Win a FREE place in Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2023! Join art agent Lilla along with beloved teachers Zoë and Riley for a FREE live Zoom event on the first day of class, Monday, July 10th at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST. They’ll be talking about the fab FREE #MATSprep warm-up exercise, answering your creative career questions and giving away a FREE place in class!
Don’t miss it! You’ll find the link to join on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com and in our Instagram Stories.
There’s less than a week to go until Bootcamp Special: Character Play 2023, which starts THIS MONDAY, July 10th! Bootcamp Special: Character Play is all about creating winning characters that you can license for children’s books, toys, games and more – and today we wanted to share some news about a character some of you may already be familiar with.
Make Art That Sells teachers have real world experience: The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game, invented by your teacher Riley Wilkinson, has won numerous awards.
Bootcamp Special: Character Play is taught by brilliant children’s book art director and picture book author Zoë Tucker along with Riley Wilkinson. As well as heading up the Let’s Invent department at Lilla Rogers Studio, Riley is the creator of The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game, an award-winning preschool game that has sold more than two million units and earned more than 10,000 five-star Amazon reviews.
Riley with the 10th birthday edition of The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game. The game has sold more than 2 million units!
The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game, illustrated by artist Lucia Gaggiotti, has won numerous awards and inspired the development of four sister games – and that isn’t the end for Sneaky! The character has now been featured in a board book: The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel and the Golden Acorn (with a gorgeous foil cover).
The sneaky snacky squirrel is now a gorgeous board book! Learn how you can create and license characters like this in Bootcamp Special: Character Play.
The book is also illustrated by Lucia Gaggiotti, and the final page features all of Sneaky’s friends from the sister board games.
The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel and the Golden Acorn book features art by Lucia Gaggiotti, who also illustrated the original game. Art-driven toys and games are huge right now.
Watch below for a read-through of The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel and the Golden Acorn.
Can you spot all the characters from the four sister games that were inspired by The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel game? Discover new income streams in Bootcamp Special: Character Play.
See how you can take a character that you’ve created and license it over various different art markets? That means more income streams, and more money for you!
And creating winning characters can be easier than you think – essentially, a character can be anything with a face. That might be something that already has a face, like a child or an animal – but you can also add faces to almost anything: vehicles, a potato, plants, buildings, crayons, and more.
Creating a character can be easier than you think – and a great source of income. Let Riley and Zoë show you how in Bootcamp Special: Character Play.
Create unique eye-catching characters for your portfolio. In Bootcamp Special: Character Play, you’ll get a mini text from art director and author Zoë every month that you can use as a starting point to create your unique character – one per month, so three in total. Then Riley will show you how you can use your character to create three show-stopping toy and game pitches designed to catch an art director’s eye.
Hurry HURRY – class starts THIS MONDAY, July 10th! Register now, and get ready to pack your portfolio with characters designed to shine.
Mark your calendar:
- Hurry HURRY – Bootcamp Special: Character Play starts THIS MONDAY, July 10th. Register now!
- Join Lilla, Zoë and Riley for a FREE live Zoom event on the first day of class, July 10th at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST and you could win a FREE place in class! You’ll also find the link to join on the front page of our website at www.makeartthatsells.com and in our Instagram Stories. Set a reminder now!
- In our next newsletter: Read some student success stories from Bootcamp Special: Character Play – including the Make Art That Sells student whose art featured on a Google ad!
Lots of love
The Make Art That Sells team xxx
