Write your picture book!

  Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, is back as a LIVE course in 2026! Find out more and sign up here.

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8 reasons why you need to take My Year of Art School in 2026

Boost your career and change your life with our My Year of Art School bundles! Imagine that your actual job is making art – and getting paid good money for it … Imagine filling your portfolio with beautiful art that’s specifically designed to help you get paying jobs … Imagine picking up groceries and seeing your gorgeous art on the front of your favorite magazine or in the greeting card rack … Imagine your Etsy shop selling out so fast you hardly have time to restock it … Imagine spending months immersed in creating a magical world for children to fall in love with or researching something you’re truly passionate about – and getting paid for it! Are you ready to get serious about your art in 2026? Or do you want to see whether a career in illustration is for you – at a fraction of the price of

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How to write your picture book in 2026

Do you want to write your very own picture book? Imagine getting paid for creating unique, appealing characters, building dreamy, magical worlds, and bringing your story to life for generations of children to enjoy – no wonder so many artists dream of building a career in this incredible art market! Art for class by Make Art That Sells student Alona Millgram. If you can write and illustrate, then you get paid double! Write your picture book in 2026 with Lilla’s My Kid Book Pitch – on sale now. Not only that, but editors and publishers are specifically looking for author-illustrators – and if you can both write and draw, you get paid double! Or you could consider going about the rapidly-growing self-publishing route, which is absolutely perfect for creatives who can both write and illustrate. Not sure what to write about? Lilla’s dreamy Magic Cards are the special sauce that

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Don’t miss your incredible FREE Playbook download!

48 pages of goodness to support your creative career through 2026 and beyond! Happy Black Friday! Rather than trying to sell you something today, we wanted to check in to make sure you’ve downloaded your fab FREE Playbook & Planner, which is packed with goodies to inspire and guide you through the year ahead. Jam-packed with creative worksheets, a yearly planner, insightful quizzes and more – get your FREE playbook here. Look at all the goodness you get in this amazing FREE resource: A creative career planner interactive quiz, to help you figure out what worked in 2025 and what to focus on in 2026 Lilla’s gorgeous Butterfly Career Goals worksheet A tempting taste of Lilla’s brand NEW course for 2026, Portfolio Club A Blobby Storyline worksheet to help you plot your fantastic children’s story Create a dreamy new color palette with a sample assignment from Color Quest Vibe a

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Happy Thanksgiving from Lilla

Lilla here. Today is Thanksgiving in the US, so today in particular I want to send a big thank you to you for being part of our global community. I get so much out of teaching my students and I’m grateful to have the honor of being your instructor. How wonderful that you get to have art as a beautiful focus! In times of difficulty, it can be a soothing presence and a radical act. Being able to focus on something that is hand-made and positive is a huge source of comfort. Although I am an instructor who teaches art and art business, what I’m really teaching is to help you find your voice and put it out to the world, because that is a radical act. Stay radical. With love and gratitude,

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The easy way to transform your art career in 2026

Great color gets work! Lilla’s unique playful color course, Color Quest, was hugely popular last year and our students loved it, so we’re thrilled to offer it again for 2026 as a self-paced course – if you missed out last year then sign up now! 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. Want to change all that, so you can get more jobs in more markets? Or just want to play with gorgeous color? Then don’t miss out on Color Quest, Lilla’s innovative color play course, which is BACK as a self-paced course in 2026, meaning you get instant access as soon as you sign

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Replay of Live with Lilla #3: How to submit your art to agents + Special Guests!

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  

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How to get an art agent: Part 2

Learn how to get an art agent in a FREE live Zoom TODAY – plus you could win a FREE place in class! Would you love to land representation? In today’s FREE Zoom event, we’ll be talking to TWO top art agents and one represented artist to get the lowdown on everything you need to know about getting an art agent, including why get an agent and if it’s right for you, what they look for, what to put in your letter or email, and what to send them (Lilla will be showing actual examples of things artists sent to her which led to her offering them representation!). Lilla (left) plus just some of the many thousands of products agented by Lilla Rogers Studio (right). Join TWO art agents and an illustrator for a FREE live Zoom TODAY to find out how you can get representation to get jobs like

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How to get an art agent: Part 1

Look at these gorgeous handmade portfolios that were submitted to me by by Lydia Graves, Ruth Burrows and Fay Ford, to whom I then offered representation. Lilla here. As many of you will know, I was an art agent for 30 years, representing 48 brilliant artists from around the world through my agency, Lilla Rogers Studio. Today I want to show you some of the beautiful portfolios which artists sent to me which ended up landing them representation. I was blown away by these stunning handmade portfolios, especially as it’s so unusual to receive a printed out book like this, so they really caught my attention. If I was already interested in their art and representing them, then getting something like these portfolios and the time they took to make these books was a great sign of how committed they are and that they were interested in having me as

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See the books that My Kid Book Pitch built

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

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One weird tip to get a picture book illustration deal

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