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LAST CHANCE + 4 more student success stories!

Hurry hurry HURRY – LAST CHANCE! Registration for Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 closes TODAY! This class won’t run again until 2025, so if you want in – sign up now! 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 brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker are going to do in just five weeks in Illustrating Children’s Books.


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Replay of Live with Lilla and Zoë: First day of class live zoom!

Hi everyone! If you missed the fabulous Live Zoom with Lilla and Zoë, you can find a replay below! There is still time to join us in class and learn everything you need to know to boost your picture book illustration career. Grab your spot here. This class won’t run again until 2025! You’ll get: Zoom Lives from class! (all added to the classroom as replays in case you miss any) Your choice of one of three BRAND NEW carefully-chosen texts for you to illustrate. This will give you a structure for the course, and allow you to dive in instantly. Twenty in-depth videos with Lilla and Zoë on every aspect of the creating and pitching of your children’s book, growing your creative business, and Lilla’s art technique demonstrations Interviews with top art directors and successful illustrators. We ask them everything you want to know. Lilla’s inimitable style of teaching


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Win a FREE place in Illustrating Children’s Books TODAY!

Our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY! Every year, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students – we’ll be sharing some brand NEW stories on Thursday, but until then you can read about just some of them here! Over five incredible weeks, your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, will lead you step by step to create a fabulous pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or publisher wants to see. And on the way, they’ll teach you everything you need to know about the wonderful world of children’s book illustration in a way that’s both fun and fascinating: you won’t want it to end. You’ll get daily drawing prompts, weekly LIVE reviews with Lilla and Zoe, tons of beautifully designed downloadable worksheets, and tons more. Book your spot


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Get the final part of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment from top art agent Lilla Rogers!

Lilla here! I recently shared the first two parts of a FREE three-part warm-up exercise that I’ve created for you ahead of my raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts NEXT MONDAY, May 20th. If you missed them, you can catch up on Part 1 and 2 here. How did you enjoy Part 2? I bet you had some fun accessorizing. Are you seeing that the more time and thought you spend on your character, the more interesting it is? An engaging character is so important to a successful children’s book, and that’s why my co-teacher, brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, and I spend so much time focusing on characters in class, and why we share boatloads of hints and tips from our decades in the industry. Want in? Book your place here. Today, we’re going to move on to the third and final part


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FREE download: How to create childrens book characters

How to create childrens book characters: FREE download! Get your FREE download on how to create characters for kids’ books from brilliant children’s book art director, Zoë Tucker! Zoë teaches our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, alongside top art agent Lilla. As well as being a renowned children’s book art director, Zoë also writes all the texts for Illustrating Children’s books and has published seven acclaimed picture books since 2019 (read about some of them here). Three of her picture books were originally written for Illustrating Children’s Books, and one of them was illustrated by a Make Art That Sells student. In other words, you’ll be illustrating professional level texts on the course. Three of Zoë’s picture books, which she originally wrote for Illustrating Children’s Books. Ada Lovelace and the Number Crunching Machine (left) was illustrated by MATS student Rachel Katstaller. Greta and the Giants (middle) was read by


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Top tips from a top art agent: How to deal with envy

How do you deal with envy in your creative career? Art agent Lilla has decades of experience and shedloads of wisdom to share. She works hard to nurture creative people, both her students and her artists alike, and her courses often explore the psychological side of carving out a career as an illustrator. In her Illustrating Children’s Books course, for example, as well as a ton of incredible content about children’s book illustration, she also shares handouts on topics such as being yourself, dealing with competition, creating routines and more. Lilla has worked as an art agent, an illustrator, a speaker, a columnist, the creator of a national jewelry craft line, an educator, an author and more, and she has tons of wisdom to share. At the end of last month, we shared how we’d been asking Lilla some of the Big Questions about life as an illustrator. In March,


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⏰ LAST CHANCE: Sale ends TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends TODAY! All good things must come to an end, and that includes our big Spring Sale, with 25% off every single one of our job-snagging courses and up to 40% off our fabulous bundles. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet then explore everything that’s on offer here. That means that prices go up TOMORROW – and some of our amazing bundles won’t be available at all. Don’t miss out, get them now! Art by Paloma O’Toole, a Make Art That Sells student who is represented by Lilla Rogers Studio, for Illustrating Children’s Books. Sign up now and save up to 40% – but HURRY, prices go up TOMORROW! And of course, if you’ve already bought a course (or three) but want to upgrade to a bundle, that’s not a problem – simply email Louise at [email protected]


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LAST 48 HOURS TO SAVE!

A fabulous mix of cool products agented by Lilla Rogers. If you’ve ever looked at items like these and wondered how the artist got the gig … let Lilla show you how! Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends THIS FRIDAY, April 19th! That means it’s the last 48 hours to snap up all of our fabulous career-changing courses at 25% off – or save a huge 40% when you buy as part of a bundle. Don’t forget: Last 48 hours 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 for 2024 courses – our next big sale isn’t until November. You’re probably going to sign up later in the year anyway, so you might as well get them for less now! Sign up now and see why


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More real-life books written by our students!

Some of the books authored and illustrated by artists represented by Lilla Rogers. Let Lilla show you how you can land your book deal! Imagine holding your very own book – written by YOU – in your hands … Opening a parcel and unboxing copies of YOUR own book … Walking past your favorite bookstore and seeing it in the window … and getting royalty checks for it! Here at Make Art That Sells, we love books, and we love spotting our students’ names on covers when we visit bookstores! Art agent Lilla now teaches not one but TWO book writing courses alongside her picture book illustration course, and we’re thrilled that so many more beautiful books are out in the world as a result. In My Arty Book Pitch, which is a LIVE course that starts Monday, October 14th, you’ll learn how to write, illustrate and pitch your very


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Find your art style – and save 25%

Find your art style – for less We are so excited to share this brand NEW live course from one of your favorite Make Art That Sells teachers, Tamisha Anthony. You loved her in Redrawing Black History and we know you’re going to love this unique new course too – plus right now you can sign up for 25% off! Agents look for a special, well-honed style, and it’s something that Lilla gets asked a lot about as an art agent. How do you get a style? How do you evolve it? How do you do a style re-fresh? Explore and develop your art style and make four pieces of portfolio art for four of the hottest art markets right now in Find Your Art Style with Style – get it now for up to 40% off! Part of discovering your style is about making discernments. What are discernments? It