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She drew her dream client – what happened next will amaze you!

She drew her dream client – what happened next will amaze you! We love boasting about our fabulous students and everything they’ve achieved, and fortunately they give us tons to boast about! We recently shared a selection of recent student success stories, with more coming up tomorrow and a ton on our website – read more here. Today though we’re sharing a fabulous success story that really caught our attention. Watch an extract from Lilla’s live Zoom event below where she reads the card from Sharisse and shows off Sharisse’s beautiful book. A couple of months ago, art agent Lilla picked up her mail right before a live Zoom event, and found a card from Make Art That Sells student Sharisse Steber, along with a copy of her book, Rise & Roar: A guided journal for outdoor adventure. Sharisse wrote that she had signed up for the MATS MBA (Money

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WOW! 🤩 Another text from our Illustrating Children’s Books course got published!

If you’re going to make portfolio art, illustrate professional level exclusive texts that will help you build a powerful children’s book illustration portfolio that gets you a book deal! Every Illustrating Children’s Books course includes at least THREE exclusive stories written especially for class by co-teacher Zoë Tucker, who is a children’s book art director and published picture book author, which means you get real world experience of professional quality texts! Class starts May 23rd, and right now you can save 20% in our big Spring Sale – sign up here! How do we know they’re so good? Because the THIRD story from class just got published! Full page spread from The Garden We Share, the third story written for Illustrating Children’s Books that has gone on to be published. Sign up now for real world experience of exclusive, professional level texts! Zoë Tucker, the children’s book art director and

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Make Art That Sells courses really work: here’s proof!

Hurry! Our big Spring Sale ends Friday! Imagine getting an email from an art director saying how much they love your art, that they’ve bookmarked your website and that they can’t wait to work with you Imagine getting paid real money to draw pictures – and getting so many jobs that you can pick and choose and have to turn some down Imagine getting The Call from art agent Lilla Rogers! For almost ten years, Make Art That Sells courses have boosted the creative careers of thousands of students across the globe – and we’ve got the receipts to back it up. We’ve got tons of alumni success stories to share – scroll down for some of the most recent, including how one of our students got picked up by Cartoon Network, or head over to our blog for dozens more. Do you want to make a career out of

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Five reasons you need this

Whoop whoop, our big Spring Sale started yesterday, with some brilliant bundles plus 20% off every single one of our career-changing courses! We kicked off with a fabulous LIVE event with art agent Lilla. Lilla led a five minute journaling/sketching exercise, popped up some students live on screen so she could chat direct with them, read us an extract from the book she’s currently writing and gave away FREE places in class to two lucky viewers – if you missed out then catch the replay below! Download your free copy of our gorgeous sale guide to explore everything that’s included in the sale, plus dreamy student art, insightful worksheets from art agent Lilla, teacher bios and more. Get it here. Get it all with My Semester of Art School! Q: What’s My Semester of Art School? A: Simply put, it’s ALL of our raved-about online art courses for the rest

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WIN a FREE place in class TODAY

Do you want to supercharge your illustration career? Do you want to grow your art, fill your portfolio, and make real money doing what you love? Do you want to save up to a massive 40% on our career-making online courses? Then don’t miss out: our big Spring Sale starts TODAY, Friday, April 29th, with 20% off every single course and up to 40% off our fabulous bundles! Get insightful worksheets, gorgeous student art, a handy bundle chooser and the lowdown on everything you can get in our big Spring Sale in our beautiful Sale Guide – get your copy here. Want to explore everything that’s included? Head over to our dedicated sales page here or download your free copy of our gorgeous sale guide here. It contains everything you need to know about the sale, plus stunning student art (maybe yours!), insightful worksheets from art agent Lilla, teacher bios

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HUGE NEWS: Win a live review with Riley! Plus get your FREE Sale Guide

Our popular course, My Toy Pitch, is a one-of-a-kind, innovative online course that will teach you how to turn play into pay. Taught by art agent Lilla Rogers and art agent, creative director and inventor of the smash hit Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game, Riley Wilkinson, you’ll explore the booming and increasingly art-driven toy and game market, and create five ready-to-send pitches for unique toys and games featuring your gorgeous art. Since its launch last year, My Toy Pitch has run as a live course, but it’s now available for the rest of 2022 as a self-paced course before running as a LIVE course again in 2023. This means that you get instant access as soon as you sign up! Get INSTANT ACCESS to all of this incredible content: Five assignments to help you create stunning art-driven pitches for toys and games, ready to send off Four mood boards to support

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Get a children’s book illustration deal! Student success stories

Make Art That Sells courses really work. We’ve got dozens of success stories to share, from students at every stage of their journey, from setting up a new website or having the courage finally to send that email, all the way up to landing incredible book deals and representation. Why are Make Art That Sells students so successful? Here are just some of the reasons why: You’ll learn everything you need to know to get the gig: this is real world learning from experts. Our teachers, including top art agent Lilla Rogers, brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, renowned creative director Margo Tantau and smash-hit game creator Riley Wilkinson, have decades of industry experience under their belts. That means that not only do they have tons of insight to share, but they can teach you how to present your art so that you’re showing art directors, publishers

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Meet the TWO Make Art That Sells students now represented by Lilla Rogers

If you caught the recent free live Zoom event hosted by art agent Lilla and creative director and smash hit game creator Riley (and if you didn’t then you really should – catch up here) then you may already know that Lilla Rogers Studio is now representing yet another Make Art That Sells student – but Lilla actually offered representation to TWO more students (with a couple more in the pipeline!), and we’re thrilled to introduce them both today. Watch the moment when Lilla accidentally revealed her new artist in our recent live Zoom event below. You never know what will happen in a live Zoom! Join us for our next one on Friday, April 29th – details below. These are the first two students to be offered representation by Lilla so far in 2022, but we’re confident they won’t be the last – she took on a huge EIGHT

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Open NOW for your third FREE illustration assignment!

Lilla here. I hope you’re enjoying this series of illustration assignments. I’ve loved seeing the art that you’re creating, so please keep sharing it! BIG NEWS: If you want more assignments like this, plus live reviews, video lessons, downloadable worksheets and more to help your creative career flourish, then look out for the big Make Art That Sells Spring Sale, which starts later this month, on April 29th. There will be discounts on every single one of my courses, plus some exciting bundles to give your art career a boost along with even bigger savings – don’t miss it! I’ll be kicking off the sale with a FREE live Zoom event on Friday, April 29th at 12 noon EDT/5 pm BST – please join me! I’ll be answering your questions, popping up some students live on screen to chat and answer their career queries, maybe doing career tarot, and giving

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Hand lettering: get your FREE assignment

Lilla here. I’m sharing three assignments with you that will help you improve your art and find the joy in your art-making. Last week we made a new color with a quirky worksheet – if you missed out, catch up here. Today, we’re going to focus on hand lettering. Those of you that have taken my classes know how important lettering of any kind is, for getting more work. Lettering is used on so many projects and always requested by our clients, so it’s a great thing to practice. You don’t need to be an expert calligrapher. In fact, a hand-drawn quirky lettering style is very appealing! Here’s your assignment: Draw the following letters: A, G, and J. Do them in any style and medium you like. Have fun with them. Remember, letterforms are simply shapes. TIP: Experiment and play with the letterform. Just be sure that it’s clear what