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SOLD OUT! Join the waiting list now

Wow! Both the first and second rounds of Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, completely sold out – get on the waiting list now to be first to hear when it opens again! Inner Circle is the opportunity of a lifetime to mine Lilla’s wisdom and experience gleaned from 40 years in the creative industry, as an art agent, an illustrator, an author, a columnist, an educator, a speaker and more. With places strictly limited to just 12 participants to allow for plenty of support and guidance, Inner Circle quickly sold out both times we ran it in 2025. Here’s all the participants from the very first round of Inner Circle in one of their weekly Zooms with Lilla. You’ll be able to ask questions, share work in progress for feedback and more in a small, supportive group setting. The exact syllabus is geared towards the specific needs of the

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See Lilla’s top picks from #LillasStylePlay2025!

Whew! We’ve just finished our first ever FREE 30-day Instagram art challenge, #LillasStylePlay2025, and what a blast it was! Many hundreds of artists shared many hundreds of images based on 30 prompts supplied by art agent Lilla, and we were absolutely blown away by your wit, talent and creativity. If you missed all the fun, you can see the list of prompts on our Instagram page here, then head over to Lilla’s Instagram page, where she shared a short clip explaining why she’d picked each prompt each day. We also gave away 15 FREE Make Art That Sells courses to 15 lucky participants! We just wanted to finish out the challenge by sharing some of Lilla’s favorite art, along with some of the lovely comments we read. We do need to emphasize that this barely scrapes the surface of all the incredible art you produced. Bravo to everyone who took

HURRY! LAST CHANCE for Lilla’s lettering class until 2026!

Hurry HURRY! All good things must come to an end, and registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering 2025 closes for good TONIGHT! If you want two more months of gorgeous lettering inspiration plus INSTANT ACCESS to all the course materials released so far, then hurry up and sign up now – this course won’t run again until 2026. Discover exciting new lettering styles for your illustration work, and create eye-catching art for your portfolio, like this by Make Art That Sells students Korrie Schenkel (left) and Anne Heasell (right). In case you missed it, we re-opened registration for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering for a 72-hour window by popular request, for everyone who was busy kicking themselves for not signing up. But that 72-hour window is currently swinging closed, and it closes for good TONIGHT! So if you want in – if you want to spend the next two months playing with lettering

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Hurry HURRY – we’ve re-opened Lettering Bootcamp!

Kicking yourself for not signing up for Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering when you had the chance? Want to improve your lettering skills so you can get more illustration jobs and earn more money? Want two months of fabulous content so you can make gorgeous art surrounded by friendly and supportive creatives from all over the world? Then we have some amazing news for you! We’ve had a ton of emails from students asking if it’s possible to join Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering after seeing some of the art that our students are sharing on social media, and we’re sure we’ll get more now the public gallery is live – if you haven’t seen it already, then check it out here. We’ve decided to re-open registration for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 72-hour window from today, Tuesday, September 30th, to this Thursday, October 2nd. If you want in, then join NOW! But HURRY – because once

Explore 10 of the best art markets and save 15%!

What are the best markets to sell your art in? Do you want to explore ten of the best art markets for creatives like you? Do you want fabulous assignments written by a top art agent who spent 30 years seeing the work that her artists were getting and knows exactly what clients are looking for? Do you want to fill your portfolio with art designed to catch a client’s eye and get you paying jobs? Explore ten of the hottest markets for your art, including children’s book illustration and bolt fabric. Art for class by Make Art That Sells students Anna Berger (left) and Jan Gerardi (right). It’s a fact: art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your art. Tons of art markets, like children’s books, greeting cards, and puzzles, are booming right now. Discover art markets you might not have thought of, that need your art! Art

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LAST CHANCE! Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering 2025 closes TODAY!

Hurry hurry HURRY – registration for Lilla’s student-favorite lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, closes TODAY! Our students and followers begged for years for Lilla to teach lettering, and last year’s course was so popular we had to do it all over again with all new content – but today is your last chance to sign up! Lettering gets you jobs! Cool products agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Clockwise from top left: journal by Helen Dardik, craft kit by Tara Lilly, book by Mike Lowery, greeting card by Hsinping Pan, book by Charlotte Bruijn, book by Sarah Walsh, and hand-shaped book by Flora Waycott. Scroll down to find out what you get in this unique course, read a student success story and find out how you can get a FREE font from one of our students – or just sign up now! You’ll make fabulous portfolio pieces like these, designed to

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Get Day 1 of class for FREE & Win a FREE place in class TODAY!

Big news! Lilla’s student-favorite lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering is running for the second time, and class starts TODAY! Join Lilla for the FREE Zoom to celebrate the first day of class and get Day 1 of the course for FREE, plus you could win a FREE place in class! Join Lilla for the FREE live Zoom at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT to get Day 1 of class for FREE and for your chance to win a FREE place in class! Lilla’s created a cool video showing her doing the very first Micro Mini assignment with an overhead camera so you can see exactly how a seasoned professional with a ton of lettering gigs under her belt approaches this assignment. She’ll be showing it during the Zoom, so you can draw along with her – don’t forget your sketchbook and a few pens and pencils – plus you’ll be

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Get your second FREE lettering assignment – from a creative director!

Lilla here. Last week I shared a little sneak peek of some of the content you’ll get in my unique lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, which starts Monday, September 8th: I hope you enjoyed it! Today I’m going to give you another FREE assignment to play with and learn from. Read on! In Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, you’ll get one of these assignments – which I’m calling Micro Mini assignments – every day from Monday to Friday of the first week of each month. I gave you one last week and I’m giving you another one today to give you a real taste of what the course will be like. Just like in the course, you can do a little bit each day when you get the Micro Mini assignment, or you can save it all for the weekend. Plus this one is going to be extra fun. I came up

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Let’s get drawing!

Let’s get drawing! Play with your art style, boost your portfolio and maybe win a FREE Make Art That Sells course with our free 30-day Instagram art challenge, which starts TODAY! Ever need ideas on what to draw? Join our FREE 30-day Instagram challenge, #LillasStylePlay2025, which starts TODAY! You’ll get daily inspiration for a whole month, plus you could win one of our raved-about self-paced courses! Your first daily prompt is to draw a Nutella jar. Share it on Instagram and make sure to tag it with #LillasStylePlay2025. Explore the hashtag to see what everyone else is posting! Check out the full prompt list below to see what to draw tomorrow! If you like, you can download it and print it out for easy reference. Here’s Lilla’s Nutella jar. Draw yours, then share on Instagram using the hashtag #LillasStylePlay2025 so we can see it. Get daily prompts and the chance