Hi everyone, if you missed the fabulous live events with Lilla and Zoë, please find the replay below. We have also included the free text chooser pdf download as mentioned in the live. Illustrating Children’s Books begins on Monday, October 6th so grab your spot now so you can choose your texts and get ready for class! Download Your Text Chooser HERE
Lilla here! Firstly, don’t forget to join me and my brilliant Illustrating Children’s Books co-teacher, children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, for a FREE live Zoom event TOMORROW Friday, October 6th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST. We’ll be talking about the #MATSprep, showing off some of our favorite picture books, answering your questions and giving away a FREE place in class! Don’t miss it! Set an alarm now! Join the Zoom here – you’ll also find a link in our Instagram Stories tomorrow, and on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com. I recently shared the first two parts of a FREE three-part warm-up exercise that I’ve created for you ahead of Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts THIS MONDAY, October 9th. If you missed them, you can catch up on Part 1 here and Part 2 here. How did you enjoy Part 2? I bet you
Lilla here! Firstly, don’t forget to join me and my brilliant Illustrating Children’s Books co-teacher, children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker, for a FREE live Zoom event next Friday, October 6th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST. Meet your teachers: top art agent Lilla (left) and brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë (right). Join them LIVE on Zoom and you could win a FREE place in class! We’ll be talking about the #MATSprep, showing off some of our favorite picture books, answering your questions and giving away a FREE place in class! Don’t miss it! Pop a note on your calendar now. Join the Zoom here – you’ll also find a link in next week’s blog, in our Instagram Stories, and on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com. A couple of days ago I shared the first part of a FREE three-part #MATSprep warm-up
Lilla here! Today I’m going to share the first part of my FREE #MATSprep for my online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. I really love teaching this course. Why? Because I feel your excitement, your commitment, and no matter if you’re starting at the beginning or are an experienced published illustrator, I’m so happy that you want to strive to make the best children’s book illustration that you can make. I love seeing your work, and I love watching the inevitable growth that occurs over the five weeks of the course. What’s a #MATSprep? It’s a FREE warm up exercise to get you ready for class, and it’s open to everyone, whether you’re signed up for class or not. Illustrating Children’s Books 2023 starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, October 9th, so over the week and a half, I’ll be sharing this free assignment I wrote especially for class.
Dig out your funkiest legwarmers and your bluest eyeshadow, because the brand NEW Redrawing Black History assignment just dropped and we are heading back to the 80s! Redrawing Black History – now covering FIVE iconic eras of Black American history! The theme for the 1980s is Black is Bold – be sure to check it out now! Photographer unknown. If you haven’t signed up yet, Redrawing Black History is our FREE Black art history course that will give you a deeper and richer understanding of Black American history. It’s led by inspiring educator and pro illustrator Tamisha Anthony, with support from top art agent Lilla Rogers, and, to make it as accessible as possible, it’s completely FREE. Your teacher, Tamisha, is passionate about vintage clothes, and dresses in period dress for each different era she talks about in Redrawing Black History. Photo by Voon Chew. All of the course materials
Have you signed up for our FREE Black art history course, Redrawing Black History, yet? Meet your teacher! Tamisha Anthony is a passionate and knowledgeable educator, and a thriving illustrator. Plus she wears period dress for each presentation! Led by accomplished educator and professional illustrator, Tamisha Anthony, Redrawing Black History will give you a deeper understanding of four key eras in Black American history and their power and beauty, and help you to become more diverse in your art making. Plus, because we want as many people to be able to take it as possible, it’s completely FREE. Bonus content incoming! The course is self-paced, so you’ll get instant access as soon as you sign up, and as well as four gorgeous, visually rich presentations, plus video chats between Tamisha and art agent Lilla, you’ll also get four assignments to help you make some fabulous art for your portfolio. Art
Make Art That Sells is ten years old this year, and to help us celebrate, we asked you to create a birthday card featuring the number ten. As ever, you blew us away with your imagination and creativity. It was incredibly hard to pick a winner, but a winner we must have – so, with no further ado, huge congrats to the winner of our birthday card competition … Jan Schmidt! The winning entry, by Make Art That Sells student Jan Schmidt. Jan wins a FREE place in our final LIVE course for 2023, Illustrating Children’s Books. Illustrating Children’s Books is one of our most popular courses, and no wonder – our graduates have gone on to land hundreds of book deals (read about some of them here). In just five weeks, from Monday, October 9th, you’ll build a powerful pitch presentation that contains everything a publisher or art director
We often talk about how Make Art That Sells courses are career-changing. Today we want to share how they changed the lives of three artists. Sometimes it can be a little lonely being an illustrator, right? Working by yourself for hours on end. That’s why we think one of the very best things about Make Art That Sells courses is – well – YOU. Our Make Art That Sells community. More than 30,000 students from across the globe, from dozens of countries and both hemispheres, who have come together with one aim: to make better art and to make money from doing it. And at the same time, they’ve created something else too: a global community of creatives just like you, who can give advice on works in progress, share tips on everything from which brushes to use to how to format a contract, sympathise with frustrations and celebrate successes.
Hurry hurry HURRY- today is the LAST CHANCE to save a massive 30% on all of our raved-about courses, including our career-making Illustrating Children’s Books course and our brand new Best of Bootcamp bundle. All good things must come to an end and our 3 day flash sale to celebrate our big 10 year anniversary finishes TODAY! If you’re planning on taking any more Make Art That Sells 2023 courses then quick – get them now! Shop the sale here. P.S. If you missed the Live with Lilla this week, watch the replay below.
Quick quick quick – even though our 3 Day Flash Sale technically ended yesterday, we’re still celebrating – so if you want to save a whopping 30% on all of our courses for the rest of 2023, including our career-changing LIVE Illustrating Children’s Books course or our brand new bargain Best of Bootcamp Bundle, then get in quick! Everyone loves a bit of nostalgia, and with it being our 10th anniversary this year, we’ve been looking back through some old bits and bobs and remembering the days when Donald Trump was just a TV presenter, we hung out in space leggings and peplum shirts and we let it go with Disney’s emo princess in Frozen. The way we were – where it all started, all the way back in 2013. We unearthed this historic review from Make Art That Sells student Reg Silva from all the way back in 2014
