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REVEALED: Your favorite jobs and clients

Way back in 2023 (remember that?), we asked you to share your very best jobs and clients. We loved reading your stories, and we’re thrilled to share some of them here today – look out for another batch coming up soon. Jemma Jamie Skidmore Our favorite story was from Jemma Jamie Skidmore, who told us she was commissioned by Galison Puzzles to make a puzzle from an assignment she got as part of the My Year of Art School bundle, plus a children’s book illustration job that we’ll share more about in a later newsletter. Jemma’s art for the assignment from art agent Lilla (left) and her puzzle for Galliston (right). Jemma wins our Best of Bootcamp: Market Mix 1 bundle, which is packed with more fabulous assignments from art agent Lilla – we hope it helps her land lots more brilliant jobs! Want to get what Jemma won? The

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QUICK: Lilla’s lettering course has re-opened!

Have you seen the excitement and fabulous art coming out of Lilla’s brand new lettering course? Do you want in? You asked and we delivered: registration for art agent Lilla’s one-of-a-kind lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, is open for a teeny tiny 72 hour window – don’t miss out again, join the class now! We’ve had a ton of emails from students asking if it’s possible to sign up – especially after they saw the gorgeous work in our first public gallery (if you haven’t seen it yet, check it out here). So we’ve decided to re-open registration for everyone for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 72-hour window – so if you want in, then join now, because registration will absolutely close for good on Sunday, and this class definitely won’t run again until 2025 at the earliest! Some student work above from the February gallery here.   Q: How does that work? Class

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⏰ Flash sale ends TODAY!

Just a quick reminder to let you know that our 72 hour flash sale on art agent Lilla’s unique picture book story writing course for creative people like you, My Kid Book Pitch, ends TODAY! Books written and illustrated by artists represented by Lilla Rogers. Imagine building a lucrative career working on gorgeous projects like these! Let art agent Lilla and children’s book author and art director Zoë show you how in My Kid Book Pitch – currently 20% off! Lilla’s unique, warm and whimsical teaching style is created especially for creative people, making it playful and fun so that you stay engaged and motivated, and breaking everything down into easy steps so you’re never overwhelmed. You’ll follow Lilla’s Make a Story Recipe, which builds gradually throughout the course into a finished draft. Lilla says: “I’ve created a playful, personalized, and structured course that brings out your special story, with

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See some of the latest books illustrated by Make Art That Sells students turned LRS artists

Check out these gorgeous books illustrated by Make Art That Sells students! We’ve still got a few months to go until the start of Illustrating Children’s Books 2024 – but that doesn’t mean we can’t treat ourselves to some gorgeous eye candy courtesy of some of the Make Art That Sells students who are represented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Meet Lilla! Lilla is co-founder of Make Art That Sells, a born educator, and a top international art agent – she’s offered representation to more than 30 Make Art That Sells students and is always looking for more! One of the (many) great things about Make Art That Sells courses is that they’re led by a top international art agent, who not only sees exactly what work her artists are getting and thus knows what clients are looking for right now, but who’s also always on the look out for new

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Replay of Live with Lilla: FREE LIVE lettering demo

Free live lettering demo from a top art agent Hi everyone! If you missed the amazing Live with Lilla where she hosted her FREE live lettering demo then catch up below. This free live lettering demo is an example of the kind of content you’ll get in Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, which includes tons of downloads, monthly assignments to create art for your portfolio, more live lettering demos and more. Watch the free live lettering demo on YouTube here:

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Replay of Public Live Zoom with Lilla: Lettering Course and Artist Interviews

Watch the replay: Lettering course and Artist Interviews Hi everyone, if you missed our fabulous live with Lilla and her brilliant artists, Ruth Burrows and Sarah Walsh, watch the replay below. Lilla answers your questions and Sarah and Ruth show their products and sketchbooks, and how lettering helped them get work. Lilla says: “Lettering is fantastic for your career and can get you a ton of work. I created this course because I wanted to encourage you to experiment with different styles of lettering, to find your own unique style, and to fill your illustration portfolio with beautiful artwork designed to get you paying jobs.”   Q. What do I get in Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering? A. You’ll get all this: 15 Micro Mini assignments to learn lettering techniques, and 15 optional bonus assignments Three assignments to create three pieces of art for your portfolio to help you land lettering gigs

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Win a FREE place in our lettering class!

Win a FREE place in our lettering class in today’s Zoom! Lilla’s long-awaited lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering FINALLY starts TODAY – and to celebrate you could win a FREE place in class! Be sure to join Lilla for the FREE live Zoom at 2.30 pm ET/7.30 pm GMT for your chance to win! She’ll be sharing some cool lettering that she’s found, answering your questions, and giving away a FREE place on the course! Plus Lilla will be joined by two of her talented artists, Ruth Burrows and Sarah Walsh, who will be sharing their products and sketchbooks, and talking about how lettering helped them get work. Here’s your teacher! Lilla has loved lettering ever since penmanship in third grade. In this unique course, she’ll show you how you can create your own distinctive lettering style. Hurry! Sign up here now! Join here or find the link on the

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FREE assignment #2: Learn to do lettering

Learn to do lettering with Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering Lilla here. Yesterday I shared a little sneak peek of some of the content you’ll get in my brand new lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, which starts this Monday, February 5th, and today I’m going to give you another FREE worksheet to play with and learn from. Practice lettering by Lilla – note how she plays around and experiments with the lettering style. You’ll practice different letterforms with her insightful worksheets, each with notes from Lilla, and build a unique resource you can refer back to. In Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, you’ll get one of these worksheets – which I’m calling Micro Mini assignments – every day from Monday to Friday of the first week of each month. So I gave you one yesterday and another one today to give you a real taste of what the course will be like. Just like

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How to do lettering: FREE download #1

Learn How to do lettering with top art agent Lilla Rogers Lilla here. I’m so excited to share a FREE example of some of the content you’ll get in my brand new lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, which will show you how to do lettering and which starts this Monday, February 5th. I’ve been passionate about lettering ever since we did penmanship in third grade. I’ve studied and taught calligraphy, and when I was an illustrator I paid my bills thanks in part to my lettering. Some of my lettering gigs from my days as a full-time illustrator in NYC. My clients included New York University, Chronicle Books, Uppercase magazine, the Grammys and hundreds more. I paid my bills using my lettering skills, and I want to show you how you can do it too! Now that I’m an art agent, one thing I always look at when I’m viewing

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Check out this amazing art for IPA packaging!

Check out our students’ gorgeous art for IPA packaging Our second FREE quarterly Art Challenge took place in December, and we were loved seeing the amazing art that you created! Today we wanted to share art agent Lilla’s favorite art from the second challenge, and, in case you missed it, let you know how you can take part in the next challenge. The assignment was to create art for IPA packaging in just one week. Why this assignment? Craft beer packaging design is a huge market for your art, and one that you may not have thought about. It can also lead to spin off sales in things like prints, t-shirts, stickers, skateboards, and other merch. Plus you can bring so much of your cool quirky self to it: cute, quirky, dreamy, radical, humorous, graphic – it lends itself to almost any style, and that means it’s a great thing to