Enrol for June 2023: Illustrated Merchandise: Making & Selling for Illustrators

Your booking includes x10 live zoom sessions, x4 industry zoom sessions with special guests and inclusive access to Inkygoodness Collective Membership* starting 5th June 2023. Sessions will be recorded for replay access. Max 50 spaces available. Open to artists, illustrators and designers worldwide!

Our course also includes:

Industry talks & mentoring**. Leading creatives will share their maker journey and some of their closely guarded secrets to building a successful creative business. Check out what we've got instore below!

Maker Masterclass: Build Your Brand with Jessica Smith - 15/06
Jessica Smith is an illustrator and artist currently based in Bath, UK. She loves to create playful, bold and colourful art and has worked on a huge range of projects from packaging and advertising to children's books. As a creative maker she sells a variety of illustrated products including original paintings, hand crafted ceramics, prints and greeting cards.

Clients include Paperchase, Kate Spade, Adobe, Tombow, Stabilo, Canva, Hardie Grant, Simon and Schuster and many more.

Jessica will be hosting a Build Your Illustration Brand Masterclass as part of our 8 week course and sharing her creative maker story so far.

Maker Masterclass: Product Design with Tillie Rose Studio - 21/06
Established in Sheffield, UK back in April 2019, Tillie Rose Studio started as a side project. After Tille was furloughed during the Covid pandemic she put all her energy into her creative passion, and nearly 3 years later her business is thriving.

Tillie will be hosting a Product Design for Illustrators Masterclass as part of our 8-week course, guiding our students through the the design and creative process of her best selling stationary products.

Maker Masterclass: Creative Marketing with Liz Harry - 29/06
Liz Harry is a designer-illustrator with a love of hand drawn type and colourful, or what she likes to call ‘colour-fun’ designs. She's based up North in the musical city of Liverpool, UK.

After many years working within the music industry specialising in art direction and creative consultancy for leading arts, lifestyle and music brands she now runs her Liz Harry Design full time.

Her Creative Marketing for Illustrators Masterclass will provide key tips and insign on using platforms like Kickstarter to crowdfund product collections, and share her pre-launch strategy for harnessing the power of social media to market and sell products online.

Maker Masterclass: Art Licensing with Jess Miller - 19/07
Jess Miller is a Los Angeles based designer, illustrator and educator. Her whimsical style is infused with bright pops of color and layered textures, inspired by nature, retro artwork, and vintage design.

Jess has a background in toy package design and over the years has segued into a career of illustration. She specializes in hand lettering, surface pattern design, and character portraits. Her work has been printed on greeting cards, home goods, tech accessories, book covers, packaging, and more.

Jess will be hosting an Art Licensing for Illustrators Masterclass as part of our 8 week our course, sharing tips on surface pattern design, working with brands and strategy for breaking into art licensing!

Industry Mentoring

Every year we offer mentoring sessions to give our students the opportunity to sit down with our industry speakers to get advice on their budding creative business. Mentees are judged on their engagement with the course content; creativity and ideas; and delivery of their final presentation at the end of the 8 weeks.

We're delighted to welcome Jessica Smith, Tillie Rose, Liz Harry and Jess Miller to our mentor line-up this year - whom alongside delivering a masterclass each, will also choose ONE student from our shortlist of 20 for a 1:1 mentoring session later this year.

Illustrated Merchandise: Making & Selling for Illustrators runs 5th June - 11th August 2023, with live sessions taking place every Wednesday 10.30am - 12pm BST & Thursday 6.00pm - 7.30pm BST. Attendees will have a choice of which session to attend when they enrol. Course fee £279 per person.

*Course fee includes 90 days membership to Inkygoodness Collective, worth $47.97. Requires subscription. Choose between monthly or annual membership when you sign up. First payment will be taken 1st September 2023. Cancel anytime.

**20 artists will be shortlisted for mentoring in Summer 2023. Our mentors will choose ONE artist each for a 1:1 session. Industry Talks will take place on a Wednesday evening or Thursday morning and will also be recorded.