Hurry Hurry, get Bootcamp Special: Character Play for just £63/approx $86 in our flash sale!

  Click here to learn how to create characters for children’s books, toys and games and more!

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Hurry HURRY, final flash sale inside!

Don’t miss our last flash sale! We’ve been running flash sales on some of our favorite self-paced courses all month, and our final August flash sale is for … Bootcamp Special: Character Play!   Join brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author, Zoë Tucker, and smash hit game creator, Riley Wilkinson, to learn how to create winning characters kids and adults will love, and crank out some gorgeous eye-catching art for your portfolio. Meet your teachers! Join brilliant children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker (left, with one of her books) and creative director and smash-hit game creator, Riley Wilkinson (right, with his Sneaky Snacky Squirrel game), for this unique course! Click here to save 20%! We created Bootcamp Special: Character Play because learning how to create characters is fantastic for your art career! Here’s why: You can get tons of work! You can license your characters

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Give your art a huge boost for just £63 (approx. 84)!

Save 20% on Lilla’s incredible color course and give your illustration portfolio a huge boost! We’re thrilled to be running flash sales all through August, and this week’s sale is a massive 20% off Lilla’s unique color course, Color Quest! Get it now for just £63 (approx. $84) – but hurry HURRY, this offer is only available until August 23rd! Art for Color Quest by Divyam Bernstein. In this unique course you’ll create a library of color palettes that you love which you can use in future artwork. Sign up now for just £63 (approx. $84)! Color is queen! It can have a huge effect on your illustration portfolio and how many jobs you get. How you use color can have an enormous effect on the mood and tone of a piece of art in your portfolio – for example, think bright vibrant color palettes for picture books, uplifting greeting

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REVEALED: FLASH SALE #2!

Art by Marloes de Vries (left) and Sarah Papworth (right) for Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More. Get five amazing assignments to build a really strong editorial portfolio and get jobs in this lucrative market. Want to get some of Lilla’s most-loved self-paced courses with a tasty discount? Our self-paced courses are an amazing way to take a deep dive into some wonderful art markets, and we’re excited to be running flash sales on a different self-paced course every week for the whole of August! This week’s flash sale is for … Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More!   Do you ever flick through your favorite magazine and see dreamy art next to an article or walk past a newsstand where a gorgeous illustration catches your eye and wonder HOW the artist got that job? Imagine walking past a newsstand and seeing YOUR art on the front cover! Imagine getting

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FLASH SALES A GO-GO! Don’t miss this!

A whole month of flash sales! Have you ever wanted to learn all about a juicy art market quickly and efficiently, with exiting assignments to build your portfolio to get work in this market and video reviews of top student work that explain exactly why the work is so great? Access our fabulous self-paced courses and dive in right away! You’ll get Lilla’s unique assignments, tons of industry insight from her decades in the business, access to recordings of previous class reviews and loads more. And to make them even more appealing, we’re excited to offer a different flash sale every week in August – but get ’em while they’re hot, because these discounts aren’t sticking around! What makes our self-paced courses so great? You get INSTANT ACCESS as soon as you sign up Complete them at a time and pace to suit you – no deadlines, no schedules Full

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FREE composition class from Lilla!

Today we’re sharing a fabulous FREE class on composition from illustrator and former art agent Lilla, to help you become a composition master! As an educator, Lilla has taught everyone from little kids to professional artists, but one thing remains constant: she breaks down complex ideas in a way that makes it whimsical and fun, and accessible for everyone. Or as Lilla says, “I trick you into doing your best work.” Just check out this lovely composition class to see what we mean. Art for Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More by Make Art That Sells student Kelly Anne Dalton. Kickass composition by Lilla Rogers Lilla here. Years and years of illustrating full time taught me ways to design a page, and now I’ll share them with you. I’ve gathered some flora from a bucolic country garden in Western Massachusetts to show you some of my own favorite composition layouts.

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See some of Lilla’s favorite art from Portfolio Club!

Lilla’s longest and most wide-ranging illustration course, Portfolio Club, has been running for six months now, so today we thought we’d share some of Lilla’s favorite pieces so far, to bring a little brightness and beauty to your inbox. Lilla says: “I am so proud of the top-notch art by my students for the Portfolio Club course and am delighted to share them with you today.” Portfolio Club is eight fabulous months long – which means students still have two months of amazing new content to look forward to – and it covers a huge variety of art-markets with quirky and inspiring assignments written by Lilla as though she were an art or creative director reaching out with a real-life job. It’s been wonderful to watch our brilliant students fill their illustration portfolios with such incredible art! In January, the assignment was to create a full-page magazine illustration to accompany

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HURRY! Tick tock – registration for Bootcamp closes TODAY!

Hurry HURRY! All good things must come to an end, and registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering 2026 closes for good TODAY! If you want two more months of gorgeous lettering inspiration plus INSTANT ACCESS to all the course materials released so far, then hurry up and sign up now – this course won’t run again until 2027. Discover exciting new lettering styles for your illustration work, and create eye-catching art for your portfolio, like this by Make Art That Sells student Brooke O’Neill. In case you missed it, we re-opened registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering for a 72-hour window by popular request, for everyone who was busy kicking themselves for not signing up. But that 72-hour window is currently swinging closed, and it closes for good TONIGHT! Some of Lilla’s recent artwork featuring lettering. When Lilla was a full-time illustrator, being able to do lettering helped pay her bills! Up

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Sign up now for two months of joy!

Do you want two months of joy to look forward to? Do you want to improve your lettering skills so you can get more illustration jobs and earn more money? Have you been kicking yourself for not signing up for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering when you had the chance? Then we have great news for you! Here’s your teacher, illustrator and former art agent Lilla Rogers, along with one of her many lettering gigs which helped pay her bills when she was a full-time illustrator. Let her show you how you can get jobs like this! Sign up here. Due to popular demand and a barrage of emails, we’re re-opening registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering for just 72 hours, from today, Monday, July 6th, to this Thursday, July 9th. Don’t forget, this is Lilla’s last LIVE course for 2026! And in case you missed it, NEW for 2026, we’re calling this

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Check out the winners’ gallery! 😍

Lilla loved this recreation of The Empress tarot card by Nira Bar. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been running our fab FREE Art Challenge (almost) every quarter since 2023! Our previous winners have won tons of courses and cool products illustrated by artists agented by Lilla Rogers Studio, and it’s completely FREE to enter! Our next challenge drops next week, on July 1st, and we’ll be giving away your choice of our amazing self-paced courses, so check them out here and start deciding which one you would pick! Two of the three winners of the assignment to create some fun and funky packaging for an IPA by Stephanie Hofmann (left) and Renee Hahnel (right). We love seeing what you do with Lilla’s assignments,, so today we thought we’d share some of our previous winners from the TEN Art Challenges we’ve run so far! Rainbow Wang (left) and Alicia Fairbourn

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How to include diversity in your illustration portfolio

Why should you show diversity in your illustration portfolio, and how can you do it? One of the incredible things about illustration is that it can shape how people see the world. An illustration portfolio which includes a wide range of diversity in terms of race, body types, ages, disabilities, family structures, gender expression and so on not only demonstrates technical skill, but so much more than that. Art from our FREE Black art history course, Redrawing Black History, by Make Art That Sells students (l-r) Cory Phillips, Ali Parks and Anne Bollman. Real life is diverse. Being able to show a variety of people in your artwork shows your awareness of the real world. People connect more deeply with your art when they can recognize themselves, their families and their experiences. Being able to see themselves in the worlds you draw creates emotional connection and trust. Representation matters! It’s