Learn how to get paid for illustrating children’s books!

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

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FREE Facebook Live, Bingo Board and more!

Have you signed up for your FREE place on MATS MBA (Money BadAss) yet? We’re giving it to you as a gift during this uncertain time, so you have something positive to focus on and to help you find a way to build a thriving creative business. As you know, we are currently living through a strange and unprecedented time in world history – a time that art agent Lilla is calling the between worlds, where we’re caught between the old life that we knew and a new uncertain future. It’s left many of us feeling confused, unsettled, scared. Where do we go from here? In her recent free Facebook Live event for our new MBA students (want in? Sign up for your FREE place here), Make Art That Sells co-founders Lilla and Beth talked about reframing your experience of this time. While there is plenty for us to be


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From our founders Lilla and Beth: A career-supporting gift for you in these tough times

How are you doing with all that is going on in the world? Together we are facing an unprecedented, challenging time. Everything is shifting, and many things are uncertain. In the face of this, we want you to know that the MATS community is here for you. Art can be a powerful force for good, a support for our collective mental health, and a way to stay connected with ourselves and each other. Make Art That Sells Founders: Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton We also know that now, more than ever, we need tools and innovation to allow us to imagine a new kind of future, where we can be creative in the way we generate money to support our families, pay the bills, and help keep our local communities thriving. That’s why we want to gift every single person in our community a free place on our online course


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Why do students sign up for My Year of Art School? Read their stories

Do you want your 2020 to be full of creative goodness? Do you want to spend a year making your art better and better under the guidance of a top art agent? Book your place now! LAST CHANCE! Do you want to explore the exciting world of Editorial illustration, make a stunning piece for your portfolio, and learn tons of tips direct from Lilla Rogers, a former pro illustrator turned art agent? Then HURRY – you want to register for Editorial LIVE: Illustrating Magazines and More, which closes TODAY! Do you want to discover multiple art markets, build a showstopping portfolio and create better and better art in 2020? Then HURRY – you want to register for our brilliant live class bundle, My Year of Art School LIVE, which closes TODAY! Or do you want to light a fire under your illustration career this year with every single course we’re


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Our biggest sale of the year ends TODAY!

Making art that sells Whatever your plans for your creative career in 2020, we’ve got the insight, insider info and assignments that will empower you to turn your dreams into reality. Imagine filling your portfolio with beautiful, job-snagging art … Imagine opening your favorite glossy magazine and seeing your gorgeous art inside … Imagine your Etsy shop selling out so fast you hardly have time to restock it … Imagine landing your dream children’s book illustration job: spending weeks immersed in creating a magical world for children to fall in love with – and getting paid for it … Imagine making art that sells! Want to find out how you can get your art onto cool products like these from Lilla’s artists? Let Lilla show you how – she’s got tons of wisdom and insider insight to share! BUT HURRY! LAST CHANCE! Don’t forget that our GIANT CYBER SALE ends


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Find out how you’re going to get a kid book deal in 2020, plus get our FREE job-snagging download

Ready for your kid book deal? Let art agent Lilla Rogers and children’s author and children’s book art director Zoë Tucker teach you everything you need to know! There’s something magical about a picture book, isn’t there? Opening the pages, the feel, the smell – and of course the beautiful art. How must it feel to get to illustrate a book of your very own: to spend weeks or months digging deep into the text and bringing it to life for generations of children to enjoy – and getting paid to do it? How do you get a picture book gig? By showing art directors and publishers exactly what they want to see in your portfolio and pitch. And that’s what top art agent Lilla Rogers and recently published children’s author and brilliant children’s book art director Zoë Tucker are going to do. If you’re dreaming of illustrating – or


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How to build a show-stopping portfolio

Here’s the big reveal for Day 4 of our fab FREE cyber sale #MATSprep: meet #illustratorBarbie! Isn’t being an illustrator just the best job ever? Getting to hang out in your pajamas all day making art and getting paid for it? Share your finished piece with us on Instagram and let us know what you love most about being an illustrator in the caption! What did Lilla love about being an illustrator? Find out, including why it’s the opposite of soul-crushing in the audio clip below. Our Giant Cyber Sale is now on, which means that, until next Monday, December 2nd ONLY, all your old favorites plus our exciting NEW classes for 2020 are heavily discounted! Registration for all of our outstanding courses for 2020, including Lilla’s brand new courses, My Kid Book Pitch and Lilla’s Mystery Box, will be open next year at full price, but you can grab


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5 reasons why you need Make Art That Sells courses in your life in 2020

Want to make your art better than ever in 2020? 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? Which courses will you take in 2020? With 25% off individual courses and up to 50% off bundles, you’ll be spoilt for choice! Download your sale guide here. Our huge cyber sale is on NOW, with juicy discounts across every single one of our raved-about courses plus huge savings on some scrumptious bundles that will give you everything you need to light a fire under your creative career in 2020. Download your copy of our gorgeous FREE sale guide here to see everything that’s included. Need some help deciding? Our Bundle Chooser will help you out, whatever your goals and dreams for the year ahead. Here’s Day


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Get your FREE Illustrator Barbie #MATSprep

Today’s the day! Our Giant Cyber Sale starts TODAY! It’s our biggest sale of the year, with 25% off all individual courses and our fabulous bundles at up to 50% off (plus installment options on ALL our bundles). Don’t miss out: you will not find our courses cheaper than this! We’ve got everything you need to transform your art career in 2020 with an incredible learning opportunity every single month, including inspirational courses, fun assignments, and bucketloads of incredible tips and advice! Here’s Day 1 of your FREE #MATSprep! 
Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get Days 2 through 4. To celebrate the start of our sale, we’re giving away Day 1 of our fab FREE #MATSprep from top art agent Lilla! What’s a #MATSprep? It’s a FREE creative warm-up exercise to get you ready for class, and they’re open to all, whether you’re a Make


CYBER GUIDE Make Art That Sells Get your beautiful FREE guide to our Giant Cyber Sale

Get your beautiful FREE guide to our Giant Cyber Sale

Are you ready to supercharge your art career in 2020? Our Giant Cyber Sale starts on TUESDAY, with at least 25% off every single one of our job-snagging raved-about online courses, and up to 50% off our fantastic bundles (plus the option to pay by installments on all bundles) Today we’re giving you a FREE copy of our beautiful Giant Cyber Sale guide! Print it out, get yourself a coffee, sit yourself down, close your eyes and spend a moment or two thinking about what you want to get out of 2020. Where do you want to be? What’s your focus? Will you finish 2020 with your brand new kids’ book in your hands? Your first full-page editorial illustration? Having landed your dream home décor gig? Perhaps this will be the year you set up your Etsy shop or get serious about turning your side hustle into a fulfilling full-time


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Get your FREE Dream Armadillo downloadable worksheet!

How will your 2020 look? Which art markets will you focus on? Want to make your art even better? Want to get your beautiful art in front of a top art agent and maybe snag yourself representation? Let the Dream Armadillo lead the way! Art agent Lilla has come up with yet another brilliant and wacky downloadable worksheet to help you start to plan how you’re going to take your amazing creative career to the next level in 2020. Plus we’ll also reveal our schedule of raved-about courses for 2020, so you can get planning and plotting your year ahead! Meet the Dream Armadillo! What are your career goals for 2020? How will you meet them? We’ve got everything that you need to help you make art that sells and build a successful creative career! To help you to start to think about your career goals and dreams for 2020,