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FAB FREE QUIZ: What book should you create?

Hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale is on NOW, and that means huge savings for you and some fabulous bundles to support your creative career and help you save even more! Be sure to check out everything that’s included here. Imagine holding your very own book, written and/or illustrated by you, in your hands … Imagine spotting it in the wild in the library or bookstore … Imagine getting invited to your favorite local bookshop or school or radio station to do a reading … Imagine this being your job – that you’re getting paid to do! Books are a fabulous market for both artists and writers – they’re constantly in demand, and it’s hugely satisfying to spend months digging deep into a project, conjuring up dreamy characters and magical worlds to inspire, delight, educate and entertain generations of children to come. Beautiful books agented by art agent Lilla

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Join Lilla Live for our Spring Break Art Camp! April 11-13th

Dig out your s’mores and your best campfire singalong songs, because art agent Lilla is taking you on a FREE three day spring break art camp! Get ready to fall back in love with traditional art materials, to level up your work, and discover the beauty you can create with traditional media. Plus it’s a great way to get a taste of Lilla’s unique whimsical and warm teaching style. Lilla adds: “I’m going to be serving up some bite-size art-making recipes. It’s going to be a visual delight that I’ve curated especially for you. I want you to break out the traditional media and try it out because there’s nothing like it and it will absolutely amp up the quality of your work. You can either join me and work along with me – I’ve shared some of the materials I’ll be using in the image above – or just

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Get a picture book illustration job with a top publisher: 4 real-life success stories!

Sign up for our career-changing course, Illustrating Children’s Books, right now and save up to 40% in our big Spring Sale! Imagine getting an email from an art director saying that they adore your art and would love to work with you … Imagine spending months creating winning characters and dreamy worlds for children (and adults) to fall in love with – and getting paid $$$ for it … Imagine getting a package in the mail and opening it up to find proof copies of your very own picture book, illustrated and/or written by you … Children’s books are a HUGE market for your art and one that many illustrators dream of breaking into. And no wonder – even in our increasingly digital world, nothing quite beats the feeling of curling up with a beautifully written and illustrated book. If you want a successful – and lucrative – career in

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Go go GO: Sale on NOW!

Do you want to make real money from your art? Do you want to grow your art, fill your portfolio, and explore new art markets? Do you want to save up to 40% on our career-changing online courses? Then don’t miss out: our big Spring Sale starts TODAY, Monday, April 8th, with 25% off every single course and 40% off our fabulous bundles! It’s a fact: art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your art. Plenty of the hot art markets – including children’s books, non-fiction books for adults, greeting cards, and toys, games and puzzles – are booming right now. Whether you’re looking for a change of direction, you’re ready to take your illustration career to the next level, or you simply want to grow your art and flex your creative muscles, we’ve got everything you need. Look at all the goodness you get in My Semester of

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Coming soon: Big savings and SPRING BREAK ART CAMP!

Here’s the big reveal … Hold on to your hats, because we have not one but TWO exciting events coming up! Mark your calendar #1: Our big Spring Sale kicks off THIS MONDAY, April 8th, with huge savings across every single one of our game-changing courses. You can expect 25% off every one of our individual courses, plus 40% off three brilliant bundles designed to boost your creative career. If you’re thinking of buying any Make Art That Sells courses in 2024, you definitely won’t want to miss this – you won’t get them cheaper. And secondly … Mark your calendar #2: Dig out your s’mores and your best campfire singalong songs, because art agent Lilla is taking you on a FREE three day spring break art camp! Anyone for an art cocktail?! Join art agent Lilla for a fab FREE three-day Spring Break Art Camp and get ready to

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How can I keep creating with joy in difficult times?

Art agent Lilla has decades of experience in the creative industry – as an art agent, an illustrator, a speaker, a columnist, creator of a national jewelry craft line, an educator, an author and more. And – though you might not know it to look at her – she also has decades of experience as an actual human being, who’s lived through war, peace, economic downturns including three recessions, and times of prosperity. Long story short: she’s got a lot of wisdom to share. Some of Lilla’s career highlights so far, including her first book, I Just Like to Make Things, her regular column for Uppercase magazine, her jewelry craft line on the front cover of Stringing magazine, and more. And she loves to share her wisdom – through her courses with Make Art That Sells, by mentoring the artists she represents, through her live Zoom events, through her monthly

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Your favorite clients: Part 2

Our students get fabulous jobs, and we wanted to show you some more of them. We already shared one batch a couple of weeks ago, and today we’re sharing even more real-life stories from artists just like you. Bron Alexander Make Art That Sells student Bron landed a great job creating packaging for one of New Zealand’s most well-known household brands. Bron’s packaging as part of the Pams’ Emerging Artists range. Bron said: “It’s incredible to think that people are maybe going to have a little piece of my art in their home.” Bron told us: “I was knocked off my seat when one of New Zealand’s oldest and well-known household brands, Pams, selected me as one of three emerging artists to create artwork for their tissue boxes. As part of the promotion, Pams commissioned a video interview of each artist to go alongside a nationwide social media campaign, and

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The hype is real.

Last fall, art agent Lilla hosted a Zoom event with three of the artists she represents, Sarah Walsh, Tequitia Andrews and Lydia Graves. Watch the snippet below, or catch up on the full Zoom (scroll down to the next video) The whole discussion is worth a watch  – Catch up on the full Zoom below. – and it’s great to listen to while you sketch or draw, but today we just wanted to highlight this snippet from Sarah Walsh, because we love it so much. Here’s the transcript: “I’ll just say to everybody here the hype is real, and I don’t say things I don’t mean. I want to say something really quick about the way that Lilla teaches class. I think it’s really unique in the way that Lilla has an amazing business sense, she knows what she’s doing, she knows the markets. She’s been doing it for a

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REVEALED: Your favorite jobs and clients

Way back in 2023 (remember that?), we asked you to share your very best jobs and clients. We loved reading your stories, and we’re thrilled to share some of them here today – look out for another batch coming up soon. Jemma Jamie Skidmore Our favorite story was from Jemma Jamie Skidmore, who told us she was commissioned by Galison Puzzles to make a puzzle from an assignment she got as part of the My Year of Art School bundle, plus a children’s book illustration job that we’ll share more about in a later newsletter. Jemma’s art for the assignment from art agent Lilla (left) and her puzzle for Galliston (right). Jemma wins our Best of Bootcamp: Market Mix 1 bundle, which is packed with more fabulous assignments from art agent Lilla – we hope it helps her land lots more brilliant jobs! Want to get what Jemma won? The

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QUICK: Lilla’s lettering course has re-opened!

Have you seen the excitement and fabulous art coming out of Lilla’s brand new lettering course? Do you want in? You asked and we delivered: registration for art agent Lilla’s one-of-a-kind lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, is open for a teeny tiny 72 hour window – don’t miss out again, join the class now! We’ve had a ton of emails from students asking if it’s possible to sign up – especially after they saw the gorgeous work in our first public gallery (if you haven’t seen it yet, check it out here). So we’ve decided to re-open registration for everyone for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 72-hour window – so if you want in, then join now, because registration will absolutely close for good on Sunday, and this class definitely won’t run again until 2025 at the earliest! Some student work above from the February gallery here.   Q: How does that work? Class