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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 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 November 30, 2020.

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

Posted on October 22, 2020.

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

Posted on October 10, 2020.

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

Posted on October 8, 2020.

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

Posted on October 6, 2020.

How to come up with a children’s picture book idea: Part 1

learn how to come up with a children’s picture book idea Every week in the My Kids Book Pitch class, you’ll get powerful new downloads that build into an amazing 100+ page workbook! Lilla here! Welcome to Day One of your #MATSprep: MAGIC CARDS! I’m going to show you how to come up with a children’s picture book idea in a way that’s accessible and enjoyable for everyone. What’s a #MATSprep? What’s even MATS? MATS is my course site, Make Art That Sells. For many of my courses, I like to get my students prepared for class, to give a taste of the what’s to come, and to get everyone motivated. This Prep is to get you warmed up for My Kid Book Pitch, my newest course for Make Art That Sells, which begins Monday, October 12th. I honestly couldn’t be more excited about this course. Having done the course

Posted on September 17, 2020.

Live with Lilla: Meet Vanessa Brantley-Newton in our FREE video

Meet incredible illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton We were delighted that illustrator, crafter, author, doll-maker and diversity expert, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, could join art agent Lilla for our very first FREE Live with Lilla. Watch it below. One of the things that sets Make Art That Sells live courses apart is the live reviews with art agent Lilla you’ll get in class. As well as being an incredible opportunity to hear and learn from exactly what a top art agent looks for, they’re a chance for Lilla’s warmth and humor to really shine (plus, there’s always a chance she’ll be joined by a surprise animal friend: over the past few months, both bees and egrets have made an appearance!). Introducing Live with Lilla! Live with Lilla is a brand new FREE occasional video series from art agent Lilla plus some special super-inspiring guests, including artists, art directors, editors, and more … And as

Posted on September 3, 2020.

FREE download: Art agent Lilla on how to find trends (no deerstalker required)

My studio art table. What does your work area look like? What inspires you? How do you get ideas for what to draw, color palettes, and media? How to find trends Lilla here! Today I want to talk to you a little about trends, and give you a fantastic FREE ten page download all about how you can learn to be your own trend detective. It’s a little taster of my online course, Hot Markets for Your Art Part B, which will teach you all about five of the most exciting and lucrative art markets out there right now: stationery, baby/children’s apparel, scrapbooking, editorial (magazines, books and more), and party paper. I’ve been an art agent for over twenty-five years, and in that time, I’ve overseen the commissioning of thousands of assignments that my artists have gotten. This inside knowledge means that I’m constantly aware of what’s currently hot or

Posted on July 23, 2020.

Day 5: Your final FREE assignment PLUS FREE insider interview with a children’s book art director!

Lilla here. Oh, man, you are a whole bunch of brilliant artists! You delight me with your imagination, sensitivity, talent. You may have seen in last week’s newsletter that we’ve decided to create a free public gallery to showcase all the incredible art that you’ve created over the past few weeks – find it here, and please do use it. I love to see what you’ve done. Of course, you can share your art on social media too – remember to use the tag #MATSprep and tag @makeartthatsells so I can see. I trick you into doing your best work! You’re going to be amazed at what you can achieve in my classes. (By the way, have you heard that I’m looking to represent new artists I’ve spotted in Make Art That Sells classes? All 20 of the artists I’ve offered representation to since Make Art That Sells started in