Looking to join a like-minded community of professionals and creatives as you work on your very first Skillshare class? Join our 30-day teacher challenge! Throughout the month of October, you will receive personalized support from the Skillshare team, opportunities to win prizes, and helpful resources to make your class a success.
Skillshare Teachers are a talented and diverse group of freelancers, professionals, small business owners, and creatives. We believe everyone has something to teach and can't wait to work with you to make your class a success!
View program overview and welcome video here.
Top Teacher Community
Learn from successful Skillshare teachers! Every week, a top teacher will host an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on topics ranging from class planning to filming and editing.
Faye Brown is a UK based designer with over 10 years experience in motion graphics, illustration and branding. She has over 18,000 followers on Skillahare! Check out her class, Branding Your Creative Business: Launching Your Brand to get a feel for her work. Faye will host her AMA (Ask Me Anything) on October 25th at 3:30pm EST. Head here to join her AMA and ask questions on anything from how she has grown her Skillshare following to how she markets her classes on different social media platforms.
Rich Armstrong is a Product Designer who designs, animates, and codes. He's freelanced, worked for agencies and startups, and now runs a studio with his wife in Amsterdam. He creates compulsively, has super ginger-powers and can touch his nose with his tongue. Rich has taught 16 Skillshare classes and over 3,000 people have taken his top class! For a sample of his work, check out his class Synthetic Stop Motion in After Effects: Quick and Easy Techniques for Hand-made Animations.
Amarilys Henderson is a commercial illustrator who delights in bringing the dynamic vibrance of colorful watercolor strokes to everyday products. Her work is licensed for greeting and Christmas cards, art prints, drawing books, and home decor items. Her design background influences much of her recent work, revolving around typography and florals. She has published 14 Skillshare classes and has over 18,000 followers on Skillshare! Find out what all the buzz is about and take her class Watercolor Story: Practice the Essentials. Amarilys will host the first AMA (Ask Me Anything) of the challenge on October 4th at 2pm EST. Find her AMA page here and be sure to ask her your questions about choosing a class topic, creating a project, and anything else on your mind as you work on your class!
Prizes
Each week of the challenge, we’ll be giving away prizes to make it even easier to publish your class and find success on Skillshare. Simply post your project by October 8th and publish your class by the October 31st deadline and you’ll be eligible to win the following:
Marketing:
✔ Features on the Skillshare Instagram, giving our community a sneak peek at your upcoming class and giving you a chance to grow your online following.
✔ 5 teachers will be featured on our website
✔ 10 teachers will be included in a marketing e-mail to our community
Class Production:
✔ Chances to win microphones to simplify your class production.
✔ 1 year of Skillshare Premium Membership free, which comes with awesome perks, like a discount to Squarespace and Adobe.
Community:
✔ Gift cards to Amazon for leaving support + helpful feedback to fellow participants.
How It Works
-Sign up by clicking the “Join” button (you can find this button on the top right-hand corner of this page).
-Follow our Calendar to stay on track and for helpful resources
Looking to join a like-minded community of professionals and creatives as you work on your very first Skillshare class? Join our 30-day teacher challenge! Throughout the month of October, you will receive personalized support from the Skillshare team, opportunities to win prizes, and helpful resources to make your class a success.
Skillshare Teachers are a talented and diverse group of freelancers, professionals, small business owners, and creatives. We believe everyone has something to teach and can't wait to work with you to make your class a success!
View program overview and welcome video here.
Top Teacher Community
Learn from successful Skillshare teachers! Every week, a top teacher will host an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on topics ranging from class planning to filming and editing.
Faye Brown is a UK based designer with over 10 years experience in motion graphics, illustration and branding. She has over 18,000 followers on Skillahare! Check out her class, Branding Your Creative Business: Launching Your Brand to get a feel for her work. Faye will host her AMA (Ask Me Anything) on October 25th at 3:30pm EST. Head here to join her AMA and ask questions on anything from how she has grown her Skillshare following to how she markets her classes on different social media platforms.
Rich Armstrong is a Product Designer who designs, animates, and codes. He's freelanced, worked for agencies and startups, and now runs a studio with his wife in Amsterdam. He creates compulsively, has super ginger-powers and can touch his nose with his tongue. Rich has taught 16 Skillshare classes and over 3,000 people have taken his top class! For a sample of his work, check out his class Synthetic Stop Motion in After Effects: Quick and Easy Techniques for Hand-made Animations.
Amarilys Henderson is a commercial illustrator who delights in bringing the dynamic vibrance of colorful watercolor strokes to everyday products. Her work is licensed for greeting and Christmas cards, art prints, drawing books, and home decor items. Her design background influences much of her recent work, revolving around typography and florals. She has published 14 Skillshare classes and has over 18,000 followers on Skillshare! Find out what all the buzz is about and take her class Watercolor Story: Practice the Essentials. Amarilys will host the first AMA (Ask Me Anything) of the challenge on October 4th at 2pm EST. Find her AMA page here and be sure to ask her your questions about choosing a class topic, creating a project, and anything else on your mind as you work on your class!
Prizes
Each week of the challenge, we’ll be giving away prizes to make it even easier to publish your class and find success on Skillshare. Simply post your project by October 8th and publish your class by the October 31st deadline and you’ll be eligible to win the following:
Marketing:
✔ Features on the Skillshare Instagram, giving our community a sneak peek at your upcoming class and giving you a chance to grow your online following.
✔ 5 teachers will be featured on our website
✔ 10 teachers will be included in a marketing e-mail to our community
Class Production:
✔ Chances to win microphones to simplify your class production.
✔ 1 year of Skillshare Premium Membership free, which comes with awesome perks, like a discount to Squarespace and Adobe.
Community:
✔ Gift cards to Amazon for leaving support + helpful feedback to fellow participants.
How It Works
-Sign up by clicking the “Join” button (you can find this button on the top right-hand corner of this page).
-Follow our Calendar to stay on track and for helpful resources