Category:Alumni Success
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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

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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 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 9, 2019.

HUGE NEWS! Lilla Rogers Studio is taking on a Make Art That Sells student!

We’re thrilled to be able to share our big news: Lilla Rogers Studio is taking on a new artist, and it’s one of our very own Make Art That Sells students! MATS courses are unique in being led by one of the world’s foremost art agents, Lilla Rogers – which means that they offer students an unparalleled opportunity to get their art directly in front of a leading art agent! This student is someone who will have taken multiple MATS courses, been followed by MATS on Instagram and possibly had work reviewed in class by Lilla: all wonderful opportunities for MATS students to get their work noticed by Lilla and possibly get scooped up for representation. In fact, the majority of artists recently taken on by Lilla Rogers Studio, including all six of the finalists from the most recent round of Lilla’s Global Talent Search, have all been MATS students. Here are three of Lilla’s

Posted on April 11, 2019.

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

Posted on April 11, 2019.

#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

Posted on March 21, 2019.

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

Posted on February 26, 2019.

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

Posted on January 18, 2019.

Drum roll please … Find out who won our huge video testimonial competition plus watch your gorgeous films!

At the end of last year we launched our massive video testimonial competition. We wanted to know all about what you loved about Make Art That Sells, the great work you’ve gotten, the friends you’ve met, and the courses that have blown your mind, and you didn’t disappoint. We were blown away by the standard of the entries that we received, and it was very hard to pick a winner, but a winner we must have, so we are delighted to announce that the winner of a place on My Year of Art LIVE plus an exclusive 1:1 with a teacher of her choice is …Sam Rudd Watch her film and the other videos we loved below. We also loved the following videos: Denise Ortakales Liz Munro Galia Luz Natalia Gonzalez Thanks so much to everyone who took part. You never fail to amaze us with your creativity, skill and

Posted on November 1, 2018.

See the MATS students work that made it into the Flow Calendar 2019!

Recently, Flow Magazine published their gorgeous tear-off calendar for 2019, and we were thrilled to see that so many MATS students were selected to be included in the calendar! Flow told us, “We paid attention to quality, diversity, colors, orginality and if the illustration makes us happy, or touches us. We think with this calendar we bring an ode to illustrators, and we give you a different ‘painting’ on your wall, every day of the year!” In many cases, the images were created during Make Art That Sells online courses. This is because MATS courses are designed to help you create showstopping portfolio pieces which are just what art directors are looking for and which can help you get real work! Read on to see just some of the stunning images from MATS students and to find out how they felt that their experience of MATS has helped them to develop their careers so far … Bénédicte Barret: “Paris sera toujours Paris” Bénédicte says: