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LAST CHANCE! 6 reasons you should take the plunge

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


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QUICK – sneak into Bootcamp!

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


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“This course changed my life.”

Last chance to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio 2023! How will you move forward in your art career in 2023? How will you finish the year? Maybe as a represented artist, maybe with your first book deal under your belt, or maybe feeling able to call yourself a professional illustrator … Take the first step and invest in your creative career with Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio and get illustration assignments that are designed to get you paying gigs and are suitable for all levels, with the deadlines and accountability you need, all for the price of a couple of lattes a week! Hurry HURRY – registration for Assignment Bootcamp 2023 closes TODAY! This course changed my life. In case you’re still trying to decide, here are a few Make Art That Sells students who signed up for Bootcamp and told us that it changed their lives. Paloma O’Toole Taking Bootcamp


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Replay of Live with Lilla: Monday, January 9

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.    


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Hurry – Bootcamp starts TODAY! Plus FREE Zoom!

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


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Bootcamp success stories plus a FREE BONUS!

Our first LIVE course of the year, Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio, starts THIS MONDAY, January 9th! For just £99 (approx. $119), you could pack your portfolio with gorgeous art designed to land you jobs and representation! We love to see all the gigs our students get as a result of the art they make for this class – no wonder it’s the most popular course we run. Read some of our success stories below. One of the great things about Assignment Bootcamp is that it’s fabulous for everyone, no matter what level you’re at – art agent Lilla carefully designs the assignments so they bring out the best in everyone – and no matter how much time you have to put in. Plus with something from art agent Lilla every week, it’s the perfect way to get through the coldest, gloomiest months of the year (with apologies to our students in


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Get your FREE illustration assignment!

Lilla here. Welcome to your #MATSprep for Assignment Bootcamp:Portfolio, which starts one week TODAY on Monday, January 9th! “What’s a #MATSprep?” you ask. A #MATSprep is an assignment I create for you to warm up in preparation for a course that I’ll be teaching. The prep is free, so even if you don’t sign up for the course, you can still benefit from the instruction. This particular prep is to get you ready for my Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio course, which is now in its tenth year. It’s a hugely popular course, with almost a thousand students taking it each time. I adore coming up with assignments for you that teach you something, but also ideally motivate you to make gorgeous art and expand your portfolio to pull in lucrative projects. Here’s your free warm up assignment. Your assignment is to draw these filigree items from my collection. I see you


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LAST CHANCE! Bootcamp closes TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY – registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio closes TODAY! That means it’s your last chance to sign up for all this: Last chance to get something from top art agent Lilla Rogers every Monday from August to October Last chance for three months of inspiring illustration assignments for the hottest art markets right now And last chance to pack your portfolio with gorgeous art designed to help you get paying jobs! A few weeks ago, we shared a roundup of some of the jobs last year’s Bootcamp cohort landed due to art they’d made in Assignment Bootcamp – and today we’re sharing even more! Read on for more … Want to make beautiful portfolio pieces designed to get you work, explore new art markets and grow your art? Don’t miss out – sign up now!   Dani Knight Dani created this gorgeous journal cover for Assignment Bootcamp: Portfolio.


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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