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Posted on March 18, 2021.

Children’s book illustration styles: how Lilla’s artists illustrated her story

Same story, different children’s book illustration styles! Imagine getting a call from an art director saying they adore your work and would love to work with you … Imagine getting an email from one of your favorite authors saying that your art is exactly what they’re looking for… Imagine getting to spend your time creating adorable characters and whimsical worlds – and getting paid for it! Are you dreaming of building a successful career in the magical world of children’s picture book illustration? Our raved-about career-changing course, Illustrating Children’s Books, starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, April 12th, and there’s still time to sign up! Each course includes three brand new texts written especially for class and carefully designed to let every student shine, no matter what stage you’re at. Our texts are usually written by brilliant children’s book art director and course co-teacher, Zoë Tucker – and

Posted on March 12, 2021.

What do our Illustrating Children’s Books students REALLY think of the course?

read Illustrating Children’s Books course reviews by our students! There’s just over one month to go until the start of our career-changing children’s book illustration course, Illustrating Children’s Books – class starts Monday, April 12th! In just five incredible, intense weeks, you’ll learn everything you need to know to build a successful career in this dreamy art market from your teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author, Zoë Tucker, while also creating a powerful pitch presentation that contains everything an art director or publisher wants to see. Plus, right now you can sign up at a 20% discount – book your spot now! We’re always sharing success stories – but what is the Illustrating Children’s Books course really like? The good news is that some of our fabulous students have been sharing their Illustrating Children’s Book course reviews in blogs and

Posted on March 4, 2021.

Get online art assignments written especially for you by a top art agent!

Get online art assignments from a top art agent! Hurry HURRY – registration for Assignment Bootcamp 2021 closes TODAY! We won’t be running this course again until 2022, so don’t miss out: book your spot now! Do you want to get exclusive assignments written especially for you by top art agent Lilla Rogers, just like the ones she creates for the artists she represents? Do you want to supercharge your portfolio with fab market-savvy art, based on insider knowledge on what’s hot right now? Do you want to rediscover your creative mojo and make amazing art in a friendly and supportive environment? That’s exactly what you get in Assignment Bootcamp: four amazing online art assignments (broken down into smaller steps so they’re accessible and exciting) in four months that will fill your portfolio with gorgeous art, aimed at four of the hottest art markets right now. Plus every single Monday

Posted on March 1, 2021.

Four months of art assignments: Monday is now your favorite day of the week!

Art assignments written by a top art agent Get ready to love Mondays! For too long, Mondays have been unfairly maligned. The end of the weekend, the start of the working week, they’re either blue, grey or manic … but not any more! Assignment Bootcamp starts TODAY, which means that, from March to June, Monday is now your new favorite day of the week! Why?! Because, for the next 18 weeks, from March 1st to June 28th, you’ll get a little packet of awesome from top art agent Lilla Rogers every single Monday that will inspire, intrigue and excite you, and add up to make some incredible art assignments to stretch and strengthen your portfolio. What a great way to start the week! Move over, Friday, because there’s a new leader of the pack. Create stunning portfolio pieces designed to catch the eye of clients and land you work, like

Posted on February 25, 2021.

Meet the 3 Make Art That Sells students now represented by Lilla Rogers!

It’s true, we might get a little bit repetitive at times, but, as we might have mentioned once or twice in the past, Make Art That Sells courses (especially the live courses) are an incredible opportunity to get your art directly in front of art agent Lilla – and maybe get offered representation. Over the past eight years since Make Art That Sells was founded, Lilla has scooped up 21 students from class to represent, including three in 2020 – and it looks like she might beat that number in 2021, taking on three new artists in the first two months alone. Why does Lilla love to represent Make Art That Sells students? Because not only does she get to see all the fantastic artwork that they create, but she also gets to see how students conduct themselves in class, how they interact with their fellow students, and whether they

Posted on February 18, 2021.

Get your FREE color palette assignment!

Get your FREE color palette assignment! A lovely short month (shout out for February! Is it just us or does January go on for eleventy billion days?) means that it’s less than two weeks before we kick off Assignment Bootcamp 2021, and today we’re helping you get warmed up for class with a playful FREE color palette #MATSprep! Art agent Lilla loves color – she says it’s make or break for her – and looks for inspiration everywhere. This FREE exercise is designed to help you reconnect with your love of color and create a new color palette in a playful, enjoyable way. Hold up. What’s Assignment Bootcamp? It’s four glorious months of art-making in the company of a brilliant and supportive crowd of creatives from all over the world. You’ll get something from art agent Lilla every single Monday for four months – maybe a playful downloadable worksheet, a

Posted on February 11, 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

Posted on February 4, 2021.

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

Posted on January 28, 2021.

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

Posted on January 21, 2021.

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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