What are your plans for 2019?
This part of the year feels like a pause, doesn’t it? A big breath in, a time to take stock, to think about plans for the year ahead. So many of us will be planning resolutions, from small to huge, from mundane to life-changing.
And we also know that even as everything settles down into the quiet of wintertime, there’s new life tucked away under the earth, just waiting to burst out and bloom.
Art produced by MATS student Nancy Chalmers during our most recent Illustrating Children’s Books course. Nancy landed representation with a global agency during the course and has just been approached by her dream client. Huge congratulations, Nancy, we’re thrilled for you!
The Make Art That Sells teachers really know their stuff. Between them, they have decades of experience in illustration, in education, in commissioning work, in home décor, in creating thriving businesses. They know exactly what art agents, art directors and creative directors are looking for, because that’s what they are! They can give you the info and insight you need to succeed with actionable strategies and workable how-tos.
But they also instinctively know how creative people’s minds work, and they understand the power of using tools such as affirmations and visualisations. Nancy Chalmers, who created the beautiful piece of work above on our most recent Illustrating Children’s Books course, told us that she has manifested her dream client Lilla-style by writing them on her 2019 client list. Your dreams are powerful!
Lilla says: I want you to close your eyes and imagine your coolest, most lucrative, most rewarding creative career, whatever that looks like to you. Imagine yourself working less and making more money. Imagine your agent calling you to say that your dream client has just booked you for a great gig. Picture working on your cool ecourses and getting loads of sales and great feedback. Maybe your Etsy is pulling on loads of income and you’re selling out quicker than you can restock.
I want you to dream big in 2019. Imagine illustrating your tenth children’s book and getting great royalties and advances because of your incredible reputation. Picture yourself so booked for work that you’re turning away jobs and only picking your favorites. Imagine opening an email from an art director floating a project with you that has an amazing fee and they’re begging you to work with them because they love your work so much.
We want to help you make 2019 your year to let your creative career burst into life! What do you want to achieve in 2019? How are you going to make it happen?
All our wonderful live classes (so far!) for 2019!
What an incredible way to spend a year … We can’t wait! Join us!
To help you start to focus on what you most want to get out of the next year, and to start to get an idea of how you want your cool art career to unfold, Lilla has put together this whimsical worksheet to kick off your amazing year and to help you plan your wonderful career, step by step!
Lilla says: It’s more enjoyable to come up with your dreams for 2019 if you can write them on a kooky drawing. I want you to have fun with it. The spiral of the shell suggests the flow of one thing to the next. Start in the middle and write or draw your future one step at a time The wackiness of the drawing is to keep you loose and in a playful mood. Why? Because that’s when your best ideas flow.
Print out your copy now and fill it in: it will give you clarity and focus, and help you to achieve your goals because you’ve taken the time to identify exactly what it is that you want and how you’re going to set about achieving it. Put it somewhere where you can see it, so you can keep your plan in mind and so that it can make you smile every day.
So often our students tell us that signing up for a MATS course was the best thing they’ve done for themselves – and right now there’s still time to sign up for a whole amazing YEAR of Lilla’s inimitable teaching style, humour and wisdom and at 20% off!
What a phenomenal way to invest in yourself and your career for 2019!
Lots of love
The MATS team xxx
P.S. Don’t forget that the remaining few spaces on our new Editorial Live course are reserved for My Year of Art students, so if you want to guarantee yourself a place on the course in May then signing up to My Year of Art School is currently the only way to do it!