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Breaking Into Freelance Illustration: A Guide for Artists, Designers and Illustrators
 
 

Breaking Into Freelance Illustration: A Guide for Artists, Designers and Illustrators [Kindle Edition]

Holly DeWolf
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Build Your Own Thriving Illustration BusinessThe boundaries between art, design and illustration are blurring, and with all the new opportunities for visual creatives, now is the perfect time to unleash your talent on the world!Breaking Into Freelance Illustration provides a step-by-step roadmap for promoting yourself and running your creative business. You'll find up-to-date advice about best business practices, ideas for new promotional tools, answers to common questions and words of wisdom and inspiration from top illustrators. This book shows you how to:Set up a home office and balance your professional and personal lifeCreate a professional portfolio and promote your work onlineSearch out and negotiate with potential clientsCreate your own brand and work with an agentDevelop a fair and accurate system for pricing your workNetwork within the creative communityFull of industry insight, this book is a down-to-earth guide that fills in the creative business blanks. If you've ever wanted to moonlight as an illustrator, start a full-time business, or simply see your work published, this book will give you the information you need to make it happen.

About the Author

Holly DeWolf has been a freelance illustrator for the past fifteen years. She has been spotlighted on Designer's Who Blog, Illustrophile, and Design Inspiration. She contributes to such online groups such as Creative Cup Illustrators Group, Jeff Andrew's Sugar Frosted Goodness and Von Glitschka's Three Thumbs Up. www.hollydewolf.com

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1482 KB
  • Print Length: 275 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1600611974
  • Publisher: How (1 Jan 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0054JTHUG
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #332,328 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Steve
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Don't buy this one. Buy "How to be an illustrator" instead. This is American written with useless facts were as "How to be an illustrator" is for the British illustration scene with usefull information on copyright, fees and agents..
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I am reading the book and must be honest, there are so many great hints and advice from this book about the industry. A highly recommended buy for anyone breaking into "freelance".

many thanks
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Good Motivator 2 Jan 2010
By J. Hogan - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This is a good book for those start-ups who need some motivation to get up and start their own design practice. The author gives some good advice from someone who's "been there, done that." Starting a new home-based, illustration business, or any business for that matter, can be very intimidating for those who have never done it before. I've always appreciated those who step forward to offer guidance to those who are new to the business. This book tells the reader that they "can do it" and offers some good tips for a successful business, as well as, offering some good advice on things to avoid.

At first, the book seemed to be geared towards stay-at-home moms looking to start a design business while working around the daily routine of running a home with kids. But, as the book progressed it offered good advice for all new home-based business owners. It definitely has given me some motivation to do what I thought may be a difficult field to break into. Also...it's a good book based purely on illustration and not co-mingled with graphic design. Well worth the read.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Three Things I Love About This Book 22 Jan 2010
By Kathleen R. Weller - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
>Its a creative business book that's also a fun read

There is no slogging through the content in this book. It's packaged well in fun-sized, easily digestible morsels. This helps make it an addictive read. It's a flexible one, too--for the reader, it would be as comfortable to consume the entire book in a few longer sittings, as it would be to pop off a few pages at a time over the course of a couple weeks, say, on your daily commute.

>It features real-deal conversations, observations and advice from a variety of active, working illustrators and designers

I love that there's snippets from working professionals from all walks of illustration: children's, editorial, art licensing, logo designers, and more. This not only helps to illustrate personal experiences in so many different areas of the industry, but it also illuminates how similar all of our experiences as creative professionals are, how we all often struggle with the same fundamental challenges, and how some general solutions to these problems can be retro-fitted to our own particular situation with just a fresh eye and an open mind. Though each of us may concentrate on different areas of the industry and, as such, have very individualized, specific goals for our respective work, there is more that is fundamentally similar in all of our experiences than is different.

>A great introductory book for young illustrators... and a good reminder manual for the established

Many business books for creatives tout the same, classic, tried-and-true fundamentals. Good advice is good advice, right? This book shares some of the same, but also shares so much more--Holly's voice shines right through the words on the page. She's personable and honest, like a good friend who doesn't sugarcoat things. Holly acts as an invisible mentor, dispensing some real tough-love advice, but in a completely comfy, "positive-vibes" type of package. She definitely has a way with words, proving a strong ability to cover a lot of material in a way that's neither overwhelming nor disorganized, while maintaining her loose, conversational tone. All in all, it's an easily digestible book on the business of art that's great for artists who have an aversion to business books.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Mostly fluff 31 Dec 2010
By Progfrog - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book should be retitled to something like "Self Help and Motivation for Freelancers." Not a lot of nuts and bolts. I don't know how all this fluff and filler was ever organized into chapters. I could take random paragraphs from different sections of this book, and you would not be able to tell where they were supposed to go.
However, maybe one fifth is worth reading, therefore one out of five stars.
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