FREE video: 5 creative career tips for 2015!

5 Creative career tips from a top art agent!

Happy New Year! A new year brings a chance for new beginnings, new energy, and fresh commitment. In this short video, top art agent Lilla Rogers shares some creative career tips to make 2015 an amazing year for your art career and gives a sneak peek of some of the awesome things we have planned for the coming months.

Lilla’s 5 creative career tips for 2015 are:

1. Freshen up your style
2. Have fun
3. Commit to your art
4. Be part of a community
5. Take joy and give joy.

– find out more in the video above, or read the transcript below.

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5 creative career tips from top art agent Lilla Rogers: transcript

Hi, everybody, happy new year, happy new year! I hope you had great holidays. And let’s make this year an incredible year for your creative career.

There are ways you can succeed. Absolutely. No one is going to hand you a fabulous, successful creative career on a platter. It is work, but it’s fun work, engaging work, and it’s work that you may feel that you’re meant to do, as I do.

And let’s tempt you with some awesome projects that people can get. These are all by my artists. This is by Suzy Altman for Land of Nod, this is a doll, isn’t this incredible? This is by Gillian Phillips, and it is this incredible doll house. It’s like stuffed fabric and interactive, things open, and this is based on her artwork, and all royalty situations. This is a book by Sarah Walsh. So fabulous, it’s all full of her drawings that people can colour in, for Carnival, and this one is by Lisa Condon, and it’s designs and this was translated to another language, and it’s full of designs that you can do.

Gorgeous products agented by Lilla Rogers and illustrated by the artists she represents. There are so many items out there that NEED your beauiful art! Let Lilla show you how to get gigs like this – check out her courses here.

So there’s a ton of work out there, clients are constantly looking for great new work, the key is great and new. You want to constantly refresh your portfolio with new stuff. So you want to think about how you can clean out and shop your life.

Let’s say you get rid of everything in your life, what would you shop for in your creative life? Okay, you’d keep your gorgeous studio, you would keep your style, maybe you change your style, what – you know, think about that, and think about how you can improve your work, how you can commit to making better work, whether you’re selling on Etsy, whether you’re doing licencing projects, book projects, home decor, bolt fabric, there’s just a billion million markets for products that need your great art. Kid books.

So you want to work on things like your color, your imagery, your portfolio presentation, your art presentation, patterns, maybe you do patterns, maybe you don’t, and you’d like to do that. So think about what kinds of things you can do to to improve  your style, and your work, commit to your art.

I have a friend who is an English teacher, she’s taught forever, and she goes around to student teachers and gives them feedback. And she says to them, if you’re not having fun, your students are not having fun, trust me. I love that. And those of you have taken my classes, know I always say people buy your joy. It’s true. If you’re having fun, if you’re really engaged, it shows, and people will then want your work on their products and books and children’s books and so forth.

So how do you go about it? Okay, let’s face it, New Year’s Day, new year’s can be a time where it’s a shame-based, you know, like, you have to come up with these things you’re going to do to change your life and it feels you know, you’re not going to do it, you feel guilty.

So how can you guarantee success ? Well, I hope you take my courses. I love my courses and I love having you. That’s a great way to commit, take other people’s courses, read some books, start a group, whatever it is, but do something outside of you that will help support your commitment to increasing your work.

And I want to tell you a couple of things that I am doing this year. Such as, I’m completely renovating my studio with amazing flocked wallpaper and a gas fireplace and a marble top Saarinen table,  such beautiful things, and shifting the vibe of it, a little more nurturing, a little more homey.

Lilla’s flocked wallpaper in her revamped studio.

We are also offering a new course, which we’re so excited about, a brand new course. A new website we’re launching, which is gorgeous and so user friendly. We are going to have a live event, and I can say no more under strict instructions, but it is going to be outstanding. And then for the agency, we are doing Printsource and SURTEX and the Global Talent Search, and so much, really great exciting things.

So, I hope you will join me in my ride and your ride, so thank you and have a great New Year. Bye.