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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

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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,

ida 1 Make Art That Sells Why do students sign up for My Year of Art School? Read their stories

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

editorial square copy 2 Make Art That Sells Editorial LIVE starts today: see our stunning student work

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

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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

flaginmarchcrowd Make Art That Sells How Lilla Rogers’ flag ended up on stage with Elizabeth Warren

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

make your best art Make Art That Sells Get your FREE Dream Armadillo and Dream Snail worksheets!

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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Get your FREE downloadable affirmation from art agent Lilla

Lilla has used affirmations as a powerful tool for her entire career, and now, as a gift to you as we move towards the start of a whole new year, we want to give you a free affirmation to download and put somewhere prominent to help guide your own career and art practice. Why affirmations? 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. Print out the one we give you here or create your own, then pin 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. Somehow, repeating

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A day in the life of a top art agent

What exactly does a top art agent and born educator do all day? Having had the pleasure of staying with art agent and Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, Lilla Rogers, for several days in October, I can say for sure that she lives and breathes art and teaching: she is constantly thinking about what her artists and students need to know in order to thrive, both professionally and personally, and how she can break it down for them. It’s this ethos which underpins Make Art That Sells, which she describes as “an organic feedback loop”: always listening to her artists and students and thinking about what they need, and creating new courses in real time to meet those evolving needs. Much as you’d expect, Lilla’s studio is full of color and whimsy. Lilla’s day starts with ten minutes of meditation, daydreams, and checking email in bed – though

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Tips from a top art agent: Lilla’s advice for the holidays

Hi everyone, it’s British Jennie here. I write all of the Make Art That Sells newsletters and social media posts and various other bits and bobs behind the scenes. Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to visit Lilla at her home and studio in Boston, which was wonderful for many reasons, but one that struck me as soon as I walked in is that it’s such an incredible space. It’s beautiful, and it’s so so clean. I have three small children, so this was like stepping into a different world for me. She has no yogurt on her walls, no one has inexplicably left a Slinky, a doll’s head and two sticks next to her coffee machine, there are no foodstuffs smeared on any of her furniture. It was amazing. What’s her secret? Grown children and professional help, of course, but I wanted to know if she had any