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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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LAST CHANCE for Character Bootcamp until 2024!

LAST CHANCE! Today is your last chance to sign up for Bootcamp Special: Character Play until 2024 – don’t miss out, register now! As a reminder, here’s what you’ll get when you sign up today: Something every single Monday from now until the end of September that will help you create six pieces of art for your portfolio Instant access to all of the materials for July so far, including two assignments that you can complete whenever you want to plus creative insights in a special bonus video You’ll get to join the rest of the class for the LIVE Zoom event next Monday, July 31st … … Plus you’ll get to start next month’s assignments along with them on Monday, August 7th You’ll get your art directly in front of two art agents and two art directors – and they’re always looking for new talent And access to our

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Hurry HURRY – Character Bootcamp flash re-opening!

Have you seen the gorgeous art coming out of the first month of Bootcamp Special: Character Play? Kicking yourself for not signing up? Want to learn how to create winning characters you can license for toys and games, books, and more? Art created for Bootcamp Special: Character Play by Make Art That Sells student Helen Bryant. Hurry – we have re-opened registration from today until Friday ONLY! We’ve had a ton of emails asking if there’s still time to sign up, so we thought we’d re-open registration for Bootcamp Special: Character Play for a few days, from now until this Friday, July 28th, so no one has to miss out. Want in? Then sign up now! This course won’t run again until 2024! Q: Wait, won’t I be missing out if I sign up now? Class started weeks ago! A: One of the great things about Bootcamp Special: Character Play

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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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LAST CHANCE: Bootcamp Special closes TODAY!

LAST CHANCE to take a deep dive into the rewarding world of creating characters: registration for Bootcamp Special: Character Play closes TODAY! Hurry HURRY – registration for Bootcamp Special: Character Play closes TODAY, and this course won’t run again until 2024! If you want to get something from a children’s book art director and picture book author and an art agent, creative director and toy creator every Monday for three months that will help you create great portfolio art designed to get you work – then sign up now! As a quick reminder, here’s what you get when you register for Bootcamp Special: Character Play TODAY! Three exclusive mini-texts written especially for class by brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker, designed to work for all levels and based around on-trend market-savvy themes Tons of insight and advice from renowned creative director and smash-hit toy and

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Replay of Public Live with Lilla, Zoë and Riley! Join us for the Character Bootcamp class!

Hi everyone! If you missed the fabulous live zoom, we have posted a replay below for you! Create winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more – Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2023 started yesterday so there is still time to grab your spot!   We hope you enjoyed the show and have an idea of how Bootcamp Special: Character Play can grow your art, fill your portfolio, and help you create gorgeous on-trend artwork that will help you create more income. A strong character is the backbone of stories, games and more, and that’s why they’re such a great addition to your illustration portfolio. In this playful but powerful course, you’ll get something from your teachers – brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker and art agent and smash-hit game creator Riley Wilkinson – that will help you create some amazing art that’s specifically

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  Create winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more A strong character is the backbone of stories, games and more, and that’s why they’re such a great addition to your illustration portfolio. In this playful but powerful course, you’ll get something from your teachers – brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker and art agent and smash-hit game creator Riley Wilkinson – that will help you create some amazing art that’s specifically designed to get you paying jobs. Every month for three months, you’ll get a mini text and an assignment from Zoë, along with some top tips and tricks to help you start illustrating characters. Then, the following week, Riley will help you take those characters you created in week one and make them into an amazing toy pitch. And art agent Lilla will add her insight along the