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Your MATS Prep Make Art That Sells Get Part 2 of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment – plus a bonus!

Get Part 2 of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment – plus a bonus!

Lilla here! Today you can get Part 2 of your FREE children’s book illustration assignment! A couple of days ago I shared the first part of a FREE three-part warm-up exercise that I’ve created for you ahead of my raved-about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which starts on Monday, October 9th 2023. If you missed it, you can catch up here. This #MATSprep is a terrific warm up for class, because it will help you to start thinking about how you can create winning characters for your children’s book illustrations. Characters are absolutely central to children’s picture books, which is why we spend several weeks in class focusing on characters, and why my co-teacher, brilliant children’s book art director Zoë Tucker, and I share so many hints and tips on how you can take your characters to the next level and catch the eye of an art director or publisher.


margosmall 1 Make Art That Sells FREE home décor Zoom event with acclaimed creative director Margo Tantau! Plus see gorgeous student art

FREE home décor Zoom event with acclaimed creative director Margo Tantau! Plus see gorgeous student art

Join renowned creative director Margo Tantau for a FREE home decor Zoom event! Watch below.   Do you want to flick through your favorite glossy interiors magazine and seeing your art on stunning ceramics? Do you dream of wandering around Anthropologie or a lovely neighborhood boutique and hearing someone exclaim over gorgeous bedlinen that you designed? Can you imagine seeing your art on plates, pillows, rugs, tea towels and more – a whole home décor line with your name on it? Want to know how you can get gigs like this? Our raved-about online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, will give you incredible indepth insight into five key substrates – fabric, wood, ceramics, glass and metal – and, uniquely, will teach you how to create home décor collections, so you can sell more art to each client. Art by student Erin Vanessa Sand. Earlier this year, Lilla offered representation


springsaleflowers Make Art That Sells FREE illustration career video series: Grab a cup of joe with Lilla and take in some gorgeous product videos

FREE illustration career video series: Grab a cup of joe with Lilla and take in some gorgeous product videos

Want to enjoy our FREE illustration career video series? Read on … Way way way back in the olden days, when you could still meet up with people for coffee and international travel was still a thing art agents Lilla and Kim met up for a coffee and to show off some of the beautiful products illustrated by artists that Lilla represents. For a little pickmeup today, we thought we’d share a couple of the videos that they shot – to give you a little bit of creative inspiration, to show you that you never know where your art is going to end up, and to help you feel like maybe you too are having coffee with Lilla and Kim. So grab a cup of joe or your beverage of choice, and enjoy the first part of our FREE illustration career video series … From rubber stamps to tarot cards,


Your MATS Prep Make Art That Sells Get Part 1 of your FREE children's book illustration warm up assignment!

Get Part 1 of your FREE children’s book illustration warm up assignment!

Lilla here! Today I’m going to share the first part of my FREE #MATSprep for my children’s book illustration online course, Illustrating Children’s Books. I really love teaching this course. Why? Because I feel your excitement, your commitment, and no matter if you’re starting at the beginning or are an experienced published illustrator, I’m so happy that you want to strive to make the best children’s book illustration that you can make. I love seeing your work, and I love watching the inevitable growth that occurs over the five weeks of the course. What’s a #MATSprep? It’s a FREE warm up exercise to get you ready for class, and it’s open to everyone, whether you’re signed up for class or not. Illustrating Children’s Books 2021 starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, April 12th, so over the next few days I’ll be sharing this free assignment I wrote especially


lillasthread Make Art That Sells Get your FREE color palette assignment!

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


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


lillazoeriley zoomreplay Make Art That Sells Get your FREE Dream Snail art career worksheet

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


webinarts Make Art That Sells Catch up with art agent Lilla’s fab FREE WebinARTs series

Catch up with art agent Lilla’s fab FREE WebinARTs series

Free illustrator videos from top art agent Lilla Rogers There’s something very special about getting to listen in to two creative powerhouses at the top of their game. Since early May this year, art agent Lilla has been running a series of FREE WebinART discussions with several of the incredible artists she represents (plus a fabulous group chat during their virtual residency in September!). Some of the banners that Lilla’s artists created for their WebinARTs. If you’ve ever wanted to find out more about an artist’s creative process, how they come up with fresh ideas, their tips for other artists and illustrators, what makes a great art director, how they manage their time and tons more, then you’re going to love these. Plus of course there’s always plenty of gorgeous eye candy, as they show off current projects and recent work. Lilla chats with Lilla Rogers Studio’s very latest artist


magiccardday3prep Make Art That Sells How to come up with a children's picture book idea: Part 3

How to come up with a children’s picture book idea: Part 3

Are you ready to finish your children’s picture book idea? Some of the wonderful children’s picture books we’ll discuss in our weekly Show + Tell live events in class. Lilla here. Welcome to Day 3 of the #MATSprep for My Kid Book Pitch! I want you to get a taste of the what’s to come in class beginning THIS Monday, October 12th and to get you warmed up for My Kid Book Pitch, my newest course for Make Art That Sells. I honestly couldn’t be more excited about this course. I know that you’re going to make some amazing stories from this. For the past two days, you played with the Button Man Card and the Fun with Magic Book Card to come up with your own unique children’s picture book idea: if you missed them, check out Part 1 and Part 2 here. You wrote down some thoughts and


day2magiccard Make Art That Sells How to come up with a children's picture book idea: Part 2

How to come up with a children’s picture book idea: Part 2

Get Part 2 of your FREE children’s story idea generator Lilla here. Let’s warm up for my newest course, My Kid Book Pitch which starts Monday, October 12th. Did you find yesterday’s Fun With Puzzles Magic Card activated your imagination? If you missed it, click here. Here’s part 2 of your children’s story idea generator Today, we’ve got Button Man. Take a moment for yourself, away from devices and humans and noise, and let your mind wander. See what pops into your head. First, let’s take a good look at Button Man. I’ve had this guy for many years. Don’t know when I got him, but I always loved that his body was made of buttons. (Poor guy lost an arm along the way). Note the vintage lace around his head, the lipstick heart-shaped mouth, the buttons sewed onto his gingham hat. Is it a boy or girl? Does it