Learn lettering with top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers!

  Boost your portfolio and make more money from your art! Class starts June 8th – sign up here.

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Get Part 3 of your FREE lettering assignment!

Lilla here. In the last newsletter, I shared a little sneak peek of the kind of content you’ll get in my unique lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, which starts in just a few days, on Monday, June 8th: I hope you enjoyed it! Today I’m going to give you another FREE assignment to play with and learn from. Being able to do lettering is so good for your career because so many different products need it – plus it’s just such a joy to do. In Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, you’ll get a Micro Mini assignment every day from Monday to Friday of the first week of each month. In each one, I’ll share a new and gorgeous lettering style for you to get inspired by and play with – 15 in total, and they’re all brand new for 2026, collected from my travels around France and Portugal. Some of my

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SOLD OUT! Join the waitlist now!

Wow! Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, just sold out for the third time in a row! If you missed out this time, get on the waitlist now to be first to hear when it runs again. Benefit from the wealth of Lilla’s 40+ years in the creative industry! 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 to allow for plenty of support and guidance, it’s not surprising that Inner Circle has sold out every time we’ve run it. Cool products agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Learn how you can get illustration jobs like this, direct from a former art agent of 30 years. The exact syllabus is geared towards the specific needs

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Get Part 2 of your FREE lettering assignment!

Lilla here. I’m so excited for the start of Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering exactly one week today, on Monday, June 8th! Lettering is so good for your career – it’s something that art agents look for and it can radically increase how many jobs you get – plus I just want you to learn to love lettering as much as I do. I’ve created a FREE three-part #MATSprep warm-up exercise to help you get ready for class, and to give you a little taste of my teaching style, which is all about breaking things down into tiny steps so you don’t get overwhelmed, and keeping you engaged with lots of whimsy and surprises, to trick you into doing your best work. A few days ago we shared Part 1 – if you missed it, catch up here – where we took stock of what art materials we were going to use

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Get Part 1 of your FREE Lettering warm-up assignment!

Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering starts in just a few weeks, on Monday, June 8th! I wrote this course because I know that being able to do lettering can radically increase how much money you earn from illustration gigs! 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. Lettering for projects by artists agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Develop your lettering skills, learn how you can get gigs like these, and create art designed to land them. Sign up here. Today I’m sharing Part 1 of a FREE 3-part #MATSprep warm-up assignment I’ve created to help you get ready for class. Good news! Today’s #MATSprep is all about playing

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EXCITING NEWS for lettering fans!

Lilla here. One of my favorite courses (they’re all my favorite), Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, starts Monday, June 8th, and I can’t wait to see what art you create this year! This will be the third time I’ve taught this class. I’ve been passionate about lettering ever since I did penmanship in third grade, and when I was an illustrator I paid my bills thanks in part to my lettering. My goal for this course is to make you fall in love with and feel very comfortable drawing all kinds of lettering styles. The ability to do lettering was one thing I always looked at when I was viewing an artist’s portfolio as an art agent. Why? Because being able to do lettering can help you get more work – and more work means more income for you, along with a more interesting and varied creative career. Look how many of

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Is this you? (The illustrator who just needs a little boost)

As an art agent, I nurtured and mentored the artists I represented for 30 years, helping them to create beautiful art and achieve career success. Let me do the same for you. Lilla here. I’m so incredibly excited about my small-group mentoring intensive, Inner Circle. It gives me the opportunity to do what I love most: closely mentor a small group of artists and help them reach the next level. So many artists crave individual guidance, and with my decades of experience as an agent and teacher, I know exactly how to help people make their work more true to themselves, more gorgeous, and more lucrative. That’s what lights me up. Are you wondering if Inner Circle would be right for you? I got to thinking about a number of imaginary artists—six examples of the kinds of creatives I envisioned in my mentoring intensive—along with case studies describing how I

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Is Lilla’s Inner Circle worth it?

There are just FOUR places remaining on art agent Lilla’s small-group mentoring intensive, Inner Circle, and once they’re gone, they’re gone! To help you decide whether Inner Circle is right for you, we’ve been catching up with some former participants to find out what their experience was like and what happened next, and – crucially – whether it was worth it. Today we’re meeting Ilana Diamond, who took part in the very first Inner Circle, just over a year ago in April 2025. Ilana (left) and one of the pieces she worked on with Lilla in Inner Circle (right). You’ll get personalized assignments to help you hone your style and give your illustration career a huge boost. Q. What successes have you had since taking Inner Circle? A The piece I created during Inner Circle, Vintage Shop, was published as a 1,000-piece puzzle by Cobble Hill and presented at the

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LAST CHANCE until 2027!

Give yourself something to look forward to every month from now until August, with monthly assignments, bonus content, live Zooms with Lilla and your classmates, and more. Hurry HURRY – sign up here. Hurry hurry hurry HURRY – registration for Portfolio Club 2026 closes forever TODAY! That means it’s your last chance to sign up for four months of quirky, inspiring, real-world assignments from art agent Lilla plus instant access to all four of the assignments released so far! Fill your illustration portfolio with gorgeous art like this for class by Make Art That Sells students Tjarda Borsboom (left) and Alexandra Imrie (right), with assignments specifically designed to help you land paying gigs! Join the class here. Q. What do I get in Portfolio Club? Sign up today and you’ll get: Instant access to all the materials released so far, including four Mini assignments, four Big assignments, recordings of the

How to make an art portfolio - Portfolio Club 2026 course by Lilla Rogers

HURRY! FLASH RE-OPENING!

Hurry HURRY – if you’ve been kicking yourself for not signing up for Portfolio Club when you had the opportunity, then this is your chance: we’ve re-opened registration for just 72 hours! Enjoy monthly assignments for a huge range of markets – it’s probably Lilla’s most varied course yet. Find out more and sign up here. One of the things that makes Portfolio Club so exciting, motivating and unique is that Lilla has drawn on her 30 years’ experience as an art agent to write each of the monthly assignments as though it was literally a real-world commission – in other words, it’ll be like it’s an actual email that you’re getting in your inbox with fees, company names, creative direction and so on. Not only is this incredibly valuable information for you, but it also gives you the chance to see what an actual commission would be like –

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LAST CHANCE for Illustrating Children’s Books until 2027!

Hurry hurry – LAST CHANCE to sign up for our career-changing Illustrating Children’s Books course until 2027! ✨ Imagine building a lucrative career in the magical world of children’s book illustration … ✨ Imagine walking past your favorite book store and seeing a book you illustrated in the front window … ✨ Imagine spending months digging deep into a dreamy children’s book manuscript, creating unique worlds and memorable characters ✨ Imagine getting paid to make art! Our outstanding online course, Illustrating Children’s Books, is on NOW, but there’s still time to sign up. Join now to get instant access to all the class materials released so far, including Daily Sketchbook prompts, lessons on things like pitching, the first Art Director’s Cheat Sheet from Zoë, and bonus lessons from former art agent and illustrator Lilla – check out the full class schedule here. Plus the rest of the class only got