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.

Course dates: Our dynamic and exciting live classes are scheduled throughout the year from January to September - see the list of classes below for full details of start dates

My Year of Art School LIVE Bundle – Instalment Option

£30 / $41 (approximate)

The BIG LIVE BUFFET: all our live classes for 2019 at An amazing 40% OFF! Plus pay in two installments!

Our scrumptious My Year of Art School LIVE is a delicious buffet of delectable classes to whet your creative appetite and fire your enthusiasm! With all of our renowned live classes, including all of our brand-new live classes for 2019, this bundle will give you the structure, support and assignments you need to help you create your very best work!

Here’s top art agent and lead teacher, Lilla Rogers, on why My Year of Art School LIVE is perfect for you.

My Year of Art School LIVE is the bundle for you if you’re looking for the excitement and accountability of live classes, you want direct access to your teachers, and you want to make your very best work. We want our courses to be as accessible as possible for everyone, so with this bundle you can also split the cost across two installments, making it more manageable at this time of year.

Sound good? Scroll down to find out more about what’s included in this amazing bundle, success stories and more. Plus don’t forget you can find your fabulous guide to everything in the sale here.

Look at this amazing bounty of classes! What a fantastic way to spend 2019!

My Year of Art School (All LIVE 2019 MATS courses) Bundle includes:

In other words: every single one of our thrilling LIVE classes for 2019, including our brand new courses: Editorial – Illustrating for Magazines and More, Illustrating Children’s Books Plus and Home Décor Plus! Click on the links above for details about individual courses.

And of course every class includes boatloads of advice and insight from our outstanding teachers – top art agent, Lilla Rogers; award-winning entrepreneur, Beth Kempton; brilliant children’s book art director, Zoë Tucker; and renowned creative director, Margo Tantau – and their decades of experience in working in the creative industry. Make Art That Sells gives you industry learning that works in the real world, and it really does work! Just click on the testimonials tab to find out more.

You’ll also have exclusive access to our private Facebook group just for My Year of Art School students: one of the most supportive communities you’ll ever be a part of, it’s the perfect place to ask for advice, swap tips, and celebrate success!

Do you want to transform your art career in 2019? Do you want the inspiration and excitement that comes from LIVE art and business classes, where you get direct access to your teachers? Then the My Year of Art School LIVE bundle is exactly what you need: a delicious buffet of scrumptious classes to whet your creative appetite, fire your enthusiasm and put a rocket ship under your art career!

With all of our renowned live classes, including all of our brand-new courses for 2019, this bundle will give you the structure, support, and assignments you need to help you create your very best work.

Grow your art, grow your income and make 2019 the year that your art shines with our amazing My Year of Art School LIVE Bundle!

Imagine seeing YOUR art on cool products like these from Lilla’s artists!

  • You want to take your art business to the next level and you’re ready to invest time and energy building a joyful, lucrative career
  • You want the option of paying in two easy installments
  • You want 12 solid months of incredible learning opportunities with top art agent, Lilla Rogers, and her co-teachers: award-winning entrepreneur, Beth Kempton; brilliant children’s book art director, Zoë Tucker; and renowned creative director, Margo Tantau
  • You want 2019 to be the year for your art to shine!

Katy HalforD

Whilst taking the MATS Illustrating Children’s Book course, Katy was signed by agent Plum Pudding Illustration Agency, who had spotted a piece of work from the course. This led to work on several book projects and she illustrated her very first picture book, Moz the Monster, to accompany the John Lewis Christmas advert in 2017.

She says: ICB taught me everything I needed to know about developing a character for a children’s book. It was a fantastic experience and great value, and provided extensive information and such a great creative community full of lots of budding artists. Oh and of course amazing teachers Lilla and Zoë! It has also laid down the foundations for the start of my career in children’s book illustration which I hope to continue for many years to come!

Katy and Moz, from the book she illustrated which accompanied last year’s John Lewis Christmas ad

MEGHANN RADER

Meghann Rader now has a range of stationery based on the Twelve Days of Christmas and featuring greeting cards, gift tags and double sided wrapping paper. She also has a line of tech and phone cases with Case Station  and has had her work featured in Uppercase Magazine, Flow Lesebuch and Illustrated Maps by Carolina Amell. She says: Quite simply, MATS taught me everything I wish I learned in art school but didn’t. It really is one of the best things you can do for your creative career. There is so much value packed into these courses as well, they are definitely worth it.

Part of Meghann Rader’s stationery range. She describes MATS as “one of the best things you can do for your creative career”!

Click here for more alumni success stories.

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Hurry hurry HURRY – we’ve re-opened registration for Portfolio Club for just 72 hours, from today until this Thursday, so if you’ve been kicking yourself for not signing up, join now!

You’ll get instant access to all of the course materials for January, plus today’s Mini assignment for February – and because you get a different new assignment every month, you can do February’s assignment along with the rest of the class!

Don’t miss out! Sign up now – link in Stories or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/portfolio-club/

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It’s February, and that means we’re just over three weeks from the start of Lilla’s unique picture book writing course for artists, My Kid Book Pitch 🥳📚  Want to write your very own kid book story this year? It’s an amazing income stream for illustrators and creative people – and if you write *and* illustrate then you get paid twice!  Find out more and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/my-kid-book-pitch/

It’s February, and that means we’re just over three weeks from the start of Lilla’s unique picture book writing course for artists, My Kid Book Pitch 🥳📚

Want to write your very own kid book story this year? It’s an amazing income stream for illustrators and creative people – and if you write *and* illustrate then you get paid twice!

Find out more and sign up now – link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/my-kid-book-pitch/
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Lovely art for Portfolio Club by Make Art That Sells student Candice Hartsough @cordialkitten.  Wishing you’d signed up for this fabulous class? Look out for some big news coming on Monday … 👀

Lovely art for Portfolio Club by Make Art That Sells student Candice Hartsough @cordialkitten.

Wishing you’d signed up for this fabulous class? Look out for some big news coming on Monday … 👀
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Just four places left in this year’s Inner Circle, our small-group mentorship intensive from Lilla Rogers.  Still mulling it over? Don’t miss your spot!  Find out more and sign up now – link in Stories or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/inner-circle/

Just four places left in this year’s Inner Circle, our small-group mentorship intensive from Lilla Rogers.

Still mulling it over? Don’t miss your spot!

Find out more and sign up now – link in Stories or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/inner-circle/
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Sharing this fab art by Make Art That Sells student Ana Djordjevic @anadjordjevic.me for our FREE Black art history course, Redrawing Black History, ahead of Black History Month in the US, which starts this Sunday.  If you haven’t already signed up for this incredible FREE class, take it now – link in Stories or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/redrawing-black-history/

Sharing this fab art by Make Art That Sells student Ana Djordjevic @anadjordjevic.me for our FREE Black art history course, Redrawing Black History, ahead of Black History Month in the US, which starts this Sunday.

If you haven’t already signed up for this incredible FREE class, take it now – link in Stories or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/redrawing-black-history/
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Gorgeous art for Portfolio Club by Make Art That Sells student Karin Lauria @blackcoffeenow  We can’t wait to share the full public gallery at the end of the month!

Gorgeous art for Portfolio Club by Make Art That Sells student Karin Lauria @blackcoffeenow

We can’t wait to share the full public gallery at the end of the month!
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More dreamy art for Portfolio Club! Lilla loved this art by Make Art That Sells student Erica Root @illustrate_this_life.  Who’s loving Portfolio Club – and who’s kicking themselves for not signing up?

More dreamy art for Portfolio Club! Lilla loved this art by Make Art That Sells student Erica Root @illustrate_this_life.

Who’s loving Portfolio Club – and who’s kicking themselves for not signing up?
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Hurry hurry HURRY – if you want to be mentored by a creative powerhouse who was a top art agent for 30 years, as well as being an illustrator, author, speaker, educator and more then don’t miss out!  You’ve got ONE chance in 2026 to sign up for Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle – and once the 12 spots are filled then it’s gone for good.  Find out more and sign up now – link in Stories or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/inner-circle/

Hurry hurry HURRY – if you want to be mentored by a creative powerhouse who was a top art agent for 30 years, as well as being an illustrator, author, speaker, educator and more then don’t miss out!

You’ve got ONE chance in 2026 to sign up for Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle – and once the 12 spots are filled then it’s gone for good.

Find out more and sign up now – link in Stories or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-courses/inner-circle/
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More dreamy art for Portfolio Club! Lilla loved this art by Make Art That Sells student Julia Freund @juliafreund_illustration.  Crazy to think that this is just month one of EIGHT! 😍

More dreamy art for Portfolio Club! Lilla loved this art by Make Art That Sells student Julia Freund @juliafreund_illustration.

Crazy to think that this is just month one of EIGHT! 😍
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We can’t wait for the big reveal of the public gallery of student art for the first month of Portfolio Club! Here’s a little teaser – art agent Lilla loved this piece by Make Art That Sells student Patti Blau @pattiblau

We can’t wait for the big reveal of the public gallery of student art for the first month of Portfolio Club! Here’s a little teaser – art agent Lilla loved this piece by Make Art That Sells student Patti Blau @pattiblau ...

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If you’ve been longing for warm, supportive, personalized guidance in your creative career – you just need someone to tell you what you’re doing well and how you can do it better – then fab news: Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, is BACK in 2026!  Join Lilla and a maximum of 12 participants for focused six weeks where you’ll get personalized assignments, wisdom and advice from a former art agent with 30 years’ experience of nurturing and mentoring creative people like you.  The first two times we ran Inner Circle, it sold out, so don’t miss out – grab your spot now!  Head over to today’s blog to find out more, including how you can spread the cost over installments to make it as accessible as possible.  Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/

If you’ve been longing for warm, supportive, personalized guidance in your creative career – you just need someone to tell you what you’re doing well and how you can do it better – then fab news: Lilla’s small-group mentorship intensive, Inner Circle, is BACK in 2026!

Join Lilla and a maximum of 12 participants for focused six weeks where you’ll get personalized assignments, wisdom and advice from a former art agent with 30 years’ experience of nurturing and mentoring creative people like you.

The first two times we ran Inner Circle, it sold out, so don’t miss out – grab your spot now!

Head over to today’s blog to find out more, including how you can spread the cost over installments to make it as accessible as possible.

Link in bio or copy and paste 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/blog/
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There’s just over a month to go until the start of art agent Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course for artists and illustrators, My Kid Book Pitch, and we can’t wait!  Here’s some dreamy art from class by Make Art That Sells student Paloma O’Toole palomaotooleillustration. The book that Paloma wrote in class, Their Name is Alex, is available soon from Hachette!

There’s just over a month to go until the start of art agent Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course for artists and illustrators, My Kid Book Pitch, and we can’t wait!

Here’s some dreamy art from class by Make Art That Sells student Paloma O’Toole palomaotooleillustration. The book that Paloma wrote in class, Their Name is Alex, is available soon from Hachette!
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