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48 hours to go: Join Portfolio Club before the price jumps!

Hurry hurry HURRY – only TWO DAYS before our biggest sale of the year ends for good, and that means it’s also your last chance to save big on Lilla’s brand new course for 2026, Portfolio Club! Imagine what it would feel like to get an email directly in your inbox each month with a brand-new assignment for a commission to create a gorgeous piece of portfolio art for a super hot art market … That’s exactly what you’ll get every month for eight months in Portfolio Club! You’ll explore a huge range of art markets, and experience exactly what it’s like to get a commission from an art director. Sign up now! Art by Make Art That Sells student Jean Ruth. Lilla has written eight fantastic Mini assignments and eight Big Assignments for you for an incredible range of art markets that are written exactly as you’d get them

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SALE NOW ON: Up to 50% OFF all courses to help you make art that sells

Our huge annual sale is on NOW, with up to 50% off our career-changing courses – but HURRY, it ends in just THREE DAYS! Make 2026 the year you blossom and thrive as an artist. Let Lilla work her magic on your career! If you’re not sure which courses are perfect for you, be sure to download our brilliant FREE Playbook + Planner, which contains tons of playful and insightful worksheets and quizzes to help you review your successes in 2025 and make a plan for your amazing creative career in 2025. Don’t miss it! Click here to download your FREE copy of our gorgeous Playbook + Planner, jam-packed with powerful worksheets, quizzes, mini assignments and more. Check out our huge sale now and book yourself onto a career-changing course that will bring you inspiration, community and joy in 2026. Click here to explore everything that’s included in the sale.

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See what’s possible: Real-life student success stories!

Our huge annual sale ends in just a few days, on Friday, December 1st – if you haven’t already shopped our amazing reductions on our career-boosting courses, then be sure to check them out here. Today we wanted to share even more recent real life student success stories, including some from some of our self-paced courses. Our self-paced courses are fantastic because you get instant access as soon as you sign up, and you can complete them whenever suits you – you’ll get full access until January 31st, 2027, and you can download the materials to keep forever! Dive into incredible courses like … The MATS MBA (Money BadAss): business learning created especially for creative people like you Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces to help you learn how to draw faces in an accessible innovative way so you can get more jobs Creating Collections for Home Décor for a deep

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Replay of Live with Lilla #3: How to submit your art to agents + Special Guests!

Did you miss the fabulous Live with Lilla #3: How to submit your art to agents + Special Guests!? Watch the replay below! Our huge annual sale is ON, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our amazing value bundles! The Make Art That Sells Cyber Sale is our biggest sale of the year, so don’t miss out: if you’re thinking of taking any Make Art That Sells courses in 2026, you won’t get them cheaper than this – so sign up now!   What’s included in the sale? Get your FREE guide! Want help deciding which courses to take? Click here to get your free copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide, packed with worksheets, quizzes, art and more.   Watch the replay below  

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See the books that My Kid Book Pitch built

Do you want to earn real money from illustrating and maybe even writing your own books? Then let Lilla Rogers, with more than four decades of experience in the business, show you how! Today we’re going to meet just some of the Make Art That Sells students who did just that. Books are a fantastic market for illustrators and creatives because they can provide months of work and they’re always in demand – according to market research agency Grand View Research, the global book market was worth around $151 billion in 2024 and is projected to increase to around $192 billion by 2030. Want to learn how you can land a picture book illustration deal of your very own, or maybe even write and illustrate your own book (meaning you get paid TWICE)? Lilla’s comprehensive picture book courses – Illustrating Children’s Books and My Kid Book Pitch – will give

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One weird tip to get a picture book illustration deal

In yesterday’s newsletter, we shared some amazing recent student success stories from our career-changing Illustrating Children’s Books course – if you missed it then catch up here. Here’s another way you can land a book deal when you take Illustrating Children’s Books: get your art seen by course leader and brilliant children’s book art director Zoë Tucker! Just some of the many books directed by Zoë in her 25 years in the children’s publishing industry. Her client list includes top publishers such as Alison Green Books, Dorling Kindersley, Quarto, Wide Eye Editions, Scholastic and Magic Cat. Both Zoë and co-leader Lilla, who was an art agent for 30 years, look at every single piece of art that’s submitted to the weekly galleries ahead of the deadline and pick some to review in the LIVE weekly reviews – that means that you could get your art reviewed by a former art

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SALE! Our picture book illustration course gets you jobs!

Our picture book illustration course, Illustrating Children’s Books, is one of our most long-running and best-loved courses, and with good reason: thousands of alumni have gone on to land book deals and representation because of the work they did and the things they learned in class. This five week long LIVE course is taught by illustrator and former top art agent Lilla Rogers, with 30 years’ experience of assessing artists’ portfolios and assigning picture book illustration jobs, and brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker. Zoë has worked on hundreds of children’s books, including the author-illustrator dream team Julia Donaldson and Axel Schaeffer, and she’s always looking out for new artists to commission – check out some of the Make Art That Sells students she’s worked with after spotting them in class in tomorrow’s newsletter! Just some of the many dozens of books Zoë Tucker has

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Replay of Live with Lilla #1: How to Have an Incredible Illustration Career!

Did you miss the fabulous Live with Lilla #1: How to Have an Incredible Illustration Career? Watch the replay below! Our huge annual sale is ON, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our amazing value bundles! The Make Art That Sells Cyber Sale is our biggest sale of the year, so don’t miss out: if you’re thinking of taking any Make Art That Sells courses in 2026, you won’t get them cheaper than this – so sign up now!   What’s included in the sale? Get your FREE guide! Want help deciding which courses to take? Click here to get your free copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide, packed with worksheets, quizzes, art and more. Watch the replay below         Love The MATS Team xx

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SOLD OUT! Join the waiting list now

Wow! Both the first and second rounds of Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, completely sold out – get on the waiting list now to be first to hear when it opens again! Inner Circle is the opportunity of a lifetime to mine Lilla’s wisdom and experience gleaned from 40 years in the creative industry, as an art agent, an illustrator, an author, a columnist, an educator, a speaker and more. With places strictly limited to just 12 participants to allow for plenty of support and guidance, Inner Circle quickly sold out both times we ran it in 2025. Here’s all the participants from the very first round of Inner Circle in one of their weekly Zooms with Lilla. You’ll be able to ask questions, share work in progress for feedback and more in a small, supportive group setting. The exact syllabus is geared towards the specific needs of the

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See Lilla’s top picks from #LillasStylePlay2025!

Whew! We’ve just finished our first ever FREE 30-day Instagram art challenge, #LillasStylePlay2025, and what a blast it was! Many hundreds of artists shared many hundreds of images based on 30 prompts supplied by art agent Lilla, and we were absolutely blown away by your wit, talent and creativity. If you missed all the fun, you can see the list of prompts on our Instagram page here, then head over to Lilla’s Instagram page, where she shared a short clip explaining why she’d picked each prompt each day. We also gave away 15 FREE Make Art That Sells courses to 15 lucky participants! We just wanted to finish out the challenge by sharing some of Lilla’s favorite art, along with some of the lovely comments we read. We do need to emphasize that this barely scrapes the surface of all the incredible art you produced. Bravo to everyone who took