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learn from agent and art director Make Art That Sells Want to crank out some portfolio pieces to get kid book work? Meet Illustrating Children’s Books’ laid-back kid sister!

Posted on July 18, 2019.

Want to crank out some portfolio pieces to get kid book work? Meet Illustrating Children’s Books’ laid-back kid sister!

The sixth run of our raved-about course, Illustrating Children’s Books, is in its final few weeks, and what an amazing ride it’s been! As well as being our biggest, busiest ICB ever, it’s also been phenomenal in terms of the work that our students have been producing. If you haven’t already seen then be sure to head over to our Instagram feed and check it out! Whether you’re gutted you missed out, you already know you’re going to miss it when it’s gone, or you’re just ICB-curious, we know you’re going to love her kid sister: Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS! What is Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS and how is it different than Illustrating Children’s Books? Lilla created this course for you to help you make a fantastic portfolio piece in three weeks. You need several strong pieces to show an art director or agent that you should be commissioned to illustrate a children’s book, and this

Posted on July 11, 2019.

Lilla Rogers Studio’s newest artist (spoiler alert: it’s a Make Art That Sells student)!

Why Make Art That Sells? Top art agent Lilla Rogers created Make Art That Sells because she wants to help creative people to make a living from their art. She says: “I want gifted people to make money with their art. They deserve it. I want them to make art that sells, while being their own cool selves. That’s my deal.” Every one of our outstanding raved-about courses was created to help creatives like you to make a living from making art, and they really work! In fact, ALL of the new artists taken on by Lilla Rogers Studio since MATS began in 2013 have been former MATS students – 17 in total! (Read more about them and how they got chosen here and here). Why? Because MATS courses help you to make unique art in a way that will appeal to agents and art directors, so you can build

Posted on June 27, 2019.

See the book deals our fall 2018 Illustrating Children’s Books students got!

Just imagine – in just six weeks’ time, you could be holding your very own fabulous children’s book illustration pitch in your hands, containing everything you need to land you great jobs from art directors and publishers! Our next Illustrating Children’s Books course starts NEXT WEEK and we couldn’t be more excited about it! This will be the sixth time we’ve run the course, and it just gets better every time. Hurry, hurry – spots are going fast! As ever, there’ll be three exclusive, brand new texts for you to get stuck into, written by our brilliant co-teacher, children’s book art director Zoë Tucker: we can’t give away too much, but rest assured they’ll be bang on trend and designed to bring out the best in every student, no matter what level you’re at. Plus, as Lilla and Zoë review a selection of the work submitted, it’s a unique opportunity to get your beautiful

Posted on June 24, 2019.

Your free #MATSprep for Illustrating Children’s Books!

Do you dream of illustrating a children’s book (or books)? Imagine passing by a bookshop 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. Lilla is going to help you prepare for our hugely successful course, Illustrating Children’s Books which starts on Monday, July 1st. The Mats Prep (#Matsprep) is for everyone (even if you are not signed up to class) What’s a MATS Prep? It’s a fun free exercise to get prepared for class, or to have some creative fun, and a great way to see what Lilla’s playful, kooky teaching style is all about. Simply download Lilla’s fun worksheet here and fill it in! This will help you start to think about what your individual style is, what you

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Posted on June 20, 2019.

WOW! See the book that came out of Illustrating Children’s Books!

We’re just a couple of weeks away from the start of Illustrating Children’s Books, which is one of our most popular and most raved-about courses for very good reason: it’s super fun, it’ll help you produce a full professional children’s book pitch in just five weeks, and it really works! Want proof? Read on … ! Every single Illustrating Children’s Books course includes three brand new texts written exclusively for the course by co-teacher and children’s book art director Zoë Tucker (and last time art agent Lilla got involved and wrote one of the texts too!). The texts are designed to get the very best out of every student, whatever level they’re at, and are also bang on trend, which means they’re exactly what art directors and art agents want to see. In a previous class, MATS student Rachel Katstaller chose Zoë’s story about Ada Lovelace, Ada Lovelace and the Number Crunching Machine, as her text to work on

Posted on June 13, 2019.

FLASH SALE! 10% off Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces!

Did you know that if you draw faces you absolutely will get more work? Whether you doodle for fun or are a busy working artist, the ability to draw faces is thrilling and great for your career, especially if you’re interested in the magical and lucrative children’s book illustration market. Faces get you jobs! Some cool products with faces from Lilla’s artists. Being able to draw faces hugely increases how much work you will get. And to celebrate the latest round of our raved-about Illustrating Children’s Books course, which starts July 1st, we’re offering you a flash 10% discount on Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces with the code KIDBOOKFACES – but hurry: offer expires July 4th! In this fun short course, top art agent and former illustrator Lilla Rogers will show you the key ingredients for drawing faces so you can draw with more confidence while accessing your own quirky uniqueness. Lilla breaks down the process in a

Posted on June 6, 2019.

Our brand new Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS course goes on sale today!

We’re thrilled that our brand new bite-sized Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS course launches today! Most spaces have already filled up pre-launch as part of bundles such as our fab new Illustrate a Kids’ Book Bundle, so we’re giving you, our newsletter subscribers, a head start on snagging your spot! Have you previously taken our raved-about Illustrating Children’s Books course and know that it always leaves you hungry for more more more? Would you like to dip your toe in the thrilling world of children’s book illustration but don’t want to commit to a full-length course until you’re sure that it’s for you? Would you like the opportunity to try out a new style or approach to children’s book illustration for your portfolio, because you know the more range you can show, the more work you’ll get? Would you like the chance to get *your* gorgeous illustration work in front of a top art agent and a renowned children’s book art

Posted on May 30, 2019.

FREE class on composition for illustrators from top art agent Lilla Rogers!

Today we’re sharing a great FREE mini class from art agent Lilla Rogers on composition for illustrators, to help you become a composition master! As an educator, Lilla has taught everyone from little kids to professional artists, but one thing remains constant: she breaks down complex ideas in a way that makes it whimsical and fun, and accessible for everyone. Or as Lilla says, “I trick you into doing your best work.” Just check out this lovely composition for illustrators class to see what we mean. Kick-ass composition for illustrators by Lilla Rogers Lilla here. Years and years of illustrating full-time taught me ways to design a page, and now I’ll share them with you. I’ve gathered some flora from my mother-in-law’s bucolic country garden in Western Massachusetts to show you some of my own favorite composition layouts. How your artwork is composed is so important! I’ve seen really great imagery passed on by art directors because the overall

Posted on May 21, 2019.

REVEALED! Who is Lilla Rogers Studio’s newest artist?

We recently revealed that Lilla Rogers Studio is taking on a new artist who is also a Make Art That Sells student. This week we’re thrilled to be able to tell you that LRS’s newest artist is … Kelly Anne Dalton! Congrats, Kelly Anne! Lilla said: “Kelly Anne’s work is so strong, cool and eccentric, plus her work demonstrates a charming, quirky imagination. Her children’s book work in particular is incredibly strong: she’s taken Illustrating Children’s Books a number of times. It was obvious to me that she worked really hard in class and she always delivered: I always knew that her assignments were going to blow me away. You could tell that she was really taking in what Zoë and I were saying, absorbing the information from class and applying it to her work, and that told me that she was willing to work with me and that we could

Posted on May 16, 2019.

See our students’ kooky collections and cool colour palettes!

We’d love to show you some of our students’ cool color palettes and kooky collections! Muted vintage color and goodness in Cynthia Frenette’s collection for Day 1 of the prep We shared two free days of #MATSprep ahead of the start of Assignment Bootcamp 2019 in February. What’s a #MATSprep? It’s a set of free exercises to get prepared for class, or just to enjoy some creative fun and inspiration, and they’re a great way to see what Lilla’s playful teaching style is all about. MATS preps are usually spread over a couple of days or more, and each day you complete a task without knowing what you’ll be doing with it the following day. As you can imagine, it’s enormous fun and always entertaining to find out where each prep will take you, but it’s also a brilliant way to find the joy in your artmaking, to just be in the moment and to play. Plus not knowing what will happen next is exciting and engaging;

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