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WIN My Year of Art School LIVE!

Win My Year of Art School LIVE: ALL our LIVE courses for 2027 – including the brand new one Lilla’s cooking up! Share what you love about Make Art That Sells in a short video and you could win ALL of our live courses in 2027! Lilla loved this video by student Rainbow Wang. Win my Year of art school live! What do you love most about Make Art That Sells? Is it one class in particular, our amazingly supportive community, our outstanding teachers, a nugget of wisdom from art agent Lilla, the boost it’s given to your career, the way it’s stretched your art – or something else? Whatever it is, share it in a short video testimonial and you could win My Year of Art School LIVE 2027! That means you’ll get all three of the fabulous career-changing courses we’re running in 2027, including the brand NEW course

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See the winners of our 10th FREE Art Challenge!

We can’t believe we’ve already had TEN rounds of our fab FREE Quarterly Art Challenge! That means ten FREE assignments from art agent Lilla, ten times of making some gorgeous art for your portfolio, and ten giveaways of free Make Art That Sells courses – and we can’t wait for the next one. Read on to find out when it will be and how you can enter! Lilla collects gorgeous imagery to inspire and delight her students wherever she goes, including this lovely tea shop front in France. July’s challenge was to use the lettering style of ‘Mariage Frères’ on a beautiful shopfront that Lilla spotted in France to create lettering reading “FREE LIFE”, with the option to add a border or other decoration around it. Being able to do lettering is great for your illustration career (like for book covers, for example), so it’s a fantastic thing to show

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Hurry HURRY, final flash sale inside!

Don’t miss our last flash sale! We’ve been running flash sales on some of our favorite self-paced courses all month, and our final August flash sale is for … Bootcamp Special: Character Play!   Join brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author, Zoë Tucker, and smash hit game creator, Riley Wilkinson, to learn how to create winning characters kids and adults will love, and crank out some gorgeous eye-catching art for your portfolio. Meet your teachers! Join brilliant children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker (left, with one of her books) and creative director and smash-hit game creator, Riley Wilkinson (right, with his Sneaky Snacky Squirrel game), for this unique course! Click here to save 20%! We created Bootcamp Special: Character Play because learning how to create characters is fantastic for your art career! Here’s why: You can get tons of work! You can license your characters

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FREE composition class from Lilla!

Today we’re sharing a fabulous FREE class on composition from illustrator and former art agent Lilla, to help you become a composition master! As an educator, Lilla has taught everyone from little kids to professional artists, but one thing remains constant: she breaks down complex ideas in a way that makes it whimsical and fun, and accessible for everyone. Or as Lilla says, “I trick you into doing your best work.” Just check out this lovely composition class to see what we mean. Art for Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More by Make Art That Sells student Kelly Anne Dalton. Kickass composition by Lilla Rogers Lilla here. Years and years of illustrating full time taught me ways to design a page, and now I’ll share them with you. I’ve gathered some flora from a bucolic country garden in Western Massachusetts to show you some of my own favorite composition layouts.

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Check out the winners’ gallery! 😍

Lilla loved this recreation of The Empress tarot card by Nira Bar. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been running our fab FREE Art Challenge (almost) every quarter since 2023! Our previous winners have won tons of courses and cool products illustrated by artists agented by Lilla Rogers Studio, and it’s completely FREE to enter! Our next challenge drops next week, on July 1st, and we’ll be giving away your choice of our amazing self-paced courses, so check them out here and start deciding which one you would pick! Two of the three winners of the assignment to create some fun and funky packaging for an IPA by Stephanie Hofmann (left) and Renee Hahnel (right). We love seeing what you do with Lilla’s assignments,, so today we thought we’d share some of our previous winners from the TEN Art Challenges we’ve run so far! Rainbow Wang (left) and Alicia Fairbourn

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LAST CHANCE for Illustrating Children’s Books until 2027!

Hurry hurry – LAST CHANCE to sign up for our career-changing Illustrating Children’s Books course until 2027! ✨ Imagine building a lucrative career in the magical world of children’s book illustration … ✨ Imagine walking past your favorite book store and seeing a book you illustrated in the front window … ✨ Imagine spending months digging deep into a dreamy children’s book manuscript, creating unique worlds and memorable characters ✨ Imagine getting paid to make art! Our outstanding online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, is on NOW, but there’s still time to sign up. Join now to get instant access to all the class materials released so far, including Daily Sketchbook prompts, lessons on things like pitching, the first Art Director’s Cheat Sheet from Zoë, and bonus lessons from former art agent and illustrator Lilla – check out the full class schedule here. Plus the rest of the class only got

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HURRY! Huge savings start TODAY!

Now is the time to snag those courses you’ve had your eye on! Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale is on NOW, with 25% off individual courses and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! If you want to grow your art, fill your portfolio, explore new art markets and make real money from your art then don’t miss this! Art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your gorgeous art to sell their products. Plenty of the hot art markets – including children’s books, non-fiction books for adults, greeting cards, and toys, games and puzzles – are booming right now, because people always want books, puzzles and cards. Whether you’re looking for a change of direction, you’re ready to take your illustration career to the next level, or you simply want to grow your art and flex your creative muscles, we’ve got everything you need. Amazing value

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Art Career Accelerator Week: FREE download and great savings!

What’s your art career dream – and how can fairy artmother Lilla help it come true? Our huge Spring Sale starts Monday, April 13th! We wanted to do something different this time, so to celebrate we’re running a week of fab FREE live Zoom events with art agent Lilla which are all about manifesting with intention, plotting your next career move, and turning your dreams into reality! Join former top art agent Lilla at any or all of her inspiring, informative FREE live events this week and start creating your blueprint for art career success! Announcing our NEW FREE live Zooms with Lilla! An amazing opportunity to get career advice from agent Lilla for FREE! Join Lilla at any one or all of these invigorating, inspiring, lively live events to get your questions answered by a top art agent (and mentor, author, speaker, columnist, educator, illustrator and more) with four

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FREE Art Challenge: Check out the art from our latest assignment

Have you heard about our FREE Quarterly Art Challenge yet? Once a quarter – on March 1st, June 1st, September 1st and December 1st – you get a FREE illustration assignment direct to your inbox. You then have one week to complete it – because nothing cuts through procrastination like a deadline. Art agent Lilla looks at all the art submitted before the deadline, and then picks one (or two) pieces of art which wins prizes like free Make Art That Sells courses, free products, and more. Our most recent free Art Challenge was in March, and, as ever, we loved seeing the beautiful art that you created! Today we’re sharing the two winners (because Lilla couldn’t pick just one!), who each won a free place on Illustrating Children’s Books, plus the Honorable Mentions. March’s challenge was to recreate a fabulous vintage souvenir plate from Lilla’s collection, personalized for your

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How to figure out what to draw

Lilla here. You know that feeling when you want to draw something, but you don’t know what to draw? Here’s what worked for me recently. So here’s the scene. I’m curled up with a steamy espresso, journal, and fountain pen filled with red glitter ink—my morning routine. So far so good. I’m craving making some art, but I don’t know what to draw. You would think I would know what I want to draw after decades and decades of teaching art, making art, agenting, illustrating, and owning pretty much every art supply. But no. I have no ideas. Nada. So first I list the art things that I like doing these days. Let me think … Lettering, Procreate, flowers with Latin names, vintage things, people, drawing packages with lettering on my iPad in Procreate, like this from my 30-Day Style Play challenge from last year. But I still have no