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Get your art in front of an art agent

Do you adore home décor? Do you dream of seeing your beautiful art on fabric, ceramics and more in stores like Anthropologie, West Elm or Crate & Barrel? Learn how you can get amazing jobs like these, all agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Pillow by Katie Vernon for Anthropologie, mugs by Carolyn Gavin for Anthropologie, rabbit pitcher, cup, and linen by Zoe Ingram. Our raved-about online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, is taught by top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers, and trend queen, creative director and now art agent Margo Tantau. Creating Collections for Home Décor is taught by two industry experts: creative director, art agent and founder of Tantau Studio Margo Tantau (left) and top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers (right). It will give you incredible, in-depth insight into five key substrates – fabric, wood, ceramics, glass and metal – and, uniquely, will teach you how

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Lettering is BACK! See gorgeous student sketchbooks

Learn how to do hand lettering with top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers! Being able to do lettering can get you a ton of work. Last year, Lilla launched her brand new lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, and it was such a huge success that, due to popular demand, we’re bringing it back for 2025 with all new dreamy content to amp up your art and help you get more paying jobs. In this three month bootcamp, you’ll spent 12 amazing weeks with Lilla with ALL NEW assignments to build up an incredible library of lettering you can use in your work going forward – and because it’s all new, you can take the course again if you took it last year, to create a really powerful reference tool to refer back to. NEW FOR 2025: enjoy a brush lettering demo with Lilla! Learn tips and tricks from Lilla

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See the beautiful books our students have illustrated

Picture books are one of the most magical and rewarding art markets out there, and we couldn’t be more excited to see so many of our graduates landing incredible picture book illustration deals! Here’s your teacher! As an art agent for 30 years, Lilla has viewed thousands of artists’ portfolios and agented many hundreds of picture books, so she knows just what you need to show in your portfolio. Today, we’re celebrating some of the amazing picture book success stories our talented students have shared with us – they’re truly inspiring! (Love these? You can explore even more of our alumni’s fantastic achievements right here.) And don’t forget—our huge Spring Sale is happening right now! That means 25% off every single course – and if your dream is to get paid for illustrating picture books, don’t miss our game-changing Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle, packed with even bigger

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Look who’s represented

You know what’s great? Making art and getting paid for it. You know what’s also great? Getting an agent. Having an agent is amazing, because they negotiate contracts and fees and promote you, and leave the best part – making art – to you. Make Art That Sells courses are really effective at helping artists land representation, because they help you build a powerful illustration portfolio that contains everything an agent needs to see in order to get you work.  And let’s face it – Lilla should know! As an art agent for 30 years and a full-time illustrator for over a decade, she’s created our raved-about Make Art That Sells courses to help artists like you land agents and get commissions. In fact, if you check out our amazing public Zoom event with Lilla and illustrator Tamisha Anthony from earlier this week, you’ll see that Tamisha talks about how

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4 reasons you need My Semester of Art School 2025

Hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale is on NOW! If you’re still trying to decide which of our career-changing, job-snagging courses to take then why not just take them all with My Semester of Art School? Q: Hold up. What’s My Semester of Art School? A: Simply put, it’s ALL of our raved-about online art courses for the rest of 2025, at an incredible 45% off. Q: Intriguing. Is this for me? A: It’s for anyone at any stage or level who wants to transform their art career, explore new art markets, build a portfolio aimed at landing book illustration and writing gigs, make their art even better, and make real money from making art. Oh – and all at a brilliant price. Art by Make Art That Sells student Colee Wilkinson for Illustrating Children’s Books. Discover how to make gorgeous art like this for your portfolio, designed to

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HURRY! Our giant spring sale starts TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale is on NOW, with 25% off every single one of our courses and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! Now is the time to snag those courses you’ve had your eye on! Testimonial from Make Art That Sells student Julia Christians – the courses also got her spotted and represented by Lilla Rogers Studio! Art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your art. 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. If you want to grow your

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It’s baaaaaack!

You asked so here it is – our fabulous Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle which hasn’t been available since our big sale in 2024 is now back on offer, so grab it while it’s hot! Do you love picture books and would love to land jobs in this amazing art market? Have you already had some success with picture books but want to get booked solid with picture book illustration work? Are you always dreaming up quirky characters and unique storylines, and now you want to see them in print – and get paid for it? The picture book market is huge, as well as being dreamy to work in: according to market research company Cognitive, it was valued at $4,715 million in 2024, and is expected to grow by 4.3% from 2024 to 2031. No matter how digital, online or automated the world becomes, there’s nothing quite

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REVEALED: Check out some beautiful art from our FREE Quarterly Art Challenge

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

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Black History Month: See gorgeous art from our FREE Black art history course

Art for Redrawing Black History by Make Art That Sells students Katiuska Pino (left), Lisa Wee (middle) and Kay Wolfersperger (right). February is Black History Month in the USA, a national observance which celebrates and pays tribute to African Americans and their contributions, struggles, history and achievements, and today we’re celebrating by sharing some of the amazing student art from our FREE Black art history course, Redrawing Black History. Meet your teacher, the wonderful educator and illustrator Tamisha Anthony. We are thrilled that more than 7,500 students have already taken the opportunity to engage in this course, which covers four key eras of Black American history in a refreshing and uplifting way under the expert guidance of delightful and brilliant educator and illustrator, Tamisha Anthony. Art for Redrawing Black History by Make Art That Sells students Maria Ofili (left), Tequitia Andrews (middle) and Maruga Koops (right). As our way of

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Check out the gorgeous color stories in these flatlay photos

Hurry hurry HURRY – today is your VERY LAST CHANCE to sign up for Lilla’s gorgeous color exploration course, Color Quest! Don’t miss it – we don’t know when this class will run again but it definitely won’t be in 2025! Sign up today and you’ll get instant access to all four of the Mini Assignments released so far ready for the exciting reveal of the Big Assignment tomorrow and tomorrow’s lively private live Zoom event with Lilla! Increase the variety of colors you use and get more work! Do you find that you tend to use the same colors or palettes over and over again? It’s a very easy thing for illustrators – even experienced, professional illustrators – to do, but it may affect how much work you get or how many art markets you can sell your art in. Lilla has carefully designed all the assignments in Color