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How to make an art portfolio - Portfolio Club 2026 course by Lilla Rogers

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

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Join Lilla on a lettering voyage!

Lilla here. Registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering – the Travel Edition closes TODAY, so if you want to spend three months with me, from now until the end of August, exploring gorgeous lettering that will inspire and delight you AND help you get more illustration jobs, then sign up now! New this year! I also wanted to share a cool thing about this year’s Bootcamp with you – I’m going to take you on a captivating visual voyage of lettering! Let’s set sail together! If you like, you’ll be able to create whole scenes out of some of the images I’ve found for you, as well as the lovely lettering. Sign up now. For the past year or two, whenever I’ve been travelling or teaching my live art retreats in Europe, I’ve been gathering examples of enticing lettering for you, from places like Paris, France, Portugal, and Cambridge Massachusetts, whether

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Replay of FREE live Zoom event on the first day of Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering.

Big news! Lilla’s student-favorite lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering starts TODAY and we celebrated with a FREE Public Live Zoom! If you missed it, the replay is below! Sketchbook pages by Make Art That Sells student Sharon Nullmeyer. By the end of the course you’ll have a mini reference guide of 15 beautiful fonts like this you can use in your art. HURRY! Sign up here! Want to make fabulous art like this so you can land more commissions and make more money from your art? Then don’t miss out, sign up now – class starts TODAY! Click here to sign up now. Watch the Replay BELOW! Download the FREE micro mini assignment HERE. This was given away on the zoom.

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FREE Zoom TODAY! + See our students’ lettering sketchbooks!

Big news! Lilla’s student-favorite lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering starts TODAY and we’re celebrating with a fab FREE Zoom TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST! Join Lilla for the FREE live Zoom TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST! Here’s your teacher! Lilla has loved lettering ever since penmanship in third grade. Join today’s FREE Zoom to get day 1 of Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering for FREE and maybe win a FREE place in class! She’ll be giving the first Mini Micro assignment away for FREE, taking your questions, showing off some cool products which use lots of lettering, and giving away a FREE place in class! Don’t miss it! Join here or find the link on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com and in our Instagram and Facebook stories. Today, to whet your appetite, we wanted to share a few of our students’ stunning sketchbooks, alongside a

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Get Part 3 of your FREE lettering assignment!

Lilla here. In the last newsletter, I shared a little sneak peek of the kind of content you’ll get in my unique lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, which starts in just a few days, on Monday, June 8th: I hope you enjoyed it! Today I’m going to give you another FREE assignment to play with and learn from. Being able to do lettering is so good for your career because so many different products need it – plus it’s just such a joy to do. In Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, you’ll get a Micro Mini assignment every day from Monday to Friday of the first week of each month. In each one, I’ll share a new and gorgeous lettering style for you to get inspired by and play with – 15 in total, and they’re all brand new for 2026, collected from my travels around France and Portugal. Some of my

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SOLD OUT! Join the waitlist now!

Wow! Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, just sold out for the third time in a row! If you missed out this time, get on the waitlist now to be first to hear when it runs again. Benefit from the wealth of Lilla’s 40+ years in the creative industry! Inner Circle is the opportunity of a lifetime to mine Lilla’s wisdom and experience gleaned from 40 years in the creative industry, as an art agent, an illustrator, an author, a columnist, an educator, a speaker and more. With places strictly limited to just 12 to allow for plenty of support and guidance, it’s not surprising that Inner Circle has sold out every time we’ve run it. Cool products agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Learn how you can get illustration jobs like this, direct from a former art agent of 30 years. The exact syllabus is geared towards the specific needs