Get your FREE warm-up assignment!
Our brand NEW live course, Find Your Art Style with Style, starts in less than two weeks, on Monday, August 5th, and today we’re sharing a FREE warm-up illustration assignment to give you a little taster of what this unique class will be like.
Get ready to fall in love with Tamisha’s collection of charming vintage clothing and colorful, quirky accessories, that she’ll combine with her curated visuals to inspire you to explore a variety of styles and discover or evolve your own.
You’ll focus on two of the key aesthetic elements: line and shape, and build on and develop them to find your own unique art style. Plus you’ll make some amazing art for your portfolio to help you get more of the jobs you love.
Here’s Part 1 of your FREE warm-up assignment: vintage Japanese toys
Here’s the first part of your FREE assignment – look out for Part 2 on August 1st, when you’ll remix and play around with what you do today.
In Find Your Art Style with Style, you’ll get a Mini assignment very week where you can start to experiment and explore. And then when you get the Big assignment later in the week, you’ll already have done the groundwork. You’ll play around with the art you created for the Mini to create something with quirky vintage cool with an eye-catching modern twist.
Find Your Art Style with Style is packed with carefully curated visuals to inspire and delight you, and to help you discover what lights you up, so you can evolve your own unique art style.
Lilla says: “By trying out Tamisha’s Mini assignment each week, consisting of line, shape, a time period, a color palette and an art medium, you’ll stretch in brand new ways. This is how your style emerges. Experimentation. Inspiration. Guidance.”
Your Mini assignment today is to draw these fabulous vintage Japanese toys that Tamisha found in New Orleans (Find Your Art Style with Style is full of gorgeous visual inspiration like this):
In the course, you’ll get suggested media to try each week, and an inspiring video from Tamisha where she’ll focus on line and shape with tons of curated visuals to delight and inspire you, but with this taster you can choose whichever media you want to use.
Lilla says: “Remember to make the kind of art for the kinds of jobs you want. Show what you want to get. Think about the very coolest or most beautiful kinds of commissions and licenses that you want to get from companies.”
Some gorgeous products agented by Lilla and illustrated by [Kendra Binney]. You’ll create portfolio art designed to help you get more jobs you love in dreamy art markets like bolt fabric and journal covers.
When you’re done, don’t forget to share on Instagram and tag @makeartthatsells and use the hashtag #MATSprep so Lilla can see what you’ve created! She and Tamisha will be discussing the prep [and reviewing their favorites] in the FREE live Zoom on the first day of class, Monday, August 5th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST – so make sure she can find yours!
Don’t forget to look out for Part 2 of your prep one week today, on Thursday, August 1st so you can add your cool twist!
And if you’re ready to go ahead and sign up for Find Your Art Style with Style, then do it here. See you in class!
- Monday, August 5th: Discover your unique style and make fantastic art for your portfolio with our NEW live course, Find Your Art Style with Style.
- Monday, August 5th: Join Tamisha and Lilla for a FREE live Zoom event at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST! They’ll be showing off some amazing visuals and more – don’t miss it! You’ll find the link to join the Zoom on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com and in our Instagram Stories on the day. Set a reminder now!
- Next newsletter: Look out for a bonus newsletter on Tuesday with some exciting news for anyone kicking themselves for not signing up for Bootcamp Special: Character Play!
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
