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# PencilBooth Take #97
- URL: https://news.jackywinter.com/pencilbooth-take-97/
- Published: 2025-08-06T04:07:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-06T03:17:51.000Z
- Description: Introducing Jacky Winter Academy!
- Author: Jacky Winter
- Tags: #pencilbooth

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new Jacky Winter platform and a new Jacky Winter artist. We're feeling good, hope you are too!

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/bf/37bf26d9-637a-4dcd-b5da-b1345bb32628/content/images/2026/11/08b04f9d-intact_booth_CAeVb70IuayzxdwOk26IDA_1754441153.png)](https://www.jackywinter.academy/?ref=news.jackywinter.com)

## Register your interest: Jacky Winter Academy

Get ready for Jacky Winter Academy, our upcoming platform offering creative project management courses, training, and resources for commercial artists.

We’ll be sharing our processes, best practices and expert advice through this platform, focusing on the often sidelined, but always invaluable and necessary part of being a successful freelance artist: project management. “I became an artist to do admin!” said no one ever, but if you gotta do it - who better to learn from than an industry leader who’s been doing it for 18 years (and counting). That’s us!

Helping artists to navigate the art of project management and guide their projects from initial brief to smooth landing is something we’ve been wanting to do for a long time, and we’re so excited to get this out of the gate!

To kick things off, we’ll be running select modules from our inaugural course, The Flight Path: Mastering Creative Project Management, as a live cohort this September.

Seats are limited - register your interest today via the link in bio or go to: [jackywinter.academy](https://www.jackywinter.academy/?ref=news.jackywinter.com)

Thanks to [@timbasmits](https://www.instagram.com/timbasmits/?ref=news.jackywinter.com) for the logo and branding! 🦉

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## New Artist: Jiaqi Wang

We’re so thrilled to welcome Jiaqi Wang ([@jq.wan](https://www.instagram.com/jq.wan/?ref=news.jackywinter.com)) to the Jacky Winter roster! Jiaqi (pronounced Ja-chi) is a Chinese-born, New York-based illustrator and animator who creates joyful worlds where vivid colors meet crisp, clean lines, playful perspectives and diverse characters. Her project sweet spot is a short but magical animated campaign and her personal soft spot is her 8 year old cat!

Click the pic to watch Jiaqi's announcement reel or check out her full folio and bio at:[ jiaqi.jackywinter.com](https://www.jackywinter.com/artists/jiaqi-wang?ref=news.jackywinter.com)

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[instagram.com/reel/DMzL2ccyZlA](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMzL2ccyZlA/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink)

## Lauren Martin x Solériade

[@laurenmartin\_studio](https://www.instagram.com/laurenmartin%5Fstudio/?ref=news.jackywinter.com) created some refreshing new work for Solériade, a new lemonade by La Salvetat. Says Lauren, “This was my first time ‘directing’ and I couldn’t have done it without the immense support of co-director Virginie Kypriotis and the animation team at Un Oeil Sur Tout - also a big thank you to the team at BETC Paris for being such supporters of my vision! Your enthusiasm for my ideas throughout this process was so energizing!” Click to watch the full ad in French!

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[instagram.com/p/DMtqGpNSEFB](https://www.instagram.com/p/DMtqGpNSEFB/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink)

## Julian Frost has No Fluffy Bits

Animating comedic physical mishaps is one of [@julianmfrost](https://www.instagram.com/julianmfrost/?ref=news.jackywinter.com)’s favourite things / key life skills, so getting him on board for [@bingleinsurance](https://www.instagram.com/bingleinsurance/?ref=news.jackywinter.com)’s ‘No Fluffy Bits’ campaign was a no-brainer. Click through to watch all the ways ‘Fluffy’ gets gone, and big thanks to the team at Leo Burnett AU or such a fun brief. Here’s to Fluffy! 🍻

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[instagram.com/reel/DMXL\_SjqmRS](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMXL%5FSjqmRS/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink)

## 21-19 + Louis Wes = all taste, no regrets

A recent TVC spot for Grill'd by [@21\_19\_movingimage](https://www.instagram.com/21%5F19%5Fmovingimage/?ref=news.jackywinter.com), ft. buns with benefits and a side of character sketches by [@louiswesstudio](https://www.instagram.com/louiswesstudio/?ref=news.jackywinter.com) 🍔

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## Carla McRae x University of Melbourne

A new illustration suite by [@carla\_mcrae](https://www.instagram.com/carla%5Fmcrae/?ref=news.jackywinter.com) is now live on UniMelb's Student Equity and Disability Services website, featuring contemporary characters representing a diverse range of backgrounds and abilities.

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## The B-Roll

Random links doing the rounds in our Slack...

[Jacky Winter at PictoplasmaBianca and Delaney from our US team are thrilled to be repping JW again this year at Pictoplasma's upcoming folio review sessions - get your tix here!instagram.com![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/bf/37bf26d9-637a-4dcd-b5da-b1345bb32628/content/images/2026/11/910fbe3d-thumb_link_roll_image_5AQCQd3QEOSHKYQTEiqzDA_1754444454.png)](https://www.instagram.com/p/DMfpR3PtK2X/?img%5Findex=1&ref=news.jackywinter.com)

[Gildlings featured on Creative ReviewAs illustration-led publishing continues to grow, a new literary agency looks to represent a range of visual storytellers, from picture book artists to graphic novelists - oh hey, that's us!creativereview.co.uk![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/bf/37bf26d9-637a-4dcd-b5da-b1345bb32628/content/images/2026/11/72ce261e-thumb_link_roll_image_D5bP9WEik2B6Q3NqNGJUZg_1754444318.png)](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/gildlings-agency-illustrators-ai/?ref=news.jackywinter.com)

[Art, Illustration & AI | 7.30 Webinar w/ Jeremy WortsmanIf you missed it, a recording of Jeremy's AI chat with Adam Weissman of Weissman Law is now available to watch here!youtube.com![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/37/bf/37bf26d9-637a-4dcd-b5da-b1345bb32628/content/images/2026/11/2d8d9ecb-thumb_downloaded_image_7bb0169d_1754444635.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WloifZYhkd4&ref=news.jackywinter.com)