Hi Iâm Adam Ming,
Startup co-founder turned picture book illustrator.
đ 11 book deals in 2 years with top publishers. Here you will find strategies and steps to help you: Make art daily, Break into Childrenâs 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.
Start Sketching Daily
Illustrator Dispatch
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 Iâm 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:
Your Upcoming Events
Your stand out comments
Links to Articles you wrote
Tours of your Sketchbooks
Your Recent Portfolio Pieces
Great finds from the internet
Events we should know about
News about your books coming out
Questions about the publishing industry
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 youâre 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.