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Posted on January 15, 2020.

Get your FREE Editorial LIVE #MATSprep

There’s still time to sign up for Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More: The Artivism Edit starting MONDAY, but HURRY – previously this course has completely sold out so don’t miss it! Lilla’s own art for the cover of the New York Times Magazine and more. Let Lilla show you how you can get cool gigs like these! Book now! 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 book 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 Grammy Awards, the program for Philip Glass’s new opera at Brooklyn Academy of Music and heaps

Posted on January 9, 2020.

How Lilla Rogers’ flag ended up on stage with Elizabeth Warren

Your art is powerful. Think about how an image can sum up a situation or an emotion in a way that a photograph or a paragraph of text can’t (click below to hear art agent Lilla Rogers talking about what an illustration can do that a photograph can’t). The flag which Lilla created and shared online ahead of the Women’s March in January 2017. Lilla says: “I wanted to throw some energy around women making their voices heard.” Our next Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines & More online course starts in under two weeks, on Monday, January 20th, with a brand new vibe and a brand new text to illustrate. As ever, we’ll be digging deep into exactly how you can use illustration in this way to illustrate ideas or concepts rather than simply drawing objects, so by the end of the three week course you can expect to have

Posted on January 3, 2020.

Get your FREE Dream Armadillo and Dream Snail worksheets!

Happy new year from all of us here at Make Art That Sells! What are your plans for the year, large or small? You may remember me, British Jennie, from a couple of newsletters in December. I write all of the Make Art That Sells newsletters and social media posts and various other bits and bobs behind the scenes, but aside from that I also have three smallish children, two cats and a dog. In 2020, my goals, as for the previous decade, will mainly revolve around getting enough sleep. It absolutely blows my mind that ten years ago I would go to bed with the full expectation of being able to sleep uninterrupted for eight whole hours, night after night, without someone needing a drink of water or a trip to the bathroom or to have monsters flushed out from under the bed or sudden reassurance about something that

Posted on December 26, 2019.

Get your FREE downloadable affirmation from art agent Lilla

Lilla has used affirmations as a powerful tool for her entire career, and now, as a gift to you as we move towards the start of a whole new year, we want to give you a free affirmation to download and put somewhere prominent to help guide your own career and art practice. Why affirmations? Affirmations are a great way to program your beliefs so that you move in the direction you want your life to go. By repeating a key phrase, you reframe your beliefs in a subtle, but powerful way. Print out the one we give you here or create your own, then pin them in key places around your house or workspace. Lilla says, “My morning mirror is covered with sticky notes of affirmations I’ve written for my own life raising teenagers, getting through bumpy career points, or working toward goals I want to achieve. Somehow, repeating

Posted on December 19, 2019.

A day in the life of a top art agent

What exactly does a top art agent and born educator do all day? Having had the pleasure of staying with art agent and Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, Lilla Rogers, for several days in October, I can say for sure that she lives and breathes art and teaching: she is constantly thinking about what her artists and students need to know in order to thrive, both professionally and personally, and how she can break it down for them. It’s this ethos which underpins Make Art That Sells, which she describes as “an organic feedback loop”: always listening to her artists and students and thinking about what they need, and creating new courses in real time to meet those evolving needs. Much as you’d expect, Lilla’s studio is full of color and whimsy. Lilla’s day starts with ten minutes of meditation, daydreams, and checking email in bed – though

Posted on December 12, 2019.

Tips from a top art agent: Lilla’s advice for the holidays

Hi everyone, it’s British Jennie here. I write all of the Make Art That Sells newsletters and social media posts and various other bits and bobs behind the scenes. Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to visit Lilla at her home and studio in Boston, which was wonderful for many reasons, but one that struck me as soon as I walked in is that it’s such an incredible space. It’s beautiful, and it’s so so clean. I have three small children, so this was like stepping into a different world for me. She has no yogurt on her walls, no one has inexplicably left a Slinky, a doll’s head and two sticks next to her coffee machine, there are no foodstuffs smeared on any of her furniture. It was amazing. What’s her secret? Grown children and professional help, of course, but I wanted to know if she had any

Posted on December 7, 2019.

WIN a spot in Assignment Bootcamp 2020!

WIN a spot in our most popular course, Assignment Bootcamp 2020! Make Art That Sells manifesto by 2015 winner Shannon Newlin. What would your Make Art That Sells manifesto say? What sums up the Make Art That Sells experience for you? Is it the opportunity to fill your portfolio with show-stopping job-snagging art? Is it the inimitable Lilla Rogers, top art agent and Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, with her wisdom, insight and always surprising assignments? Or is it knowing that you’ve found your tribe in our brilliant supportive Facebook groups? As we head into the new year, we’re setting you a fun challenge for the holiday season: to create a Make Art That Sells manifesto illustration that describes what MATS means to you. The grand prize winner will get a FREE spot in our raved-about course, Assignment Bootcamp. And three runners up will win a free place in

Posted on December 2, 2019.

Our biggest sale of the year ends TODAY!

Making art that sells Whatever your plans for your creative career in 2020, we’ve got the insight, insider info and assignments that will empower you to turn your dreams into reality. Imagine filling your portfolio with beautiful, job-snagging art … Imagine opening your favorite glossy magazine and seeing your gorgeous art inside … Imagine your Etsy shop selling out so fast you hardly have time to restock it … Imagine landing your dream children’s book illustration job: spending weeks immersed in creating a magical world for children to fall in love with – and getting paid for it … Imagine making art that sells! Want to find out how you can get your art onto cool products like these from Lilla’s artists? Let Lilla show you how – she’s got tons of wisdom and insider insight to share! BUT HURRY! LAST CHANCE! Don’t forget that our GIANT CYBER SALE ends

Posted on December 1, 2019.

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

Posted on November 30, 2019.

Book deals, representation and more – read our incredible alumni success stories

We love shouting about our amazing alumni and the wonderful work that they do, and they give us plenty to shout about! Maria van Bruggen has taken a number of Make Art That Sells courses, including Illustrating Children’s Books in July 2019, during which she signed a deal with a publisher to write and illustrate three books. (Want to find out how you can pitch for your very own kids’ book? Don’t miss Lilla’s brand NEW course, My Kid Book Pitch!) Anna Lindsten has also taken multiple Make Art That Sells course, including Illustrating Children’s Books a number of times. She says: “I was also contacted shortly after by a Swedish publisher of children’s books after the editor had seen the squirrel character I created in the previous Illustrating Children’s Books course! I was so happy to work with this book publisher for a classic anthology of stories and poems

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