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Create your dream book cover

Create your dream book cover Everyone knows that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover … but from that pile of unused journals (we see you – and yes, we know, they were just too pretty to pass up) to browsing your local bookstore, that’s exactly what we all do. Plus it’s one of the key things that an art director or publisher will look at when they look at your picture book illustration portfolio. Some of the many thousands of books agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Check out those amazing covers – and see how the lettering can really add to the overall impact. A book cover needs to work hard to get you to pick the book up out of thousands of others on offer. It needs to look good even if viewed as a thumbnail online. It needs to tease a little bit of the story,

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HURRY! This incredible offer ends TODAY!

HURRY – our 72 hour flash sale on Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces ends TODAY! Usually £59 (approx. $80) you can grab it now for only £12 (approx. $16)! Being able to draw faces will get you more illustration work in tons of markets including editorial, books, children’s picture books and more – and more work means more money for you. It’s particularly useful for the children’s picture book market – and Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces includes extra teaching on how to draw children’s faces to help you boost your skills in this area. The ability to draw faces also makes your illustration career more interesting and more rewarding, plus it’ll give you confidence and – oh yes – it’s really fun! In Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces, former full-time illustrator Lilla Rogers will teach you how to draw faces in a completely new way, breaking everything down so

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HUGE NEWS for Illustrating Children’s Books students!

Illustrating Children’s Books 2025 starts in just over a month, on Monday, July 7th, and we have some fantastic news: Tamisha Anthony will be joining Lilla and Zoë for one of the reviews! Illustrator, educator, Make Art That Sells student and now author Tamisha with some of the books she’s illustrated. Who’s Tamisha Anthony, we hear you ask? She’s a busy working professional illustrator, with five gorgeous picture books under her belt since 2022 (her clients include Penguin Random House, Little Brown, Macmillan Publishers, and Chronicle Books), and another SEVEN on the way – including her very own author-illustrator debut! She’s a gifted and passionate educator, who’s taught at institutions including the New York Historical Society and the Harlem School of the Arts, as well as leading two incredible Make Art That Sells courses of her own: Redrawing Black History and Find Your Art Style with Style. She’s a Make

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Is this our best ever offer? Happy birthday to us!

Happy birthday to us! Make Art That Sells turns 12 this year, and to celebrate we wanted to share what might be our best offer ever: Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces for just £12 (approx. $16)! That means it’s reduced from £59 (approx. $80)! Sign up now and get Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces for just £12 (approx. $16) – but hurry, HURRY, this offer is only available for the next 72 hours! Grab your spot here. Faces get you jobs! Some cool products with faces from artists represented by Lilla (and Lilla herself!). Being able to draw faces hugely increases how much work you will get. Sign up now for just £12 (approx. $16 USD) in our 12th birthday sale! Being able to draw faces is great for creative career, because it can hugely increase how many illustration jobs you get. In this fun short course, former top art

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What should you do if your style isn’t on trend?

Lilla here! I was an art agent for 30 years, and I’m also an illustrator, an author, a columnist, a speaker, and an educator. I love sharing what I’ve learned from my decades in the industry. It’s just over a month now until the start of one of my favorite courses (spoiler alert: they’re all my favorites), Illustrating Children’s Books, which I teach alongside my brilliant friend and colleague, children’s book art director and author, Zoë Tucker. This will be the twelfth time we’ve taught Illustrating Children’s Books, and every year it just gets better and better! Children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker with three of her picture books. Zoë co-teaches Illustrating Children’s Books with me, and between us we have a wealth of expertise to share! As you probably know, I worked as an art agent for 30 years, during which time I agented many

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Get started with Procreate – FREE guide!

Make Art That Sells student Ruth Burrows is an artist, professional illustrator, and author of The Illustrator’s Guide to Procreate, and she’s created a fab FREE project especially for you to help you create some gorgeous florals that will look amazing in your illustration portfolio. Don’t miss this amazing FREE tutorial! Click here to download your copy. Florals are fantastic for your portfolio because they’re always in style and can be sold in so many art markets, like fabric, home décor, greeting cards, wall art, journal covers and more. Ruth is a professional illustrator and author of The Illustrator’s Guide to Procreate, which was agented by Lilla Rogers Studio and is filled with easy to follow projects to help you get started with digital art. In this project, Ruth will show you in an easy step-by-step format how to get started in Procreate by creating and arranging a beautiful bouquet.

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Don’t miss the My Arty Book Pitch LIVE review!

Date announced for the 2025 My Arty Book Pitch LIVE review! Would you love to write, illustrate and publish your very own art-driven non-fiction book? Whether you want to share a craft how-to, a travel memoir, a guided journal or anything else filled with dreamy art, writing and illustrating arty books can be a rewarding and lucrative career. Sandy Cousens created the pitch for her book, Creative Calm, in My Arty Book Pitch and it was picked up by David and Charles, who she describes as her “dream publisher”. Sandy and her book (left) and a spread from the book (right). Want to create your very own ready-to-send arty book pitch that contains everything a publisher needs to see to give you a deal? Art agent and author Lilla’s My Arty Book Pitch course will show you how to do just that, leading you step by step from coming up

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LAST CHANCE! My Arty Book Pitch flash sale ends TODAY!

HURRY! My Arty Book Pitch flash sale ends TODAY! This is just a quick note to say that the 25% flash sale on My Arty Book Pitch ends TODAY! Part of a fabulous pitch by Andrea Ringli – learn how to create an incredible pitch like this, which contains everything an agent or publisher needs to see! So if you’d love to take this fantastic course, for less … If you’re dreaming of holding your very own illustrated arty book in your hands … If you’d love to make money from writing and illustrating arty books – then don’t miss this great deal! Imagine building a lucrative career writing and illustrating gorgeous arty books like these, agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Plus, although this is a self-paced course, Lilla will be hosting a fantastically informative LIVE review of the Week 3 assignment, a spread in your book, on Thursday, June

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Replay of FREE Live with Lilla: see her 1:1 feedback on Arty Book Pitches!

See art agent Lilla give 1:1 feedback on Arty Book Pitches If you missed the fabulous FREE public live with lilla yesterday, scroll down for the replay! Lilla popped up some lucky volunteers for a FREE LIVE 1:1 discussion to chat about pitches and ideas for an arty book – basically any art-driven non-fiction book. As an agent for 30 years, Lilla helped the artists she represented write and create pitches for arty books which got published, so don’t miss this amazing opportunity to benefit from her expertise! If you’ve been thinking about signing up, whether you can’t get that idea for an arty book out of your head, or you don’t have an idea yet but you’d love to make money from writing and illustrating arty books, then we’re thrilled to offer 25% off this incredible course! Ends on Sunday, May 11! You can also watch this replay along

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Get FREE 1:1 feedback on your book pitch from art agent Lilla!

Get FREE feedback on your book pitch from an author and former art agent! Don’t miss tomorrow’s FREE live Zoom with former top art agent, illustrator and author Lilla Rogers – you could get FREE live feedback on your incredible arty book idea, or just watch to enjoy the live discussion and learn from a pro! Here’s former top art agent and author Lilla Rogers. As an art agent for 30 years, she agented tons of illustrated books, and helped her artists write and create pitches for their own arty books. Join Lilla tomorrow and she’ll be popping up three lucky volunteers for a FREE LIVE 1:1 discussion where you can chat about your pitch or idea for an arty book – basically any art-driven non-fiction book that you would love to create. As an agent for 30 years, Lilla helped the artists she represented write and create pitches for