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infinite talent Make Art That Sells Twelve Days of Affirmations #4

Twelve Days of Affirmations #4

Welcome to Day Four of  “12 Days of Affirmations” by Lilla. We hope that these inspire, encourage, and make you smile during this holiday season. Please feel free to share the affirmations on Instagram and let us know if they’ve helped you or if they’ve inspired you to create one of your own. Use the #makeartthatsells so we can be sure to see them. Lilla has used affirmations as a powerful tool for her entire career, and she’s lettered her own favorite ones to help guide your own career and art practice. Affirmations are a great way to program your beliefs so that you move in the direction you want your life to go. By repeating a key phrase, you reframe your beliefs in a subtle, but powerful way. Post them in key places around your house or workspace. Lilla says, “My morning mirror is covered with sticky notes of affirmations

Im a rebel Make Art That Sells Twelve Days of Affirmations #3

Twelve Days of Affirmations #3

Welcome to Day Three of  “12 Days of Affirmations” by Lilla. We hope that these inspire, encourage, and make you smile during this holiday season. Please feel free to share the affirmations on Instagram and let us know if they’ve helped you or if they’ve inspired you to create one of your own. Use the #makeartthatsells so we can be sure to see them. Lilla has used affirmations as a powerful tool for her entire career, and she’s lettered her own favorite ones to help guide your own career and art practice. Affirmations are a great way to program your beliefs so that you move in the direction you want your life to go. By repeating a key phrase, you reframe your beliefs in a subtle, but powerful way. Post them in key places around your house or workspace. Lilla says, “My morning mirror is covered with sticky notes of affirmations

Announcing the winner from the Illustrating Children’s Book Video competition

We love seeing the videos that our MATS Alumni make! In our very first ‘Illustrating Children’s Book‘ class, we invited our participants to make a one minute video about their experience of the course. Our favorite wins a 1:1 portfolio review and career development chat with Children’s Book Art Director Zoe Tucker (one hour via Skype at a mutually convenient time)! We are so happy to announce that the winner is KIRSTI DAVIDSON and you can watch her wonderful video below! Do you dream of illustrating a children’s book? Would you love to create a magical world with characters that you’ve designed? Do you love the magic of children’s books and feel that you have something to offer? Then, our ‘Illustrating Children’s Books‘ course is for you! Learn everything you need to know in a supportive and step-by-step approach to create your own winning children’s book illustration pitch. Taught by me, an art agent

Gonna be ok Make Art That Sells Twelve Days of Affirmations #2

Twelve Days of Affirmations #2

Welcome to Day Two of  “12 Days of Affirmations” by Lilla. We hope that these inspire, encourage, and make you smile during this holiday season. Please feel free to share the affirmations on Instagram and let us know if they’ve helped you or if they’ve inspired you to create one of your own. Use the #makeartthatsells so we can be sure to see them. Lilla has used affirmations as a powerful tool for her entire career, and she’s lettered her own favorite ones to help guide your own career and art practice. Affirmations are a great way to program your beliefs so that you move in the direction you want your life to go. By repeating a key phrase, you reframe your beliefs in a subtle, but powerful way. Post them in key places around your house or workspace. Lilla says, “My morning mirror is covered with sticky notes of

Breathe Make Art That Sells Twelve Days of Affirmations #1

Twelve Days of Affirmations #1

  Welcome to twelve days of Affirmations Lilla has used affirmations as a powerful tool for her entire career, and she’s lettered her own favorite ones to help guide your own career and art practice for the next twelve days! Affirmations are a great way to program your beliefs so that you move in the direction you want your life to go. By repeating a key phrase, you reframe your beliefs in a subtle, but powerful way. Post them in key places around your house or workspace. Lilla says, “My morning mirror is covered with sticky notes of affirmations I’ve written for my own life raising teenagers, getting through bumpy career points, or working toward goals I want to achieve.” We hope that these inspire, encourage, and make you smile during this holiday season. Please feel free to share the affirmations on Instagram and let us know if they’ve helped

lillabolecz forestchristmas Make Art That Sells MATS Alumni Festive Showcase 2016 - part 4

MATS Alumni Festive Showcase 2016 – part 4

Happy Festive season! We are so proud of our wonderful Make Art That Sells alumni and are pleased to showcase some festive designs and products they have created for the season. Here is part 4. See all the festive showcase posts here as they unfold. *** Kari Percival I printed up this wood cut, “Home” just in time for the holidays. A cut away view shows the inside a beaver lodge in winter under the snow. A family member who is returning from a swim greets family members snug inside. This hand carved wood cut is printed by hand with water based inks on acid-free paper. It’s 14″ x 17″. PokeweedInk Print Shop is on Etsy HERE I’ve taken MATS Bootcamp and GTS both 2015 and 2016, and I completed the MATS Children’s Book Illustration class. The classes have helped me evolve by providing an active, international on-line community of

Announcing the Winners of the Sugar Plum Fairy Cover Competition

Ta da! Zoe Tucker, children’s book art director, and I are delighted to announce that Isabelle Follath was selected from hundreds of submissions as the winner of our Sugar Plum Fairy Book Competition. Congratulations, Isabelle! The assignment was to create a book cover for the imaginary title The Sugar Plum Fairy’s Adventure “Isabelle hits many key notes that art directors look for when commissioning a children’s book illustrator: A beautiful style that is consistent throughout the piece Lovely color palette. It’s fairly monochromatic (shades of pinks and violets) with pops of blue, white and yellow An interesting story told on the cover. The boy has assembled a pile of books and boxes from which to reach the candy shelf An animated main character (reaching, stretching). One can immediately spot the main character–he pops off the page Charming supplemental characters–the dog is interacting with the boy There are lots of little

ICB Q2 Make Art That Sells What Makes Working on A Children's Book So Exciting for Artists?

What Makes Working on A Children’s Book So Exciting for Artists?

What makes working on a children’s book so exciting for an artist?  Watch this video with Lilla Rogers and Art Director Zoe Tucker to find out! [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/180746712[/vimeo] *** Would you like to develop your own world and illustrate an entire book with your art? Do you dream of illustrating a children’s book? Would you love to create a magical world with characters that you’ve designed? Do you love the magic of children’s books and feel that you have something to offer? Then this course is for you. In five weeks, you’ll create a brilliant children’s book pitch to help you land your dream children’s book gig. You’ll get over 20 videos, weekly assignments, live weekly video reviews, interviews with publishers and illustrators and more. Co-taught by top art agent Lilla Rogers and highly-respected children’s book art director Zoe Tucker. Spaces are limited for our first session of class this October. Don’t

Who will be the next represented artist at Lilla Rogers Studio? Lilla’s favorite pieces by the GTS Finalists

Who will be the next represented artist at Lilla Rogers Studio? I’m so grateful that the judges and the People’s Choice voted on the Global Talent Search Finalists. (I never could have chosen!) They’ve narrowed it down to six incredible artists. It turns out that all of them have taken my Make Art That Sells classes, so I’m very familiar with their work. Allow me to show you a few of my favorite pieces of each of the Finalists. Terry Fry Kasuba, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Charmingly eccentric, joyful and painterly work all rolled into one. Left: For the MATS 2014 Bootcamp Course Right: For National Read-A-Book Day Marenthe Otten, Netherlands This may be one of the most trend-ahead pieces I’ve seen in a long time. I see tarot book illustrations here. Left: For the Make Art That Sells Self-Paced Course, Live Review, in conjunction with Janine Vangool, publisher of UPPERCASE Magazine. The

Manifesto Monday 2016 {part 7}

Welcome to Manifesto Monday, where we share some of the Manifesto artwork submitted by our Make Art That Sells Alumni. Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? Browse our live and self-paced classes here *** KATJA POTOKAR I love the weekly Persicopes of Lilla! The Videos especially have helped me a lot to pursue my career as an illustrator, to stay positive and look at the illustration business from a different perspective. Make art the sells courses make you look on art from a different perspective. They show you that art isn’t there just for it’s own purpose, but it can have much more potential. See more of Katja’s work here. *** NICOLE GOLDEN | PEA SOUP I am currently enrolled in MATS A-Self-paced class and am working through the Children’s Book portion right now. The MATS experience for me has been a rejuvenation of