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  Portfolio Review 2024

  Self-Paced
  Make your social media and website attract the jobs you want!

  Have you always wanted to see how a top agent reviews a portfolio? What are they looking for? From over 30 years in the business, Lilla Rogers has boatloads of wisdom to share. In this energizing self-paced course you'll watch art agent Lilla review portfolios, websites and social media of artists and illustrators just like you. There's a ton of brilliant advice that you can use in promoting your own work to attract attention and land those lucrative jobs. Want more info? Just scroll down!

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  Best of Bootcamp: Market Mix 1 2024

  Self-Paced
  five of our favorite assignments!

  Make Art That Sells is ten years old, and to celebrate our big birthday, we’re releasing the Best of Bootcamp: five of the assignments you love taken from previous Assignment Bootcamps to help you build a fabulous portfolio and land paying jobs. Art agent Lilla originally created her hugely popular Assignment Bootcamp course because you told her that that’s what you wanted: professional level assignments for hot art markets. The Best of Bootcamp takes five different assignments from different years for five different art markets, and packages them all up in one tasty instant-access bundle. Dive in and do them in whatever order you like, do them alone, do them with a buddy, do them at a time and pace to suit you – however you choose to do them, you’ll end up with five gorgeous eye-catching pieces of art to broaden and strengthen your illustration portfolio. Want more details? Scroll down for more information.

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  My Kid Book Pitch 2024

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  Create a Children’s Book Pitch Only You Can Write

  • Do you want to  learn how to  write an original, special picture book that editors will love?
  • Do you want to find out how you can stand out from the thousands of book pitches that are sent to editors every year?
  • Do you want to know how to avoid the top 10 mistakes that writers make, and learn step by step how to create a story that comes from your own unique experience?

  Art agent and author, Lilla Rogers, says: “Creating a unique book comes from understanding what makes you unique and discovering the story you’re excited to tell. To help you do this, I’ve created a playful, personalized and structured course that will bring out your special story. It’s packed full of quirky worksheets and fun exercises that will guide you step by step to create your own special brilliant story.” Plus if you can illustrate and write a story, you are much more appealing to editors and art directors. You also make twice the money—you get the advance as author and illustrator, and all the royaltie$ as well!” Want to find out more? Scroll down for more information.

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  Creating Collections for Home Décor 2024

  Self-Paced
  Build a professional home décor pitch featuring your artwork!

  Creating Collections for Home Décor is self-paced! Sign up now and get instant access to trend boards, videos and assignments  from top agent Lilla Rogers and  trend expert Margo Tantau! The home décor market is huge right now: according to a recent report from Allied Market Research, the global home décor market is estimated to reach a whopping $838.6 billion by 2027. Let Lilla Rogers and brilliant creative director, Margo Tantau, show you how you can get a share of it! This course provides the skills and knowledge to fill a huge gap in the lucrative home décor market – for artists who can conceptualize and pitch full product collections. By showing art directors that you can do this, you put yourself ahead of the game, and stand out from other artists as a commercial professional. Not only are they more likely to buy your work, they are likely to buy MORE of your work – perhaps even your entire collection. So let's get started! Want more info? Just scroll down!

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  My Toy Pitch 2024

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  My Toy Pitch: illustrating for the toys and games markets! create a winning toy pitch and hop into the world of play!

  Turn play into pay! In this  course, innovative art agent Lilla Rogers and brilliant children’s toy and game creative director Riley Wilkinson will guide you through the playful world of the toy and game market. They’ll share industry secrets and show you how to showcase your unique art on products that’ll capture the hearts of children as you create an exciting original toy and develop your own winning, playful pitch. You’ll discover how you can use all the great art that you already have, maybe from our courses, or your own projects, and leverage it to make new products ready to pitch. This incredibly fun duo will show you how to create art for the booming toy and game market. The course is jam-packed with assignments, videos, insider lessons, expert interviews, Lilla's trend boards, downloadable content that’ll be your ticket into a unique, imaginative playland. Hop aboard and create your own successful playful adventure! Want to know more? Scroll down for more information.

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  MATS MBA 2024

  Self-Paced
  FOR ALL LEVELS The future is about entrepreneurial creativity! Learn the secrets of success from top art agent Lilla Rogers and award-winning entrepreneur Beth Kempton, who have created brands and businesses with millions of dollars in revenue. They share their very best advice, tips, and assignments for career and financial success. This is a self-paced crash course in making money doing what you love and building a thriving business. This course will motivate and inspire you, give you actionable and concrete tips, and help you create your own formula for success.  Over 15,000 students have taken this course to help grow their creative business, so why not join them! Want more info? Just scroll down!

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  Lilla’s Mystery Box 2024

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  Explore creative living with Lilla rogers!

  Make Art That Sells’ co-founder, the inimitable Lilla Rogers, is one of the most successful illustration agents in the world, an accomplished former illustrator, a best-selling author, and a beloved educator. Overall, she’s been in the art business for over three decades, and she has tons of tales to tell. Enjoy five recordings with top art agent Lilla Rogers as she explores her creative world, plus fascinating downloadable worksheets, mini assignments and tons of advice  that will help you find your joy and your passion. This course is for anyone who does any kind of creative work, and will give you insights into yourself, creativity and success, as well as giving you concrete tips for a happy, fulfilled creative life. In this class, she’ll be inviting you to step inside her world and explore creative living with her. A big warm bath of a course, Lilla’s Mystery Box promises to delight, to inspire and to surprise. Step in, relax and enjoy. Want more info? Scroll down for details.

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  Editorial Illustrating for magazines and more 2024

  Self-Paced
  Get work in this cool and lucrative market!

  Lilla Rogers is not only a renowned art agent, but also has many years’ experience as a professional illustrator. In this course, she shares her wisdom, expertise and top tips from her decades-long editorial and agenting career. Find out how to get work in this cool and lucrative market, whether you have previous experience or not; what to show on your website or Instagram to get magazine work; how to come up with concepts in your own style; and much more. This course has previously run live four times (including twice in its first year after it sold out the first time!) and is now available as a self-paced course. This means that not only do you get instant access as soon as you sign up, but you also get all four assignments PLUS a bonus mini assignment, enabling you to build a really strong and broad editorial illustration portfolio that covers a range of subject matter, from science to pop music. Sign up now! Want more info? Scroll down for the details.  

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  Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces 2024

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  Instant Access FOR ALL LEVELS Fall in love with drawing in this popular online course!

  Learn to draw faces in one of our most popular e-courses with top art agent and former illustrator Lilla Rogers. It makes a HUGE difference to your career when you can draw anything. Drawing can be intimidating when it is taught the traditional way. You get better at drawing when the learning is playful and inspiring. That’s why Lilla is sharing her secrets on how to draw, in a fun, non-scary way, which anyone can learn.

  Course teacher, and top art agent, Lilla Rogers says: “Whatever stage of your art career you’re at, the ability to draw faces is thrilling and great for your career. As an agent, when I’m looking at an artist’s work with a view to representation, the ability to draw faces is something that I definitely look for, because I know it’ll radically increase their income.”

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  Home Décor Plus 2024

  Self-Paced
  Build your portfolio! Get the latest trends!

  Our exciting self-paced mini-course, Home Décor PLUS, is a fantastic way for you to crank out some gorgeous market-savvy art for your portfolio that will help you launch or boost your amazing home décor design career! Do you ever look at cool products from Anthropologie or West Elm and wonder how the artist got the job? Renowned art agent Lilla Rogers knows, because she assigns $$$-worth of work like this to her artists every day! Let her show you how you can get your unique art on amazing products like these!

  • Home Décor PLUS features our incredible teachers: top art agent Lilla Rogers and creative director and Margo Tantau
  • Get a fabulous trend board to create an exciting new portfolio piece that will wow agents and creative directors
  • Try out new styles, develop your own personal style, and broaden your portfolio range
  • And, as ever, you’ll get plenty of insider tips and advice from industry experts to help you to succeed!

  This mini-course is perfect for you if you want a taster of the exciting home décor market, or you want to broaden and strengthen your portfolio. Bring your dream home décor collection to life!  Scroll down for more information and to book your spot!

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  Illustrating Children’s Books Plus 2024

  Self-Paced
  Build your children’s book illustration portfolio!

  Featuring the teachers you know and love – highly-respected children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker and top art agent and former illustrator Lilla Rogers – with all new material, our PLUS courses are bite-sized, easy and fun. Create a beautiful piece of job-snagging eye-catching children’s book illustration art to strengthen or broaden your portfolio. You’ll get FOUR mini-texts to work from, plus access to recordings of Lilla and Zoë’s reviews of student art and more. Whether you’ve already completed our popular Illustrating Children’s Books course and are hungry for more assignments to expand your portfolio or you’re just looking to dip your toes in this fun and profitable market, our Illustrating Children’s Books Plus course is for you! Want to know more? Scroll down for more information.

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  Hot Markets for Your Art Part A 2024

  Self-Paced
  Want to learn how to make art that sells?

  Build a professional illustration portfolio and learn how to make art that sells in 5 of the most lucrative markets: illustration for bolt fabric, home décor, illustrating children’s books, wall art, and the gift market. The course is full of expert advice from the people who buy art, through a series of exclusive interviews with industry leaders who collectively buy millions of dollars of art every year. Find out exactly what art directors look for in each market. Don't miss out! The course includes a series of professional-level assignments designed to build your portfolio strength in each market area. Kick-start your creative career today! Want more info? Just scroll down!

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  Hot Markets for Your Art Part B 2024

  Self-Paced
  Want to learn how to make art that sells?

  Build a professional illustration portfolio while learning how to make art that sells in 5 of the most lucrative markets: stationery, baby/children’s apparel, scrapbooking, editorial (magazines, books and more) and party paper. The course is full of expert advice from the people who buy art, through a series of exclusive interviews with industry leaders who collectively buy millions of dollars of art every year. Find out exactly what art directors look for in each market. Don't miss out, boost your portfolio and land your dream gigs  in 2024! The course includes a series of professional-level assignments designed to build your portfolio strength in each market area. Want more info? Just scroll down!

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• May 20, 2024

  Illustrating Children’s Books 2024

  Live
  In five weeks, you’ll create a brilliant children’s book pitch to help you land your dream children’s book gig. You’ll get videos, weekly assignments, live weekly video reviews, interviews with publishers and illustrators and more. Co-taught by top art agent Lilla Rogers and highly-respected children’s book art director Zoë Tucker, you'll get 3 exclusive texts plus insider knowledge and hints and tips  from the experts. Serious about a career in children's book illustration? Want to start landing illustration jobs? Sign up for our popular Illustrating Children's Book course and boost your portfolio! Want more info? Just scroll down to find out more about this bestselling course!

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• July 8, 2024

  Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2024

  Live
  create characters for books, toys, games and more!

  Learning how to create winning characters can give a huge boost to your creative career and get you more work in a ton of hot art markets! In this course, you'll get something every Monday for twelve weeks that will teach you how to do just that, while creating six show-stopping pieces of art for your illustration portfolio. Imagine getting paid to dream up appealing characters for children and adults to fall in love with ... Let Zoë and Riley show you how! Join brilliant children's book art director and picture book author, Zoë Tucker, and art agent and smash-hit game creator, Riley Wilkinson, in this exciting course! Your portfolio will love you for it! Want more details? Scroll down for more information.

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• August 5, 2024

  Find Your Art Style with Style 2024

  Live
  explore vintage design eras to create 4 portfolio pieces with a contemporary twist!

  Art agent Lilla Rogers here. One of the most common questions I get asked as an art agent is how do you develop your style? How do you push your style further? How do you freshen your existing style? Join illustrator, historian, and a favorite Make Art That Sells teacher Tamisha Anthony’s newest course, Finding Your Art Style With Style. One of the best ways to evolve or find your style is to be inspired by cool and interesting things to draw! When you’re inspired, you’re much more motivated to make art, and when your art excites you, all kinds of good things can happen! As this goes along, you’ll find that your style just naturally evolves. Tamisha will inspire you with her charming collection of vintage accessories and light you up as you explore wonderful art eras and discover some remarkable women from history. Get ready to discover a variety of floral imagery, styles and motifs from four different visually-exciting vintage eras, then add a cool contemporary spin to make your work unique and marketable. Let’s discover your art style with style! Want to find out more? Scroll down for more  information.

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• October 14, 2024

  My Arty Book Pitch 2024

  Live
  Learn how to get an art-driven book deal! Imagine holding your very own stunning art-driven non-fiction book in your hands, written and illustrated by YOU. Arty books can be travel guides, heavily illustrated guided journals, graphic novels, craft how-tos, social/emotional and neurodiverse art-driven memoirs, and tons more. They are a brilliant way to derive income and expand your creative career, This five-week course is fantastic for creative people such as artists, crafters, illustrators, writers, designers, photographers or anyone who is passionate about a hobby or interest. And you don’t need to be an expert! You just need to care about something you want to share. Lilla will give you the tools you need to make your dreamy passion into a book pitch that agents and publishers will love. You’ll get weekly LIVE reviews in class, and agent Lilla will be looking at every single piece of art submitted to the class gallery before the deadline. Then, she’ll be picking one student at the end of class to meet on their book pitch for a private (supportive and enthusiastic!) 45-minute consultation. Sound good? Scroll down for details.

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