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Find out how you’re going to get a kid book deal in 2020, plus get our FREE job-snagging 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! 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 director Zoë Tucker are going to do. If you’re dreaming of illustrating – or


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How to build a show-stopping portfolio

Here’s the big reveal for Day 4 of our fab FREE cyber sale #MATSprep: meet #illustratorBarbie! Isn’t being an illustrator just the best job ever? Getting to hang out in your pajamas all day making art and getting paid for it? Share your finished piece with us on Instagram and let us know what you love most about being an illustrator in the caption! What did Lilla love about being an illustrator? Find out, including why it’s the opposite of soul-crushing in the audio clip below. Our Giant Cyber Sale is now on, which means that, until next Monday, December 2nd ONLY, all your old favorites plus our exciting NEW classes for 2020 are heavily discounted! Registration for all of our outstanding courses for 2020, including Lilla’s brand new courses, My Kid Book Pitch and Lilla’s Mystery Box, will be open next year at full price, but you can grab


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Get your FREE Illustrator Barbie #MATSprep

Today’s the day! Our Giant Cyber Sale starts TODAY! It’s our biggest sale of the year, with 25% off all individual courses and our fabulous bundles at up to 50% off (plus installment options on ALL our bundles). Don’t miss out: you will not find our courses cheaper than this! We’ve got everything you need to transform your art career in 2020 with an incredible learning opportunity every single month, including inspirational courses, fun assignments, and bucketloads of incredible tips and advice! Here’s Day 1 of your FREE #MATSprep! 
Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get Days 2 through 4. To celebrate the start of our sale, we’re giving away Day 1 of our fab FREE #MATSprep from top art agent Lilla! What’s a #MATSprep? It’s a FREE creative warm-up exercise to get you ready for class, and they’re open to all, whether you’re a Make


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Get your FREE Dream Armadillo downloadable worksheet!

How will your 2020 look? Which art markets will you focus on? Want to make your art even better? Want to get your beautiful art in front of a top art agent and maybe snag yourself representation? Let the Dream Armadillo lead the way! Art agent Lilla has come up with yet another brilliant and wacky downloadable worksheet to help you start to plan how you’re going to take your amazing creative career to the next level in 2020. Plus we’ll also reveal our schedule of raved-about courses for 2020, so you can get planning and plotting your year ahead! Meet the Dream Armadillo! What are your career goals for 2020? How will you meet them? We’ve got everything that you need to help you make art that sells and build a successful creative career! To help you to start to think about your career goals and dreams for 2020,


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Get your FREE #MATSprep for Editorial LIVE!

Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines and More: The Popular Culture Edit starts MONDAY! There’s still time to sign up, but hurry – book your place here before it sells out again like our May course did! What’s editorial illustration? Broadly, it means anything having to do with text (words). For example, it could be something like a magazine article, a newspaper article, a blog, a news site like the Guardian or the New York Times, or a book cover or interior. Before she was a top art agent, Lilla spent decades working as an illustrator in NYC for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Vogue magazine, the Grammies, the program for Philip Glass’s new opera at Brooklyn Academy of Music and heaps more. Now she’s passing on everything she learned, and everything she wishes someone had taught her, to you! Illustrations by Lilla Rogers for the Grammies and Chronicle Books.


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Get your FREE Find the Concept Game download

Art agent Lilla’s LIVE course Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More starts in just over a week, on Monday, 28th October. When we first ran this course, in May 2019, it sold out before it even officially launched, which is why we’re running it again now – don’t miss out, guarantee your space and book your spot now! Cover illustration for Flow magazine by Flora Waycott, represented by Lilla Rogers. What’s editorial? Broadly, it means anything having to do with text (words). For example, it could be something like a magazine article, a newspaper article, a blog, a news site like the Guardian or the New York Times, or a book cover or interior. How might you start to show something abstract in a visual way? Sometimes in your editorial illustration career you’ll be asked to illustrate something straightforward, like gardening or shoes or a how-to, but other times



WHATS LILLA UP TO Make Art That Sells Get your FREE Home Décor #MATSprep Part 1

Get your FREE Home Décor #MATSprep Part 1

Get your FREE Home Décor #MATSprep: Lilla’s Patented 100% Scientifically Accurate* Magic Style Decoder! Discover more about your unique artistic style with art agent Lilla Roger’s FREE Magic Style Decoder!   Our brand-new Home Décor PLUS course begins on Monday, September 30th, so today, to get you ready for class, we’re giving away Lilla’s FREE MATS Prep. You’ll get part two – the results! – tomorrow, so you’ll definitely want to do this today! What’s a MATS Prep? It’s a fun free exercise to get prepared for class, or just to have some creative fun, and it’s a great way to see what Lilla’s playful, kooky teaching style is all about – as Lilla often says, “I trick you into doing your best work!”. Anyone is more than welcome to take part whether or not they’re signed up for class. Today we’re delighted to present … Lilla’s Patented 100% Scientifically


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See our FREE video series on Designing for Home Décor by creative director Margo Tantau!

Imagine walking into your favorite store, maybe Anthropologie or West Elm or a charming neighbourhood boutique, and seeing your beautiful unique art on a line of products. Can you see it on plates, pillows, rugs, tea towels and more? How do you get that gig? Let top art agent Lilla Rogers and creative director Margo Tantau show you how! To celebrate the start of our amazing LIVE new mini course, Home Décor PLUS, which starts September 30th, today we’re sharing our FREE video series, Designing for Home Décor. The video series is presented by Margo Tantau, co-teacher for both of our home décor courses, our new live mini course, Home Décor PLUS, and our in-depth self-paced course, Creating Collections for Home Décor. [As well as teaching for Make Art That Sells, Margo is currently head of product innovation at Studio M and previously has held creative leadership roles at Creative


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FREE download: what’s YOUR home décor style?

Get industry insight and invaluable tips from renowned art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen creative director Margo Tantau! (Products by artists represented by Lilla.) With just a couple of weeks to go until our fabulous LIVE home décor course, Home Décor PLUS, kicks off, today we’re sharing the syllabus for this fun new mini course, plus a cool quiz for you to start thinking about your own personal style and what your home décor collection would look like. Home Décor PLUS Live has a lovely relaxed pace that will help you create a gorgeous home décor piece in just three weeks that will broaden and strengthen your portfolio and help you launch or boost your brilliant home décor career. On the very first day of class, you’ll get a gorgeous industry-level trend board with beautiful images handpicked for you by art agent Lilla Rogers based on her vibe and