The
Creative
Draft.

Dive into a vibrant community of artists, mentors, and resources designed to support you in your creative journey and boost your artistic business.

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What is it?

The Creative Draft Hub is more than just a platform; it's a vibrant learning ecosystem dedicated to us, illustrators. We've designed a space where your artistic talents can be nurtured and cultivated through a variety of features and opportunities. From focused exercises and personalized mentorship to peer feedback and business approach.

It’s a Creative Community

At The Creative Draft Hub you become part of our supportive artist network.

Do you need that extra push to turn your thoughts into action? Want to feel inspired and motivated?

We’re here to fuel your creative ambitions!

This is a space where you can meet other artists, learn from them, get advice from creative peers. You may even find a collaborator for a new project or an artist friend in your local area. Here, we uplift each other in a safe & friendly environment and most importantly, we have your back.

It’s a Learning Platform

Join The Creative Draft Hub courses, workshops and mentorship program.

You'll find exercises to help improve your art and find your unique style. It's not just about getting better at art, but also about learning who you are as an artist.

Art is also a business. We offer guidance on how to grow your art career, help you with client work and building a portfolio.

Whether you're a professional artist needing more support, or you want to make your art even better, we're here for you. You can count on us for practical help on your art journey, whenever you need it.

It’s a Creative Mentorship

Individual 1:1 sessions are for you if you’re seeking customized guidance.

Each session you have with either Asia or Pedro is tailored to your unique needs. We address specific questions related to your art, illustration portfolio, professional art career journey, or creative business strategy. When working together we build a concrete action plan that helps you stay on track & achieve your goals. Coaching plan includes regular follow-ups and assistance, covering a wide range of topics.

Sessions are offered in both English and Spanish.

Community for you, like you.

By connecting with peers, experts and fellow creatives, we spark creativity and fuel our artistic journeys together.

Memberships

"Explore our membership options designed for creatives like you. Connect with fellow artists, get guidance from experienced mentors, access helpful resources, and gain insights to support your artistic growth. Build lasting connections, join events, and find the encouragement you need to thrive in your creative journey.

HUB MEMBERSHIP

Get access to The Creative Draft Hub community and our learning space! Connect with other artists, find resources, events, workshops, creative exercises & networking opportunities.

(For any illustrator, artist or creative)

— €15/Month

  • This space was created for illustrators and artists looking to join a community of like-minded creatives. If you want to learn, feel motivated and inspired, improve your art skills, get advice on art business related matters, share experiences, this is the place for you.

  • Exclusive Community Hub Access to the illustrators network, our closed and friendly space dedicated to art and illustration career

    Access to the Learning Platform, where we talk, support, offer feedback and advice on art and art business related matters

    Weekly Art Quests, specifically designed to improve your art skills, develop your artistic voice, build your portfolio etc. They truly work;)

    Freelancer Briefs, to prepare you for tackling on client projects, work with creative briefs through practice

    Business-Focused Office Hours, where your particular questions can be addressed by Pedro or Asia

    Team & Artist Guests Interviews and AMA Sessions, with great creatives sharing their artistic journey and experiences

    Creative Hub Spotlights - celebrating our art members and showcasing our achievements, within the Creative Hub & on the open The Creative Draft Publication

    Bilingual Spaces (advice and support available in English & Spanish)

    — Exclusive Content, Resources & Libraries

    — Access to special community on and off events, Virtual & In-Person

    — Special Offers, Discounts, including Discount for your first 1-on-1 Coaching Session

    — Access to Members-Only Skill-Building Courses & Training*

    *Courses are available only to the Hub Members, might involve an additional cost

  • To join our community, simply sign up for a Creative Draft Hub membership.

    You can opt for a monthly plan, yearly plan. You’re free to unsubscribe at any time and to come back whenever you want.

    This is a space where you can meet other artists, learn from them, get advice from creative peers. You may even find a collaborator for a new project or an artist friend in your local area. Here, we uplift each other in a safe & friendly environment and most importantly, we have your back, and together, we thrive

    Our platform offers a seamless experience with features like direct messaging, live events, spaces, and classes and helps you connect with fellow illustrators and creatives from around the world.

1:1 ONE TIME SESSION

Personalized one-time coaching tailored to you. Whenever you need it, we’re happy to chat and help! Sessions are led on Zoom with Asia or Pedro, available in English and Spanish.

(includes 1 month Hub Access)

— €80/Session

  • For any illustrator, artist or creative who’s looking for some guidance, whether it concerns your art, your art skills development, portfolio, professional art journey, art business strategy, client project etc. In this meeting, we can tackle a very specific question.

    This is also a great starting point if you’re interested in recurring coaching sessions with Asia, so that we can identify your needs and see how we could work together.

  • — 1:1 Coaching Consultation (45 min) on the topic/s of your choosing

    — 1:1 Customised and tangible Action Plan for you to work on

    — FREE Creative Draft Hub Membership Access (1 Month)

    — Discount for long-term mentorship sessions

    — Available in English and Spanish

  • This session is designed to address a particular subject of your choosing that can be covered during the consultation.

    You can choose between a session with Asia or Pedro, depending on what you’d like to focus on.

    To make sure we’re a good fit and can help you, you’ll be asked to fill a short form before our session, so that we get a good idea of what you need. If you’re accepted, we will reach out to you directly via email, and together chose a date for our session.

    To ensure each artist gets the best support possible and that we are a good match for each other, we only offer limited spots for our 1-on-1 sessions and ongoing mentorship programs.

1:1 ONGOING SESSIONS

Ongoing coaching sessions are perfect for any matters requiring long-time goals, planning and progress monitoring. Sessions are led on Zoom with Asia or Pedro, available in English and Spanish.

(includes Hub Access Membership)

—from €240/Month

  • This is perfect option for artists and illustrators seeking long-term customized guidance or wanting to cover a wide range of topics, whether it concerns your art, your art skills development, portfolio, professional art journey, art business strategy, client project assistance etc.

    These ongoing 1:1 sessions are organized for 2, 4 or 6 months plan, with a cadence every two weeks. We stay connected through the whole coaching time with regular follow-ups and assistance. Together we come up with a tangible action plan and work on your goals.

    Feel free to pick what suits you best. Have regular sessions with Asia to discuss art, portfolio, career and style or chat with Pedro about the creative business side. You can even choose to learn from both. It's all up to you!

  • — 1.1 Ongoing Coaching Sessions

    — 1.1. By-weekly Sessions

    — 1.1 Private Creative Hub Space

    — FREE Membership Access (Lifetime)

    — The Creative Draft Free Downloads

    — Masterclass discounts, offers, and more.

    — English, or Spanish sessions

  • The mentorship sessions offered by The Creative Draft aim to provide customized guidance to each artist or illustrator. These sessions are designed as follows:

    Application: Artists and illustrators interested in receiving mentorship can apply through a form.

    Assessment: Asia and/or Pedro review the applications once received, carefully evaluating each applicant's needs to offer the most fitting mentorship program.

    Personalized Mentorship: Based on the assessment, personalized mentorship sessions are set up.

    Ongoing Feedback and Guidance: Participants receive regular feedback and guidance throughout the mentorship program.

    Flexible Schedule: The mentorship sessions are usually scheduled every two weeks.

Benefits

Connect with fellow artists in a supportive community, gain valuable feedback from mentors and peers, and keep your artistic growth on track. Explore a safe space for asking any questions, dive into tailor-made courses for creatives, and tap into office hours for insights on client relations and expanding your artistic business.

Weekly Art Quests

Our Art Quests are weekly, focused exercises aimed at enhancing your art skills and helping you find your unique voice.

These carefully selected tasks, shared in our community hub, are designed to boost your artistic confidence! While regular practice is beneficial, practicing within a supportive and friendly network is even superior.

Art Quests are part of a purposeful practice, with a specific focus, prepared weekly by Asia in a simple and straightforward manner, making them easy to follow throughout the year alongside your daily work or duties

Habla, Conecta & Aprende

Únete a una comunidad de artistas donde recibirás apoyo y valiosos comentarios de mentores y compañeros, manteniendo en marcha tu crecimiento artístico.

Explora un espacio seguro para resolver todas tus dudas y participa en cursos diseñados especialmente para creativos.

Además, puedes optar por consultas individuales, ya sea una sola llamada o un plan de múltiples sesiones de coaching, para asesorarte en tu arte, desarrollo de portafolio, trayectoria profesional, estrategia de negocio artístico y proyectos de cliente, entre otros.

Community Feedback

We celebrate our art members and showcase our achievements, highlighting our milestones both within The Creative Hub and in the open publication, The Creative Draft Publication.

But this isn't just about showcasing finished works - it's about acknowledging the progress made, marking artistic breakthroughs, and honouring the countless hours of dedicated practice. Each milestone, big or small, is a testament to your continuous artistic growth.

The Creative Hub Spotlights also promotes networking opportunities within and beyond The Creative Draft Hub.

The Art Of Pricing

Coming soon! We're excited to be launching an online course soon, carefully developed to support illustrators navigating the challenging landscape of pricing their work in the creative industry.

This course, meticulously crafted, caters specifically to the needs of artists who are seeking guidance on how to value their work, establish prices, and negotiate effectively with clients.

It aims to empower you with the necessary knowledge and tools to ensure your art is not only creatively fulfilling, but also financially rewarding.

It will complement The Creative Draft Price calculator every creative can access now for free in our website.

Copyright 101

Coming soon! We're soon to launch 'Copyrights for Artists,' our dedicated course tailored for illustrators.

This course is designed to equip you with essential knowledge about copyright laws, their application to your artistic creations, and strategies to protect your work from unlawful use. It’s about understanding both your rights and obligations as a creative freelancer.

You will learn about copyrights, how to handle copyright infringements, and best practices for licensing your art. Gain confidence in navigating the creative industry and concentrate on what you love most - creating.

Freelancer Briefs

Freelancer Briefs are monthly, focused tasks aimed at enhancing your ability to handle real-life client briefs. Each carefully crafted brief, shared within our supportive community hub, is designed to simulate the practical experience of working with a client.

Freelancer Briefs offer a purposeful practice that allows you to create valuable portfolio pieces while receiving feedback from our community at the end of each month. Asia prepares these briefs herself, basing them loosely on her own past client briefs. The monthly schedule ensures you have enough time to immerse yourself in each task at your own pace, without compromising your work or daily duties.

Need help in getting estimations for your project rates?

The illustrator calculator

F.A.Q

What makes TCD stand out?

The Creative Draft Hub is a one-of-a-kind platform that provides a blend of community, mentorship, and resources designed especially for illustrators and creative freelancers, as a platform created by and for creatives that understand firsthand your challenges.

Why are spots for coaching limited?

This is to ensure personalized attention and the highest quality mentorship, we offer limited spots for all of our one-on-one coaching sessions. Both Asia and Pedro work full-time in their fields, so it's key to be sure that enough time and attention will be dedicated to you.

How do I know TCD is right for me?

The Creative Membership is crafted for artists, especially freelance illustrators. It's a welcoming space to share art experiences, perfect for hobbyists aiming to improve, emerging illustrators seeking guidance, and established artists wanting to share their journey.

I am not an illustrator, can I join?

Yes, the Creative Draft Hub is open to artists and creatives from various fields who are interested in learning, connecting, and growing alongside fellow artists, making our platform suitable for a very wide range of creative professionals.

How does coaching work?

Our one-time or ongoing coaching sessions are tailored to your specific needs as an illustrator or creative freelancer. You'll work directly with experienced mentors like Asia Orlando and Pedro to gain valuable insights, advice, and guidance on both your artistic.

Is the content in English and Spanish?

Yes, the Creative Draft Hub offers resources, courses, workshops, and training, including the 1.1 coaching sessions in both English and Spanish, hopefully making it accessible to a more diverse group of artists and creatives from around the world.

The Creative Draft Publication

It’s an online FREE Substack publication created by Asia Orlando with more than 19K readers. Here you get regular updates to your inbox every other week. You will find helpful resources, news, Creative Hub members Spotlights, things that are inspiring, and more.

About us

Asia Orlando - Founder

Asia Orlando is a professional illustrator, published artist and content creator who works with leading publishing houses and international clients on diverse projects.

She is passionate about art, environmental causes, and nature. Sharing her professional and artistic experience gained firsthand through the entire creative art career and environmental awareness are main reasons why she founded The Creative Draft and Our Planet Week movement.

At The Creative Draft, we don’t care about degrees, but for those who do, Asia received her Master Degree in Fine Arts in 2018 :)

  • Asia shares her experience as a professional full- time illustrator; she talks about the creative process, the creative mindset, finding your unique artistic voice, work organization, building creative habits that challenge you to improve your skills as creative, working with client projects, and how to build and sustain your artistic career.

  • Coaching sessions carried by Asia focus on illustration techniques, developing your art skills, getting the most out of creative tools, offering insightful portfolio reviews.

    She also shares her experience in organizing creative chaos, handling client projects, building a strong online presence, and offering her advice to young artists.

Pedro Orlando - Mentor

Pedro is a executive finance leader by trade, but also a part-time content creator, startup founder in the creator economy and global business advisor.

He combines his financial expertise with a very out of the box creative entrepreneurial mindset to empower illustrators, emerging and established artists, creative freelancers, and businesses to achieve their goals and growth, with an easy actionable approach.

He is also passionate about the environment and about collaborating with creatives in many different ways, mentoring, networking and technology.

  • Pedro discusses all the aspects of running a creative business. If you ever have questions about how to price or license your work, how to prepare or review client contracts, about your art content creation strategy, or need advice of how to build your sustainable creative business with different revenue streams, Pedro is the right person to talk to!

  • Pedro’s mentorship and coaching sessions focus on essential creative business topics such as pricing strategies, contracts, negotiation, project management, content strategy, and building a sustainable freelance career.

    He shares insights and leverages his financial expertise to help creatives in growing their creative businesses from the ground up, creating new income streams, and establishing meaningful connections in the industry. If anything in the creative business world seems scary or overwhelming to you, Pedro will gladly help and translate it in an easy and approachable manner:)

The Creative Draft IS

  • A friendly learning community, to connect with fellow creatives

  • A platform where we talk about all aspects of the creative industry

  • A space with access to resources to support your creative business

  • A network for illustrators to learn, talk and collaborate

  • A community, where we chat and exchange feedback, opinions, questions and answers in an open way of comments and public posts

The Creative Draft is NOT

  • A portfolio showcasing page (we talk about those though!)

  • A bunch of magic solutions that require no work (practice, work and dedication will take you far!)

  • A place with illustration tutorials nor vlogs (Asia has a YouTube channel, check it out)

  • A space where you will be assisted individually, immediately, anytime (we have specified Business Office Hours for short questions)

  • A Patreon alike platform, where goodie bags or physical rewards are offered

creatives

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illustrators

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freelancers

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creatives 〰️ illustrators 〰️ freelancers 〰️