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 cover of the New York Times Magazine, Vogue magazine, the Grammies, the program for Philip Glass’s new opera at Brooklyn Academy of Music and heaps more. Now she’s passing on everything she learned, and everything she wishes someone had taught her, to you!
Illustrations by Lilla Rogers for the GRAMMYs and Chronicle Books. Let Lilla show you how you can get cool gigs like these! Book now!
Today, as prep to get you warmed up for class, we’re giving you the very first mini assignment from the course that starts Monday as a free editorial illustration prompt! This first mini assignment is actually given out day one of class, but we’re giving it away for FREE today to give you a taste of the course and you can join in whether or not you sign up (and we hope you do – but hurry, in case this class sells out like it did the first time we ran it!).
One of the reasons why Lilla is such an incredible educator and her students are so successful is that she breaks everything down into bite sized bits, so you can maintain focus, and don’t get overwhelmed.
As with all Make Art That Sells courses, the class is carefully designed by Lilla to bring out the very best in all her students, no matter what level they’re at (you’ll find everyone from professional artists to beginners in class with you, making it an amazing place to learn). From this very first simple starting point, you’ll be led through the entire process step by step by Lilla, and will finish up at the end of the four week course with a strong, conceptual full color piece that will be fantastic for your editorial portfolio!
What will the final assignment be this time … ? Of course, we can’t say, but you can be sure it will be carefully selected by art agent Lilla, rich with visuals, very topical, and fantastic for your portfolio!
Get your FREE editorial illustration prompt here
Here’s your free editorial illustration prompt! To start you off and get warmed up for class, Lilla wants you to draw things which represent the word:
COMMUNICATION
What visuals does it create for you? You can draw objects, or scenes, or whatever you like. Maybe two cans joined together with string. A Zoom call. Your dog sitting by the door looking pointedly at its leash. Semaphore flags. A message in a bottle. Download your copy of the free editorial illustration prompt now for lots more notes, insight and inspiration from Lilla!
Get your FREE editorial illustration prompt. What will the art you make from this mini prep assignment be used for? What will the big assignment be? Find out in class!
Download your FREE copy of the mini assignment #MATSprep here! Do it now and you’ll have plenty of time to get ready for the first week of class.
Feel free to share your art and your guesses about what Lilla’s up to on social media, and don’t forget to use the tag #MATSprep so we can see what you’re up to! Lilla will be watching to see what you’ve done and may even share some of her favorites in the FREE Live Zoom event on the first day of class on Monday, January 18th.
Want to find out what the big assignment is? Want to make a gorgeous piece of art for your portfolio that will help you build or boost your creative career in the cool editorial illustration market? Grab your spot now!
See you in class!
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
P.S. Join us for our FREE LIVE Zoom on the first day of class, Monday, January 18th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT! Lilla will be discussing the prep, showing some of her editorial illustration work and sharing stories from her years as an editorial illustrator. Don’t miss out! RSVP HERE.
