Excellent course. Gina was articulate and exacting which I love. She gave generously of her time and experience. Wonderful

Gina has done well to explain content in easy to understand terms. She also gives plenty of advice and shares personal experiences that are just as essential to know when entering this side of illustration. It has piqued my interest to look into previous work to see if I have any relevant designs to start editing and formatting into the prescribed templates. I am thrilled and inspired to get started in this new endeavor.

Useful intro to art licensing. Would have been helpful if some of the notes on the left sidebar were present for a tad longer.

Great introduction to art licensing. Can't wait to get through the second class. Thanks Gina and everyone at SVS!

I found the information in this class very helpful. It gave me a lot useful information and a lot to think about. I am just starting to about the prospect of getting into licensing.

I feel Ms. Gina shared her wealth of information impeccably. She presented a lot of information in very clear, organized way and made the class fun using lots of visuals and examples from her career. The downloads she provided were an amazing resource. Her enthusiasm about the possibilities for new artists in this market was delightful and uplifting to me. I highly recommend this class among top 10 here on SVS.

This amazing class provides all of the basics and answers to questions I've had about Licensing. The class even provides downloads you can have to print and keep looking back to for reference on how to do this. Highly recommend!!

I really enjoyed this class. SVS classes, unlike some other online art schools, provide insightful, helpful, useful instruction. I can’t thank you enough. I have learned so much from SVS classes, and this class was fantastic. Gina - you are great!

Very helpful, learned a lot! Great class.

Super helpful, tons of great advice!

I really enjoyed this lesson. I wasn't even thinking about licensing and now it is a top priority for my art career. Please do more.

Excellent discussion and information about how selling/renting work in the retail market works. Thanks so much!

This class was amazing. I had always wondered about the merch I buy in stores and how it all works. Now I know and have valuable templates too! The instructions are clear and the step by step information was so incredibly helpful. This was just what I needed. Many thanks.

Very informative for those of us who knew little about licensing!

I've been very curious about this side of the industry for a while, thank you for the class! If there is ever a part two, I would love a more in-depth look at the business side of things. Everything from finding an agent for licensing (or is that the same for illustration?), more types of contract examples, a deeper look at file organization (visual examples), etc.

I found the information to be fullsome, thought provoking and credible (though the proof will be in the pudding, when I actually take the plunge to see is I can do this, which will have to do as much with my work as the course). That said, I feel much more secure moving forward, from the practicality of process, and setting up the business for success, right on down to how and whom to approach, how to research and create my assets. I would highly recommend this course to anyone thinking of licensing their work. Really, some of the advice (being gracious and easy to work with, organized and knowledgeable about the business and market, for instance) is great advice in ANY service based industries. Yet another great course from Society of Visual Storytelling.

That was very interesting, never thought of this way of making money out of my illustration. Looking forward to seeing next Gina Jane's classes on the topic!

Great info, but feel like the instructor still has a lot more she would like to share. Would love to see more from her, and more from SVS in this vein of classes that teach you how to make money off of art.

It was nice, get to know lot of things.

Thank you Gina, for such a good class! A lot of highly valuable information about art licensing given at this class.

How refreshing! Loved this class. Gina is a perfect instructor. So wonderful to see a couse on SVS that didn't include robots, weird stuff!! But this course was perfectly geared to the real world illustrator, not sci fi. Was going to cancel my membership this very month, because the courses mainly do not fit what I need, but then found this amazing, wonderful class. So very much hoping SVS carries classes for the Illustrator that does cute stuff, licenses, and does not have the sci-fi, photoshop painterly style. WANT more of this type of class GUYS!!

Loved this course! It was thorough and very informational about the current business of art licensing with excellent samples/examples to help get you moving in the right direction. Can't wait to start putting my work out there more, Thank you!

What an amazingly helpful and informative course, with lots of resources to follow

Excellent. This course was full of easy to understand steps, guidelines and advice. Thank you

I really found the class very informative and easy to understand. Lots of good ideas on where to start.

Peace SVS creators and Ms Lee. Thanks for the course, just watched it and downloaded some of the documents. I enjoyed it over all and appreciate her knowledge. I appreciated her insight on traditional uses of illustration for licensing during North American holidays. From her specifically, what I'd like to see and learn more of is: -Early days of getting products into brick and mortar shops -Benefits of an agency vs working alone or w/a team -What percentage of your income is from licensing versus freelance illustration gigs, books, speaking, etc? And more broadly if you all plan to do more similar classes on creating merchandise through manufacturing companies: -Best practices for using manufacturers to produce goods that you as an individual artist can market -Marketing tools for selling your own licensed work online and to boutique's -More Bookkeeping tips for taxes and keeping track of various clients/stores/ manufacturers -Legal business things one should have ie LLC, Individual,etc -How do craft shows help? -Use of other manufacturing services such as Etsy, local manufacturing companies And lastly, I see a lot of folks taking and using elements of other cultures without giving their audience proper context and understanding of what these elements mean (appropriation and theft). I also see larger corporations paying individual artists who steal from other artists and ethnic cultures, then blaming the artists when they as an entity are called out on it. My question is -How artists can be respectful of cultures outside of their own family or identity and how to inform their audience or client about a rich cultural tradition such as Quinceañeras from Latinx culture? -How can they partner with and/or collaborate with people from that culture, giving more context and also helping folks from that culture get access to licensing opportunities? Thank you! I'll be back for more. Peace! -Rob

I took the class to know about Licensing and I loved it. I really got to know a lot of important information. But the class didn't end. Gina Jane told about many topics which she will discuss about in the next class, but there no class after that. I would have given a 5 star rating for the information she shared. But I gave 3 star because the class is incomplete. Achievement section also shows it as 25% only. So I would like to know where the next class videos are. I have checked your Twitter dated 02 March, and its mentioned there 'it's supposed to the first of several.' As an User Experience design professional, which is my job profile. I would like to suggest you, that since this is not an ongoing class, you may mark it as part 1 of the series. It would be also great if you end the class on that note and make the achievement as 100%. Because right now the way it is there, it gives a bad user experience. This might lower the aspiration of the course taker about SVS. I love SVS classes and I recommend it to my friends. And as a user I don't want any fellow user to face inconvenience.

Incredibly thorough and professional. I learned so much! I would love more from her!

This has to be one of my favorite courses yet. So concise and full and of information. step by steps about how to get into and submit to the art licensing industry. My only issue is many of the templates to download come up blank (but honestly, you can google them and find them online) :)

Thanks alot

This was a great course, very informative and relevant. Full of all the information I needed to know but didn't know where to start nor what questions to ask and yet it is all covered here. Slightly different from SVS Learn's usual content, which is totally relevant to me and most artists who wish to find ways of making money from their art and having it as a viable business. Highly recommended.

I thought the course was really good, she explained everything nice and simple and was very generous with all the information, downloads and templates that she shares. A true teacher!!!

This was the first thing I listened to. And it will be the last one too. It’s super informative and I’m very pleased to have learned all this. Great job

This class has what I've always wanted in my courses: comprehensive, clearly explained, with well thought-out presentation. I couldn't be happier with the quality of teaching. It's obvious there are intelligent minds at work at SVS. Glenda Rogers-Stocco

Gina Jane introduces us to the retail store market. Using her vast experience she explains very well how to enter a huge market, find your niche and avoid pitfalls. Excellent attachments (licensing, contracts, royalty) help us to understand the tid-bits of getting your art on various products.

This class is overflowing with information! It is a great class and I can't wait for the next one. Thank you!

This course is so well done and thorough its almost as if the instructor Gina Jane is guiding you personally step by step through this whole process. Gina does a fantastic job and this course is PACKED with information.

Informative and extremely helpful! Well done, Gina and SVS team.

Gina does a great job teaching all the essentials on this subject from first-hand experience I found quite valuable.

I luv this course! Can't wait for the follow up.. It was very informative and helpful, and opens up a whole new world of potential for Artist. Thanks Gina and Guys!

This was a very informative class.

These are questions I have had for years and years! Gina was just amazing. I have a BFA in illustration (way back in 2001) and I never, ever heard the term "licensing." Let's be fair, it was a long time ago. Maybe I just forgot. Thanks so much for answering all those questions about how to break into the market. What I need to present and how to find manufacturers. This class was seriously so helpful and exactly what I needed. I would love to publish a children's book, however I can't even compete with the students here. On the flip side, I get mad (not really mad, just jealous) when I walk into the dollar tree and see gift bags, target and see a print on a purse, or a shower curtain, or those dang reusable bags at Marshals with work similar to my own. I scream in my head "WHY CAN'T MY WORK BE ON A NAPKIN!" In my frustration I just go and make more work that makes me happy and don't dig for the answer to my questions. So for the SVS guys that make my carpool wait more enjoyable, thank you so much for bringing in Gina and answering my questions!

Never knew there were so many ways to make income off of one image. So very interesting and lots of wonderful information.