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How to be an Illustrator Paperback – April 10 2008
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Darrel Rees
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At last! Here is true practical help for budding freelance illustrators. This book helps you avoid the pitfalls that can ruin a career, with advice on crucial first impressions, how to create a portfolio and approach clients, how to negotiate contracts, and how to handle, deliver, and bill the first job. It discusses how to set up a studio, maintain a steady flow of work, and manage time and money. In addition, it provides information on successful self-promotion, self-publishing, and the prosand cons of agents.
Packed with useful tips gleaned from the author's own career and his work as an agent handling major artists in the US and UK, the book includes interviews with nine big-name illustrators. The reader benefits from their experience of starting out; what they learned during the metamorphosis from student to professional; what their expectations and experiences have been. In addition, art directors and commissioners describe the ways they like to be approachedand the ways they really dislike.
Packed with useful tips gleaned from the author's own career and his work as an agent handling major artists in the US and UK, the book includes interviews with nine big-name illustrators. The reader benefits from their experience of starting out; what they learned during the metamorphosis from student to professional; what their expectations and experiences have been. In addition, art directors and commissioners describe the ways they like to be approachedand the ways they really dislike.
- Print length160 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLaurence King Publishing
- Publication dateApril 10 2008
- Dimensions19.05 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101856695301
- ISBN-13978-1856695305
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About the Author
Darrel Rees has worked as an illustrator since 1986, joining influential London studio The Big Orange in 1992. In 1994 he co-founded illustration agency Heart (London and New York). He contributed to The Education of an Illustrator, edited by Steven Heller. He is a member of the Society of Publication Designers in New York and D&AD in the UK, acting as a jury foreman on its awards scheme.
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- Publisher : Laurence King Publishing (April 10 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1856695301
- ISBN-13 : 978-1856695305
- Item weight : 485 g
- Dimensions : 19.05 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,852,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,712 in Decorative Arts
- #3,731 in Commercial Graphic Design
- #8,508 in Instructional & How-To in Arts & Photography
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2010Verified Purchase
Excellent book..... Full of useful information about the British illustration scene. Well worth buying if you're interested in becoming a freelance illustrator as it covers things like copyright, agents and fees, subjects that aren't usually covered in art schools...
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Lann
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Very informative.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2014Verified Purchase
Covers a lot of ground such as how to create an invoice, what to show in your portfolio and how to contact companies. I would recommend this book to anyone thinking about being an Illustrator.
Malia Bi
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Ok
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2015Verified Purchase
Ok more for the general run of the mill Illustraters.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2015Verified Purchase
Great advice for illustrators starting out. thank you
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2016Verified Purchase
Really handy for someone just starting out, covers a ton of stuff about the business side of illustration.
