Lilla’s artists work on tons of kids’ picture books every year. Let her show you how they got the gigs in her raved about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books Do you dream of illustrating your own children’s book (or books)? Imagine passing by a book shop and seeing your art in the window, or visiting the library and hearing a child exclaiming over the pictures you created! There’s something really magical about immersing yourself completely in a text and bringing it to life for generations of children to enjoy. Work from a previous Illustrating Children’s Books course by MATS student Agnes Ofner In our raved-about e-course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which runs for the seventh time from July 1st 2019, you’ll create exactly what an art director needs to see for you to get a children’s book gig: a full page spread, a character page, a front cover and more, in just five weeks. Plus,
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Want to save $$$ on every single one of our outstanding raved-about courses? Want to spend five months immersed in three of the coolest, most lucrative markets for your art? Want your summer and fall mapped out with fantastic learning opportunities from industry experts every month from July to November? Then keep your eyes peeled for our fun flash spring sale, which kicks off NEXT WEEK! DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE GORGEOUS SALE GUIDE BELOW! Launch or boost your creative career in three thrilling markets with My Semester of Art School: check out what you get! Download your FREE sale guide here. We’ll be running our flash sale from Tuesday, April 23rd to Saturday, April 27th, with discounts across every one of our amazing courses plus an incredible bundle that will launch or boost your creative career across three of the most fun and profitable creative markets around: children’s book illustration, editorial
More #myMATSsuccess stories from our Alum!
Today, we published a blog post announcing the winners of our recent competition where our alum shared their successes! We have more to share with you in the post below. JENESY CLAIRE I wanted to share a quick story about how MATS brought me to where I am today : In 2014, I had finally quit my job running restaurants in NYC to pursue my dream illustrating children’s books. I went to every conference, workshop, and meet up group I could, showing my portfolio to anyone who would look at it. A generous tip from a mentor suggested I look at MATS to beef up my skills and portfolio, and I was off. I tore through the classes, and I thought, improved a lot. Art directors did not. At the same time, my husband and I were relocated to Singapore for his work. I was thrown into a whirlwind of new colors and
#myMATSsuccess – read our astounding alum success stories and meet our winners!
How do you define success? It means different things for each of us and of course keeps on changing throughout our lives as we grow and develop. What does success look like to you? Print out and complete our quirky FREE Dream Snail worksheet to help you plan your amazing creative career. Perhaps it could mean snagging that amazing kids’ book illustration gig … Setting up a friendly group for fellow artists to support and inspire each other … Getting so many job offers you can pick and choose exactly what work you want to do … Taking the plunge and sharing your work for the first time … Or signing up for your first MATS class! We recently asked our MATS community to share their MATS successes so far, and today we’d like to share some of our favorites, as well as announcing the winners of our fabulous Lilla
Lilla, how do I know which market is right for me? Which one should I be focusing on and trying to get work in?
In a recent Facebook Live event, you had the chance to ask top art agent Lilla anything you wanted and you had a lot of questions! Over the next few months, we’ll be taking the opportunity to answer some of your burning questions in our weekly newsletters. We hope you find them useful! Today’s big question: Lilla, how do I know which market is right for me? Which one should I be focusing on and trying to get work in? We know what it’s like! You’re a creative person and you have so many things going on in your head: you love to paint, you love to draw, you love using a load of different media and drawing a load of different things. How do you know which ones to invest your time in? How do you know which markets to focus on or what to draw when your time is limited
Alumna success story spotlight with Esther Mols
We’re so proud of our wonderful alums and love to shout about their successes! If you have a story to share, whether it’s just being brave enough to hit SEND on your first email to an art director or snagging that amazing multi-kid book deal, we want to hear about it – and right now you could win a tote bag of delicious goodies and a place on Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces to help you land more great work! Enter the competition here. In this newsletter, we’re finding out more about Esther Mols, who has been a graphic designer for the past 17 years, and a MATS addict for the past two. After doing a portrait of a Suffragette for Assignment Bootcamp 2018, Esther was inspired to create more in the series. An art director spotted them on Instagram and asked her to illustrate a non-fiction children’s book about Stephen Hawking. Hi Esther! Please tell
Tips from a top art agent: How to have an illustration career in three steps. Plus discover your USP!
You might already know that, before she became a renowned international art agent, Lilla Rogers had a long and illustrious career working as a professional illustrator. All of the courses from Make Art That Sells are based on the fact that, from over 30 years in the business, Lilla knows exactly what you need to know in order to make art that sells in your own unique style. Some artwork by Lilla from her Art Recipes: Drawing Faces ecourse In today’s newsletter, we’re going to talk about how to have an illustration career in three steps. Note that we don’t say easy steps! Each of these steps will be an ongoing process that will become easier and more rewarding the more that you practice them. But one thing that Lilla does know for sure is that big daunting things become very much less overwhelming if you just break them down
Share your MATS success and win a tote bag full of Lilla Rogers Studio goodies!
We love hearing about everything you get out of Make Art That Sells courses, from the amazing jobs you’ve snagged, to your blossoming confidence in your work, to your breakthroughs in the way you think, to the support you get from our wonderful MATS community, and everything in between! Have you ever looked at some of the fab products from Lilla’s artists that she shows off in Facebook Lives and thought you’d like to get your hands on some? Now’s your chance! Products from Lilla’s artists in the first of our fab totes to give away. We can show you how to get your art on gorgeous products like these! Plus have you noticed how many of these products have faces on them? We’re also throwing in a free place in Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces for each of our winners, because being able to draw faces can help you
Bootcamp success stories plus HURRY! Blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Bootcamp registration window!
Once people start seeing all the great work coming out of the Bootcamp course, they say, “Hey! I want in!”! Assignment Bootcamp 2019 started on February 4th and we’ve been blown away by the standard of work that our students are already sharing in their private Facebook group. Imagine getting an email from one of your favorite magazines saying they love your work! This piece by Kate Merritt that was included in the Flow calendar 2019. Illustrating illuminated letters was a mini assignment in a previous Bootcamp course. The first public gallery goes live TODAY so you can check it out for yourself – just click here. Every year when our first gallery goes live, we get masses of requests to reopen Bootcamp registration because people start seeing all the amazing art coming out of it, so we’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be re-opening registration for a super limited blink-and-you’ll-miss-it window from today until Friday. HURRY! We will close Bootcamp 2019 registration for good
What is your brand? Find out with our FREE download!
What is your brand? You may have heard people saying that you need to have your own brand, but what is it and how do you get it? Lilla breaks it down in her inimitable style: your brand is simply the art you love to make plus the gigs you want to get. Your brand is also your style. Lilla says “It’s an internal thing and completely instinctive: the art you love to make, your own art that you love, the art materials you love to use, the things that you love to look at, buy or own … All these things come together to create your own personal brand.” Student feedback for Portfolio Review Live Let’s take an example. When you look at someone’s art and think: wow, they’ve got a really strong brand, perhaps you’re seeing that they really love messy paint, working in blues and greys and drawing birds. You’re seeing the