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SARAH WALSH4 Make Art That Sells Discover the top 5 things you need to show in your portfolio to get a lucrative editorial career!

Discover the top 5 things you need to show in your portfolio to get a lucrative editorial career!

Just one week to go until the start of Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines and More (The Popular Culture Edit)! Hurry – book your place here! What do you need to show in your portfolio to land editorial illustration jobs? Art agent and former illustrator Lilla shares her tips below! As well as being a top art agent and an excellent educator who has taught everyone from professional artists to little kids, Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher Lilla Rogers was also a successful illustrator, so she has boatloads of advice, tip and insight to share with you. What’s editorial illustration? Broadly, it means anything having to do with text (words). For example, it could be something like a magazine article, a newspaper article, a blog, a news site like the Guardian or the New York Times, or a book cover or interior. Hear Lilla explain what an illustration can


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Get your FREE Find the Concept Game download

Art agent Lilla’s LIVE course Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More starts in just over a week, on Monday, 28th October. When we first ran this course, in May 2019, it sold out before it even officially launched, which is why we’re running it again now – don’t miss out, guarantee your space and book your spot now! Cover illustration for Flow magazine by Flora Waycott, represented by Lilla Rogers. What’s editorial? Broadly, it means anything having to do with text (words). For example, it could be something like a magazine article, a newspaper article, a blog, a news site like the Guardian or the New York Times, or a book cover or interior. How might you start to show something abstract in a visual way? Sometimes in your editorial illustration career you’ll be asked to illustrate something straightforward, like gardening or shoes or a how-to, but other times


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See our amazing student editorial rough and finished work from class

Do you want in on the fascinating world of editorial illustration? Do you flick through your favorite magazine and see the art that accompanies each article and wonder how that artist got the gig? Let art agent Lilla show you how! Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, Lilla Rogers, was a professional illustrator in NYC before she set up her own hugely successful art agency, so it’s no surprise that she has tons of wisdom and insight to share with anyone interested in the editorial market. She taught her brand NEW course, Editorial Live: Illustrating for Magazines and More, for the first time in spring 2019, and it was so popular (it sold out before it was ever officially launched!) that we’ve scheduled it again this month. Book your spot here! What’s editorial? Broadly, it means anything having to do with text (words). For example, it could be something


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See art by Make Art That Sells students in Uppercase magazine

See our student art in Uppercase magazine! Imagine flicking through your favorite magazine – perhaps Uppercase magazine or Flow – and seeing YOUR gorgeous, unique art!  Art by Make Art That Sells students in Uppercase magazine issue 42. In our recent Assignment Bootcamp course, one of the assignments  was aimed at the lucrative and exciting editorial market. The assignment was to create an illustration to accompany an article on wabi sabi by Make Art That Sells co-founder Beth Kempton, following publication of her bestselling book Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life. Wabi sabi is a Japanese term connected to the idea of beauty in imperfection, so when Uppercase called for submissions around the theme of “perfectly imperfect”, it was clearly a perfect fit. Here is the stunning art from Make Art That Sells students which was included in Uppercase 42. Art by Make Art That Sells student


NLeditorialpromo Make Art That Sells The courses you’ve been asking for: brand new MATS courses launching in 2019! Plus find out how to snag your place - with a big discount!

The courses you’ve been asking for: brand new MATS courses launching in 2019! Plus find out how to snag your place – with a big discount!

We are thrilled to announce that, due to popular demand from art agent Lilla’s students all over the world, we’ve decided to launch three brand new courses in 2019, and we hope you’ll love them just as much as we do! Drum roll please! Our new courses are … Editorial Live Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS Home Décor PLUS Did you guess right?! Read on to find out more about these fabulous new class formats … Lilla Rogers is not only renowned art agent but has many years’ experience as a top illustrator. In this course she’ll be sharing her wisdom, expertise and top tips from her decades-long editorial and agenting career working for top clients such as Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Magazine, the Grammies, the New York Times, top ad agencies, Chronicle Books and hundreds more. Imagine working in the fun and lucrative editorial market! In this four-week live