online art courses
to boostyour portfolio!
Make Art That Sells provides raved-about career-changing online art courses for artists and illustrators who are passionate about what they do and want to make real money from their art while staying true to their unique, individual style.
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Get the motivation and inspiration you need with our incredible LIVE online art courses, or get instant access as soon as you register with our fabulous self-paced courses; the choice is yours. Start planning your creative career now!
72-hour flash sale!
Get 20% off Bootcamp Special: Character Play for a limited time.
Available as a self-paced course, you’ll get access to an amazing archive of content from the previous LIVE courses.
You’ll get 26 assignments that will teach you how to create characters, while creating show-stopping pieces of art for your illustration portfolio. Imagine getting paid to dream up appealing characters for children and adults to fall in love with … Let Zoë and Riley show you how!
Grab it now for only £63 (approx. $85)!
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Art for class by Anna Kamburis. Explore two amazing markets for your art – children’s book illustration and toys and games!
Previous winner of the MATS Quarterly Challenge Kristina Skutlaberg (left) and two honorable mentions for Jean Ruth (center) and Cerys Turner (right).
quarterly art challenge
Don’t miss our fab FREE quarterly Make Art That Sells Art Challenge, our FREE quarterly competition designed to spark your creativity and help you create a gorgeous piece of art for your portfolio!
You could win a LIVE course, or pick one of our instant-access online art courses!
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create your own arty book!
Imagine holding your very own stunning art-driven non-fiction book in your hands, written and illustrated by YOU. Arty books can be travel guides, heavily illustrated guided journals, graphic novels, craft how-tos, art-driven memoirs, and tons more. They are a brilliant way to derive income and expand your creative career,
This online art course is fantastic for creative people such as artists, crafters, illustrators, writers, designers, photographers or anyone who is passionate about a hobby or interest. Lilla Rogers will give you the tools you need to make your dreamy passion into a book pitch that agents and publishers will love.
Book spread by Make Art That Sells student Maria Ofili for My Arty Book Pitch.
Wall art created for MATS class by Errina Mercer
Check out our freebie library!
Welcome to the Make Art That Sells fabulous freebie library, packed full of tons of FREE illustration resources for your fantastic creative career! We’ve got heaps of advice, support and inspiration for you, whatever stage of your creative career you’re at. Here’s just some of what you’ll get:
- Tips and advice from Lilla Rogers and the MATS co-teachers
- A video series including Ways to Monetize Your Quirks
- Arty worksheets to help you plan and set goals
- FREE assignments to help you add gorgeous work to your portfolio
- Affirmations for your creative career.
Get a FREE taster of Lilla’s online art courses. Sign up to the freebie library today!
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Art for class by Joanna Mahoney
a magical course for free!
We’re thrilled to offer our online art course, Manifest Your Dream Creative Career, for FREE! We’re offering it to anyone who wants to give their creative career a huge boost and take it to the next level.
This online course is magical, helpful and informative. It’s packed with loads of useful information about how you can have a lucrative creative career, whether it’s from illustrating, craft shows, podcasting, authoring your own cool books, or almost anything else – the possibilities are endless!
Here’s what you get:
- Three magical assignments centred around oracle cards and manifesting
- Three magic booster bonuses that will supercharge your creativity
- Zoom replays where you can find out more about the assignments and watch oracle card readings
Start Manifesting Your Dream Creative Career TODAY!
Which course is for you?
If you want to…
- Illustrate for children’s books…find out more
- Dream up gorgeous concepts for editorial…find out more
- Create your own home decor collection…find out more
- Plan and build your very own lucrative creative business…find out more
- Improve your portfolio by drawing faces…find out more
See the entire range of our online art courses here.
Download our Course Chooser PDF here.
Get your art on gorgeous products like these agented by Lilla Rogers Studio.
what our students love about make art that sells!
We launched our massive video testimonial competition. We wanted to know what you loved about Make Art That Sells, the great work you’ve gotten, the friends you’ve met, and the courses that have blown your mind, and you did NOT disappoint!
Art agent Lilla said: “I loved each and every video”.
Our students give amazing feedback! Here’s a rocket-fuelled video review by Make Art That Sells student Lisa Chow which shows how our online art courses, Kid’s Books, Home Decor, Editorial and more, helped her on her creative journey. She gained from MATS: Expert teachers – Fun approachable assignments – Support from fellow students – and a boost in confidence and creativity!
Watch Lisa’s fun video here…
Which online art course is right for you?
Supercharge your art career: choose the right MATS class for you for 2026.
MATS works! It’s the gold standard in the industry. Many of our alumni have gotten work with top companies as a direct result of these online art courses.
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Online art courses to help your career in art and design
Since launching in 2013 Make Art That Sells has rapidly gained a reputation for the go-to online art courses for anyone serious about making commercially viable art whilst staying true to themselves.
We have been completely blown away by the response of our participants (many of whom have come back to repeat the online art courses), and have been thrilled to see huge leaps forward in their artwork.
Here are just a few of the kind words that other participants said about the impact the course had on them.
“This is the course you need to do if you want to sell your art to the masses. As far as I know its the only course like this in existence. The information is like gold dust. It’s that valuable! ”
CHANTEL DE SOUSA
“Best investment in your art career, ever.”
LISA RIVAS
“I feel that I have learned fantastic amounts about the industry – information that money can’t buy. I feel that I have a thousand positive ideas in my head and am enjoying pushing them through.”
EMMA BURNETT
“I got some commissions and new works because of some Lilla’s challenges. Now I know I can even do more and can adapt more to client demands.”
JENIFER ESPINOSA