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Bootcamp starts TODAY: 5 reasons why you need to sign up

It’s BACK! Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio starts TODAY! Fill your portfolio with gorgeous, on-trend art designed to land you jobs Explore hot new art markets that need your art Find the joy in your art-making … all for the same price as a couple of lattes a week! How does it work? Every Monday from today until the end of October, you’ll get something new from art agent Lilla: maybe a blobby worksheet, a video tutorial, a fresh new color palette, a mini assignment, a trend board or something else. Add them together and … step by step, every month you’ll create a brand new illustration portfolio piece for a different art market – you’ll make one finished piece every month, along with the prep work you’ll do along the way (which has also landed our students jobs!). And as if three months of creative inspiration at a rock bottom price

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FREE art assignment Part 2: Get your sneak peek of actual course content!

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing Part 2 of the #MATSprep assignment I wrote for you to get you ready for my Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio course, which starts in just a few days, on Monday, August 1st. Don’t forget that these two prep assignments are part of the actual Mini assignment you’ll get in the first week of Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio. How cool is that?! Today you’re going to play with some color blobs. Anyone who’s taken any of my courses will already know that I’m obsessed with color: as an art agent it’s make or break for me. Your palette can change the whole mood of a piece, and great colors will always help amp up your income from your art. That’s why we’ll be focusing exploring color in the first month of this year’s Bootcamp! Plus today I’m also going to share some time management tips, because I know

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Get Part 1 of your FREE art assignment! Plus SPOILERS 👀

Our most popular course, Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio, starts in under two weeks! Want to know what Bootcamp’s really like? Over the next two newsletters, we’ll be sharing the first few steps from the first mini assignment for Bootcamp for August – so if you love it, be sure to sign up! Every year we get students emailing us to ask if we can run Bootcamp all year round. Why? Because it’s enjoyable, energizing, and gets you jobs – check out last week’s blog and newsletter for a few recent examples. What even is Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio anyway? Here’s the skinny: You’ll get something from art agent Lilla every Monday for three months – maybe a playful and instructive downloadable worksheet, a quirky Mini assignment, a video tutorial or an interview with an industry expert or one of the artists Lilla represents. On the first Monday of each month, the Mini

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Assignment Bootcamp gets you jobs: here’s proof

There’s just a couple of weeks until the start of this year’s Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio course! We can’t wait to see what art agent Lilla is going to pull out of the bag this year and all the incredible art that you’re going to make. Lilla has spent months dreaming up and writing all-new assignments to help you make your portfolio shine! Year after year, it’s our most popular course! Why? Here’s why: It’s really fun and motivating. Every single Monday for three months, you’ll get something from art agent Lilla that all adds up to creating a gorgeous piece of art for your portfolio. It’s full of surprises, so it’s engaging and enjoyable. The pace is low-key: it fits easily around your other commitments and it’s no biggie if you’re busy: you can always catch up later in your own time. It’s cheap as chips: it costs roughly the

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Hurry hurry HURRY – our 72 hour flash sale on our unique My Toy Pitch course ends TODAY! This is your last chance to sign up for instant access at a huge 20% off! You’ll get immediate access to all of the course materials that will help you to put together FIVE stunning ready-to-send toy and game pitches. Transform simple blocks with your gorgeous art, like this pitch by Make Art That Sells student Angie Chan. Plus there’s still time to enter our incredible competition to win a LIVE 1:1 with art agent and smash-hit game creator, Riley Wilkinson – simply upload your pitch to the classroom gallery by the July 31st deadline to be in with a chance to win. Click here to dive in. Whether you want to create your own unique game – like this one by Make Art That Sells student Alistar Illustration – add your

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A new mood board and a flash sale – hurry!

HURRY! Save big – but for 72 hours only! Imagine creating beautiful art for classic toys and games like checkers or puzzles – creating heirlooms for families to enjoy for generations Imagine seeing toys and games dreamed up by you in the front window of your favorite toy store Imagine spending your days dreaming up quirky characters and fun new toy concepts – and getting paid for it! It’s time to turn play into pay with art agent Lilla’s unique toy and game course, My Toy Pitch! In case you missed our big news, My Toy Pitch is now available as a self-paced course, meaning that you get instant access to all the course materials as soon as you sign up, and complete it at a time and pace that suits you and your schedule. Plus sign up right NOW and you could save a huge 20% – but hurry,

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Which track should you choose?

In last week’s newsletter (catch up here if you missed it), top art agent Lilla Rogers cited editorial illustration as one of the hottest art markets as the world slowly recovers from the recent pandemic. Art by Make Art That Sells student Jojo Clinch for Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More. Plus, since we launched the sold out Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More class as a self-paced course, you now get access to FOUR fantastic assignments PLUS a bonus – which means it’s the perfect time to sign up. You get full access to all the course materials until January 31st, 2023, which gives you plenty of time to work through all the incredible content – but which one should you choose first? Art by Make Art That Sells student Annie May Cron for Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More.   Find out with our handy guide!   Download

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What should you show in your portfolio? FREE download!

Lilla here. As an agent, one thing that I get asked all the time is: what should I show in my portfolio in order to get illustration jobs? Artists say to me: “Lilla, I’ve just finished art school, and I have a load of life drawings and abstracts, but what do I actually NEED?” My whole thing is about diversification. In other words, the secret to a successful art career is just like a financial stock portfolio: you don’t know what’s going to give you a ton of work or what art markets going to go up or down, so you need to diversify your investments. That’s why I often talk about having many eggs in many baskets – don’t focus all your energy and efforts on one art market, but tackle several at the same time. That’s what will give you the best returns and make your career more

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Don’t miss it – our most popular, most addictive course is BACK!

Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio is now open for registration! In a recent public Zoom event, art agent Lilla described Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio as “affordable and fun”, which by weird coincidence is also my Tinder bio. But where Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio has the edge is that it will help you crank out some gorgeous, on-trend artwork for your portfolio that can land you jobs and maybe even representation (including with Lilla – she’s always looking for new talent in class). Make Art That Sells student Brian Lambert was offered an illustration gig after a publisher spotted this character he created for Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio on his Instagram account – and then shortly after that he landed representation with art agent Lilla too! Over three months, from August to the end of October, you’ll get something every single Monday that all adds up to help you make three brilliant bang-up-to-date portfolio pieces geared