Here’s the big reveal for Day 4 of our fab FREE cyber sale #MATSprep: meet #illustratorBarbie! Isn’t being an illustrator just the best job ever? Getting to hang out in your pajamas all day making art and getting paid for it? Share your finished piece with us on Instagram and let us know what you love most about being an illustrator in the caption!
What did Lilla love about being an illustrator? Find out, including why it’s the opposite of soul-crushing in the audio clip below.
Our Giant Cyber Sale is now on, which means that, until next Monday, December 2nd ONLY, all your old favorites plus our exciting NEW classes for 2020 are heavily discounted! Registration for all of our outstanding courses for 2020, including Lilla’s brand new courses, My Kid Book Pitch and Lilla’s Mystery Box, will be open next year at full price, but you can grab them now before official launch and make a huge saving of 25% on individual courses, and up to 50% on our fabulous bundles!
How can you make money from your art so you get to hang out in your pajamas eating toast and listening to music? What do art directors, art agents and clients really want to see? It’s vital that your portfolio shows several strong pieces for each market that you’re interested in.
Lilla says: “As an art agent, I look for an artist that has a number of really strong pieces in multiple markets. You need to have enough strong pieces to show the art director that you can produce consistently, especially in the editorial market where work is almost always commissioned. As an agent, I need to know: if I assign you work, can you deliver? Art directors don’t like surprises! Art directors and art agents both need to know that you’re capable of producing consistently high quality work. So when you show lots of great work, you get lots of great commissions!”
Below: Lilla talking about how she comes up with her inspiring assignments and to see some of the work that has come out of them!
How do you know which markets to focus on or what to draw when your time is limited and precious? As a creative person, it can be difficult to choose and stay focused.
Lilla suggests taking some time to look at different products in shops and bookstores, and thinking about what calls to you: look at children’s books and magazine and book illustrations online or in print, look at fabric, look at cards and aprons and teacups, look at wall art and home décor. Look at everything, and take note of what thrills you: what makes you think, oh, I would LOVE to do that!
Then take a look at what kind of art you love to make:
- Do you like to draw people? You could look into the children’s book and magazine illustration markets.
- Do you like to make repeat patterns? Think about the bolt fabric, home décor and stationery markets.
- Do you like to draw a variety of decorative things? You have a whole host of options to consider, including bolt fabric, home décor, gift, paper, baby apparel, scrapbook, party paper, and wall décor.
So how can you create a powerful, job-snagging portfolio that will showcase your unique art across some of the hottest markets right now? That’s where our brand new Make Brilliant Portfolio Pieces bundle comes in – six spectacular courses at an astounding 40% off!
Here’s what you get …
For this bundle, we’ve picked the courses that will help you make loads of great portfolio pieces! Whether you want to explore lucrative new markets for your art or broaden and strengthen your portfolio so you get more of the work you love, the Make Brilliant Portfolio Pieces bundle will give you all the on-trend job-snagging portfolio pieces that you need.
- Lilla’s Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More: The Artivist Edit: Explore the hot art market of illustrating manuscripts for magazines and websites with art agent and former illustrator Lilla. You’ll not only produce a beautiful piece for your portfolio, but you’ll learn how to illustrate any manuscript, and explore the whole process of getting work with magazines and websites so you’ll be able to do a great job when you land your dream gig.
- Assignment Bootcamp 2020 (LIVE): Get something in your inbox every Monday for four months for the price of a weekly latte! Enjoy four inspirational months creating four incredible portfolio pieces for four of the hottest art markets at a relaxed pace and in a fun way that will make you understand why every year we get students begging us to run this course all year round! Hear Lilla talking about why you should do Assignment Bootcamp here.
- Illustrating Children’s Books (LIVE): Spend five incredible and exciting weeks creating a brilliant professional children’s book pitch presentation step by step that’s ready to send out to art directors and agents and includes everything they want to see, including character sheets, a full page spread and a stunning front cover.
Plus you also get access to three incredible self-paced courses, which you can start whenever you like and complete at a time and pace to suit you and your busy schedule – you’ll have full access to the self-paced classrooms and all course materials until January 31st, 2021.
- Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Hot Markets for Your Art Part B: Explore ten of the most lucrative and exciting markets for your art, with tons of insider info and insight from art agent Lilla’s decades in the business. If you’ve ever looked at children’s book illustration, wall art, fabric, stationery or party paper and wondered how that artist got that gig, this is the course for you: let Lilla show you how!
- Creating Collections for Home Décor: Our game-changing, in-depth home décor course features twelve gorgeous, industry-level trend-relevant trend boards that art agent Lilla has created exclusively for this course. You’ll get assignments, finishing techniques and tons of info for each of five key substrates, and, under the guidance of co-teachers Lilla Rogers and creative director Margo Tantau, you’ll also learn how to present your work as a collection, so that you can sell more of it to each client! If you dream of home décor then you won’t want to miss this.
HURRY! This bundle will ONLY be available during our Giant Cyber Sale, which ends this Monday, December 2nd, so if you want in – if you want to explore some of the hottest art markets with the help of top art agent Lilla, with the support of hundreds of like-minded creatives all over the world; if you want to fill your portfolio with show-stopping, job-snagging art – then sign up now!
See you in class!
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
Did you catch our fabulous FREE Facebook Live event on Tuesday? We had an absolute blast! Lilla showed off lots of gorgeous eye candy, including her own illustrations from her days as a professional illustrator, products from her artists and student work, and she even gave away what the free #MATSprep is going to be for our next Editorial LIVE course in January 2020! If you missed it, you can catch up here.
In fact, it was so much fun we’re going to do it all over again! Join Lilla along with Make Art That Sells co-founder, award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author, Beth Kempton, this Monday, December 2nd, at 1 pm EST/6 pm GMT. They’ll be talking money and magic and helping you plan your incredible 2020. Don’t miss out: put a note in your diary, set an alarm and tie a knot in your hanky now!
