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  Don’t miss Portfolio Club LIVE! Class starts January 5th, find out more here.

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FREE live Zoom TODAY – win a place in class!

Join top art agent Lilla Rogers and fabulous creative director and trend queen Margo Tantau, for a FREE live Zoom event TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST and you could win a free place in class! They’ll be talking about the recent Creating Collections for Home Décor #MATSprep, answering your questions about Creating Collections for Home Décor and anything else you want to ask, and popping a volunteer up onto the screen so that they can chat to them directly. Plus they’ll be giving away a FREE place in Creating Collections for Home Décor to one lucky viewer (if you’ve already signed up then you can swap it for a different Make Art That Sells course or gift it to a friend)! Don’t miss it! Pop a Post-It on your sketchbook and set an alarm on your phone now, then join the live Zoom here. Bring your questions and

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Last part of your FREE assignment: Build a texture library

Lilla here. I can’t wait for you to join me in class! Creating Collections for Home Décor LIVE starts THIS Monday, August 29th, and I sure hope that you’re as excited as I am! Over the past few weeks, this five part #MATSprep warm up has been creating awareness so that when you sit down to make your collection in Creating Collections for Home Décor, you’re a more savvy, unique designer. Amp up: if you haven’t signed up already, get crackin’, because it all begins on Monday! Sign up here. Plus, don’t forget to join me and my fabulous Creating Collections for Home Décor co-teacher, Margo Tantau, for a FREE live Zoom event TOMORROW, FRIDAY, August 26th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST! We’ll be talking about the #MATSprep, answering your questions about the course and anything else you want to ask us from our decades in the industry, and

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#MATSprep Part 4: FREE assignment: Release your inner kook

Lilla here. I’m excited to share Part 4 of this #MATSprep warm up exercise I’ve created for you ahead of my course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, which starts NEXT MONDAY, August 29th. You can catch up on the previous parts here if you missed them, or just dive straight in. If you haven’t signed up for Creating Collections for Home Décor yet, there’s still time! You’ll spend an incredible five weeks with me and my fantastic co-teacher, creative director and trend queen Margo Tantau, learning everything you need to know to create and license products for the lucrative home décor market. You’ll create some stunning art and learn how to present your designs as collections, making them more appealing to clients. The course is packed with information from our decades in the industry – don’t miss it! Sign up now. In Part 3, we started to learn a little

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Discover more about your style in this FREE assignment: #MATSprep Part 3

Lilla here. Over the past week, I’ve been sharing a playful warm up assignment I created for you ahead of my online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor. In this unique class, my brilliant co-teacher, creative director Margo Tantau, and I show you how you can get a slice of the hugely lucrative home décor design pie (globally, the home décor market is estimated to reach a whopping $838.6 billion by 2027!). Every week for five weeks, you’ll explore one of the most popular substrates for home décor: metal, fabric, glass, ceramics and wood/MDF. You’ll get five Mini exercises and five professional-level Main assignments – one for each substrate – and by the end of the course, you’ll have a stunning, on-trend collection of home décor products, ready to send to clients and presented in a way that will bring a tear to an art director’s eye. Plus you’ll also

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FREE assignment inside: #MATSprep Part 2

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing Part 2 of a five part #MATSprep assignment I’ve created for you to help you get warmed up for my Creating Collections for Home Décor class. If you missed Part 1 then catch up here. Creating Collections for Home Décor is a unique online course that will not only show you how you can use your art to design a gorgeous home décor line, but will also show you how to present it as a collection, in a way that clients, creative directors and manufacturers understand – so not only are they more likely to buy your art, but they are also more likely to buy more of it. Art created by Zoë Ingram for Creating Collections for Home Décor (left) and some of the products that got made for Creative Co-op (right). Why does this assignment have five parts? It’s part of the way

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Don’t miss this fantastic FREE assignment!

Woo hoo – the wait is over! Having run for several years as a hugely popular self-paced course, Creating Collections for Home Décor is now BACK as a LIVE course by popular demand! What does that mean? LIVE weekly reviews with your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen creative director Margo Tantau Weekly deadlines to keep you accountable, motivated and on track Brand NEW market-savvy trend boards to inspire you A fantastic group of creatives from all over the world to share your journey with … and more! Every week for five weeks, you’ll explore one of the five main substrates for home décor design: metal, fabric, glass, ceramics and wood/MDF. By the end of the course, you will have a complete collection of home décor products, ready to send to companies like West Elm, Anthropologie and Target. Plus, crucially, this unique course teaches you to

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Meet the latest Make Art That Sells student to be scooped up by Lilla Rogers!

Are you looking for representation? Do you want to just ignore the whole fiddly, business-y side of your creative career and just get on with making gorgeous art in your pajamas? We don’t blame you. And don’t forget, every single live Make Art That Sells course is a fantastic opportunity to get your art seen by top art agent Lilla Rogers. Lilla looks at every single piece of art submitted to the class galleries when she’s preparing for the live class reviews, and she also stalks the class Facebook groups pretty obsessively. So if you want to get your art seen by an innovative art agent who’s always looking for fresh talent then you’ll want to check out our fabulous online courses. This isn’t a one in a million shot either – since Make Art That Sells was founded in 2013, Lilla has taken on more than 30 Make Art

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LAST CHANCE! Bootcamp closes TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY – registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio closes TODAY! That means it’s your last chance to sign up for all this: Last chance to get something from top art agent Lilla Rogers every Monday from August to October Last chance for three months of inspiring illustration assignments for the hottest art markets right now And last chance to pack your portfolio with gorgeous art designed to help you get paying jobs! A few weeks ago, we shared a roundup of some of the jobs last year’s Bootcamp cohort landed due to art they’d made in Assignment Bootcamp – and today we’re sharing even more! Read on for more … Want to make beautiful portfolio pieces designed to get you work, explore new art markets and grow your art? Don’t miss out – sign up now!   Dani Knight Dani created this gorgeous journal cover for Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio.

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Bootcamp starts TODAY: 5 reasons why you need to sign up

It’s BACK! Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio starts TODAY! Fill your portfolio with gorgeous, on-trend art designed to land you jobs Explore hot new art markets that need your art Find the joy in your art-making … all for the same price as a couple of lattes a week! How does it work? Every Monday from today until the end of October, you’ll get something new from art agent Lilla: maybe a blobby worksheet, a video tutorial, a fresh new color palette, a mini assignment, a trend board or something else. Add them together and … step by step, every month you’ll create a brand new illustration portfolio piece for a different art market – you’ll make one finished piece every month, along with the prep work you’ll do along the way (which has also landed our students jobs!). And as if three months of creative inspiration at a rock bottom price