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Posted on April 17, 2026.

LAST CHANCE for FREE career advice today!

Don’t miss the fab FREE live Zoom event with art agent Lilla TODAY at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST for your chance to get FREE creative career advice direct from an industry expert with decades of experience! Imagine getting a top art agent to look at your art and pick out what makes it special and your unique gifts – for FREE! Join us in today’s LIVE Zoom event and you could get just that! Here’s what we’re gonna do: Bring your art career questions and pop them in the Q&A chat and fairy artmother Lilla will answer you live and direct Plus she’ll be popping a couple of lucky volunteers up on-screen with her so that she can chat to them live about their art careers, their style, their portfolio, or anything else they want to ask What could you ask Lilla? Anything you can think of to do

Posted on April 16, 2026.

Here’s why you need My Semester of Art School ALL

5 reasons why you need My Semester of Art School ALL Make the rest of 2026 the year for your art to shine! My Semester of Art School ALL is an amazing value all-in-one bundle for anyone who wants to give their art career a huge boost (and doesn’t like making hard decisions). You’ll get both LIVE online courses that we’re running in 2026: Illustrating Children’s Books and Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering. PLUS you’ll get 12 of our renowned self-paced courses, like Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Part B, Editorial: Illustrating for Magazines & More, and Creating Collections for Home Décor. You’ll explore a huge range of art markets, create winning ready-to-send pitches, and grow your art in ways you never expected. It’s absolutely everything you need for your art career – all with a huge 45% off. Explore everything that’s included here. Wondering whether My Semester of

Posted on April 15, 2026.

Replay of Live with Lilla #2: What is Your Art Dream? (Art Accelerator Week)

If you missed the Live with Lilla #2 Zoom, there is a replay below! 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!

Posted on April 15, 2026.

FREE tailored art career advice in today’s FREE Zoom!

Get FREE creative career advice from an industry expert in today’s FREE Zoom! Join Lilla LIVE on Zoom today, answering your questions! Here’s Lilla! Join her today at 2 pm ET for a FREE Zoom and you could get the chance to chat to her direct to get your portfolio or Instagram reviewed or whatever else you need! Set a reminder now! Lilla Rogers was a top art agent for 30 years, representing top artists from around the globe. Plus she was a successful full-time illustrator herself, with agents in London, Paris and Tokyo, and she’s an author, a speaker, a columnist, ran a jewelry craft line with 80 products, and of course has taught online and in-person for more than four decades. In other words, she’s got tons of wisdom to share across the creative industry – and she’s giving it away FREE in a fab live Zoom TODAY

Posted on April 14, 2026.

Incredible real-life success stories from our students!

Do Make Art That Sells courses really work? YES – and here’s the proof! We absolutely love sharing our brilliant students’ success stories, and luckily for us we have tons to share. Check out previous student success stories here or read on for the latest from our alumni (and look out for even more stories coming up next week too!). Kruti Desai Make Art That Sells student Kruti has landed more than half a dozen picture book illustration jobs since taking Illustrating Children’s Books! Kruti told us: “[Illustrating Children’s Books] was truly a valuable learning experience for me! It helped me understand that having knowledge of or passion for illustration is only the beginning: what really matters is learning how to channel that creativity in the right direction. The course gave me a clearer understanding of visual storytelling, character development, and how illustrations work together to build a strong picture

Posted on April 13, 2026.

Replay of Live with Lilla #1: What is Your Art Dream? (Art Accelerator Week)

If you missed the Live with Lilla, there is a replay below! 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!

Posted on April 13, 2026.

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

Art Career Accelerator What's Your Dream

Posted on April 9, 2026.

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

Posted on April 2, 2026.

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

Posted on March 26, 2026.

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