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The changes in our business: A personal story from Lilla

Lilla here. I want to share a story with you about my early days as an illustrator when I had an incredible opportunity to play with a brand-new software application called “Photoshop”! I was working as an illustrator in New York City, when Paul Davis – a legendary designer and illustrator who’s particularly famous for his posters – called me up on the telephone. The people from Photoshop wanted top names in design and illustration to test out their new software. About 20 of us – names like Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, Paula Scher, and other top designers and illustrators – were invited up to the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging on the gorgeous coast of Maine. That was then, this is now: some of my recent art made with Procreate. It was quite intimidating being one of the youngest artists there, but it was such a treat! They flew

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This old favorite is BACK by popular demand!

Learn how to make your illustration portfolio and social media attract the paying jobs you want! Do you want to learn things like: How to make a home page that makes an art agent or director want to see more How to organize your website so they can find what they need How many pieces to show and how to sell the story of your style Whether you should have two websites or put everything on one site What art directors and agents don’t like to see on a website What to include on your ‘About’ page – including some surprising things you may not have thought of Which two pages are the most viewed by agents … and tons more? Find out in Portfolio Review! If you’ve taken Portfolio Club or a bunch of Make Art That Sells courses, you’ll have a ton of fantastic art that’s specifically designed

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See the winners of our 10th FREE Art Challenge!

We can’t believe we’ve already had TEN rounds of our fab FREE Quarterly Art Challenge! That means ten FREE assignments from art agent Lilla, ten times of making some gorgeous art for your portfolio, and ten giveaways of free Make Art That Sells courses – and we can’t wait for the next one. Read on to find out when it will be and how you can enter! Lilla collects gorgeous imagery to inspire and delight her students wherever she goes, including this lovely tea shop front in France. July’s challenge was to use the lettering style of ‘Mariage Frères’ on a beautiful shopfront that Lilla spotted in France to create lettering reading “FREE LIFE”, with the option to add a border or other decoration around it. Being able to do lettering is great for your illustration career (like for book covers, for example), so it’s a fantastic thing to show

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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