Hi I’m Adam Ming,

Startup co-founder turned picture book illustrator.

📚 11 book deals in 2 years with top publishers. Here you will find strategies and steps to help you: Make art daily, Break into Children’s Publishing, and Keep Going without burning out.

I am writing to help you

• Make Art Daily

• Break into the publishing industry as an illustrator

• Keep going without burning out

What you Get!

There are 3 Main sections to the newsletter.

1. Start Sketching Daily

2. Illustrator Dispatch

3. Sketchbook Club

Start Sketching Daily

This is the home of the flagship free weekly Ten Minute Artist newsletter.

Every Friday you get a new Micro-Lesson and Sketchbook Project. This will let you get started during the weekend to create some momentum for the week.

Today is a new day, and the focus of this newsletter is to get you to start sketching today!

Illustrator Dispatch

The illustrator dispatch will contain my unapologetic perspective on the lessons I’m learning from being a picture-book illustrator starting out in my forties.

Everything from finding style and social media to what to put in a portfolio and dealing with rejection. I reflect on my mistakes and wins and share the lessons and perspectives.

(And because of the personal nature of the content, this will only be for paid subscribers and will go out once a month on the 7th)

Sketchbook Club

I want you to bee seen.

And that is the idea behind the Ten Minute Artist Sketchbook Club Creative Community Digest. (Sketchbook Club for short)

This monthly digest will contain both free and paid content in some combination of the following:

1. Your Upcoming Events

2. Your stand out comments

3. Links to Articles you wrote

4. Tours of your Sketchbooks

5. Your Recent Portfolio Pieces

6. Great finds from the internet

7. Events we should know about

8. News about your books coming out

9. Questions about the publishing industry

10. Live Meet-ups & Recordings of Creative Career Conversations and Drawing Workshops or Demos

The idea is put you the reader in the thick of the creative action every month and shine a light on the things you’re doing and noticing.

Illustration Portfolio

My Clients include Bloomsbury, Harper Collins, Wern & Rook, Anderson Press, Simon & Shuster, Quatro, Walker Books, and Hardie Grant. To learn more about my work and hire me to illustrate your project, visit my illustration portfolio.

Illustration Portfolio