Creative Business Essentials: 9 Tips for Finding Success as a Freelancer

Our new class ‘Creative Business Essentials’ is now available on Skillshare! A question we get asked most often is what advice we have for creatives who are just starting their freelance careers, or looking to make the jump from a day job. This class will cover our top tips for how designers, illustrators, and creatives of all types can get started as a freelancer or start their own creative practice. Join DKNG, the design and illustration duo of Dan Kuhlken and Nathan Goldman for a 9-lesson class revealing the most helpful steps that have helped them kickoff their own creative career over 15 years ago.

In this class you’ll get a peek behind the curtain to see how DKNG has built their business, sharing real world examples from their own company and portfolio to demonstrate how they've put these lessons to use in their own work. You'll learn everything from how to:

• Find your niche and refine your portfolio

• Land new clients & nurture existing ones

• Price your work and services

• Diversify your income and make your own products

And much more!

This class is designed for any creatives curious about striking out on their own, or those that have already started their creative freelance career and want ways to level up an existing creative practice. The only things you'll need to get started are a sketch pad or tablet for planning/sketching ideas, and an existing portfolio or business idea to review. 

The tips covered in this class can be applied to a wide variety of creative careers. Because each lesson deals with a standalone topic, you can easily come back to revisit specific techniques as you find the need for them in your own business.