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LAST CHANCE for Bootcamp!

LAST CHANCE to take a deep dive into the rewarding world of creating characters: registration for Bootcamp Special: Character Play closes TODAY! Art by Make Art That Sells student Tina Burke. Create gorgeous art for children’s books with brilliant picture book art director Zoë Tucker, then turn it into a toy or game with creative director and smash-hit game creator Riley. HURRY, last chance to sign up – join the class now! Hurry HURRY – registration for Bootcamp Special: Character Play closes TODAY, and this course won’t run again until 2025! If you want to get something from a children’s book art director and picture book author and an art agent, creative director and toy creator every Monday for three months that will help you create great portfolio art designed to get you work – then sign up now! As a quick reminder, here’s what you get when you register

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Replay of Live with Lilla, Zoë and Riley: Character Bootcamp Begins Today!

Wondering if Bootcamp Special: Character Play is for you? The good news is that it’s perfect for all levels: the assignments are specially designed so that everyone can shine. Together with top art agent Lilla, Zoë and Riley talk about the fab FREE Bootcamp Special: Character Play #MATSprep warm-up exercise and answer your creative career questions. Watch the replay below and sign up to class here. TODAY!: LAST CHANCE – Bootcamp Special: Character Play starts TODAY. Join the class now!

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Bootcamp starts TODAY! Win a FREE place!

Create winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more – Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2024 starts TODAY! A strong character is the backbone of stories, games and more, and that’s why they’re such a great addition to your illustration portfolio. In this playful but powerful course, you’ll get something from your teachers – brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker and art agent and smash-hit game creator Riley Wilkinson – that will help you create some amazing art that’s specifically designed to get you paying jobs. Art by Make Art That Sells student Kerrisa Treanor for Bootcamp Special: Character Play. First you’ll create a character based on an exclusive mini-text from Zoë, then turn it into a toy with help from Riley! Sign up here. The first Monday of every month for three months, you’ll get a mini-text and an assignment

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Create a character: Part 2 of your FREE assignment!

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing Part 2 of the FREE #MATSprep illustration assignment I created for you to get you warmed up for Bootcamp Special: Character Play. Today you’re going to find out exactly how easy it is to create winning characters for some of the hottest art markets right now. This course really is for all levels – and it’s just £99 (approx. $126)! Win a free place in class! First I need to remind you to join me and my brilliant Bootcamp Special teachers, Zoë and Riley, in a FREE live Zoom event on the first day of class, Monday, July 8th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT! Zoë and Riley are both incredible teachers who are a joy to learn from as well as having huge amounts of information to share, and I know we’re going to have a great time. Join us – scribble a note

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It’s here! Get Part 1 of your FREE assignment!

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing the first part of a FREE two part #MATSprep illustration assignment I’ve created for you to get you warmed up and ready for Bootcamp Special: Character Play, which starts NEXT MONDAY, July 8th! Let Zoë, Riley and me show you how easy it can be to create winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more. Q: Hold up. What’s Bootcamp Special: Character Play? A: Bootcamp Special: Character Play is a playful, relaxed course that’s designed to boost your creativity and give you more income streams for your art, so you can make more money doing what you love. It focuses on two fabulous art markets – children’s picture books and toys and games – and is taught by two top experts. Art by Make Art That Sells student Tina Burke for Bootcamp Special: Character Play. First you’ll create a character

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Lilla’s secret: Time management for artists

Get art agent Lilla’s inside scoop on time management for artists Art agent Lilla has had her fingers in a ton of creative pies (just roll with the metaphor here) – as well as her busy agency, she also teaches her Make Art That Sells courses online (and recently in person in France), writes a regular column for Uppercase magazine, has worked as a full-time illustrator, guests on podcasts, judges illustration competitions, has run her own craft jewelry line, has written a book, mentors the artists she represents, writes new content for class, and tons more. Meet Lilla Rogers! She has tons of wisdom to share from her decades of working in the creative industry. With decades of experience under her belt, we’ve been asking her to answer some of the Big Questions about life as an illustrator. Questions like: How can I keep creating with joy in difficult times?

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How winning characters got work: success stories from our students

How creating characters can get you jobs! It’s just two and a half weeks until the start of Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2024 and we can’t wait to see the amazing work that is going to come out of class this year! In this playful and inspiring three month course, you’ll get something from your teachers – brilliant children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker and creative director, art agent and smash-hit game creator Riley Wilkinson – every Monday that will help you create some winning art for your portfolio that’s specifically designed to get you paying jobs, from packaging to picture books – plus stickers, Google ads and more. Paying jobs like these from some of our students … Read on to find out more! Don’t forget, Bootcamp Special: Character Play starts Monday, July 8th and won’t run again until 2025 – find out more and sign up

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Big news from Lilla

The Lilla Rogers Studio Ladies at a recent meeting in my backyard Patty Kantlehner, Julia Parker, Me, Susan McCabe, and Kim Fleming Lilla here. I have some big news to share. Make Art That Sells is my passion: I adore teaching and I love concocting courses to help you thrive in your creative career. Equally, thirty years of running my own agency has been an amazing adventure. What greater feeling is there for an agent than to email a brilliantly talented artist with a dream job or to mentor them on a project close to their heart to then have it accepted by their hoped-for client? Some of the thousands of products my art agency has licensed illustration for. We’ve agented commissions for some of the best artists in the world on, for example, a watertower in Albuquerque, painterly pillows and mugs for Anthropologie, huge murals for a Seattle hospital

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See the character that became a game that became a book!

Find out how you can create winning characters for games, books and more – and see the character that became a game that became a book! It’s less than a month until the start of Bootcamp Special: Character Play, the popular course, now in its third year, that’s all about creating appealing characters for books, games, toys and more. Learning how to create characters can be fantastic for your creative career. Why? Because they’re the centre point of products like picture books, toys and games (including plush toys, play sets, card and board games and more), and because you can licence them in so many art markets – markets like clothing, cushions, bedlinens, tea towels and oven gloves, phone cases, bags, wall art, and dozens more. In this unique course, you’ll join brilliant children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker, and creative director, art agent and smash-hit game creator,

How to silence self-doubt

How to silence self-doubt Have you met Lilla Rogers? She’s worked as an art agent, an illustrator, a speaker, a columnist, the creator of a national jewelry craft line, an educator, an author and more, and she has tons of wisdom to share. Art agent Lilla’s courses often explore the psychological side of carving out a career as an illustrator. After decades in the industry as an art agent, a mentor, a full-time illustrator and an educator, she has tons of wisdom to share, and works hard to nurture creative people. With that in mind, we’ve been asking Lilla to answer some of the Big Questions about life as an illustrator. You can check out her previous answers here: How can I keep creating with joy in difficult times? How can I deal with envy in my work as an illustrator? Is making art that sells selling out? Today we