Illustrator and live event artist
Nicola Jones
A brand, a site, a shop, and a commercial strategy for an illustrator and live event artist, all built inside the twenty-one days.
Read the case studyBranding · Artists and makers
Branding for artists, makers, and creatives.
A brand and website as considered as your work, built by two senior partners in twenty-one days for a fixed fee.
30 minutes. You’ll know either way.
In short
Whisk Digital builds brands and websites for artists, illustrators, makers, and other creatives whose own presentation has fallen behind the quality of their work. Strategy, identity, and a site that actually sells, in twenty-one days for a fixed fee, made by two senior partners who care about craft.
Key facts
- For
- Artists, illustrators, makers, creatives
- Service
- Brand, website, shop where needed
- Timeline
- 21 days
- Fee
- Fixed, from £4,995 + VAT
The problem
The pattern we see on every first call.
You are brilliant at the thing you make. The trouble is that nobody can tell from your website.
01
Pain point
Your presentation undersells your work
The work is the best it has ever been, but the website, the logo, and the way you talk about yourself were all knocked together years ago and never revisited. There is a painful gap between the quality of what you produce and the impression people form before they see it. Collectors, galleries, and commissioners judge that first impression hard, and right now it is working against you.
02
Pain point
You are charging less than the work is worth
When your brand looks tentative, your prices follow. It is difficult to ask for serious money through a presentation that looks like a hobby. Creatives routinely leave money on the table not because the work cannot command it, but because nothing around the work signals that it should. A considered brand gives you permission to charge properly.
03
Pain point
Your portfolio is hard to actually buy from
Maybe the images are too small, the shop is clunky or missing, the commission process is unclear, or there is no obvious way to take the next step. People who would happily buy or commission you give up because the path is not there. The work deserves a route to a sale that is as clear and considered as the pieces themselves.
04
Pain point
Designing your own brand is a trap
You have the visual skill, which is exactly the problem. You are too close to it, you second-guess every decision, and the project never gets finished because there is always real client work to do instead. Handing it to two people who do this for a living, and do it on a fixed three-week clock, is how it finally gets done.
How we fix it
The same method, pointed at Hastings.
Strategy first.
Then twenty-one days.
We do this for creatives in twenty-one days, fixed fee, with both of us on it the whole time. Greg comes from a design and brand background and treats your identity with the same care you give your own work. Fliss handles the strategy and the commercial side, so the brand is not just beautiful but actually built to sell.
It starts with a strategy day where we get under what makes your work distinct, who it is for, and where you want the practice to be in three years. From there we build a complete identity and a website designed around the work: big, well-treated imagery, a clear route to commission or buy, and a shop where you need one, all in a system you can update yourself.
You end up with a brand and site that look like they belong to the work, not a template the work has been dropped into. That gap between how good you are and how you come across closes, and with it, the conversation about price gets a lot easier.
Proof
Work for businesses the size of yours.
We help people like you.
Muralist, Hastings
Melissa White
Heritage murals brought online. A brand, an identity, and a hand-coded website delivered in twenty-one days, with a first hotel commission landing soon after launch.
+312%Direct enquiries, year one
Read the case studyQuestions
Straight answers, no sales call required.
The things people ask.
01Do you work with individual artists, not just companies?
Yes. Much of our best work is for individual artists, illustrators, and makers. A one-person creative practice is exactly the kind of business the 21-day engagement is built for: one decision-maker, fast feedback, and work worth presenting properly.
02Can you build a shop so I can sell my work?
Yes. We build the shop into the site where selling work is the goal, set up so you can list new pieces, manage prints or originals, and take payment without wrestling with the platform. Larger e-commerce builds are scoped as a follow-on stage.
03Will my brand still feel like mine?
That is the whole point. We start from your work and your sensibility, not a house style. The strategy day exists so the identity comes out of who you are, which is why creatives tend to feel the result is more theirs than anything they made on their own.
04I am not technical. Will I be able to update the site?
Yes. We attach a straightforward content system and walk you through it, so adding new work, writing about a show, or updating prices is something you do in minutes, not something you have to come back to us for.
05How much does it cost?
A fixed fee from £4,995 + VAT for the full brand and website engagement, or from £3,500 + VAT for brand only. You know the number up front, and any add-ons like additional shop work are quoted separately.
Sector experience
We have done.
this before.
Creative practices are some of our favourite work. Nicola Jones, a muralist, illustrator, and live event artist, came to us and left with a brand, a site, a shop, and a commercial strategy that treated her art as a business as well as a craft. Melissa White, a heritage muralist, got an identity and a hand-coded site that matched the quality of her murals and helped land new commercial commissions.
We are a small studio in Hastings, a town full of artists and makers, so this is a world we understand from the inside. We know how creatives think about their work, how protective you are of it, and how to build something around it that you are genuinely proud to send people to.
Next step
Thirty minutes, and you'll know either way.
A brand as good as the work.
Book a strategy call. Thirty minutes to talk about your practice and whether the 21-day engagement is the right fit.