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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

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Get Part 2 of your FREE lettering assignment!

Lilla here. I’m so excited for the start of Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering exactly one week today, on Monday, June 8th! Lettering is so good for your career – it’s something that art agents look for and it can radically increase how many jobs you get – plus I just want you to learn to love lettering as much as I do. I’ve created a FREE three-part #MATSprep warm-up exercise to help you get ready for class, and to give you a little taste of my teaching style, which is all about breaking things down into tiny steps so you don’t get overwhelmed, and keeping you engaged with lots of whimsy and surprises, to trick you into doing your best work. A few days ago we shared Part 1 – if you missed it, catch up here – where we took stock of what art materials we were going to use

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Get Part 1 of your FREE Lettering warm-up assignment!

Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, June 8th! I wrote this course because I know that being able to do lettering can radically increase how much money you earn from illustration gigs! Lettering is fantastic for your career and can get you a ton of work. I created this course because I wanted to encourage you to experiment with different styles of lettering, to find your own unique style, and to fill your illustration portfolio with beautiful artwork designed to get you paying jobs. Lettering for projects by artists agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Develop your lettering skills, learn how you can get gigs like these, and create art designed to land them. Sign up here. Today I’m sharing Part 1 of a FREE 3-part #MATSprep warm-up assignment I’ve created to help you get ready for class. Good news! Today’s #MATSprep is all about playing

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EXCITING NEWS for lettering fans!

Lilla here. One of my favorite courses (they’re all my favorite), Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, starts Monday, June 8th, and I can’t wait to see what art you create this year! This will be the third time I’ve taught this class. I’ve been passionate about lettering ever since I did penmanship in third grade, and when I was an illustrator I paid my bills thanks in part to my lettering. My goal for this course is to make you fall in love with and feel very comfortable drawing all kinds of lettering styles. The ability to do lettering was one thing I always looked at when I was viewing an artist’s portfolio as an art agent. Why? Because being able to do lettering can help you get more work – and more work means more income for you, along with a more interesting and varied creative career. Look how many of

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Is this you? (The illustrator who just needs a little boost)

As an art agent, I nurtured and mentored the artists I represented for 30 years, helping them to create beautiful art and achieve career success. Let me do the same for you. Lilla here. I’m so incredibly excited about my small-group mentoring intensive, Inner Circle. It gives me the opportunity to do what I love most: closely mentor a small group of artists and help them reach the next level. So many artists crave individual guidance, and with my decades of experience as an agent and teacher, I know exactly how to help people make their work more true to themselves, more gorgeous, and more lucrative. That’s what lights me up. Are you wondering if Inner Circle would be right for you? I got to thinking about a number of imaginary artists—six examples of the kinds of creatives I envisioned in my mentoring intensive—along with case studies describing how I