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Posted on September 19, 2019.

See our FREE video series on Designing for Home Décor by creative director Margo Tantau!

Imagine walking into your favorite store, maybe Anthropologie or West Elm or a charming neighbourhood boutique, and seeing your beautiful unique art on a line of products. Can you see it on plates, pillows, rugs, tea towels and more? How do you get that gig? Let top art agent Lilla Rogers and creative director Margo Tantau show you how! To celebrate the start of our amazing LIVE new mini course, Home Décor PLUS, which starts September 30th, today we’re sharing our FREE video series, Designing for Home Décor. The video series is presented by Margo Tantau, co-teacher for both of our home décor courses, our new live mini course, Home Décor PLUS, and our in-depth self-paced course, Creating Collections for Home Décor. [As well as teaching for Make Art That Sells, Margo is currently head of product innovation at Studio M and previously has held creative leadership roles at Creative

Posted on August 29, 2019.

Make beautiful color palettes from ugly colors! By professional artist Mara Penny

Do you want to know how to make beautiful color palettes from ugly colors? We’re thrilled to be able to share a guest post today from illustrator and color enthusiast, Mara Penny. If you’ve watched any of our free Facebook Live events, you’ll already know that color can be a dealbreaker for top art agent and Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher Lilla Rogers, but getting started with color can be intimidating. Don’t panic! Let Mara break it all down and show you how you can easily make beautiful color palettes … How to make beautiful color palettes from ugly colors Hello everyone! My name is Mara Penny and I live in Oakland, California. I am one of Lilla’s artists after joining Lilla Rogers Studio just over two years ago. I have taken many, many Make Art That Sells courses over the last five years and am a verified

ada lovelace and the number crunching machine 9780735843172 hr Make Art That Sells WOW! See the book that came out of Illustrating Children’s Books!

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 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 26, 2019.

Get a FREE sneak peek into our Creating Collections for Home Décor e-course

Do you dream of having your own home décor collection? Imagine dropping round to a friend’s house for coffee and finding that she’s got mugs that you designed … Or imagine seeing your stunning art on beautiful cushions and throws in a shop and hearing customers exclaim over how lovely they are … Or imagine your fabulous china being picked up and featured in a glossy style magazine. How would that feel? Work done in class by Lilla’s artist Katie Vernon Feeling inspired? Our wonderful indepth ecourse, Creating Collections for Home Décor, is self-paced, so you can start right NOW! Created by top art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen creative director Margo Tantau, it will help you build a professional, market-savvy and downright kickass pitch presentation featuring five of the most popular materials used in home décor. Plus you can currently save 20% on both Creating Collections for Home Décor and our brand new LIVE course, Home Décor Plus,

Posted on April 4, 2019.

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

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

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Category:Creativity
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