Write your picture book!

  Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, is back as a LIVE course in 2026! Find out more and sign up here.

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Replay of Live with Lila – end of our Spring Sale!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale closes TODAY!, with 25% off our career-making courses and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! Now is the time to snag those courses you’ve had your eye on – you won’t get our courses for 2025 cheaper than this! Did you miss the fabulous live with Lilla on the last day of the sale? If you missed the live Zoom (or just want to watch it again!), catch the replay below – it’s perfect to listen to as you doodle or sketch. Enjoy!


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Last chance to SAVE!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our big Spring Sale ends TODAY! If you’re planning on taking any of our career-changing courses in 2025, you won’t get them cheaper than this – so if you’ve had your eye on something for a while, grab it now and save! Don’t forget: Tonight our prices will go up – you won’t get our courses cheaper than this! Last chance to grab the option of paying in installments on our amazing bundles – check them out here. Don’t miss out – shop the sale here! Gorgeous products agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Lilla has decades of experience to share – let her show you how you can get your art on cool products like these. (And if you’ve already bought a course or two and wish you’d got one of our incredible value bundles instead, that’s not a problem – simply email us at [email protected] and


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FREE career mentoring – don’t miss tomorrow’s Zoom!

Do you have questions you’d love to have answered by an art agent of 30 years, an illustrator, educator, columnist and all round creative powerhouse? Would you like to get FREE live career mentoring? Want the chance to win a fabulous FREE class? Our huge Spring Sale ends TOMORROW, but we’re going out with a bang with a fab FREE live public Zoom event with art agent Lilla! With decades of experience as an art agent, illustrator, author, speaker, columnist and more, Lilla has tons of wisdom to share, and she wants to help artists like you prosper and thrive! Lilla will be popping a volunteer up on the screen with her for free live 1:1 career mentoring! Plus she’ll be taking your questions about Make Art That Sells courses or anything else you want to ask her so you can benefit from the wealth of her decades of experience. Plus


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Make art + live your best life

It feels like there’s a lot going on at the moment, right? Some of us may be struggling to stay positive when it feels like we’re constantly being bombarded with bad news and negativity. We reached out to art agent and wise fairy artmother Lilla Rogers to ask her advice on how to stay positive when it feels like there’s nothing but doom and gloom ahead, and this is what she told us. Lilla told us: “I’ve lived through many tough times, and I can tell you this: focus on what you can control, which is your art and your art career. It can be very empowering to give yourself permission to focus on something positive that you can affect. I find that my art and the courses that I teach through Make Art That Sells, are a wonderful focus that brings joy and is uplifting, and my students tell


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Get your art in front of an art agent

Do you adore home décor? Do you dream of seeing your beautiful art on fabric, ceramics and more in stores like Anthropologie, West Elm or Crate & Barrel? Learn how you can get amazing jobs like these, all agented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Pillow by Katie Vernon for Anthropologie, mugs by Carolyn Gavin for Anthropologie, rabbit pitcher, cup, and linen by Zoe Ingram. Our raved-about online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, is taught by top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers, and trend queen, creative director and now art agent Margo Tantau. Creating Collections for Home Décor is taught by two industry experts: creative director, art agent and founder of Tantau Studio Margo Tantau (left) and top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers (right). It will give you incredible, in-depth insight into five key substrates – fabric, wood, ceramics, glass and metal – and, uniquely, will teach you how


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Wow! Alumni success interview with Siski Kalla

We’ve got a fabulous student success story to share with you today! Art agent Lilla’s main motivation in founding Make Art That Sells is helping creative people prosper and thrive and make real money from their art, and that’s why we love to share success stories from our wonderful community. Make Art That Sells student Siski Kalla recently got in touch to let us know that since taking Make Art That Sells courses, she’s landed multiple traditional book illustration contracts, is now represented by an agency, and has worked with lots of self-published authors too. She told us: “It’s now my full-time career! I always recommend Make Art That Sells. Best fun ever too!” We knew we had to find out more about everything Siski has been up to, so we reached out with some more questions: enjoy our alumni success interview with Siski below. Siski Kalla Siski (left) plus


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Did you miss this?

Want to learn how to get YOUR dreamy art on cool products like these, agented by Lilla Rogers Studio? Here’s your teacher, Lilla Rogers! As an art agent for 30 years, an illustrator, an author, a regular columnist, a speaker and more, she’s got shedloads of wisdom and advice to share! Find out how from top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers – plus save up to 45% in our huge Spring Sale, on now! You won’t get our courses for 2025 cheaper than this, so if you’ve had your eye on something for a while, sign up now and save at least 25% and up to 45% – but hurry hurry HURRY, the sale ends SOON! Lots of love The Make Art That Sells team xxx


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Lettering is BACK! See gorgeous student sketchbooks

Learn how to do hand lettering with top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers! Being able to do lettering can get you a ton of work. Last year, Lilla launched her brand new lettering course, Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering, and it was such a huge success that, due to popular demand, we’re bringing it back for 2025 with all new dreamy content to amp up your art and help you get more paying jobs. In this three month bootcamp, you’ll spent 12 amazing weeks with Lilla with ALL NEW assignments to build up an incredible library of lettering you can use in your work going forward – and because it’s all new, you can take the course again if you took it last year, to create a really powerful reference tool to refer back to. NEW FOR 2025: enjoy a brush lettering demo with Lilla! Learn tips and tricks from Lilla


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Replay of Live with Lilla, Zoë And Riley!

Hurry hurry HURRY – our fabulous Spring Sale is on NOW, with 25% off our career-making courses and up to 45% off our fabulous bundles! Now is the time to snag those courses you’ve had your eye on – you won’t get our courses for 2025 cheaper than this! Did you miss the fabulous live with Lilla plus brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker and creative director and smash hit game creator Riley Wilkinson? If you missed the live Zoom (or just want to watch it again!), catch the replay below – it’s perfect to listen to as you doodle or sketch. Enjoy!


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See the beautiful books our students have illustrated

Picture books are one of the most magical and rewarding art markets out there, and we couldn’t be more excited to see so many of our graduates landing incredible picture book illustration deals! Here’s your teacher! As an art agent for 30 years, Lilla has viewed thousands of artists’ portfolios and agented many hundreds of picture books, so she knows just what you need to show in your portfolio. Today, we’re celebrating some of the amazing picture book success stories our talented students have shared with us – they’re truly inspiring! (Love these? You can explore even more of our alumni’s fantastic achievements right here.) And don’t forget—our huge Spring Sale is happening right now! That means 25% off every single course – and if your dream is to get paid for illustrating picture books, don’t miss our game-changing Get Me a Picture Book Deal bundle, packed with even bigger