Beginners Guide to Illustration Projects
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ย. 2024
- Here's a checklist of things you might need to consider when you get your first illustration commissions. Some things you learn as you go, but hopefully this video will help you feel more confident in your early illustration projects.
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Exactly what I needed. I just landed my first illustration commission yesterday ☺
I knew it! haha. Congrats!
Awesome!!!! I wish you success and many more to come. I hope you learn a lot from the first experience too.
I just came back to this video, and it was very usefull
Been working for years but this is still such useful information!
Thankyou for your video very useful
Thank you :)
I have difficulty understanding the concept of being an illustrator. Am i right by thinking there are loads of different types of illustrator which reflect their style of art? Like a cartoon illustrator, for example
Yeah, that would be a cartoonist. You can have different specialisms: 3D, children’s, medical, fantasy, etc. but many illustrators do a bit of everything in their own unique style
@TheIllustratorsGuide thanks, I've a broad film, games and animation degree also been a tattoo artist wasnt happy. Now just lost in the void of art. I feel like illustration could be my thing just a long way to go at 42 years of age 😢 figuring out if art should just be a hobbie is very tough and hard to take if that's the case for me.
People often ask, why does it bother an illustrator if an illustration was created for a client, and the client paid for it, and it is not used for the initial intended purpose. Let's say I create an illustration for packaging and then find out client is using it to decorate their website (not as a part of product image). Honestly, I can't answer this and I'm not sure I'm even bothered by that. Should I be and why? If a carpenter makes a stool and I use this stool in a photoshoot as a prop, should I pay the carpenter then?
Hey, if it doesn't bother you, that's your choice, it's your work. However, illustrations are licensed for specific purposes in the commercial world. If a client hired you to make a spot illustration for a magazine page for $300, then they started using it for a global advertising campaign, would you be bothered then? They would be cheating you out of a fair fee. For some low level uses, it's not such a big deal. If they pay you for packaging and then use it on their website, it's not a massive problem, but when clients pay you for a small thing, then use it for a big thing, it is a problem.