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Posted on November 7, 2019.

Revealed! Lilla’s brand NEW courses for 2020!

How does Lilla decide what new courses to create? As a top art agent, she sees what kind of art is selling right now, which markets are the hottest, and exactly what clients are looking for, and she can then use this amazing insider info to create courses for you, so that you can make art that sells and enjoy a fulfilling, lucrative career! Plus of course, she’s always listening to feedback from you, her incredible students! We are thrilled to announce that we are launching not one but two brand NEW courses for 2020! Drum roll please: our new courses are … My Kid Book Pitch: Create a children’s book pitch only YOU can write; and Lilla’s Mystery Box: Exploring creative living with art agent Lilla Rogers Intrigued? Want to know more, including how you can get these courses at a great discount? Read on … ! Lilla says:

Posted on October 17, 2019.

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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Posted on October 3, 2019.

Case study: from design to real life, see the products from our home décor class that really got made!

LAST CHANCE! Registration for our brand new LIVE home décor mini course, Home Décor PLUS, closes TODAY! This class is not on our schedule for 2020 so if you want to do it, now’s the time – but don’t worry: there’s still time to sign up! Book your spot here! Above: feedback on our self-paced home décor course, Creating Collections for Home Décor. Our new mini course, Home Décor PLUS, includes bonus material on finishing techniques from Margo Tantau and actual mock-up templates by Corinna Buchholz of Piddix. See the syllabus here. Case study: Zoë Ingram Zoë Ingram was the winner of our first ever Global Talent Search and the first GTS winner to be represented by Lilla’s agency, Lilla Rogers Studio. (Did you know the last 20 artists taken on by Lilla Rogers Studio are all Make Art That Sells students? That’s because our courses teach you exactly what

Posted on September 24, 2019.

Get your FREE Home Décor #MATSprep Part 2

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

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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 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