Category:Course: Assignment Bootcamp
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Posted on March 26, 2020.

Get your FREE career planning worksheet, plus Lilla’s video of all the cool art jobs out there

First up, it is 100% absolutely your last chance to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp today, so if you want in – and we both know that you do – then book your spot NOW! Registration closes at 11.59pm PT and will not re-open again until 2021! Secondly, our fabulous Spring Sale starts one week today! We’ve got some delicious bundles of goodness to tempt you, plus discounts across every single one of our upcoming raved-about online courses – don’t miss it! Look out for your gorgeous FREE sale guide in next week’s newsletter! Today, in the run-up to the sale, we’re sharing this nutty worksheet from Lilla. Let’s say you’re an acorn: what will you become? Are you going to work your way up the tree right to the top, setting yourself a goal and working out all the steps you need to take? Or are you going to

Posted on March 24, 2020.

HURRY! Absolutely positively 100% last chance to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp 2020!

All aboard the Bootcamp train please: this train is preparing to pull out of the station. Assignment Bootcamp officially started Monday, March 2nd, but, due to popular demand, we’ve re-opened registration TODAY for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 72 hour window. HURRY! We will close Bootcamp 2020 registration for good on Thursday, March 26th at 11.59pm PT. It isn’t in our calendar again this year, so this will be your last chance to take part until 2021! Even though class started in March, there’s a fresh new assignment every month, so if you sign up now you’ll be ready to start the April assignment on Monday, April 6th along with the rest of the class as well as getting the March bonus content on Monday, March 30th. Plus you’ll have instant access to the March assignments to complete in your own time (want some motivation? Check out the gorgeous student gallery here) so

Posted on March 19, 2020.

Assignment Bootcamp is reopening for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it three day window!

Oops – you did it again. Every single year, we get emails from students kicking themselves for not signing up for Assignment Bootcamp, especially when our first public gallery goes live (look out for the eye candy on March 24th). They see the incredible work that our students are producing, and how much fun they’re having, and how quirky and inspiring the assignments are, and they think: DAMN. We have great news for all you FOMO Fionas and Last-minute Larries: we’ll be re-opening registration for Bootcamp for a super limited blink-and-you’ll-miss-it window from this coming Tuesday, March 24th, to Thursday, March 26th. But that really truly utterly completely is your very last chance! Q: Won’t I be missing out if I sign up next week? Class started on March 2nd! A: One of the great things about Bootcamp is that you get a brand new assignment for a different market

Posted on March 5, 2020.

FREE VIDEO: What does an art agent look for in a portfolio?

Did you hear the big news? Our surprise special guest for March Bootcamp is … Lisa Congdon! Fine artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering, and for sharing creative inspiration through her books, podcast recordings, Instagram feed and public speaking. She’s the author of eight books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist, bestselling Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, and her latest book Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic. She has worked for clients around the world including Comme des Garçons, Crate and Barrel, Facebook, MoMA, REI, among many others. She was named one of 40 Women Over 40 in 2015 and is featured in the 2017 book, 200 Women Who Will Change the Way you See the World – and in case you can’t

Posted on March 2, 2020.

Time for class! Assignment Bootcamp starts today with a FREE Facebook Live event and a HUGE REVEAL!

GET READY TO LOVE MONDAYS! Our most popular course, Assignment Bootcamp 2020, starts TODAY: get a little packet of awesome from top art agent Lilla Rogers every Monday for the next 17 weeks that will add up to make some incredible art to stretch and strengthen your portfolio. What a great way to start the week! Today in class, for example, you’ll get these three fabulous worksheets: Tracing Shapes, which builds on the FREE #MATSprep we gave out a few weeks ago and goes further into exploring beautiful shapes and outlines Making Lines, a cool way to make marks Lilla’s hotly anticipated Color Combo of the Year, plus your very own Blobby Color Palette to fill in … which will all come together to help you create your final assignment next week, so, just like that, you’ve cranked out a gorgeous piece of art for your portfolio, ready to help

Posted on February 27, 2020.

Get your FREE Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep and art supply shopping list

Assignment Bootcamp 2020 starts in less than a week, on Monday, March 2nd, and today as a warm up we’re giving you a little taster from class plus an art supply shopping list as your FREE #MATSprep! Yes, you read that right – part of your prep this time round is choosing some new art supplies! Lilla’s art from Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep. What will the prep be? Find out more and download your copy below! What’s Assignment Bootcamp? It’s four glorious months of art-making in the company of an encouraging crowd of creatives from all over the world. You’ll get something from art agent Lilla every single Monday for four months – maybe a playful downloadable worksheet, a quirky mini assignment, a video or an interview with an industry expert – and by putting them all together you’ll make four kick-ass portfolio pieces (one per month) for four of the

Posted on February 20, 2020.

Five reasons why you NEED to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp

Want to find the joy in your art-making? Assignment Bootcamp 2020 starts on Monday, March 2nd! It’s one of our most popular courses, and for very good reason: it’s great fun, it’ll inspire you to make some fantastic art, and it costs about the same per week as a weekly latte! Read on for five reasons why you’ll love Bootcamp 2020. Reason #1: It’ll keep you motivated Lilla says: The best way to improve your art is to make more art. The more art you make, the better it will be, and the more interesting, exciting and lucrative your creative career will be. It can be hard to do on your own though. It’s overwhelming. You don’t know where to start. Perhaps it’s wintry and gray where you are and you’re not feeling all that inspired. Assignment Bootcamp will change all that! It gives you structure and accountability, because you’re

Posted on February 13, 2020.

REVEALED! Feast your eyes on the winners of our Make Art That Sells manifesto competition!

We recently ran a competition for our students and followers to sum up what Make Art That Sells means to them in the form of a visual manifesto. Art agent Lilla has looked at all the entries and picked out her favorites and the results are now in … Read on to see her winners and runners-up! We were, as ever, absolutely delighted (but not at all surprised) by the staggering level of the entries we received, and the huge variety in the way that you approached it. In fact, Lilla was so impressed with the level of entries that she chose not one but THREE winners, who each get a place on Assignment Bootcamp 2020, which starts Monday, March 2nd. About the prize: In Assignment Bootcamp, you get to make a stunning portfolio piece for a different market every month for four months, alongside hundreds of other creatives from

Posted on February 6, 2020.

Get assignments written especially for you by a top art agent!

Do you want to get exclusive assignments written especially for you by top art agent Lilla Rogers so you can supercharge your portfolio with fab market-savvy art? That’s exactly what you get in Assignment Bootcamp: four amazing assignments over four months to fill your portfolio with gorgeous art aimed at four of the hottest art markets right now. Fortune teller salt and pepper mill by student Petra Braun for Assignment Bootcamp 2019. Sometimes it’s hard to make art by yourself, isn’t it? You’re not sure what’s popular right now, what clients are looking for, what’s going to catch someone’s eye and land you great work. Art agent Lilla Rogers is here to help! Over four months you’ll make four brilliant bang-up-to-date portfolio pieces geared toward the hottest markets such as gift, children’s books, editorial (magazine illustration) or wall art, to name a few. The subject matter is fun and marketable,

Kelly Angelovic - MATS Manifesto runner up

Posted on December 7, 2019.

WIN a spot in Assignment Bootcamp 2020!

WIN a spot in our most popular course, Assignment Bootcamp 2020! Make Art That Sells manifesto by 2015 winner Shannon Newlin. What would your Make Art That Sells manifesto say? What sums up the Make Art That Sells experience for you? Is it the opportunity to fill your portfolio with show-stopping job-snagging art? Is it the inimitable Lilla Rogers, top art agent and Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, with her wisdom, insight and always surprising assignments? Or is it knowing that you’ve found your tribe in our brilliant supportive Facebook groups? As we head into the new year, we’re setting you a fun challenge for the holiday season: to create a Make Art That Sells manifesto illustration that describes what MATS means to you. The grand prize winner will get a FREE spot in our raved-about course, Assignment Bootcamp. And three runners up will win a free place in