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Maria del Socorro Vega Hernandez Make Art That Sells Build your illustration portfolio: 5 reasons why you need Assignment Bootcamp 2021

Build your illustration portfolio: 5 reasons why you need Assignment Bootcamp 2021

Do you want to fill your illustration portfolio with job-snagging work, explore new art markets and find the joy in your art-making – all for just £1 (approx. $1.40) a day? build a powerful illustration portfolio One of our most popular and hotly anticipated courses, Assignment Bootcamp – now in its eighth year! – starts Monday, March 1st, and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever. If you’re new to Assignment Bootcamp or to Make Art That Sells, here’s the skinny: every Monday from March 1st to June 28th, you’ll get something new from art agent Lilla: maybe a blobby worksheet, a video tutorial, a fresh new color palette, a mini assignment, a trend board or something else. Add them together and … step by step, each month from March to June you’ll create a brand new illustration portfolio piece for a different art market, in a


zoe photo Make Art That Sells REVEALED: See the brand new books from Make Art That Sells teacher Zoë Tucker

REVEALED: See the brand new books from Make Art That Sells teacher Zoë Tucker

Meet Zoë Tucker! We love sharing our amazing students’ incredible success stories – but it makes a nice change to be able to share some of our wonderful teachers’ success stories too! Meet Zoë Tucker! Brilliant children’s picture book art director (here holding up the award-winning How to Hide a Lion, which she art directed and designed), acclaimed picture book author, and co-teacher of Illustrating Children’s Books. Zoë Tucker, who co-teaches our raved-about Illustrating Children’s Books course alongside art agent Lilla, has just published two more children’s picture books, alongside her previous titles. And all this as well as years of experience as a brilliant children’s book art director whose clients include top author-illustrators Axel Scheffler, Nick Sharratt, Helen Stephens, and Guy Parker-Rees! Full page spread from Ada Lovelace and the Number Crunching Machine, written by Zoë Tucker for Illustrating Children’s Books and illustrated by Make Art That Sells student


margo and lilla Make Art That Sells NEW: Introducing the Margo Tantau podcast for fabulous creatives

NEW: Introducing the Margo Tantau podcast for fabulous creatives

Introducing the Margo Tantau podcast Today we’ve got some amazing news for those of you who love to listen to inspiring podcasts while you sketch, draw and doodle! Join Make Art That Sells home décor co-teacher, Margo Tantau, and special guests – including art agent and Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, Lilla Rogers – in her brand new podcast. All the way back in September 2020, fabulous trend queen, creative director and Make Art That Sells home décor teacher, Margo Tantau, launched a brand new podcast for artists and creatives. Margo describes the podcast as straightforward conversations with real working creatives – kind of like sitting down with a really great friend and having a much-needed catch up (and goodness knows we’re all longing for those in these unprecedented times). Margo will be in conversation with a whole host of inspiring creatives, sharing stories from the thick of


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Editorial illustration success stories from our students: Part 2!

Celebrating our students’ editorial illustration success! Would you love to build a successful career in the edgy and lucrative world of editorial illustration, creating beautiful, unique art for magazines, websites, books, theater programmes, and more? There’s still time to sign up for art agent and former illustrator Lilla’s Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More online course – but HURRY: registration closes TODAY @11.59pm PT Sign up now to get immediate access to the beautiful online classroom, the private Facebook group with its incredible community, and all this week’s resources, including your very first assignment. Book your spot here! REad Editorial illustration success stories Earlier this week, we shared just some of our former students’ success stories – find them here – and today we’re delighted to share Part 2. Jemma Jamie Skidmore Another repeat My Year of Art School student – she took it in both 2019 and 2020


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How to get into editorial illustration: Read our students’ amazing success stories – Part 1!

How to get into editorial illustration Imagine flicking through your favorite magazine and spotting your own gorgeous art Imagine picking up groceries and seeing your beautiful art on a front cover on the newsstand Imagine getting a call from an editor or art director telling you they love your art and begging you to work with them Imagine getting paid to read a manuscript and illustrate it Learn from an expert Our first course for 2021, Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More, starts TODAY! Let top art agent and former full-time illustrator Lilla Rogers teach you everything she knows about this cool and lucrative market from her decades in the industry. If anyone knows how to get into editorial illustration, it’s Lilla! In just four weeks, you’ll create a powerful full color conceptual editorial illustration that will strengthen your portfolio and help you to get work and make money


Ed2021 MondayPrep 1 Make Art That Sells Get your fab FREE editorial illustration prompt from art agent Lilla!

Get your fab FREE editorial illustration prompt from art agent Lilla!

Front cover for Flow magazine by Flora Waycott, represented by Lilla Rogers. Want to see your gorgeous art on the newsstand when you do your weekly shop? Let Lilla show you how to get gigs like this! FREE editorial illustration prompt from a top art agent! Hurry hurry: Lilla’s first course for 2021, Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More, starts THIS MONDAY! There’s still time to sign up, but this course has previously sold out, so don’t miss out: book your spot now! What is 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. Before she was a top art agent, Lilla spent decades working as an illustrator in NYC for publications including the


thefutureisallaboutcreativecareers Make Art That Sells REVEALED: Illustration trends 2021 by art agent Lilla Rogers

REVEALED: Illustration trends 2021 by art agent Lilla Rogers

Discover illustration trends 2021 from a top art agent! What does 2021 have in store? Lilla shares her predictions for illustration trends 2021, based on her real-world experience as an art agent, her decades in the industry, and a little bit of intuitive vibe. Happy new year from everyone here at Make Art That Sells! Now more than ever it’s a time for renewed hope and for looking forward. (And if you want to give yourself a whole heap of things to look froward to in 2021, don’t forget that there’s still time to sign up for one of our incredible My Year of Art School bundles and give yourself a full year of Lilla and Make Art That Sells courses to give your illustration career a huge boost!) So what does 2021 have in store? What will the illustration trends 2021 be? Way way back in the mists of


Anke Rega i am worth it Make Art That Sells Happy Holidays! Beautiful illustrated affirmations from us to you

Happy Holidays! Beautiful illustrated affirmations from us to you

Stunning illustrated affirmations to uplift your holidays Greetings from everyone here at Make Art That Sells! To finish the year on a happy note, our gift to you is some beautiful illustrated affirmations by Make Art That Sells artists represented by Lilla Rogers Studio. We hope that they lift your spirits and gladden your heart. Katie Vernon for the book Plant Inspiration for Storey Publishing (left) and Zoë Ingram (right) It’s been an utterly extraordinary year, with some highs and certainly plenty of lows – but one constant throughout it all is how grateful we’ve been for you, our Make Art That Sells community, and your unflagging good humor, kindness and support. Erica Root (left) and Kelly Anne Dalton (right) We’re so looking forward to spending 2021 with you. We know that you’re going to do some amazing things, and we can’t wait to see them. Anke Rega (left) and Janie


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LAST LAST CHANCE! Our biggest sale of the year ends for good TONIGHT!

If ever a year needed a big finish, 2020 was it. This year’s Giant Cyber Sale has been a blast, with three live Zoom events (re-watch them here), numerous pop-ins, and hundreds of dreams advanced and creative careers planned. But all good things must come to an end: our huge sale finishes at 11.59pm PST TONIGHT! Here’s a quick reminder of what you can get if you sign up before the sale ends: Last chance to buy My Year of Art School ALL – all of our raved-about online courses in 2021 – at a massive 50% off Last chance to snag all of our LIVE courses in My Year of Art School LIVE at a huge 40% off Last chance to grab each of our individual courses at 25% off including our exciting new live course for 2021, My Toy Pitch Last chance to pay by three installments on all our


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Get your FREE Dream Snail art career worksheet

A free art career worksheet to help you see clearly If there’s one thing that this year has taught us, it’s that we don’t always know what’s going to happen next. Some of us are finding it hard to plan right now when we don’t know quite what 2021 is going to look like. We want you to have the time and space to make the decisions that are right for you, so we’ve extended our Giant Cyber Sale – our biggest sale of the year – by 48 hours, until 11.59pm PST on Wednesday, December 2nd, to give you a little more time to think, plan and dream. Get your free dream snail art career worksheet Plus, to help you focus on what you most want to get out of the next year, we’re re-sharing Lilla’s kooky Dream Snail journal worksheet. Lilla says: “It’s more enjoyable to plan your