sale! We absolutely love showing off our amazing students’ incredible success stories, and today we’re sharing just some of the recent book deals that we’ve heard about. ✨ Would you love to build a career in the dreamy world of children’s book illustration? ✨ Would you live to write and illustrate your very own children’s picture book? ✨ Or are you dreaming of your very own unique toy or games featuring your gorgeous art? We have courses for all these and more – and they’re all 25% off OR save a whopping 40% when you buy them all together with our My Magical Kid Book and Toy Career bundle! Click here to download our gorgeous Sale Guide


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Incredible student successes – see the amazing book deals our alumni landed!

Illustration jobs, book deals and more … There are few things we love more than shouting about our brilliant students! You’re going to be amazed and inspired by their astonishing career success stories (and if you enjoyed these, find more here) … Siski Kalla Siski has taken MATS MBA (Money BadAss) and Creating Collections for Home Décor, but children’s book illustration is her real passion – she took Illustrating Children’s Books last year and has just taken the 2020 class**. Since finding Make Art That Sells, she’s tells us she’s thrilled that she’s now making a living out of her art, was commissioned to illustrate I Love You This Much for Wonderbly, and is currently working on a picture book for Trigger Publishing. **BREAKING NEWS! We’ve just heard that Siski has already got another board book commission based on the work that she did for Illustrating Children’s Books 2020! Huge congratulations,


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Book the course, make the leap! PLUS: Last chance to register for Illustrating Children’s Books 2020!

Hurry hurry! Registration for Lilla’s raved-about, life-changing online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, closes TODAY! This is the only time we’ll be running this course in 2020, so if you want in then book your place NOW. Today, we’re sharing a great Illustrating Children’s Books success story – read on below, or find more of our alumni success stories here. In a recent Facebook Live for our business course for creative people, MATS MBA (Money BadAss), Make Art That Sells co-founders, art agent Lilla and best-selling author Beth Kempton, discussed the importance of taking risks with your business, even when it feels terrifying – like putting your art out there, or emailing an art director. Art by Make Art That Sells student Josie Macey for Illustrating Children’s Books 2019. Lilla said: “Being frightened is a gift, because it means you’re challenging yourself, and that means that you’re going to get better.


MICHELLE CARLOS ENVIRONMENT 1 Make Art That Sells Illustrating Children’s Books starts TODAY! Get your FREE Text Chooser!

Illustrating Children’s Books starts TODAY! Get your FREE Text Chooser!

Our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY! Every year, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students – read about just some of them here, or scroll down for another student success story. 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 Michelle Carlos for Illustrating Children’s Books 2019. Our original texts are written specially for class and are carefully designed to help every student


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Day 5: Your final FREE assignment PLUS FREE insider interview with a children’s book art director!

Lilla here. Oh, man, you are a whole bunch of brilliant artists! You delight me with your imagination, sensitivity, talent. You may have seen in last week’s newsletter that we’ve decided to create a free public gallery to showcase all the incredible art that you’ve created over the past few weeks – find it here, and please do use it. I love to see what you’ve done. Of course, you can share your art on social media too – remember to use the tag #MATSprep and tag @makeartthatsells so I can see. I trick you into doing your best work! You’re going to be amazed at what you can achieve in my classes. (By the way, have you heard that I’m looking to represent new artists I’ve spotted in Make Art That Sells classes? All 20 of the artists I’ve offered representation to since Make Art That Sells started in


EUNJI JUNG ENVIRONMENT 2 Make Art That Sells Day 4: FREE mini art class: Three giant tricks that will take your art to the next level!

Day 4: FREE mini art class: Three giant tricks that will take your art to the next level!

Lilla here. Today we’re going to create magic together! I’m going to teach you three great tricks to create depth (distance) in your artwork, and explain why you might want to do so. It’ll help give your artwork a fresh vibrant edge and be another tool in your ever-growing toolkit. Want more tools in your kit? Book one of my classes today. For the past few weeks, I’ve been handing out FREE assignments to help you get ready for my LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts THIS MONDAY, July 27th! There are still a few places available, so if you’d like to spend five weeks with me and my co-teacher, renowned children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, learning everything there is to know about childen’s picture book illustration, then book your spot now! Over the past few weeks, we’ve created a new character and explored fantastic