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#LillasStylePlay2025 is here! Join our FREE Instagram challenge every day from September 1st to 30th! Join our FREE Instagram challenge! We’re so excited to announce something we’ve never done before: Lilla’s Style Play, our very first free Instagram challenge! We’ve teamed up with some incredible hosts to bring you a 30-day drawing challenge that will give you space to experiment, loosen up, and reconnect with the playful side of creating. For 30 days, from 1st to 30th September, we’ll be sharing exciting daily prompts designed by Lilla to help you explore, stretch, and evolve your unique artistic style. Art by Lilla in her distinctive style. How do you figure out your style? By drawing little things every day. A lot of artists wonder how to find and develop their own unique style, and this 30-day challenge will help you do just that! Lilla says: “A great way to discover, evolve

We ran our most recent FREE quarterly Art Challenge in June, and, as ever, we loved seeing the beautiful art that you created! This time the challenge was a little bit different: the assignment was to illustrate a quotation from Lilla: Even so, there are tiny moments of beauty. Former art agent Lilla looked at every single entry to pick a winner and runners up: we share some of her favorites below, as well as an important update about the next FREE challenge, which is due to drop September 1st. Huge congrats to Ilana Diamond, who wins FREE place in Illustrating Children’s Books. Want the chance of winning courses and more? Don’t miss our next challenge in September! Lilla said: “The confidence in style, lovely painterly background, the hand-lettering add beauty to the piece. Conceptually, the quirky, atypical imagery—ice cream as paint, swaying seaweed—all make for a very personal style

Our most recent FREE quarterly Art Challenge took place last month, and, as ever, we loved seeing the beautiful art that you created! See some of Lilla’s favorites below, and learn how you can take part in the next FREE challenge on June 1st. Huge congrats to our joint winners, Alicia Fairbourn (left) and Rainbow Wang (right). They each won a FREE place in class – don’t miss our next challenge for your chance to win courses and more! The standard of entries was so high that Lilla couldn’t pick a single winner! Joint first place went to Alicia Fairbourn and Rainbow Wang, who each won a FREE place in Bootcamp Special: Character Play* – join in with our next challenge for your chance to win places in class, gorgeous products and more! (*Kicking yourself for not signing up to Bootcamp Special when you had the chance? Keep your eyes

Our most recent FREE quarterly Art Challenge took place in December, and we loved seeing the amazing art that you created! See some of our favorites below, and learn how you can take part in the next FREE challenge on March 1st. The assignment was to draw your favorite holiday food. Food and seasonal art are both great items to have in your portfolio – they’re fantastic for getting illustration commissions for greeting cards, cookbooks (food and art!), prints, tote bags, editorial art, and more – so why not combine the two? The winning entry was by Make Art That Sells student Valerie Hamill, who won a FREE place in Lilla’s fabulous new Color Quest class – join in with our next challenge for your chance to win places in class, gorgeous products and more! Here are a few more of our favorite entries. Art by Ben Chu (left) and

Our first FREE quarterly Art Challenge kicked off on Friday, September 1st and we were thrilled that so many of you took part. Today we wanted to share art agent Lilla’s favorite art from the challenge, and, in case you missed it, let you know how you can take part in the next challenge. The assignment from Lilla was to create an Empress tarot card in just one week. Why did Lilla choose this assignment? She told us: “Tarot cards are in high demand, and publishers are searching for talented illustrators to bring them to life. This means that this assignment is a golden opportunity to showcase your skills, boost your portfolio and catch the attention of publishers. Plus they’re enormously enjoyable to create!” Lilla looked at every piece of art submitted before the deadline, and her favorite was by Nira Bar, who won a place on Illustrating Children’s Books.

Happy birthday to us! We know it’s hard to believe when we look so youthful, but Make Art That Sells is a whopping TEN YEARS OLD this year, and we’ve got tons planned to celebrate, including Ten Days of Giveaways, a Flash Sale, a Best of Bootcamp bundle that you’re going to LOVE, and lots more. This giveaway will ONLY be available to newsletter subscribers, so make sure you’re on our mailing list now! Sign up here. Our Ten Days of Giveaways will include a FREE place in Illustrating Children’s Books, a signed copy of Beth’s new book on writing, The Way of the Fearless Writer, gorgeous fabrics illustrated by Rebecca Jones, and tons more. It starts Friday, August 11th and will ONLY be available to newsletter subscribers, so make sure you’re on our mailing list, then keep an eye on your inbox every day from August 11th! Sign up

Discover what our students love about Make Art That Sells! Last month, we launched our massive video testimonial competition. We wanted to know what you loved about Make Art That Sells, the great work you’ve gotten, the friends you’ve met, and the courses that have blown your mind, and you did NOT disappoint! We were amazed by the standard of the entries that we received, and it was very hard to pick a winner, but a winner we must have, so we are delighted to announce that the winner is … RAINBOW WANG! Watch her video below. Art agent Lilla said: “I loved each and every video, but I was particularly moved the film by Rainbow Wang. In the beginning, she shares, ‘I had a vision map filled with my dreams. How do I get there? I needed direction.’ Then, from Make Art That Sells, she starts to see her