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
Hurry! Registration for Assignment Bootcamp 2019 closes TODAY
Did you see our recent blog where our video testimonial competition winner, Sam Rudd, told us all about why she loves Assignment Bootcamp? See her video below Sam Rudd’s prize winning entry to our video testimonial competition focused on her love for Assignment Bootcamp. Want in? HURRY! Registration for 2019 closes today! What is Assignment Bootcamp, and why is it so brilliant? In brief, it’s weekly treat direct from a top art agent that will inspire you, motivate you, and help you to fill your portfolio with beautiful on-trend client-grabbing art – all for the price of a weekly latte! Find out more here – but HURRY! Registration for Bootcamp 2019 closes TODAY! Bootcamp 2018 work from MATS student Olivia Gibbs. Fill your portfolio with beautiful market-savvy client-grabbing art! Sam wasn’t the only one who loved Bootcamp! Here’s just some of the feedback we received from Bootcamp 2018: The assignments were fun, challenging and so
Bootcamp 2019 #MATSPREP: Day Two
Welcome to Day 2 of your Assignment Bootcamp 2019 #MATSprep! If you missed Day 1, there’s still time to join in: find it here Gorgeous color is so key in getting you work, and today I have a fantastic way for you to come up with a fresh color palette! Let’s face it. We all tend to rely on our same colors, and with this download I’m pushing you to break out. Give it a try, and I encourage you to use colors you don’t normally. Lilla’s tip no. 1: I have found that artists often use only bright colors. I’m limiting it to only two so that you try other colors. If you’ve taken my courses, you know that I’m all about neutrals/muted colors, so for this I’m encouraging you to do 3 muted colors. One can be any kind you want, another is a light muted color, and the last is a dark muted color. (Just so you know, I’m using ‘muted’ and ‘neutrals’ interchangeably here.) Lilla’s tip no. 2: People tend to only use light
Bootcamp 2019 #MATSPREP: Day One
Welcome to Part 1 of your Assignment Bootcamp 2019 #MATSprep! Here’s your first of two FREE exercises to get prepared for our Assignment Bootcamp class What’s Assignment Bootcamp? Assignment Bootcamp is our four-month long e-course. It’s a great way to make four kickass portfolio pieces over four months that will help you snag great jobs, grow your art and learn in a fun, relaxed way, all for the same price as a weekly latte. Find five reasons you’ll love Bootcamp here. Be sure to share your work and use #MATSprep on Instagram so we can see what you do! For today’s #MATSprep we’re going to be focusing on color, because color is incredibly important in your work. I always emphasize how color is so key: it can absolutely make or break when getting a job from an art director. So in this #MATSprep I’m going to help you make a fabulous color palette. Today I want you to go around your house or apartment or studio and gather up