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Quick quick quick – even though our 3 Day Flash Sale technically ended yesterday, we’re still celebrating – so if you want to save a whopping 30% on all of our courses for the rest of 2023, including our career-changing LIVE Illustrating Children’s Books course or our brand new bargain Best of Bootcamp Bundle, then get in quick! Everyone loves a bit of nostalgia, and with it being our 10th anniversary this year, we’ve been looking back through some old bits and bobs and remembering the days when Donald Trump was just a TV presenter, we hung out in space leggings and peplum shirts and we let it go with Disney’s emo princess in Frozen. The way we were – where it all started, all the way back in 2013. We unearthed this historic review from Make Art That Sells student Reg Silva from all the way back in 2014


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Replay of Public Live with Lilla! 10th Birthday Giveaway and more!

Hi everyone, if you missed the Live with LIlla, below is your replay. Shop our sale here. Shop our flash sale now and save a massive 30% off all our courses for the rest of 2023, including our raved-about self-paced courses and our career-changing Illustrating Children’s Books LIVE course, which starts Monday, October 9th. Get the Best of Bootcamp: Market Mix 1! Over the past ten years, art agent Lilla has written dozens of assignments that have helped thousands of students to create gorgeous, portfolio-packing job-snagging art. Learn more here If you have any questions, please write to us at [email protected] Love The MATS Team xx


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WIN a 1:1 with top art agent Lilla Rogers and more!

DO NOT MISS the FREE live Zoom with art agent Lilla Rogers TODAY, Wednesday, August 23rd, at 12 noon EDT/5 pm BST! She’ll be giving away tons of goodies, including a private 45 minute 1:1 – this is a prize that money cannot buy! Plus you can also win fabulous products illustrated by the artists she represents, and lots more. Don’t miss it! Set an alarm on your phone now and join the Zoom here (you’ll also find the link on the front page of our website and in our Instagram Stories). Plus hurry hurry HURRY – today is the LAST DAY of our 3 day flash sale to celebrate our big 10 year anniversary! That means it’s your last chance to save 30% off all of our career changing courses for the rest of 2023 – including our student favorite LIVE course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which has launched the


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HURRY! Flash Sale starts TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY! To celebrate our big 10th birthday, we’re giving you 30% off every single one of our career-making courses – but this sale is only on until Wednesday, August 23rd! Plus be sure to join art agent Lilla in a fab LIVE Zoom event on the last day of the sale, Wednesday, August 23rd, at 12 noon EST/5 pm BST! Win a private 45 minute 1:1 with top art agent Lilla Rogers in the FREE Zoom event on Wednesday, August 23rd. This is a prize that money cannot buy! She’ll be giving away tons of goodies, including a private 45 minute 1:1 with her – a prize money can’t buy! – fabulous products illustrated by the artists she represents, and more. Don’t miss it! Set an alarm on your phone now and join the Zoom here (you’ll also find the link on the front page of our website


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Join our new FREE art challenge and WIN!

Drum roll please … Introducing our fab new FREE quarterly Art Challenge! Deadlines and challenges are a creative’s best friend – they’re a great way to motivate yourself and get on with making fantastic art without having to think too much about what you’re going to create. Here’s the low down: Art agent Lilla will set you a fresh new art challenge once every quarter, on September 1st, December 1st, March 1st, and June 1st. The topic will ONLY be revealed by email. That means you MUST be on our mailing list to take part. Sign up here now. You’ll have exactly one week to complete the challenge. Enter by sharing to social media with the hashtag #MATSArtChallenge and by emailing a jpg version to [email protected] with the subject line MATS Art Challenge. Lilla will pick her favorite piece of art submitted before the deadline. Art supplies at the ready:


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Make us a birthday card and WIN!

Happy birthday to us! We know it’s hard to believe when we look so youthful, but Make Art That Sells is a whopping TEN YEARS OLD this year, and we’ve got tons planned to celebrate, including Ten Days of Giveaways, a Flash Sale, a Best of Bootcamp bundle that you’re going to LOVE, and lots more. This giveaway will ONLY be available to newsletter subscribers, so make sure you’re on our mailing list now! Sign up here. Our Ten Days of Giveaways will include a FREE place in Illustrating Children’s Books, a signed copy of Beth’s new book on writing, The Way of the Fearless Writer, gorgeous fabrics illustrated by Rebecca Jones, and tons more. It starts Friday, August 11th and will ONLY be available to newsletter subscribers, so make sure you’re on our mailing list, then keep an eye on your inbox every day from August 11th! Sign up


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REVEALED: Meet the 32nd Make Art That Sells student to land representation with Lilla Rogers!

If you’ve been following Make Art That Sells for a while then you’ll already know that one of several things that makes our courses unique is that they are taught by a top international art agent, Lilla Rogers – and she’s always looking for new artists to represent. In fact, since Make Art That Sells was founded in 2013, Lilla has offered representation to a whopping 32 students whose art she’s fallen in love with in class. Huge congratulations to #32 … Fay Ford! Oxfordshire, UK, based Fay is a long-term Make Art That Sells fan who has taken Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio, Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Part B, Creating Collections for Home Décor, Illustrating Children’s Books, My Toy Pitch, our FREE art history course, Redrawing Black History, and the MATS MBA (Money BadAss) – some of them several times. All this means that she’s created a


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See the Sneaky, Snacky board book!

Win a FREE place in Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2023! Join art agent Lilla along with beloved teachers Zoë and Riley for a FREE live Zoom event on the first day of class, Monday, July 10th at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST. They’ll be talking about the fab FREE #MATSprep warm-up exercise, answering your creative career questions and giving away a FREE place in class! Don’t miss it! You’ll find the link to join on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com and in our Instagram Stories. There’s less than a week to go until Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2023, which starts THIS MONDAY, July 10th! Bootcamp Special: Character Play is all about creating winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more – and today we wanted to share some news about a character some of you may already be familiar with. Make Art


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Open for a sweet treat: FREE assignment inside!

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing the first part of a FREE two part #MATSprep illustration assignment I’ve created for you to get you warmed up and ready for Bootcamp Special: Character Play, which starts Monday, July 10th! Q: Hold up. What’s Bootcamp Special: Character Play? A: Bootcamp Special: Character Play is a playful, relaxed course that’s designed to boost your creativity and give you more income streams for your art, so you can make more money doing what you love. It focuses on two fabulous art markets – children’s picture books and toys and games – and is taught by two top experts. I am grateful to the thousands of students who have taken my Make Art That Sells courses and the kind words you send me about my teaching style, because you’ve found that my assignments grow your art like nothing else and because they help you land real


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Light your fire: 2 FREE mini assignments from art agent Lilla

Lilla here. Something else came up in a recent live Zoom event with my My Arty Book Pitch students that I wanted to share with you. Here’s what I want you to know. I see how hard you’re working to get that project to happen, whatever it might be. For my My Arty Book Pitch students, it’s their illustrated book pitch, but it might be building a portfolio or setting up a new website or sending out kidlitart postcards or honing your style. That new phase – learning new things, discovering new things you want to do – should never stop. Here I am, in my late 60s, and I’m still figuring out what floats my boat, how I can help, what makes me excited, and what I’m dying to do. My first book, I just like to make things, for Quarry Books. I want you to keep that passion.