Join the Waitlist — Next Level Artist Collective
What you're missing isn't skill. It's the career path no one showed you.
The Next Level Artist Collective is opening its official home on Skool — one organized place to learn how working artists actually paint, price and finish. Join the waitlist, and you'll be first through the door when it opens.
Join the waitlist.
Enter your email below and your place in line is saved.
Founding membership: $37/mo — or $370/yr with two months free. Join from the waitlist during the founding window and that price is locked for life.
The problem isn't your painting
Maybe you're just starting out, trying to learn to paint and not sure what to learn first. Maybe you can already paint — but nobody ever showed you how to make it pay. Or maybe you already paint for a living, and you're ready for bigger work: murals, clients, real commissions.
Different road. Same place: you're tired of waiting and hoping. Waiting for it to click. Hoping the next video, the next painting, the next year will be the one that changes things.
Life is too short for that. Time is the one thing you never get back — and guessing is what wastes it. Every hour spent guessing is an hour that could have gone to painting better, to the people and things you love, or to building an art business that pays you like a pro.
That's what this room does. We don't guess — we diagnose. You learn the systems working artists actually use, so you stop wasting time and start spending it on what you wanted all along: better paintings, more time for what you love, and an art business run like a pro.
Here's the truth: what you're missing isn't skill. It's the career path no one showed you.
Meet your guide
I'm Craig Stanley. For 30 years I've painted for film, TV and major brands — Marvel, Disney, Tyler Perry Studios — on any surface, under any deadline. I built this Collective because I remember being the artist nobody would teach. In this room, nobody learns alone. And nobody has to guess.
Here's the plan
1. Join the waitlist. Add your email above. That's it — you're in line.
2. Get your invitation. When the doors open, the waitlist goes first — before the launch is announced anywhere else.
3. Step into the room. Lessons, live diagnoses and a community of artists working the same system: diagnose first, then paint.
What you get inside
✓ A live lesson with Craig every week — one real painting skill, taught live, start to finish. Ask questions while the paint is wet.
✓ Painting diagnoses — bring the painting you're stuck on. Craig will find what is wrong and explain how to fix it. A private diagnosis alone costs $49 — more than a founding member's whole month.
✓ Every lesson, organized — the full library lives in the Classroom, in order, ready in seconds. No scrolling a feed or hunting through saved videos.
✓ Product knowledge — learn the professional products and tools that improve your painting, and understand why they work — so you buy right the first time and stop wasting money on the wrong supplies.
✓ A downloads vault that saves you hours — color maps, step-by-step guides and checklists for every stage of a painting. Print them and keep them at the easel.
✓ The business side, taught straight — pricing, quoting and getting clients, the way a working pro actually does it. Price one job right and the membership has paid for itself for years.
✓ A room that tells you the truth — Show the Work threads, First Win Fridays, feedback from artists on the same path. You stop painting and guessing alone.
✓ Member challenges — paint-alongs with a deadline and a gallery at the end, so paintings get finished, not just started.
✓ Founding Member lock-in — join during the founding window and your price never goes up. Ever. Plus a founding badge, and your vote on what gets taught next.
Do the math: one saved painting you would have thrown away, one commission priced right instead of guessed — either one covers your year.
What another year of guessing costs
You don't get the hours back. Every painting abandoned halfway, every weekend lost to trial and error — that's the price of having no system and no guide. The artists who grow aren't always the most talented. They're the ones who stopped guessing first.
Imagine sitting down to paint and knowing
✓ You know your first move — and your next one.
✓ You finish paintings instead of not finishing.
✓ When something looks off, you can name it — and fix it.
✓ You're surrounded by artists who show their work and tell the truth about it.
That's who this room turns you into: a Next Level Artist.
The doors open soon. The waitlist goes first.
While you wait, start here: get the free Trace Like a Pro guide — every way to get your image onto any surface.