Hello Creatives!

I’m Weronika, but everyone calls me Wera. I’m a published children’s book illustrator, surface designer, and teacher based in Germany, originally from Poland.

I teach digital illustration and graphic design and I help artists all around the world take their creative skills to the next level. More than 40,000 students have taken my self-paced courses on Skillshare, where I’m a Top Teacher, and my YouTube channel has received over 250,000 views so far.

Here on Substack I’m sharing my insights about building and growing a creative business: from nurturing creativity as an artist, all the way to building a web presence, working on your portfolio and attracting new client opportunities.

I also write blog posts, make videos, and create courses, mainly about artist life, creativity, Affinity Designer and vector art.

Check out my most popular growth articles:

• I deleted my Instagram app and I'm choosing these platforms instead

• Adobe subscription - is it really necessary for client work?

• The reality of the publishing industry for kidlit artists - how I nearly quit

• What to include in your children's book portfolio: A strategic guide by age group

Take a look at my insights from working with an illustration agency:

• A short story of how I found my illustration agency

• One year with my illustration agency - How many projects did I land?

Free subscribers receive

• regular knowledge posts to your mailbox and/or Substack app

• exclusive updates and behind the scenes not published anywhere else

• a community of like-minded creatives with a possibility of chatting and asking questions

Consider becoming a paying subscriber. It’s only 5€ a month, and you get access to the entire archive of writings and my library of Creative Resources. And you would help support my work.

Paid subscribers receive

• exclusive knowledge articles which I’m not publishing anywhere else

• more intermediate and advances creative-business articles

• monthly artists resources (illustration, vector art, Affinity)

• my deep deep gratitude (with 5€ you’re inviting me for a coffee)

Why Substack?

I’d like to have slower and more mindful interactions with my community, where every newsletter email sent is an invitation for a 2-way discussion, and not just my monologue-style updates :) I’m also looking for a place where my contribution (my articles and my resources) LAST and not perish with every email sent.