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Get ready to Find Your Creative Voice, and Fly Your Freak Flag.
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You've got INSTANT access to the first bit of the course. Go go go!
New modules will arrive weekly, and we'll send you a reminder email when there's a new one!
Keep an eye on your inbox for your log in information.
Coworking Calls
As well as the course videos, we have a call (almost) every 2 weeks where you can work on the course, or anything else you happen to be working on.
These live calls are NOT recorded (because they're really boring - we just get work done).
You'll receive an email reminder link to the live Zoom calls 15 minutes before each event.
Online Community
Introduce yourself on the Facebook group!
The group is private, and only for you, our paid Good Ship members.
It's a lovely supportive and safe space to share your work.
Click below to join, or search "Members Only: The Good Ship Illustration" on Facebook.
Get ready
...to find your creative voice!
We can't wait to get started.
Remember that you get lifetime access to the course, so there is no such thing as "behind" in The Good Ship Illustration.
Keep an eye on your inbox and we'll see you very soon. In the meantime help yourself to a podcast.
INSTRUCTORS
KATIE CHAPPELL
LIVE EVENT ILLUSTRATOR
Meet Katie! Our most recent graduate (2012).
She is a live illustrator working all over the UK and Europe. Her clients include Workplace for Facebook, Google, Dove, Lululemon, Royal Society of Biology, Nespresso and lots of the UK’s top universities.
Her live illustration work covers everything from graphic recording in corporate meetings, to painting giant murals on shop windows in Regent Street, London.
Katie has an MA in illustration from Edinburgh College of Art, as well as a foundation degree in animation and a BA in illustration and graphic design.
She has lectured in illustration, from foundation to MA level.
Career highlights: Live-Illustrating in the boardroom for management at Google HQ in London. Painting giant boards for the Royal Society of Biology’s gala dinner, where David Attenborough received a lifetime achievement award.
A couple of extra fun facts: Katie is an accidental TedX speaker, and is really good at backwards mirror writing and napping.
HELEN STEPHENS
AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATOR, PICTURE-BOOK MAKER
Helen is an award-winning author, illustrator, best known, amongst other things for her 'How to Hide A Lion' series. She taught on the highly respected Cambridge School of Art MA in Illustrating for Children and has mentored graduate illustrators on the Picture Hooks Scheme. She started the popular #walktosee sketch-booking hashtag on Instagram.
As seen on: NY Times. Wall Street Journal. Uppercase. Guardian Book of the Year. Times Book of the Year. ‘How to Hide a Lion’ was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and her books have won lots of other fancy pants awards. Her books have been published in about 30 languages, and clients include: Random House, Scholastic, Penguin, Alison Green Books, David Fickling Books, Campbell Books, Nickelodeon Junior, Egmont, Simon and Schuster, Bayard Presse and Orchard Publishing.
Career highlights: How to Hide a Lion was adapted for stage by The Polka Theatre and toured the UK, Helen won a BLUE PETER BADGE as a grownup by being on Blue Peter!
A couple of extra fun facts: She likes to draw in the rain and wears her dressing gown over her clothes to work.
TANIA WILLIS
MAP MAKER, EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATOR
Tania is an award-winning designer/ illustrator with 30 years of experience, and an MA in Illustration from the Royal College of Art.
She has taught illustration at BA & BFA level in the UK and Hong Kong and has more than 20 years of perspective on the industry in Asia. Her illustration clients include English Heritage, Conde Nast Traveller, Cartier, Time, Waitrose Magazine and Swire Group.
Her illustration experience covers advertising, murals, editorial, design, surface design, licensing, publishing, branding, event, editorial and corporate - but her biggest passion is illustrated maps.
Plus we are so lucky, she designed our gorgeous ship-in-a-bottle Good Ship branding.
Career highlights: Designing a livery for an A330 Airbus and a Hong Kong tram.
A couple of extra fun facts: Tania taught Helen at Glasgow School of Art. She swears too much (unrelated to teaching Helen), loves Hong Kong trams & wanted to be in The Slits.
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