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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Win a 1:1 with art agent Riley

Did you hear the news? Our unique toy and game design and illustration course, My Toy Pitch, is now available as a self-paced course – perfect for anyone who missed it when it ran as a live course earlier in the year. 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. Brand New mood board Register now to get instant access to all the incredible content in this course, plus you’ll get a gorgeous brand NEW mood board coming later in the year that will give you new direction and a whole new theme. Toy pitch created by Alistar Illustration for My Toy Pitch. Fill your portfolio with beautiful art like

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LAST CHANCE for Illustrating Children’s Books! Plus FREE download

Ready for your kid book deal? Let art agent Lilla Rogers and children’s author and children’s book art director Zoë Tucker teach you everything you need to know! Hurry hurry HURRY – LAST CHANCE! Registration for Illustrating Children’s Books 2022 closes TODAY! 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 recently published children’s author and brilliant children’s book art

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Watch the Zoom Replay of Lilla and Zoe: First day of our Illustrating Children’s Books class!

Did you miss the Live with Lilla and Zoe? Check out the replay below! Our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, started TODAY! Now running for the ninth time, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students every year – read about just some of them here! Get your FREE Text Chooser Did you miss the FREE Text Chooser? Sign up now and you’ll get instant access to three brand new original texts written especially for class and your first daily drawing prompt. And so you can dive straight into class, Lilla and Zoë, have created this insightful Text Chooser Tool, that will help you dig deep into your personality and find the right text for you. Jester Hipster, Sherlock or Madame Bodoni: what type of children’s book illustrator are you? Our FOUR unique texts ensure that everyone can create their very best art.

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Get your FREE Text Chooser – Illustrating Children’s Books starts TODAY!

Our raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts TODAY! Now running for the ninth time, this course creates a whole new flurry of book deals for our wonderful students every year – 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 your teachers, Lilla and Zoe, tons of beautifully designed downloadable worksheets, and tons more. Book your spot here. Join us for a FREE

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Your final #MATSprep assignment: Put it all together!

Lilla here. Oh, man, you are a whole bunch of brilliant artists! You delight me with your imagination, sensitivity, talent. I’ve loved seeing all the art you’ve created over the past couple of weeks for this MATSprep. I love to teach my intensive live courses, like Illustrating Children’s Books, for exactly that reason: it’s amazing to see how the work blossoms over the five jam-packed weeks. The passion and achievement of our students are awe-inspiring. I hope that you’ve enjoyed taking part in this free #MATSprep as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it and seeing all your beautiful art. It gives you a taste of my teaching style, to see if it’s a good fit, and it’s also a great way to warm up and get ready for Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts NEXT MONDAY, May 23rd. Don’t forget, this course won’t run again until 2023 – don’t miss out:

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3 giant tricks to take your art to the next level from art agent Lilla!

Lilla here. Today we’re going to create magic together! I’m going to teach you three great tricks to create depth (distance) in your artwork, and explain why you might want to do so. It’ll help give your artwork a fresh vibrant edge and be another tool in your ever-growing toolkit. Last week, I published a series of FREE assignments to help you get ready for my LIVE online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts a week today, on Monday, May 23rd! There are still a few places available, so if you’d like to spend five weeks with me and my co-teacher, renowned children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, learning everything there is to know about childen’s picture book illustration, then book your spot now! Over the last week, we’ve created a new character and explored fantastic new worlds – if you missed out then head over to the

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#MATSprep: One weird tip from an art agent: find the magic in your environment

Lilla here. Today I’m going to make you flip out, literally. For the past days, I’ve been sharing some FREE assignments that I created for you to get ready for my online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. I hope you’ll join us: class starts Monday, May 23rd, so book your spot now! Today I’m eager to help you make some magic that will give your picture book illustrations more visual impact. Think about your audience. Children are so in touch with their imaginations: they even live in fantasy land a great deal of the time! They are going to love the imaginative worlds that you create: whether it’s dreamy, moody, whimsical or witty, digging deep into a manuscript and creating all those little details is one of the most rewarding parts of children’s book illustration. Art by Make Art That Sells student Jenny Miriam, who is now represented by Lilla Rogers

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#MATSprep: Get Part 2 of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment!

Illustrating Children’s Books 2022 starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, May 23rd! To help you get ready for class and warm up your creative muscles, we’re sharing a series of FREE assignments from course co-teacher and renowned art agent, Lilla Rogers: read on for Part 2! What’s Illustrating Children’s Books? It’s an incredible five week LIVE online course that will teach you everything you need to know to launch or boost your children’s picture book illustration career. It’s hard to believe that this will be the ninth time that your teachers, art agent and Make Art That Sells founder, Lilla Rogers, and acclaimed children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, have run this course – and each time, it just gets better and better! Every year, our students net dozens of wonderful book deals – read about some of them here – and we can’t wait to

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BREAKING: Sale extended for 24 hours – shop now!

We hope you enjoyed our All-Star Zoom event with art agent Lilla and the rest of the Make Art That Sells teachers as much as we did! We learned a ton from these incredible creative professionals, and they gave away a whole heap of FREE places in class too. If you want hot tips on building a stellar creative career from art agents, creative directors, illustrators and more then don’t miss this! If you missed out on yesterday’s Zoom catch up below. It’s perfect to listen to while you sketch, paint and draw, so grab a drink and your sketchbook and enjoy. BREAKING NEWS: An extra 24 hours to shop! Yesterday’s Zoom brought a flurry of activity to our big Spring Sale, with lots of students clearly feeling inspired and ready to build their creative careers. We’ve decided to extend our big Spring Sale for just another 24 hours, to

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LAST CHANCE! Sale ends TODAY! + Replay of All-Star Zoom

Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends TODAY! That means it’s your very last chance to snap up all of our fabulous career-changing courses at a 20% discount – or save even more (up to a huge 40%!) when you buy as part of a bundle. Explore everything that’s included in the sale and get insightful worksheets from top art agent Lilla Rogers in our beautiful Sale Guide. If you haven’t got it already, download your free copy here and enjoy pages of worksheets and dreamy student art. Download your copy of our Sale Guide here: it’s packed with gorgeous student art, handy info and insightful worksheets from art agent Lilla Rogers. Don’t forget: Today is your LAST CHANCE 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