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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

Posted on January 18, 2021.

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

Posted on January 14, 2021.

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

Posted on January 7, 2021.

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

hurry hurry, sign up to Lilla’s BRAND NEW course today!

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