NEW: The Illustrator’s Launchpad Short Course
10 Weeks to Build Your Illustration Practice
Make more work. Build your skills. Find your creative momentum.
Launchpad is a guided 10-week course for aspiring + developing illustrators ready to strengthen their creative practice.
Ready to make real progress with your illustration?
You don’t need a polished portfolio or your style figured out. You need to make, experiment and keep going.
Launchpad gives you 10 weeks of structure, guidance and feedback to build your skills, make more work and grow in creative confidence.
You’ll finish with a completed illustration project and a clearer sense of where to take your work next.
What You’ll Build in 10 Weeks
You’ll make work throughout the full 10 weeks, with weekly exercises and mini-projects exploring drawing, colour, composition, character, storytelling, environments, texture and visual voice.
Along the way, you’ll build a growing body of sketches, studies, experiments and finished pieces, before bringing everything you’ve learned together in a final illustration project.
You’ll leave with more work, stronger skills, greater creative confidence and a clearer sense of where to take your illustration practice next.
Enrol Now for £199 | Secure Your Spot for £69 with our Payment Plan
Designed to Keep You Making
You’re not just buying 10 weeks of lessons.
You’re getting a structured creative journey with four professional guest illustrators, live critique, personal written feedback twice during the programme, weekly prompts and a community making alongside you.
You’ll leave with more than a finished illustration — you’ll have a body of new work, stronger skills, valuable feedback and a creative practice you can keep building on.
Grab the Course Schedule
Learn from Leading Illustrators
During Launchpad, you’ll be taught by Inkygoodness founder Lisa Hassell, alongside established guest illustrators sharing their processes, techniques and creative insights. Each week, we’ll explore a different area of illustration, so you can learn and create at a rhythm that works for you.
Follow along live or watch the recordings in your own time.
Molly McCammon – Colour & Shape: Create Bolder Illustrations
Molly McCammon is a Dundee-based illustrator known for her bold colour, rich textures and playful simplicity, inspired by mid-century design and printmaking.
Explore how Molly uses bold colour, simplified shapes and playful experimentation to create vibrant, expressive illustrations.
Dan Woodger is an illustrator & animation director living and working in Kingston Upon Thames, London. He’s known for creating colourful, playful, character-based work designed to brighten your day and make you smile.
Discover how Dan develops playful, personality-filled characters and brings humour and storytelling into his work.
Lily Kong is an artist and illustrator from Hong Kong, now living in London. Her work is a heartfelt exploration of nostalgia, joy, and the emotions that connect us.
Explore how Lily uses colour, memory and personal experience to create distinctive work that feels uniquely her own.
Who It’s For & What You’ll Learn
You might be just starting out, returning to illustration, or already making work but feeling ready for more direction.
Launchpad is for creatives who want to strengthen their skills, experiment more and build confidence in their own way of working.
No formal training or prior experience working in illustration is required.
What could change in 10 weeks?
Draw with more confidence. Strengthen your observation and visual thinking.
Make stronger illustration decisions – Explore colour, composition, character, storytelling and materials.
Develop work that feels more like you – Experiment, discover what excites you and start strengthening your visual voice
Everything you need to keep moving forward
4 Guest Illustrator Masterclasses
Learn directly from leading practising illustrators and discover how they approach their work.
Live Critique + Personal Feedback
Get guidance on your work as it develops — including personal written feedback.s
10 Weeks of Making + Community
Weekly lessons, creative projects and a supportive group of illustrators to keep you creating.
Plus: Your Launchpad Creative Toolkit, live Sketchbook Kick-Off + 12 months of replay access so you can revisit everything at your own pace.
By The End Of Launchpad You’ll Have:
Start Launchpad with creative momentum
Before Week 1, you’ll get your Launchpad Creative Toolkit plus a live Sketchbook Kick-Off to get you drawing, experimenting and ready for the 10 weeks ahead.
Live Kick-Off: 23rd September · 1pm BST
Can’t make it live? You’ll get the replay.
Ready to say yes to 10 weeks of experimenting, play and making?
Join aspiring illustrators and creatives from around the world for Launchpad, our 10-week creative foundations programme.
Build your skills, grow your confidence and develop your creative voice alongside a supportive community.
Launchpad starts on Monday 28th September – we can’t wait to welcome you inside!
Enrol Now for £199 | Secure Your Spot for £69 with our Payment Plan
Applications now open for Funded & Subsidised spaces
We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to grow creatively. That’s why we offer a limited number of funded and subsidised places on all our programmes and courses for creatives who would otherwise be unable to take part. If cost is a barrier, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now | Deadline Thursday 17th September