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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

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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

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#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

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#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’

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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

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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

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WIN FREE COURSES in our all-star Zoom event TODAY!

Do you have a burning career question you want to put to a top art agent or brilliant creative director? Do you have questions about any of our courses? Do you want to spend an hour or so in the company of an amazing creative community that will leave you feeling invigorated and inspired? Do you want to win a FREE place on one of our career-changing courses? Can we get a heck yeah? Then join art agent Lilla and the rest of the fabulous Make Art That Sells teachers for a FREE LIVE all-star Zoom event TODAY at 1.30 pm EDT/6.30 pm BST! Click here to find out when it will be on in your time zone, then set a reminder on your phone and stick a Post-it on your sketchbook! Meet your teachers in our FREE all-star Zoom: (l-r) Lilla, Beth, Zoë, Margo, Riley and Tamisha. Don’t miss

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Read how these artists got book deals!

Why should you sign up for Illustrating Children’s Books and save up to 40%? Don’t delay – our big Spring Sale ends TOMORROW! In just five weeks, you’ll build a powerful pitch presentation that contains everything an art director needs to see to give you a children’s book illustration deal … … while learning everything you need to know to land and do the job (like Cat, below, who landed her first deal before she’d even finished the course!) Weekly LIVE reviews to keep you motivated and inspire you to do your very best work (prepare to be amazed by how much your art grows!) Get your art directly in front of top art agent Lilla and renowned children’s book art director Zoë, who are always looking for new talent Right now you can save 20%, or up to a huge 40% when you buy as part of a bundle

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She drew her dream client – what happened next will amaze you!

She drew her dream client – what happened next will amaze you! We love boasting about our fabulous students and everything they’ve achieved, and fortunately they give us tons to boast about! We recently shared a selection of recent student success stories, with more coming up tomorrow and a ton on our website – read more here. Today though we’re sharing a fabulous success story that really caught our attention. Watch an extract from Lilla’s live Zoom event below where she reads the card from Sharisse and shows off Sharisse’s beautiful book. A couple of months ago, art agent Lilla picked up her mail right before a live Zoom event, and found a card from Make Art That Sells student Sharisse Steber, along with a copy of her book, Rise & Roar: A guided journal for outdoor adventure. Sharisse wrote that she had signed up for the MATS MBA (Money

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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