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25-45% off in ourbig spring sale!

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. Grab 25 – 45% off in our spring sale and start planning your creative career now! 

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Our big Spring Sale is on, with huge savings across every single one of our game-changing courses. You can expect 25% off every one of our individual courses, plus up to 45% off three brilliant bundles designed to boost your creative career. And if you opt the My for Semester of Art School All courses bundle you’ll have the ability to pay by installments to make it easier than ever for you to invest in your creative career. A few reasons why you should take advantage of our giant sale:

  • You’ll get a fabulous discount of 25% on all individual courses
  • You’ll get a whopping 35-45% off all bundles
  • You’ll get Lilla’s LIVE courses at 25% off (more if you buy as part of a bundle)
  • Don’t miss out – this is our last big sale of our 2026 courses! Don’t miss out!

It’s a fact: art directors, creative directors, publishers and clients NEED your art. Plenty of the hot art markets – including children’s books, non-fiction books for adults, greeting cards, and toys, games and puzzles – are booming right now. Whether you’re looking for a change of direction, you’re ready to take your illustration career to the next level, or you simply want to grow your art and flex your creative muscles, we’ve got everything you need. Get tried and tested online art courses from Lilla Rogers, and get her insights and knowledge from over 30 years in the business.

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I want to boost my art portfolio with gorgeous colors, lettering and faces!

You need the Supercharge Your Art Skills bundle.
It’s 35% off in our big sale. Find out more here.

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SAVE BIG WITH BUNDLES!

I want all the excitement and inspiration that LIVE courses can give!

You need the My Semester of Art School Live courses bundle. Get 35% off…find out more here.

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SAVE BIG WITH BUNDLES!

I want to supercharge my portfolio with assignments in ALL the hottest markets!

You need the Semester of Art School All courses bundle. With 45% off…find out more here.


Art Career Accelerator Week!

Join Lilla Rogers in  three  free career-boosting live webinars!

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Here’s Lilla! She’s got four decades of experience in the creative industry, and bucketloads of wisdom to share. In three live zooms she’ll be taking your questions and popping up a volunteer or two live on screen for live 1:1 career mentoring – it’s going to be absolute gold for anyone looking to advance their art career in the year ahead.

Want her to look at your portfolio, pick out your strongest pieces on Instagram or give you some career advice? Join one of our three live events and you could be one of the lucky volunteers! PLUS don’t miss our course giveaways!

Monday 13 April – Watch the replay HERE
Wednesday 15 April – Watch the replay HERE
Friday 17 April at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST – Join the webinar HERE

Mark your calendar and set a reminder now!


our BIG SPRING SALE is now on!

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illustrate children’s books!

Join our bestselling children’s book illustration course! In this online art course you’ll create a brilliant children’s book pitch to help you land your dream children’s book gig. You’ll get videos, weekly assignments, live weekly video reviews, interviews with publishers and illustrators and more. Co-taught by top art agent Lilla Rogers and highly-respected children’s book author art director Zoë Tucker, you’ll get 3 exclusive texts plus insider knowledge and hints and tips from the experts.

Serious about a career in children’s book illustration? Want to start landing dream illustration jobs? Sign up for our popular Illustrating Children’s Book LIVE course and make it happen!

Grab a discount during our spring sale with 25%  off the individual course  or 35-45% off with one of the My Semester bundles.

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Lettering can get you a ton of work!

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 to create a really powerful reference tool to refer back to.

You’ll get 15 playful micro mini assignments to give you 15 fabulous new fonts to play with, and three Big Assignments that will push you to create three stunning pieces of artwork for your portfolio. All this for just £99 (approx. $123)

Plus a monthly group check-in with Lilla via zoom where you can find out more about the assignments and ask questions.

Learn how to do hand lettering with top art agent and illustrator Lilla Rogers and boost your portfolio!

Find out more, and grab 25% off in the sale HERE >>>

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examples of the illustration gigs you can get with Make Art That Sells online art courses

Get your art on gorgeous products like these agented by Lilla Rogers Studio.

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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 classes.

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Illustrating Children's Books

Live from April 27, 2026
5 weeks

oin our bestselling children’s book illustration course! In five weeks, you’ll create a brilliant children’s book pitch to help you land your dream children’s book gig. In this course you’ll get videos, weekly assignments, live weekly video reviews, interviews with publishers and illustrators and more. Co-taught by top art agent Lilla Rogers and highly-respected children’s book art director Zoë Tucker, you’ll get 3 exclusive texts plus insider knowledge and hints and tips from the experts. Serious about a career in children’s book illustration? Want to start landing illustration jobs? Sign up for our popular children’s book illustration course and boost your portfolio! This is a golden opportunity to get your work in front of a top art agent with over 30 years experience, AND an art director!

Assignment Bootcamp: Lettering

Live from June 8, 2026
12 weeks

Lilla Rogers here. I’ve honed my craft by studying Chinese calligraphy at the University of Wisconsin and taking a class with fabulous calligrapher Barbara Bash in Boulder, Colorado, and I’ve provided lettering for clients like Bergdorf’s, Bloomingdales, Vogue, the Washington Post, and Oprah Magazine. 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. Back for 2026 with all new content. Welcome aboard: let’s make magic together.

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Color Quest

Instant Access

We’re excited to announce that Lilla’s popular course is now available as an instant-access class! Join Lilla on a fun adventure into color called Color Quest, a class that is perfect for all levels, from beginners to professional illustrators. You’ll love the inspiring assignments she’s dreamed up for you, which will increase your ability to mix a vast array of subtle colors and to create gorgeous palettes to use in your artmaking. Plus you’ll produce four exciting portfolio pieces from assignments that Lilla has created for you based on the expertise she’s gleaned from decades in the business as both an art agent and an illustrator.
Learning how to create winning characters can give a huge boost to your creative career and get you more work in a ton of hot art markets! Join our portfolio-boosting Make Art That Sells bootcamp ! Now self-paced, you’ll get access to an amazing archive of content from when it ran as a LIVE course. 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!
Former full-time illustrator, Lilla Rogers, shares her insights into the exciting world of illustrating for magazines and more. This course has run as a live course four times (including twice in its launch year after it sold out the first time) and you’ll get access to all of the assignments from all four tracks, to give you an incredibly powerful editorial illustration portfolio across a wide range of subject matter.
Art agent Lilla Rogers here. One of the most common questions I get asked as an art agent is how do you develop your style? How do you push your style further? How do you freshen your existing style? Discover the answer with illustrator, historian, and a favorite Make Art That Sells teacher Tamisha Anthony in her newest course, Find Your Art Style With Style. In this course, you’ll fall in love with Tamisha’s collection of charming vintage clothing and colorful, quirky flea market knick-knacks. Combine that with her curated visuals which will inspire you to explore a variety of styles. Each week you’ll focus on line and shape, a time period, a color palette, and an art medium to build your style a step at a time. Get ready to discover a variety of imagery and motifs from four different visually-exciting vintage eras. Then add a cool contemporary spin to make your work unique and marketable, by creating portfolio pieces in 4 hot market
This course provides the skills and knowledge to fill a huge gap in the lucrative home décor market – for artists who can conceptualize and pitch full product collections. By showing art directors that you can do this, you put yourself ahead of the game, and stand out from other artists as a commercial professional. Not only are they more likely to buy your work, they are likely to buy MORE of your work – perhaps even your entire collection. So let’s get started!
Explore five of the most exciting and lucrative markets for your art, from bolt fabric to children’s apparel. You’ll get tons of gorgeous downloads and access to a huge vault of live reviews. Graduates of this course have gone on to win work from clients such as Anthropologie, Blue Q, Scholastic, HarperCollins, Crate Kids, Chronicle Books, Hallmark, Uppercase Magazine, West Elm, and more – you could be next!
Build a professional illustration portfolio while learning how to make art that sells in 5 of the most lucrative markets: stationery, baby/children’s apparel, scrapbooking, editorial (magazines, books and more), party paper. The course is full of expert advice from the people who buy art, through a series of exclusive interviews with industry leaders who collectively buy millions of dollars of art every year. Find out exactly what art directors look for in each market.
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. You’ll get a 130-page downloadable playbook that will show you how you can make money doing what you love and build a thriving business, with actionable and concrete tips that will help you create your own formula for success.
Learn how to get an art-driven book deal! 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, social/emotional and neurodiverse art-driven memoirs, and tons more. They are a brilliant way to derive income and expand your creative career, This course is fantastic for creative people such as artists, crafters, illustrators, writers, designers, photographers or anyone who is passionate about a hobby or interest. And you don’t need to be an expert! You just need to care about something you want to share. Lilla will give you the tools you need to make your dreamy passion into a book pitch that agents and publishers will love.
It’s a fact: being able to draw faces will get you more work and make your career more rewarding, both emotionally and financially. In this playful short course, art agent Lilla breaks it down in a fun, fresh way that you won’t have seen before so you’ll be confidently drawing faces in no time.
In this short mini course, you’ll work with a gorgeous trend board created by Lilla to crank out a stunning piece of art for your home décor portfolio, with tons of content to dive into, including Lilla’s playful worksheets, video lessons from creative director and trend queen Margo Tantau, recordings of Lilla and Margo’s reviews of student art, and lots more.
Create a beautiful piece of job-snagging eye-catching children’s book illustration art to strengthen or broaden your portfolio. You’ll get four mini- texts to work from, plus access to recordings of Lilla and Zoë’s reviews of student art and more.

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