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Posted on March 2, 2020.

Time for class! Assignment Bootcamp starts today with a FREE Facebook Live event and a HUGE REVEAL!

GET READY TO LOVE MONDAYS! Our most popular course, Assignment Bootcamp 2020, starts TODAY: get a little packet of awesome from top art agent Lilla Rogers every Monday for the next 17 weeks that will add up to make some incredible art to stretch and strengthen your portfolio. What a great way to start the week! Today in class, for example, you’ll get these three fabulous worksheets: Tracing Shapes, which builds on the FREE #MATSprep we gave out a few weeks ago and goes further into exploring beautiful shapes and outlines Making Lines, a cool way to make marks Lilla’s hotly anticipated Color Combo of the Year, plus your very own Blobby Color Palette to fill in … which will all come together to help you create your final assignment next week, so, just like that, you’ve cranked out a gorgeous piece of art for your portfolio, ready to help

Posted on February 27, 2020.

Get your FREE Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep and art supply shopping list

Assignment Bootcamp 2020 starts in less than a week, on Monday, March 2nd, and today as a warm up we’re giving you a little taster from class plus an art supply shopping list as your FREE #MATSprep! Yes, you read that right – part of your prep this time round is choosing some new art supplies! Lilla’s art from Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep. What will the prep be? Find out more and download your copy below! What’s Assignment Bootcamp? It’s four glorious months of art-making in the company of an encouraging 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 quirky mini assignment, a video or an interview with an industry expert – and by putting them all together you’ll make four kick-ass portfolio pieces (one per month) for four of the

Posted on February 20, 2020.

Five reasons why you NEED to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp

Want to find the joy in your art-making? Assignment Bootcamp 2020 starts on Monday, March 2nd! It’s one of our most popular courses, and for very good reason: it’s great fun, it’ll inspire you to make some fantastic art, and it costs about the same per week as a weekly latte! Read on for five reasons why you’ll love Bootcamp 2020. Reason #1: It’ll keep you motivated Lilla says: The best way to improve your art is to make more art. The more art you make, the better it will be, and the more interesting, exciting and lucrative your creative career will be. It can be hard to do on your own though. It’s overwhelming. You don’t know where to start. Perhaps it’s wintry and gray where you are and you’re not feeling all that inspired. Assignment Bootcamp will change all that! It gives you structure and accountability, because you’re

Posted on February 13, 2020.

REVEALED! Feast your eyes on the winners of our Make Art That Sells manifesto competition!

We recently ran a competition for our students and followers to sum up what Make Art That Sells means to them in the form of a visual manifesto. Art agent Lilla has looked at all the entries and picked out her favorites and the results are now in … Read on to see her winners and runners-up! We were, as ever, absolutely delighted (but not at all surprised) by the staggering level of the entries we received, and the huge variety in the way that you approached it. In fact, Lilla was so impressed with the level of entries that she chose not one but THREE winners, who each get a place on Assignment Bootcamp 2020, which starts Monday, March 2nd. About the prize: In Assignment Bootcamp, you get to make a stunning portfolio piece for a different market every month for four months, alongside hundreds of other creatives from

Posted on February 6, 2020.

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

Do you want to get exclusive assignments written especially for you by top art agent Lilla Rogers so you can supercharge your portfolio with fab market-savvy art? That’s exactly what you get in Assignment Bootcamp: four amazing assignments over four months to fill your portfolio with gorgeous art aimed at four of the hottest art markets right now. Fortune teller salt and pepper mill by student Petra Braun for Assignment Bootcamp 2019. Sometimes it’s hard to make art by yourself, isn’t it? You’re not sure what’s popular right now, what clients are looking for, what’s going to catch someone’s eye and land you great work. Art agent Lilla Rogers is here to help! Over four months you’ll make four brilliant bang-up-to-date portfolio pieces geared toward the hottest markets such as gift, children’s books, editorial (magazine illustration) or wall art, to name a few. The subject matter is fun and marketable,

Posted on January 23, 2020.

Why do students sign up for My Year of Art School? Read their stories

Do you want your 2020 to be full of creative goodness? Do you want to spend a year making your art better and better under the guidance of a top art agent? Book your place now! LAST CHANCE! Do you want to explore the exciting world of Editorial illustration, make a stunning piece for your portfolio, and learn tons of tips direct from Lilla Rogers, a former pro illustrator turned art agent? Then HURRY – you want to register for Editorial LIVE: Illustrating Magazines and More, which closes TODAY! Do you want to discover multiple art markets, build a showstopping portfolio and create better and better art in 2020? Then HURRY – you want to register for our brilliant live class bundle, My Year of Art School LIVE, which closes TODAY! Or do you want to light a fire under your illustration career this year with every single course we’re

Posted on January 20, 2020.

Editorial LIVE starts today: see our stunning student work

What won’t a top art agent and born educator do to motivate her students? As I write this, I’m listing to Lizzo’s hit song Good as Hell and harking back to our most recent Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More course, when we had an absolute blast, we got to hear art agent Lilla sing to us that she just took a DNA test and turns out she’s 100% that bitch, and our incredible students made some truly incredible art. Want in? Want to find out what Lilla has tucked up her sleeve this time? Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More, starts TODAY and there’s still time to sign up! Don’t forget, this is the only time that Editorial LIVE is on the calendar for 2020, so don’t miss out – grab your spot now! Student work from Editorial LIVE October 2019 by Zoë Ingram, a Make Art

Posted on January 15, 2020.

Get your FREE Editorial LIVE #MATSprep

There’s still time to sign up for Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More: The Artivism Edit starting MONDAY, but HURRY – previously this course has completely sold out so don’t miss it! Lilla’s own art for the cover of the New York Times Magazine and more. Let Lilla show you how you can get cool gigs like these! Book now! What’s 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 book interior. Before she was a top art agent, Lilla spent decades working as an illustrator in NYC for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Vogue Magazine, the Grammy Awards, the program for Philip Glass’s new opera at Brooklyn Academy of Music and heaps

Posted on January 9, 2020.

How Lilla Rogers’ flag ended up on stage with Elizabeth Warren

Your art is powerful. Think about how an image can sum up a situation or an emotion in a way that a photograph or a paragraph of text can’t (click below to hear art agent Lilla Rogers talking about what an illustration can do that a photograph can’t). The flag which Lilla created and shared online ahead of the Women’s March in January 2017. Lilla says: “I wanted to throw some energy around women making their voices heard.” Our next Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines & More online course starts in under two weeks, on Monday, January 20th, with a brand new vibe and a brand new text to illustrate. As ever, we’ll be digging deep into exactly how you can use illustration in this way to illustrate ideas or concepts rather than simply drawing objects, so by the end of the three week course you can expect to have

Posted on January 3, 2020.

Get your FREE Dream Armadillo and Dream Snail worksheets!

Happy new year from all of us here at Make Art That Sells! What are your plans for the year, large or small? You may remember me, British Jennie, from a couple of newsletters in December. I write all of the Make Art That Sells newsletters and social media posts and various other bits and bobs behind the scenes, but aside from that I also have three smallish children, two cats and a dog. In 2020, my goals, as for the previous decade, will mainly revolve around getting enough sleep. It absolutely blows my mind that ten years ago I would go to bed with the full expectation of being able to sleep uninterrupted for eight whole hours, night after night, without someone needing a drink of water or a trip to the bathroom or to have monsters flushed out from under the bed or sudden reassurance about something that

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