If you missed the wonderful Live with Lilla, below is a replay. If you’ve ever dreamed of building a strong, market-ready illustration portfolio – or you already have some art in your portfolio but want to get noticed by clients so you can get more jobs and make more money – then now is the moment to jump in. You’ll get eight whole months of assignments from me, to take you all the way through to August – how cool is that? Watch the replay below
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 have a load of art on my website, but what do I actually NEED?” Gorgeous products in a variety of markets illustrated by some of the artists I represented. There are so many markets out there that need your art! Let me show you how you can get jobs like this. 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 –
Lilla here. I can’t wait to tell you about our newest wild adventure! I’m so excited to share my latest adventure with you – it perfectly combines two of my greatest passions: my love of teaching and my love of art supplies. If you’ve ever been to or seen my studio, you probably know that I have practically every art supply in the whole world! Art supplies are my love language From more than five decades in the art biz, I’ve got drawers of gouache and watercolor tubes organized by color; deeply pigmented oil paints and oil mediums; funky, sparkly and chunky acrylic mediums; silky 6B charcoal pencils; soft and absorbent printmaking paper; crispy linoleum blocks; and soft, richly colored handmade pastels sorted in wooden drawers! There’s a good chance I already have every art supply in the world, but I think I probably still need more, right? So just
Did you miss the fabulous Live with Lilla #4: End of sale celebration with Meera Lee Patel? Watch the replay below! Our huge annual sale has been extended through this weekend, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our amazing value bundles! 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! What’s included in the sale? Get your FREE guide! Want help deciding which courses to take? Click here to get your free copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide, packed with worksheets, quizzes, art and more. Watch the replay below
Hurry hurry HURRY – only TWO DAYS before our biggest sale of the year ends for good, and that means it’s also your last chance to save big on Lilla’s brand new course for 2026, Portfolio Club! Imagine what it would feel like to get an email directly in your inbox each month with a brand-new assignment for a commission to create a gorgeous piece of portfolio art for a super hot art market … That’s exactly what you’ll get every month for eight months in Portfolio Club! You’ll explore a huge range of art markets, and experience exactly what it’s like to get a commission from an art director. Sign up now! Art by Make Art That Sells student Jean Ruth. Lilla has written eight fantastic Mini assignments and eight Big Assignments for you for an incredible range of art markets that are written exactly as you’d get them
Our huge annual sale is on NOW, with up to 50% off our career-changing courses – but HURRY, it ends in just THREE DAYS! Make 2026 the year you blossom and thrive as an artist. Let Lilla work her magic on your career! If you’re not sure which courses are perfect for you, be sure to download our brilliant FREE Playbook + Planner, which contains tons of playful and insightful worksheets and quizzes to help you review your successes in 2025 and make a plan for your amazing creative career in 2025. Don’t miss it! Click here to download your FREE copy of our gorgeous Playbook + Planner, jam-packed with powerful worksheets, quizzes, mini assignments and more. Check out our huge sale now and book yourself onto a career-changing course that will bring you inspiration, community and joy in 2026. Click here to explore everything that’s included in the sale.
Our huge annual sale ends in just a few days, on Friday, December 1st – if you haven’t already shopped our amazing reductions on our career-boosting courses, then be sure to check them out here. Today we wanted to share even more recent real life student success stories, including some from some of our self-paced courses. Our self-paced courses are fantastic because you get instant access as soon as you sign up, and you can complete them whenever suits you – you’ll get full access until January 31st, 2027, and you can download the materials to keep forever! Dive into incredible courses like … The MATS MBA (Money BadAss): business learning created especially for creative people like you Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces to help you learn how to draw faces in an accessible innovative way so you can get more jobs Creating Collections for Home Décor for a deep
Did you miss the fabulous Live with Lilla #3: How to submit your art to agents + Special Guests!? Watch the replay below! Our huge annual sale is ON, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our amazing value bundles! 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! What’s included in the sale? Get your FREE guide! Want help deciding which courses to take? Click here to get your free copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide, packed with worksheets, quizzes, art and more. Watch the replay below
Do you want to earn real money from illustrating and maybe even writing your own books? Then let Lilla Rogers, with more than four decades of experience in the business, show you how! Today we’re going to meet just some of the Make Art That Sells students who did just that. Books are a fantastic market for illustrators and creatives because they can provide months of work and they’re always in demand – according to market research agency Grand View Research, the global book market was worth around $151 billion in 2024 and is projected to increase to around $192 billion by 2030. Want to learn how you can land a picture book illustration deal of your very own, or maybe even write and illustrate your own book (meaning you get paid TWICE)? Lilla’s comprehensive picture book courses – Illustrating Children’s Books and My Kid Book Pitch – will give
In yesterday’s newsletter, we shared some amazing recent student success stories from our career-changing Illustrating Children’s Books course – if you missed it then catch up here. Here’s another way you can land a book deal when you take Illustrating Children’s Books: get your art seen by course leader and brilliant children’s book art director Zoë Tucker! Just some of the many books directed by Zoë in her 25 years in the children’s publishing industry. Her client list includes top publishers such as Alison Green Books, Dorling Kindersley, Quarto, Wide Eye Editions, Scholastic and Magic Cat. Both Zoë and co-leader Lilla, who was an art agent for 30 years, look at every single piece of art that’s submitted to the weekly galleries ahead of the deadline and pick some to review in the LIVE weekly reviews – that means that you could get your art reviewed by a former art
