You love art. You love to make art. And I can guess too, you'd like to make a living doing what you love, and you consider you have the potential for doing so, but you don't know how or where to start. Perfect, you're on the right track, just continue reading.
From the online course "Become a Working Artist"
As first point, we have to beat down the old and popular myth that artists usually are poor people. I'm sure you know about those old great artists that became famous and valued only after death, like Van Gogh or Modigliani, to name a few.
Or maybe you have some friends that can produce incredible pieces of work, but they keep without putting any decent money in their pockets. Does it have to be always that way?
The really important question here is...
How to make money as an artist?
First of all, please erase the old myth from your mind because nowadays, even when it requires certain level of effort because it might be hard to sell art (Sometimes to achieve important things in life, some effort is required, isn't it?) it's possible to make GOOD money from creating the art you love to create.
From the Course "Becoming a Working Artist"
I'm doing it right now...
That is exactly what artist and author Lisa Congdon wants to teach you, and she breaks down that knowledge into easy to understand, easy to follow steps in her online course Become a working artist.
Structure of the Course
Lisa Congdon has been working for years with clients around the world as a successful artist, creating colorful illustrations and hand lettering, and has developed the expertise that only experience can bring.
In her 22 lessons online course, Lisa will drive you through a plan broken down into small steps that prepare you on all the necessary topics you need to know and have to follow, to build a strong backbone from where you can start making your dream to come true.
What's Included in the Course?
Starting from how to improve your artistic skills, continuing through building your curriculum and business profile, and ending with how to sell art, Lisa will educate you on the main areas you need to manage to successfully to become a selling artist.
From the course "Becoming A Working Artist"
You will learn to set up your mind as an artist, and how to develop your unique style that differentiate your work from others, something really necessary if you want to sell it.
But don't forget that you also need to have a vision, and a road-map to reach your goals, and in this well structured online course, this is a very important topic. Yes, because you need to have a kind of routine, where you know at all times, where you are stepping on. Think about it as the business plan for any company, it's a vital element.
From the course "Becoming a Working Artist"
The other key topics the Become a working artist online course covers, is how you must develop your business and marketing skills. Of course, anybody looking to make profit from any market, needs to know how that specific market works, and the course gives you good information about it.
From the course "Becoming a Working Artist"
The other part, the marketing, the promotion of that work that has taken so many hours to be finished, is so important that I can say, No promotion, No sales. No matter how good your work is, if nobody knows it, nobody is going to buy it.
On that topic, Lisa is covering not only the well-known methods every Internet user already knows for sure, like blogs and social media, but she also covers some other methods that many people might be not aware of.
But what's awesome here is, that Lisa isn't reserving any secret only for her use, she gives students all the key tips and tricks necessary to go smooth as breeze through these sometimes boring topics for artists. At the end, you will finish building a growing audience base, that eventually will become a clients base.
And she does it in an easy to understand and enjoyable manner, and she even will give you the key phrases to motivate you, showing how to manage the inevitable rejections every artist has to face.
How Much Does It Cost?
The course is available on CreativeLive platform and you have a choice between just purchasing this course or subscribing to their membership to get an access to 1500+ other creative courses. If you just interested in this particular course, it currently has a 40% discount!
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Is there a free trial?
This particular course doesn't offer a free trial, however the cost itself is not that expensive, plus they're offering 1 lesson for free!
The lesson is called Develop Your Business Personality and you can watch it for free now!
Students Reviews
Here are just some of the many reviews from a previous course students that can be found on CreativeLive. If you would like to see more just head here.
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Lisa is an incredibly talented artist and instructor. Even though I'm a photographer, I found this class to be the perfect overview for art business fundamentals. She answered many questions I've had to which I've come across so many different answers that it can be confusing to sift through all the information. I feel more confident about getting my photography business together armed with this information.
Margaret Lovell
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This course had a lot of useful, practical information coming from a down-to-earth instructor. I like how Lisa seems like more of a partner in helping you become successful rather than preaching what worked for her. Although the tasks to becoming a successful artist might seem overwhelming I found that all I really needed to do was tweak what I already had going and be consistent. Immediately I was able to put what I learned from the course into action and saw results on my social media right away. Thanks for helping me find the clarity and motivation to practice my art full-time.
Christine Ingaldson
Summary
To finish, I want these two words to specially stand out, education and strategy. Lisa Congdon wants that you understand that's a matter of educating yourself, internalizing a method, a guide or strategy that has worked for her, and that you change your mind to an state where you can say, I'm an artist-business person, and I feel like fish in water when it comes about selling my work. That's it.
Are you ready to learn how to become a working artist and start making profit from your art?
Why wait! Head here to start now!
