Making art that sells: boost your art career

Making art that sells

Whatever your plans for your creative career in 2020, we’ve got the insight, insider info and assignments that will empower you to turn your dreams into reality.

Imagine filling your portfolio with beautiful, job-snagging art …
Imagine opening your favorite glossy magazine and seeing your gorgeous art inside …
Imagine your Etsy shop selling out so fast you hardly have time to restock it …
Imagine landing your dream children’s book illustration job: spending weeks immersed in creating a magical world for children to fall in love with – and getting paid for it …
Imagine making art that sells!

Want to find out how you can get your art onto cool products like these from Lilla’s artists? Let Lilla show you how – she’s got tons of wisdom and insider insight to share!

BUT HURRY! LAST CHANCE! Don’t forget that our GIANT CYBER SALE ends at midnight TONIGHT! It’s our biggest sale of the year, with up to 50% off, so get ready to invest in yourself and make 2020 the year to let your art shine!

Today is your last chance to buy before our prices go back to their normal value, some courses are taken back out of the shop awaiting official launch, and our incredible Write and Illustrate a Children’s Book Intensive and Make Brilliant Portfolio Pieces bundles disappear forever … Don’t miss out!

Top art agent and Make Art That Sells co-founder and teacher, Lilla Rogers, says: “I want gifted people to have the lucrative careers they deserve. I want them to make art that sells, while being their own cool selves. That’s my deal. Sign up now to make better art and make more money.”

Need help deciding? Click here to download your handy guide to everything that’s included, including our delicious bundles.

Don’t forget:

You will not get our courses cheaper than this: prices go up tomorrow!
Two of our scrumptious bundles – The Write and Illustrate a Children’s Book Intensive Bundle and The Make Brilliant Portfolio Pieces Bundle – will not be available after the sale ends, so if you want them, grab them NOW!

Here’s a quick reminder of all the fabulous bundles that are included in this year’s sale – or build your own bundle with 25% off every single individual course.

Write and Illustrate a Children’s Book Intensive bundle (30% off)

Your dream children’s book gig is waiting for you! Our amazing Write + Illustrate a Children’s Book Intensive bundle gives you everything you need to build a successful children’s book illustration career.

Here’s what you get:

Illustrating Children’s Books: Spend five intense live weeks with top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned art director and author Zoë Tucker, and create a brilliant children’s book pitch to help you land your dream gig. By the end of the course, you’ll have a finished pitch ready to send off, including a front cover, character sheets and a full page spread – everything an art director needs to see! Click here to read just some of our Illustrating Children’s Books success stories.
My Kid Book Pitch: In this thrilling new live course, you’ll learn how you can create and pitch a completely unique idea – the children’s book that only you can write! Led by art agent Lilla with contributions from children’s book art director Zoë and other special guests, you’ll discover a completely new way to come up with a strong pitch that an editor or art director will love. Hear Lilla talking about this new course here.
Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces: The ability to draw faces is key to illustrating children’s books. Don’t let the fear of illustrating children’s faces and expressions hold you back! This beautifully filmed and instructive self-paced course will teach you how to draw faces in a completely innovative way that will boost your confidence and inspire your creativity.

Create a beautiful eye-catching pitch presentation including everything an art director needs to see, such as this full page spread by Make Art That Sells student Wen Sylvestre.

HURRY! This bundle will ONLY be available during our Giant Cyber Sale, from now until December 2nd, so if you want in – if you want to build a brilliant pitch presentation that will wow publishers and art directors, and make 2020 the year that you write your very own book – then sign up now!

MY YEAR OF ART SCHOOL – LIVE (40% off)

Get ready to sign up and give your creative career a huge boost in 2020 with the fantastic My Year of Art School LIVE bundle, which includes every single one of our renowned live classes, including the brand new My Kid Book Pitch and Lilla’s Mystery Box!

Do you want your 2020 to look like this, full of growth and inspiration? Get it all in our Giant Cyber Sale at 40% off – but HURRY: sale ends TODAY!

Here’s what you get:

Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More: The Artivist Edit: Former professional illustrator Lilla will share everything she knows from her decades in this cool and edgy market as both illustrator and agent, easing you into your editorial illustration career step by step. This is gold!
Assignment Bootcamp 2020: Get something in your inbox every Monday for four months for the price of a weekly latte! In four months, you’ll cover four of the hottest markets for your art right now – one per month – with an intriguing mini assignment and an on-trend big assignment to complete for each one, so you can try out new markets, broaden your portfolio, and simply find the fun in art-making again! Why should you take Assignment Bootcamp? Lilla reveals all here.
Illustrating Children’s Books: Let top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned children’s book art director and author Zoë Tucker will guide you through everything you need to produce a brilliant children’s book illustration pitch that will wow art directors and agents and help you snag your dream children’s book illustration gig.
*NEW* My Kid Book Pitch: In art agent Lilla’s brand NEW course, she’ll guide you in her characteristically playful way to create a fabulous book pitch that’s authentic, enjoyable and completely personal to you. Hear Lilla talking about this new course here.
*NEW* Lilla’s Mystery Box: Explore creative living with top art agent Lilla Rogers and special guests through a week of daily delicious live events which could cover anything from finding your magic sauce to the joy of color. Where will Lilla take you? You’ll just have to hop on board the magical mystery bus and get ready to enjoy the ride! Find out more here.

Plus: exclusive bonus!

PLUS, as a fab bonus for our wonderful My Year of Art School students, you’ll also get exclusive monthly assignments from the Make Art That Sells archives, including finalist assignments from our renowned Global Talent Search and exclusive access to never-seen-before assignments created especially by art agent Lilla for her artists, helping you to fill your portfolio with even more beautiful art!

Make Brilliant Portfolio Pieces (40% off)

For this bundle, we’ve picked the courses that will help you make loads of great portfolio pieces! Whether you want to explore lucrative new markets for your art or broaden and strengthen your portfolio so you get more of the work you love, the Make Brilliant Portfolio Pieces bundle will give you all the on-trend job-snagging portfolio pieces that you need.

Here’s what you get …

Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More: The Artivist Edit: Explore the hot art market of illustrating manuscripts for magazines and websites with art agent and former illustrator Lilla. You’ll not only produce a beautiful piece for your portfolio, but you’ll learn how to illustrate any manuscript, and explore the whole process of getting work with magazines and websites so you’ll be able to do a great job when you land your dream gig.
Assignment Bootcamp 2020 (LIVE): Get something in your inbox every Monday for four months for the price of a weekly latte! Enjoy four inspirational months creating four incredible portfolio pieces for four of the hottest art markets at a relaxed pace and in a fun way that will make you understand why every year we get students begging us to run this course all year round!
Illustrating Children’s Books (LIVE): Spend five incredible and exciting weeks creating a brilliant professional children’s book pitch presentation step by step that’s ready to send out to art directors and agents and includes everything they want to see, including character sheets, a full page spread and a stunning front cover.

Student work from Assignment Bootcamp by Make Art That Sells student Paula Castleberry.

Plus you also get access to three incredible self-paced courses, which you can start whenever you like and complete at a time and pace to suit you and your busy schedule – you’ll have full access to the class room and all course materials until January 31st, 2021.

Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Hot Markets for Your Art Part B: Explore ten of the most lucrative and exciting markets for your art, with tons of insider info and insight from art agent Lilla’s decades in the business. If you’ve ever looked at children’s book illustration, wall art, fabric, stationery or party paper and wondered how that artist got that gig, this is the course for you: let Lilla show you how!
Creating Collections for Home Décor: Our game-changing, in-depth home décor course features twelve gorgeous, industry-level trend-relevant trend boards that art agent Lilla has created exclusively for this course. You’ll get assignments, finishing techniques and tons of info for each of five key substrates, and, under the guidance of co-teachers Lilla Rogers and creative director Margo Tantau, you’ll also learn how to present your work as a collection, so that you can sell more of it to each client! If you dream of home décor then you won’t want to miss this.

HURRY! This bundle will ONLY be available during our Giant Cyber Sale, which ends TODAY, so if you want in – if you want to explore some of the hottest art markets with the help of top art agent Lilla, with the support of hundreds of like-minded creatives all over the world; if you want to fill your portfolio with show-stopping, job-snagging art – then sign up now!

MY YEAR OF ART SCHOOL – ALL COURSES (50% off!)

All of the above plus delicious extras!

Our biggest bundle in our biggest sale! Enjoy every single one of our raved-about courses in 2020, PLUS bonus monthly assignments from the Make Art That Sells archives, at an incredible 50% off!

Transform your art career in 2020 with an incredible learning opportunity every single month!

Sign up for the My Year of Art School ALL COURSES bundle and you’ll get everything you need to give your creative career a huge boost – the works! Build a kick-ass portfolio with assignments for a range of markets so you can make real money doing what you love. Get insider insights from industry experts like top art agent Lilla Rogers, brilliant children’s book art director Zoë Tucker and renowned creative director Margo Tantau, and enjoy the accountability and deadlines you need to keep you motivated and on track in our wonderful LIVE courses.

Live courses

You’ll get LIVE course to keep you inspired, motivated and on track, with the accountability you need to up your game and produce your very best art:

Illustrating Children’s Books: In five incredible, intense weeks you’ll create a professional pitch presentation that will wow art directors and agents alike!
Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More: The Artivist Edit: Make a gorgeous portfolio piece (like these from MATS students which made it into Uppercase magazine) and learn all about the process from rough to finish.
Assignment Bootcamp: Enjoy four months of delicious creative inspiration with something in your inbox every Monday for the price of a weekly latte! Assignment Bootcamp will help you create four amazing portfolio pieces for four hot art markets while finding the joy in your art making!
*NEW* My Kid Book Pitch: Brand new for 2020, this course will give you everything you need to create your unique children’s book pitch, including an unforgettable character and a knock-out first line.
*NEW* Lilla’s Mystery Box: Set over five LIVE events in five days, this fascinating peek inside Lilla’s world will leave you feeling inspired, motivated and refreshed.

Below: See Lilla talking about why creative people deserve to make a living from their art and about the MATS MBA (Money BadAss): business learning for creatives that’s now available as a self-paced course.

Self-paced courses

Plus you’ll enjoy our in-depth game-changing self-paced courses, with tons of information and innovative teaching that you can access at a time and pace to suit you and your schedule:

Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces: In this playful short course, art agent Lilla breaks down how to draw faces in a fun, fresh way that you won’t have seen before.
Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Part B: Explore ten of the most exciting and lucrative markets for your art, from bolt fabric to children’s apparel.
Creating Collections for Home Décor: Get in-depth insight into five key substrates and learn how you can present your art as collections so you sell more art to each client – perhaps even a whole collection!
MATS MBA (Money BadAss): Business learning for creative people from art agent Lilla and award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author and Make Art That Sells co-founder Beth Kempton. Learn how you can make money doing what you love and build a thriving creative business.

Make eye-catching portfolio pieces like this graphic novel by Make Art That Sells student Jade Orlando for Assignment Bootcamp. Lilla’s assignments are always unique and surprising!

Plus: exclusive bonus!

Are you ready to invest in your creative career? Are you ready to astonish yourself with what you can achieve in 2020? Book your place now!