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Aug 25, 2025

Freelance Artist Starter Kit

A comprehensive toolkit to help start your freelance career.

freelance artist starter kit
freelance artist starter kit

Starting your career as a freelance artist can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to all of the intimidating documents you need to exchange with clients. To make your start easier, I've compiled a bunch of different documents you need to get started as a freelance artist into this Freelance Artist Starter Kit!

Even though these documents can be tedious, they're an important tool to keep both you and your client protected from any unfair business practices. They should also help you keep track of your work, payments, and scheduling much better. These are all tools that I actually use for my freelance work and will also help you look professional and experienced to clients!

Remember that each freelance job and client can be different. I made these templates fully customizable so please adjust and adapt these templates to fit your specific job needs.

Before you dive in, I highly recommend reading through my "How to Start Freelancing as an Artist" series to understand how to utilize each worksheet and template to its fullest.

Included in this kit are:

  • Freelance Checklist for Job Assessment & Rate Setting

  • Invoice Template

  • Artist Contract Template

  • Email Templates

The kit is accessible through Canva, which has an intuitive design and allows for full customization of the templates to fit each job. To access the templates, click the link below and sign up or sign in to your Canva account (it's free!). The link below should take you directly to the Freelance Artist Starter Kit, which you can now edit freely.

This is a living Starter Kit, so if you have any requests for additional resources, please let me know and I'll continue adding to it. I hope this kit will support you in your freelance career and best of luck out there!

🔗 CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE FREELANCE ARTIST STARTER KIT 🔗