Hurry hurry HURRY – registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio closes TODAY and won’t open again until 2024! Fill your portfolio with gorgeous, on-trend art designed to land you paying jobs (and it works – check out some recent student success stories here) Explore the hottest art markets right now, based on art agent Lilla’s industry insider info Find the joy in your art-making and grow it more than you can imagine Sign up now and you’ll get instant access to all of the materials for January so far, including a Mini and a Big assignment and some amazing insights from creative director Margo Tantau. Plus you’ll be able to join art agent Lilla for Monday’s LIVE Zoom event – and if you work fast you may even be able to submit your art to the January gallery, or complete it at leisure in your own time. Then you’ll be ready

Time to let that FOMO go, friend – we’re reopening Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio registration for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it five day window, from today, Monday 23rd, to this Friday, January 27th. Every single year, we get emails from students kicking themselves for not signing up for Assignment Bootcamp, especially when our first public gallery goes live. They see the incredible work that our students are producing, and how much fun they’re having, and how quirky and inspiring the assignments are, and they think: DAMN. BREAKING NEWS – BEANS EVERYWHERE! This just in: for March’s Bootcamp assignment, you’ll get a custom 25-card deck PDF to print out, each with a little visual that features some of your favorite passions, hobbies, interests, activities, arts, craft, etc. PLUS you’ll get a short audio meditation for using the cards to pick your theme for the assignment. And that’s not all – you can also expect a

Hi everyone, if you missed the special Live with Lilla, below is the replay! Bootcamp started yesterday and there is still time to dive in and download your first mini assignment. Sign up here.    

Hurry hurry HURRY – our most popular (and best value) online course, Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio, starts TODAY! In this course, you’ll get professional level illustration assignments and pack your portfolio with gorgeous art designed to land you paying gigs. Every year our students get jobs and representation because of art that they created for Assignment Bootcamp – check out last week’s blog here for some recent success stories and (because we couldn’t fit them all in one newsletter) look out for more on Thursday. What is Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio anyway? Over three months, from today to the end of March, you’ll get something every single Monday that all adds up to help you make three brilliant bang-up-to-date portfolio pieces geared toward the hottest markets right now. The subject matter is playful and marketable, and is drawn from the trend reports that Lilla creates for her own highly-successful artists. Now you