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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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Find out what Make Art That Sells students REALLY think of our courses!

What do Make Art That Sells students REALLY think of our courses? This summer, we asked our students to share their blogs and newsletters in which they mention Make Art That Sells courses, and we’ve loved reading all the wonderful things you’ve been saying about us! Just some of the stunning products assigned to artists represented by Lilla Rogers. Every one of the 20 artists taken on by Lilla Rogers Studio since 2013 have been Make Art That Sells students, and Lilla is actively looking for new artists to represent right now, because her artists are so busy! Check out Lilla’s three favorites below! Sonja Morris Sonja Morris is a card-carrying Make Art That Sells course addict! She’s taken a variety of MATS courses, including Assignment Bootcamp, Creating Collections for Home Décor, the MATS MBA (Money BadAss), and more. Make Art That Sells student Sonja Morris created this beautiful artwork


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Revealed! Lilla’s brand NEW courses for 2020!

How does Lilla decide what new courses to create? As a top art agent, she sees what kind of art is selling right now, which markets are the hottest, and exactly what clients are looking for, and she can then use this amazing insider info to create courses for you, so that you can make art that sells and enjoy a fulfilling, lucrative career! Plus of course, she’s always listening to feedback from you, her incredible students! We are thrilled to announce that we are launching not one but two brand NEW courses for 2020! Drum roll please: our new courses are … My Kid Book Pitch: Create a children’s book pitch only YOU can write; and Lilla’s Mystery Box: Exploring creative living with art agent Lilla Rogers Intrigued? Want to know more, including how you can get these courses at a great discount? Read on … ! Lilla says:


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QUIZ: is the editorial market for you?

LAST CHANCE! Registration for top art agent and former illustrator Lilla Roger’s Editorial Live: Illustrating for Magazines and More closes TODAY – don’t miss out, sign up now! You’ll get to log straight into your classroom to get your warm up exercise, and at 2 EDT pm TODAY you’ll get your first LIVE session with Lilla Rogers and get given your first assignment. Sign up now and dive right in! How do you know if the editorial market is for you? See how many of these you can tick off: Are you somebody that loves to flick through magazines and to read articles on your phone or laptop? Do you like to research and draw a variety of different things? Would you love to get a manuscript and get paid to illustrate it? Would you like to learn how to create concepts and come up with ideas? Would you like


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Editorial LIVE starts TODAY! Join us for our FREE Facebook Live event!

Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More, starts TODAY! This is the second time we’ve run this course in 2019 and it wasn’t originally in our schedule, but we’ve had to add it due to overwhelming demand after our May 2019 course sold out. Find out why and book your spot now! Imagine flicking through your favorite magazine and spotting your own gorgeous art Imagine picking up groceries and seeing your beautiful art on a front cover on the newsstand Imagine getting a call from an editor or art director telling you they love your art and begging you to work with them Imagine getting paid to read a manuscript and illustrate it Let top art agent and former illustrator Lilla Rogers teach you everything she knows about this cool and lucrative market from her decades in the industry. In just four weeks, you’ll create a powerful full color conceptual


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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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Discover the top 5 things you need to show in your portfolio to get a lucrative editorial career!

Just one week to go until the start of Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines and More (The Popular Culture Edit)! Hurry – book your place here! What do you need to show in your portfolio to land editorial illustration jobs? Art agent and former illustrator Lilla shares her tips below! As well as being a top art agent and an excellent educator who has taught everyone from professional artists to little kids, Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher Lilla Rogers was also a successful illustrator, so she has boatloads of advice, tip and insight to share with you. 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. Hear Lilla explain what an illustration can


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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


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See our amazing student editorial rough and finished work from class

Do you want in on the fascinating world of editorial illustration? Do you flick through your favorite magazine and see the art that accompanies each article and wonder how that artist got the gig? Let art agent Lilla show you how! Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, Lilla Rogers, was a professional illustrator in NYC before she set up her own hugely successful art agency, so it’s no surprise that she has tons of wisdom and insight to share with anyone interested in the editorial market. She taught her brand NEW course, Editorial Live: Illustrating for Magazines and More, for the first time in spring 2019, and it was so popular (it sold out before it was ever officially launched!) that we’ve scheduled it again this month. Book your spot here! What’s editorial? Broadly, it means anything having to do with text (words). For example, it could be something


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Case study: from design to real life, see the products from our home décor class that really got made!

LAST CHANCE! Registration for our brand new LIVE home décor mini course, Home Décor PLUS, closes TODAY! This class is not on our schedule for 2020 so if you want to do it, now’s the time – but don’t worry: there’s still time to sign up! Book your spot here! Above: feedback on our self-paced home décor course, Creating Collections for Home Décor. Our new mini course, Home Décor PLUS, includes bonus material on finishing techniques from Margo Tantau and actual mock-up templates by Corinna Buchholz of Piddix. See the syllabus here. Case study: Zoë Ingram Zoë Ingram was the winner of our first ever Global Talent Search and the first GTS winner to be represented by Lilla’s agency, Lilla Rogers Studio. (Did you know the last 20 artists taken on by Lilla Rogers Studio are all Make Art That Sells students? That’s because our courses teach you exactly what