Category: Make Art That Sells
7/20/21
Today’s spotlight
Please enjoy this brand new work by our artists who attended my recent course,
Make Art That Sells Illustrating Children’s Books 2021. You’ll see appealing characters displaying emotions and active poses, strong art styles and gorgeous environments whether witty (I’m talking about you,
Katie Vernon) or historically accurate (I’m looking at your Cleopatra,
Jennifer Potter) or dreamy (yes, you,
Kelly Anne Dalton).
Contact us to assign or license art. We’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
Text by Lilla Rogers.
Manuscript and art ready to license! Contact us for details.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
3/17/21
Every year, we host our art Menagerie for our artists, where we give juicy assignments to inspire them to create new work. Our goal is to constantly have our artists make new work for you, our clients.
Many of you have already logged into the site to see the work–over 150 truly gorgeous pieces were created for it, so I thought it would be great to show you a few highlights today.
Contact us to assign or license art. We’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
New Menagerie Art PDFS!
Yes! You can download our artists’ brand-new work created for our Menagerie in these handy PDFs, grouped by your favorite categories.
We’ve got even more PDF goodness for you,
Check out all of our PDF downloads here.
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Enjoy these highlights from the Menagerie.
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Kelly Anne’s beautiful collection for the Menagerie.
All images available for license as of this writing.
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Available for license as of this writing.
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Available for license as of this writing.
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Available for license as of this writing.
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Available for license as of this writing.
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Available for license as of this writing.
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Newsflash!
Art Directors: Want to be a guest VIP for the July My Toy Pitch course? We would absolutely love to have you join us! Contact us!
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
3/1/21
I’ve got two exciting live Zooms for you this week–today and Thursday. Read on!
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Join me Thursday as
I chat with the
brilliantly talented
and view her gorgeous work.
This Thursday,
March 4th
at 12.00 PM ET.
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We’ll broadcast live on Zoom here on Thursday. See you then! Password: Kay77
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Join me TODAY for
a free live Zoom at 12 PM ET.
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As an agent, I’ve learned many things about artists’ successes over the decades. I’ll discuss what makes for a lucrative and varied illustration career. I’ll chat about what’s in Bootcamp 2021, and why it’s going to rocket ship your art practice. Plus: ask me anything!
Plus: A free Bootcamp class giveaway!
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Above: A shot from the video for your upcoming Bootcamp Mini assignment.
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Please enjoy a few of the images my represented artists created for my Bootcamp course in previous years.
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A client saw Erica’s Bootcamp prep assignment (above, right)
and commissioned her to create an entire alphabet for
a line of kids’ wallpaper!
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Available for licensing as of this writing.
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Available for licensing as of this writing.
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Available for licensing as of this writing.
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Available for licensing as of this writing.
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11/24/20
I’ve been teaching courses over at my other site, Make Art That Sells, since 2013 and loving every minute of it. In fact, I’ve discovered many of my artists in those courses. Once a year, we have our giant sale of my courses, and it starts TODAY!
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Are you ready to super charge your art career in 2021? Would you like to focus on your art in the company of like-minded people? To be inspired and learn new things? Then check out our huge Cyber Sale which starts today!
Download your FREE copy of our gorgeous Cyber Sale guide and start plotting and planning your year ahead. It’s got student galleries, course information, and some arty worksheets, too.
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Above, from left: Me, Beth Kempton (MBA), Zoë Tucker (Illustrating Children’s Books), Margo Tantau (Creating Collections for Home Décor), Riley Wilkinson (My Toy Pitch). Note: Zoë and I will chat on Zoom on Monday Nov 30th. Watch your inbox for details.
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Join me and my brilliant Make Art That Sells co-teachers for a
FREE live Zoom TODAY at
12 noon ET/5 pm GMT! We’ll have a lively chat about each course and answer any questions you have.
Zoom with us TODAY
at 12 PM ET
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
10/7/20
You may know about my other business, Make Art That Sells, my course site where I’ve been teaching for the past eight years. Today, I’d like to share some work by my artists for the recent Illustrating Children’s Books course, and also to invite you to join me in my newest course!
Contact us to assign or license art. We’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
Join me for a
this Friday October 9th
at noon et
to get an overview of the class, find out more about my dreamy Magic Cards, and discover everything else I have in store for you!
this Friday!
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Creating a unique book comes from understanding what makes you unique and discovering the story you’re excited to tell.
To help you do this, I’ve created a playful, personalized and structured course that will bring out your special story. It’s 125 pages packed full of quirky worksheets, fun exercises and interactive videos that will guide you step by step to create your own special brilliant story – the story that only you can write.
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Editors and Art Directors: Six of my artists beta-tested the course in May creating incredible pitches with irresistible characters, lively plots and quirky viewpoints, from witty premises to STEM/STEAM themes. Interested? I’d love to hear from you.
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See the amazing work by our artistsfrom the recent
One of the many things I love about the class is the opportunity to write a texts for the students to illustrate. For the most recent course, I wrote a story entitled I Paint Purple. Below, see how my artists illustrated my story and the other stories from class, each so brilliantly and quite differently.
If you’re an editor or art director and are interested in having a look at my text or more of the art from class, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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Story by Jennie Stevenson
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Story by Jennie Stevenson
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
7/27/20
My kid book class Starts today!
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Even in a pandemic, children’s books are selling remarkably well, and we’re receiving book deals for our artists all the time. As a matter of fact, Susan McCabe, Senior Agent here at LRS, dropped by today and remarked at how all of our top children’s book illustrators are heavily booked. In part, that’s why I created this course five years ago–to help our artists make even better pitches, and to find new illustrators in that market. And we’re happy that this is keeping many of our artists busy during this time.
Scroll down to see work that our artists have created in the course from previous years.
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I regularly fall in love with the artists in my courses. Occasionally one will emerge that is so appealing, so unique, that we are compelled–and thrilled–to take them on.
We’re excited to announce (really, to tease you with that fact) that we are taking on a new artist this week! Join me as I will be interviewing them and enjoying their incredible work in our next WebinART this Thursday.
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Join me for WebinART #10 as I chat with special guest, our newest artist! I’ll reveal who it is this Thursday. (Yeah, a sneaky ploy to get you to watch.)
This Thursday,
July 30th at special time
7.00 PM ET.
Watch for details in your inbox
on Thursday morning.
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Here’s a little sneak peek of their work.
Can you guess who it is?
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Hints:
— This artist’s style is highly rendered and very dreamy.
— This artist’s dream job is to illustrate a compendium of insects or magical flowers.
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Contact us to assign or license art–we’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
Children’s book illustration by our artists from my courses
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
6/9/20
Above: Plant Mom tote for
Blue Q
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Above: Zipper pouch for Blue Q
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Join me for WebinART #6 featuring
Guest Artist Sarah WalshThis Thursday, June 11th at 12.30 PM ET.
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We’ll be broadcasting live on Zoom here on Thursday. Bookmark it and set your alarm! Password: Walshy77
As you can imagine, from just looking at her work, Sarah stays incredibly busy with top brands like Blue Q, Chronicle Books, Crate & Barrel, Flow Magazine, Galison/Mudpuppy, Garnet Hill, Nosy Crow, Perseus, Quarto and the Guardian. Her work is that magical combination of accessible style with edge, brilliant color, and wit galore. I know we’re going to have fun together in this WebinART.
Last week’s WebinART with Kendra Binney was so inspiring. You can catch the replay here; Password: 6o@!8+38
Find links to our entire WebinART series HERE.
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Above: The many translations of Wild Lives (Nosy Crow)
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Contact us to assign or license art–we’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
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Recently, I gave this worksheet to my artists to entice them to illustrate their vision for the future, post-pandemic. Here’s what they did…
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I’m delighted that I am now a columnist for UPPERCASE Magazine, the beloved design and art magazine by publisher Janine Vangool. Here’s my first column for Issue #45, where I deconstruct my favorite expression, people buy your joy.
Check out the current issue here.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
4/3/20
One of my greatest joys as an agent is being able to mentor my artists and also share that knowledge with our community at large on my course platform, Make Art That Sells (MATS), now in its 8th year. I’m even cool if I’m helping artists who are represented by other agents. Why not? What’s good for one is good for all.
I found all 20 of the most recent artists that we’ve taken on for representation in my MATS classes. Why? Because I’d gotten to know them and witness their evolving brilliance. Scroll down to see the work that my own artists have created in my classes (even after being represented by me), and you’ll get why I love teaching.
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Download your free pretty Sales Guide hereand read about my newest courses.
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Get the big bundle here jam-packed full of all my courses to nicely fill your summer and fall schedule with creative goodness. It’s called My Semester of Art School: ALL. Or purchase individual courses, all on sale now.
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and rev up your creative life.
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Enjoy work that my artists have created in MATS classes:
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Sarah Papworth for the Editorial Course (Available 2021)
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for FREE to support creative people during this time. Over 10,000 people have already signed up. Join us.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out our site to see more. Be sure to sign up for courses during this sale which ends Wednesday, April 8th. Yep, we have lots of art directors that take my classes. I love it. Join me!Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
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3/24/20
Wow. What crazy times these are! Hope you’re finding things to do to keep you happy.
Social tips from the Agents
I just got off a Skype with my fabulous agent colleagues Susan and Kim. I asked them what they are doing to get their social fix. Here’s their advice: Susan’s Social Tip:
“Call a different person every night. Go down your list. It might be a neighbor, an old friend. Reach out to someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time.”
Kim’s Social Tip:
“Make a virtual dinner date with a few friends or family. Set a time to FaceTime or Zoom, and enjoy your dinner and drinks together.”
Business learning for creative people
I’m absolutely blown away that over 9,000 people (as of this writing) have signed up for my MATS MBA (Money Bad Ass) course which co-founder Beth Kempton and I are now offering for free. We wanted to do something to help our community and this course felt very timely. It’s a robust course with videos and downloadables to help you both negotiate this phase and be ready with your big dreams when this has all passed, as it will. Read more here.
Bootcamp Flash Sale
Tired of reading the news? Need a creative focus? Join me every Monday for creative lessons in Assignment Bootcamp now through the end of June. More info here. Sale ends Thursday.
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Here are some books and products to keep you entertained while holed-up at home.
Contact us to assign or license–we’re happy to help!
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Maybe it’s time to do some comfort cooking with the family. Check out this wonderful recipe book of comfort foods by Quarto with cover by Clairice Gifford.
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This book of beautiful butterflies is full of press-out designs intricately decorated with foil and perfect for all ages to color in. By Nosy Crow.
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Fabulous family fun in a box! These bright puzzles by Galison/Mudpuppy will keep you (and the kids) happy and entertained any day.
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Don’t forget to get out into nature during this time–breathing only at socially acceptable distances–and record your observations in this lovely journal.
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If staying inside is more your scene, this might help you cope. Gorgeous packaging by Helen Dardik
for Seattle Chocolate.
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If not chocolate, then maybe enjoy some Chardonnay with a
beautiful label by Mara Penny
for Chateau Ste Michelle winery.
Available now
at your local wine shop.
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Together we are facing an unprecedented, challenging time. In the face of this, we want you to know that the MATS community is here for you. We know we need tools and innovation to allow us to imagine a new kind of future, where we can be creative in the way we generate money to support our families, pay the bills, and help keep our local communities thriving.
That’s why we are gifting every single person in our community a free place on our online course MATS MBA (Money BadAss). Please share this with anyone who needs it, and invite them into the MATS family.
This course is usually £179 (approx. $220) but you can access it for free right now.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs. Get to know us here! xo
Lilla
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells courses
P. S. Read what our clients have to say about working with our agency here!
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1/17/20
It’s almost time for Lilla’s 4th annual ART MENAGERIE–coming this Wednesday!
Our amazing artists have created tons of brand-new work from assignments that I created just for this event. The assignments are geared around the themes you request most often, and the images they’ve created will blow you away.
Q: How will I access the work?
A: You’ll get an email from us on January 22nd with a link and a special password where you can view the art in a private online gallery.
Below: A preview of some beautiful artwork in the Menagerie gallery–just waiting to be snapped up!
Kelly Anne Dalton
Kendra Binney
Back by popular demand, The Editorial Live course goes live Monday, January 20. The Spring 2019 course sold out even before it was officially launched!
Lilla’s got a brand new hot current event topic for the January 2020 course. Grab your spot now and get ready to find out why we’re calling it The Artivism Edit!
Join her for a free Facebook Live on the Make Art that Sells Facebook page on the first day of class, Monday, January 20th at 2PM ET and get your hands on the free first assignment!
Enjoy some of our artists’ powerful work from Lilla’s previous Make Art That Sells Editorial classes:
Katie Vernon
Animation by Katie Vernon
Erica Root
Bambi Ramsey
Kendra Binney
Sarah Papworth
Zoë Ingram
In 2019, art directors at The Washington Post commissioned work from more than 400 artists — LRS artists Jennifer M Potter and Sarah Walsh feature in their “Best of 2019” Retrospective.
Check it out here!
I hope you enjoyed the show! Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs. Get to know us
here!
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells courses
P. S. Read what our clients have to say about working with our agency
here!
