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Posted on April 6, 2023.

Make money from your art: 5 reasons to sign up NOW

Join art agent Lilla for a LIVE Zoom event TOMORROW at 12 noon EDT/5 pm BST! She’ll be giving away a FREE place in her exciting new class, My Arty Book Pitch! Plus she’ll be showing off some gorgeous arty books that she’s agented, answering your questions, and popping a volunteer up on screen so she can talk to them 1:1. Don’t miss it! Set a reminder on your phone now and find the link on our Instagram Stories or the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com. Want to make your art better than ever in 2023? Want to fill your portfolio with stunning job-snagging on-trend art? Want to land so many jobs that you’re getting to pick and choose what you want to do and turning potential clients away? Our big Spring Sale is on NOW, with juicy discounts across every single one of our raved-about courses plus

Posted on April 5, 2023.

Our courses really work: 5 children’s book success stories

Imagine getting an email from an art director saying that they adore your art and would love to work with you … Imagine spending months creating winning characters and dreamy worlds for children (and adults) to fall in love with – and getting paid $$$ for it … Imagine getting a package in the mail and opening it up to find proof copies of your very own picture book, illustrated and/or written by you … Children’s books are a HUGE market for your art and one that many illustrators dream of breaking into. And no wonder – even in our increasingly digital world, nothing quite beats the feeling of curling up with a beautifully written and illustrated book. Whether you want to learn what you need to show in your portfolio to land kid book illustration jobs and build a show-stopping pitch, write your very own unique picture book story,

Posted on April 4, 2023.

Increase your income and boost your book career at up to 45% off

Get it all with My Semester of Art School 2023! Whoop whoop, our big Spring Sale started yesterday, with 25% off every single one of our career-changing courses plus some brilliant bundles, including the fabulous My Semester of Art School! Fun fact: all of our live courses for the rest of the year are book-related: Lilla’s exciting NEW illustrated non-fiction book course, My Arty Book Pitch, which starts this Monday, April 10th Lilla’s fabulous picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch our character development bootcamp, Bootcamp Special: Character Play, with children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker and art agent and creative director Riley Wilkinson and our beloved picture book illustration course, Illustrating Children’s Books, with art agent Lilla and Zoë. … so if you’ve been dreaming of building or boosting your career in the dreamy world of books … if you want to stroll past your favorite

Posted on April 3, 2023.

Save up to 45% off everything: Our Spring Sale starts TODAY!

Do you want to supercharge your illustration career? Do you want to grow your art, fill your portfolio, and make real money doing what you love? Do you want to save up to a massive 45% on our career-changing online courses? Then don’t miss out: our big Spring Sale starts TODAY, Monday, April 3rd, with 25% off every single course and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! It’s a fact: art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your art. Despite the downturn in the economy in many places, plenty of art markets – including children’s books, non-fiction books for adults, and toys, games and puzzles – are booming right now. 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. Look

Posted on March 23, 2023.

FREE video: How to use vintage books for inspiration

Arty books – art-driven, illustrated, non-fiction books – are an awesome market for creative people like you – artists, illustrators, crafters, doodlers, photographers and more. Why? Because it’s a new source of income, plus it can bring new paid opportunities, like speaking engagements, teaching opportunities, more illustration gigs, writing for columns, being interviewed on podcasts, and much more. Also, here’s the cool thing about writing and illustrating an arty book: you don’t need to be amazing at writing OR brilliant at drawing. You don’t even need to be an expert. What will your arty book be about? Find out with My Arty Book Pitch. Q. WHAT? Then what on earth DO you need to be in order to pitch, write and illustrate your own arty book? A. You just need to be excited about showing or teaching or sharing something. That’s it. Q. Um, are you sure? A. Yes! Lilla

Posted on November 17, 2022.

Open now for your FREE Sale Guide, including fab worksheets from art agent Lilla

Our Giant Cyber Sale kicks off NEXT TUESDAY, November 22nd, with savings across every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our fabulous bundles! Get your free copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide, full of quizzes and worksheets and a creative career planner, and start planning your amazing creative career. Where will the next 12 months take you? This is our biggest sale of the year, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses and even bigger savings on our incredible bundles! Don’t miss out! Click here to download your FREE Sale Guide, then grab a drink and a pencil and get stuck in. Here’s what you’ll find in your packed Sale Guide: An intriguing quiz that will help you figure out what sort of book is perfect for you An insightful worksheet to help you hone in on your very own unique arty

Posted on May 11, 2022.

#MATSprep: Get Part 2 of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment!

Illustrating Children’s Books 2022 starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, May 23rd! To help you get ready for class and warm up your creative muscles, we’re sharing a series of FREE assignments from course co-teacher and renowned art agent, Lilla Rogers: read on for Part 2! What’s Illustrating Children’s Books? It’s an incredible five week LIVE online course that will teach you everything you need to know to launch or boost your children’s picture book illustration career. It’s hard to believe that this will be the ninth time that your teachers, art agent and Make Art That Sells founder, Lilla Rogers, and acclaimed children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, have run this course – and each time, it just gets better and better! Every year, our students net dozens of wonderful book deals – read about some of them here – and we can’t wait to

Posted on May 9, 2022.

#MATSprep: You do NOT want to miss this photo

Our raved-about, career-changing LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, May 23rd (places are still available: book yours here)! It’s an incredibly rigorous course that’s also playful and fun, which is why our students take it again and again. Your teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director Zoë Tucker, will teach you everything you need to know about the wonderful world of children’s book illustration, in an accessible, step by step way that will break everything down and help you bring your A-game to every assignment: as Lilla always says, she tricks you into doing your very best work! You’ll get daily drawing prompts, weekly LIVE reviews with your teachers, and weekly assignments that will build into a show-stopping professional pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or editor needs to see to give you a kids’

Posted on May 7, 2022.

BREAKING: Sale extended for 24 hours – shop now!

We hope you enjoyed our All-Star Zoom event with art agent Lilla and the rest of the Make Art That Sells teachers as much as we did! We learned a ton from these incredible creative professionals, and they gave away a whole heap of FREE places in class too. If you want hot tips on building a stellar creative career from art agents, creative directors, illustrators and more then don’t miss this! If you missed out on yesterday’s Zoom catch up below. It’s perfect to listen to while you sketch, paint and draw, so grab a drink and your sketchbook and enjoy. BREAKING NEWS: An extra 24 hours to shop! Yesterday’s Zoom brought a flurry of activity to our big Spring Sale, with lots of students clearly feeling inspired and ready to build their creative careers. We’ve decided to extend our big Spring Sale for just another 24 hours, to

Posted on May 6, 2022.

LAST CHANCE! Sale ends TODAY! + Replay of All-Star Zoom

Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends TODAY! That means it’s your very last chance to snap up all of our fabulous career-changing courses at a 20% discount – or save even more (up to a huge 40%!) when you buy as part of a bundle. Explore everything that’s included in the sale and get insightful worksheets from top art agent Lilla Rogers in our beautiful Sale Guide. If you haven’t got it already, download your free copy here and enjoy pages of worksheets and dreamy student art. Download your copy of our Sale Guide here: it’s packed with gorgeous student art, handy info and insightful worksheets from art agent Lilla Rogers. Don’t forget: Today is your LAST CHANCE to snap up big discounts on all of our raved-about courses. Some bundles won’t be available after the sale finishes – grab them now. These are our best prices