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REVEALED: The amazing NEW course for 2026 from Lilla Rogers!

Lilla here! I love writing illustration assignments designed to land you jobs and help you make real money from your art. Join me for eight months of assignments and joy in my brand new Portfolio Club! Lilla here, and I could not be more excited to announce my brand NEW course for 2026 that’s going to transform your illustration portfolio, introduce you to a ton of thrilling new art markets, and give you something to look forward to every single month from January to August – that’s eight months of joy! Art for class by Make Art That Sells student Maxine Lee Mackie. Introducing my brand new Portfolio Club! Hey, Lilla, what’s that? I’m glad you asked lol. Portfolio Club is probably the most wide-ranging, varied course I’ve ever offered. You’re going to get an exciting, inspiring assignment from me every single month for eight months in a huge range

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HURRY! Shop now to get our courses up to HALF PRICE!

Our huge annual sale starts TODAY, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our amazing value bundles! Plus join illustrator and former art agent Lilla for a lively FREE Zoom event TODAY at 3 pm ET/8 pm GMT to get your career questions answered – and maybe win a FREE course! The Make Art That Sells Cyber Sale is our biggest sale of the year, so don’t miss out: if you’re thinking of taking any Make Art That Sells courses in 2026, you won’t get them cheaper than this – so sign up now!   Why take a Make Art That Sells course? Make Art That Sells co-founder and course leader, Lilla Rogers, was a top art agent for 30 years, plus she’s an illustrator, author, speaker and more who’s been teaching for decades. That means she knows what art directors and

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FREE Zooms and huge savings!

It’s almost here – our huge annual sale, our biggest sale of the year, starts Tuesday, November 18th, with massive savings across our raved-about courses! If you’ve been thinking of taking ANY Make Art That Sells courses in 2026 then don’t miss these incredible prices! Plus we’re so excited to announce our best FREE Zooms yet, with some amazing guests! Find out more below. Get our career-changing courses for up to half price in our huge cyber sale, starting Tuesday, November 18th! Let art agent Lilla show you how you can get jobs like these, agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Clockwise from top left: book by Flora Waycott, apron by Sarah Walsh, craft kit by Mara Penny, card by Hsinping Pan, ornament by Sarah Walsh, book by Jenny Miriam, toothbrush by Sarah Walsh. Get 30% off our courses and save up to a huge 50% when you buy one of

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A NEW course from Lilla Rogers for 2026 …

Ssshh – we can’t spill too many beans just yet, but guess what? Lilla’s got an incredible NEW course for 2026! Any ideas what it could be? We’d love to hear your guesses. Here are a few clues: It’ll last an amazing EIGHT months, from January to August It’s probably Lilla’s most wide-ranging course yet It’s going to be packed full of surprises to keep you energized, delighted and engaged You’re going to make some of your best work ever Gorgeous products agented by Lilla Rogers Studio and which might be clues, but also – who knows? – might not Clockwise from top left: Hsinping Pan, Kendra Binney, Sarah Walsh, Flora Waycott, Tara Lilly, Sarah Walsh, Mara Penny, Katie Vernon. When can you expect the big reveal? Get all the juicy details in our gorgeous Sale Guide, available from the first day of our big cyber sale, Tuesday, November 18th

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Inside: Get your FREE course from Make Art That Sells!

Learn how you can make real money in the creative industry in this inspiring FREE course: Manifest Your Dream Creative Career! Art for Manifest Your Dream Art Career by Make Art That Sells student Andrea Lauren. Get energized and inspired and learn how you can manifest creative success in this FREE course from Lilla Rogers! Do you want to: Make some eye-catching art for your portfolio with magical assignments from former top art agent, Lilla? Learn how to harness the power of the universe to achieve success in your creative career? And learn a ton from an illustrator, author, former art agent, writer, teacher, speaker and more with more than four decades of wisdom to share? As the seasons change and the new school year starts, many of us are looking ahead to the future and where the next year or so will take us. We’re thrilled to share Manifest

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Tons of FREE goodies to support your creative career!

Have you checked out our fabulous Freebie Library yet? It’s absolutely stuffed to the gills with tons of FREE goodness to support your creative career! Get How to Get an Agent, Plus Other Top Tips for advice on getting an art agent, character design, editorial illustration, marketing, turning characters into toys, and more. You’ll find this and more in our Freebie Library, and it’s all completely FREE! Here are just some of the amazing FREE resources you’ll find in the Freebie Library: A HUGE free guide, How to Get an Agent, Plus Other Top Tips, which includes golden information on topics like how to get an art agent, three things an art director looks for in a children’s book character, and top tips for Instagram. FREE worksheets including Lilla’s famous quirky Dream Armadillo, her Dream Snail, and a worksheet for working out your brand. Five FREE video series, including information

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SOLD OUT! Join the waiting list now

Wow! Both the first and second rounds of Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, completely sold out – get on the waiting list now to be first to hear when it opens again! 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 participants to allow for plenty of support and guidance, Inner Circle quickly sold out both times we ran it in 2025. Here’s all the participants from the very first round of Inner Circle in one of their weekly Zooms with Lilla. You’ll be able to ask questions, share work in progress for feedback and more in a small, supportive group setting. The exact syllabus is geared towards the specific needs of the

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See Lilla’s top picks from #LillasStylePlay2025!

Whew! We’ve just finished our first ever FREE 30-day Instagram art challenge, #LillasStylePlay2025, and what a blast it was! Many hundreds of artists shared many hundreds of images based on 30 prompts supplied by art agent Lilla, and we were absolutely blown away by your wit, talent and creativity. If you missed all the fun, you can see the list of prompts on our Instagram page here, then head over to Lilla’s Instagram page, where she shared a short clip explaining why she’d picked each prompt each day. We also gave away 15 FREE Make Art That Sells courses to 15 lucky participants! We just wanted to finish out the challenge by sharing some of Lilla’s favorite art, along with some of the lovely comments we read. We do need to emphasize that this barely scrapes the surface of all the incredible art you produced. Bravo to everyone who took

HURRY! LAST CHANCE for Lilla’s lettering class until 2026!

Hurry HURRY! All good things must come to an end, and registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering 2025 closes for good TONIGHT! 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 2026. Discover exciting new lettering styles for your illustration work, and create eye-catching art for your portfolio, like this by Make Art That Sells students Korrie Schenkel (left) and Anne Heasell (right). 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! So if you want in – if you want to spend the next two months playing with lettering

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Hurry HURRY – we’ve re-opened Lettering Bootcamp!

Kicking yourself for not signing up for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering when you had the chance? Want to improve your lettering skills so you can get more illustration jobs and earn more money? Want two months of fabulous content so you can make gorgeous art surrounded by friendly and supportive creatives from all over the world? Then we have some amazing news for you! We’ve had a ton of emails from students asking if it’s possible to join Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering after seeing some of the art that our students are sharing on social media, and we’re sure we’ll get more now the public gallery is live – if you haven’t seen it already, then check it out here. We’ve decided to re-open registration for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 72-hour window from today, Tuesday, September 30th, to this Thursday, October 2nd. If you want in, then join NOW! But HURRY – because once