Creating Custom Sale Sheet Templates for Licensing
What is a sale sheet? I like to think of a sale sheet as a one-page document or image that promotes and shares your work. You can create individual or group sale sheets. You can format them to include as many or as few pieces of artwork as you like. They are versatile, simple, and easy to consume which is very important for art directors.
You can create sale sheets in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, or even in Canva. Honestly, it doesn’t matter WHICH program you choose to create your sheets in, what matters is that you share your work.
But, if you want to create your sale sheets in Adobe InDesign, I have just the Skillshare class for you!
My latest class, From Sketch to Sale Sheet: Using InDesign to Showcase and Pitch Your Art is officially live!
Here’s the introduction and class description to help you decide if it’s the right one for you:
Full Sale Sheet Class Description
Creating sale sheets to showcase your artwork just got easier. Let’s learn how to use InDesign to create simple templates that are easy to update so you can start pitching your artwork to companies.
In this class, I will start by reviewing the InDesign workspace. Next, we’ll set up our document and learn how to use “parent pages” to maintain styles and placements of our elements across all our sale sheets. We will test out our templates by placing artwork in the sale sheet. And finally, we will export our sale sheets as pdfs, jpegs, and learn how to share them as a link.
By the end of this class, you will have created your own set of custom sale sheet templates with your logo, company details, artwork, and identifying information. Whether you are a new artist or illustrator with a small body of work, or an experienced artist with a huge backlog of designs, the skills you will learn in this class will help you create a system for presenting your work to companies as you move forward with your art licensing journey.
This class will be most valuable for total beginners to InDesign who are looking to create templates to share their artwork with companies for licensing. No experience is required but being familiar with other Adobe software including Illustrator, or Photoshop can make the class easier to follow.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to sketch layout ideas for different types of artwork you want to share
- How to set up a new document in InDesign
- Basic tools and navigation inside InDesign
- How to use the “parent page” feature to create a template
- How to add your logo and artwork information to your template
- How to create placeholders where you can add your artwork
- How to add your artwork to your template
- How to export your sale sheets as a pdf, jpeg, or as a sharable link
What You’ll Need
You will need your preferred method for sketching out ideas (pencil and paper or an iPad), Adobe InDesign (I will be using this version), your logo if you have one, and images of your artwork to drop into our templates.
LET’S GET STARTED!
I hope you’ll join me in creating a simple set of sale sheet templates you can use to pitch your artwork to companies for licensing — see you in class!
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