Becoming a Successful Illustrator (Creative Careers)
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Get ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies’s Becoming a Successful Illustrator.
This edition features even more ‘Spotlight on…’ sections, with advice from practicing illustrators as well as the people that commission them. You can enjoy added coverage in fields such as moving image, character illustration and social media. There are also new exercises to get you started planning and building your business, and over 200 inspirational examples of artwork, most of which are new to this edition.
You can expect practical tips on how to seek work, how to market yourself and how to run your illustration business in an enterprising way, with advice that will prove useful long after your first commission. Building on the resources of the first edition, this continues to be the must-have guide to practicing professionally as an illustrator.
Featured illustrators include:
Millie Marotta
Mark Ulriksen
Natsko Seki
Ellen Weinstein
Stephen Collins
… and many more
Featured topics include:
Finding clients
Agency representation
Fields of work
Financial and legal requirements
Skills in art and design
Self-promotion
Showing work
Managing your business
Read more
149 reviews for Becoming a Successful Illustrator (Creative Careers)
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Original price was: $40.95.$32.05Current price is: $32.05.
chris –
Very informative and helpful. Gives you a clear insight into the illustration industry and the experience of people working in it. Also shows you new innovations in illustrations and how to update your work and make yourself more marketable. Highly recommended.
Shy –
I’ve started reading this book but have skimmed through it already seeing what it would talk about and I’ll update after reading but so far it looks amazing! It goes over a lot of important topics such as where illustration begins, what types of jobs you can find, how to find clients and market yourself, how to promote, secure jobs, organize and create a portfolio, contracts, finances, and so much more. I will say I bought this book used so I wasn’t expecting it to arrive in perfect condition but due to how it was packaged and usps it had damages that were clearly from the delivery process as the plastic packaging all around the book was ripped up badly. Wherever the plastic was ripped up so was the book unfortunately, some corners are really ripped up and parts of the back and front have large dents from being scraped during shipping. I would suggest packaging the books in a more secure way since you can’t guarantee usps will take care of the package as evident on my book haha.
Denise Harman –
Using this book to help my high school illustration students understand the business that they are trying to become a part of. Very nice illustration by Steve Simpson.
Parka –
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Becoming a Successful Illustrator is a helpful book for new illustrators entering the field of creative art and design.
The topics covered includes the challenges one might face as an illustrator, who the clients are and where to find them, different fields of work, self promotion, getting your work seen, securing work, understanding the finance and business side, setting your rates, legal issues, agency representation and other job tips.
The write-up is almost in academia style. Along the way are many spotlight features written by clients and illustrators talking about their own experience and issues. There are things like how you can get noticed by clients, the different types of promotion, whether you should get an agent, etc. There are some good tips on what you can do to be more successful and stand out from the crowd.
The book takes a well rounded approach and covers most of the technicalities of what’s required for the job.
Overall, it’s fairly helpful guide into what you can expect in the future working as an illustrator.
Fabiano Lima –
It’s full of good and relevant professional advices! I am really enjoying reading it thoroughfully, perfect as a bedside table reading!
I wish I had this book when I was studying…
Amazon Customer –
Exactly what my daughter, an aspiring young artist, wanted.
lesley –
Literatura indispensável para quem deseja se tornar Illustratdor profissional.
Nononono –
very good book , but delivery was terrible, both book and packaged torn , bend ,
Nononono –
I have mixed emotions about this book, It starts of in a very shallow way, in the first chapters it goes on and on talking a lot about approximately nothing.
Towards the end of the book it has some more useful information but I don’t know, I personally wouldn’t recommend it, for the same the same price there are better books on illustration out there.
Keep the cash it will keep you 32 euro away from being a starving artist.
I gave it 3 stars because it has some good illustrations and is graphically well made.
PIXIE ART STUDIO –
Used it for notes for my class
lle –
Inhaltlich macht das Buch einen guten Eindruck auf mich und gibt einen tollen Einblick in die Karriere eines Illustrators. Allerdings habe ich das Buch nicht gelesen und habe es als Geschenk gekauft. Aus dem Grund fand ich es schade, dass ich das Buch drei Mal bestellen musste. Jedes Mal hatte es Knicke im Cover oder sogar teilweise in den Innenseiten. Ich vermute ja, dass alle Exemplare im Lager beschädigt sind, sonst kann ich es mir nicht vorstellen, warum jedes Exemplar optische Mängel aufweist. Für den eigenen Gebrauch hätte ich es in Ordnung gefunden, da es nur ein “Gebrauchsgegenstand” ist. Allerdings eignet es sich nicht zu verschenken. Da ich nun keine Zeit mehr habe, werde ich das nun mit kaputten Ecken verschenken, obwohl es Neuware sein soll 🙁
Shy –
ok