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So You Wanna Be an Illustrator?

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If you’re looking to breaking into the great vast world of illustration, sometimes it’s best to get a good grip on the scene from illustrators themselves, rather than from some stuff-shirt manual or guide that you can buy at your local bookstore. Drawn’s own Scott Thigpen has accumulated a great list of reference geared to help the newbie illustrator on his Artsy Fartsy Blog, offering such nuggets of wisdom as 10 ways to land an agent, 10 ways to promote yourself, and, more importantly, 10 ways to handle bad clients. He even offers an Adobe Illustrator tutorial. The list is on his blog over in the right column, listed under “Art Reference.”

Other artists out there offering help and guidance are Keri Smith who has a nice list of books and reference on creating and being an artist/illustrator. At the bottom of the page, Keri lists some of her own wisdom learned with How To Start as an Illustrator, Seven Steps to Getting Published and a Job Acceptance Checklist. And Jay Montgomery has a page showcasing his process, which is always interesting to check out. Good luck.

  • http://sthig.com/ sThig

    I’m also working on “10 ways to clone yourself so you only have to do half the work…”

    cloning pending

  • http://sthig.com sThig

    I’m also working on “10 ways to clone yourself so you only have to do half the work…”

    cloning pending

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com/ Johnny

    “…so you only have to do half the work…”

    Shouldn’t that be one tenth of the work?

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com Johnny

    “…so you only have to do half the work…”

    Shouldn’t that be one tenth of the work?

  • http://elnegromagnifico.blogspot.com/ Al aka El Negro Magnifico

    This is great! I’m leaving school soon, and I need info.

  • http://elnegromagnifico.blogspot.com Al aka El Negro Magnifico

    This is great! I’m leaving school soon, and I need info.

  • http://mandolindsay.blogspot.com/ Lindsay

    Once again. I love you.

  • http://mandolindsay.blogspot.com/ Lindsay

    Once again. I love you.

  • Timerever

    Cool, I gotta find a job this summer and I was thinking about illustration, while I’m not a art graduate and I use cheap software I’m finishing general informatic high school and i do some nice drawings (I think ^_^)… well you never know isn’t it?

  • Timerever

    Cool, I gotta find a job this summer and I was thinking about illustration, while I’m not a art graduate and I use cheap software I’m finishing general informatic high school and i do some nice drawings (I think ^_^)… well you never know isn’t it?

  • Elisa

    Thankyou!

  • http://http//:www.xanga.com/echavarri Elisa

    Thankyou!

  • http://www.welcomeconsumer.com/ rc

    Wow! That was really informative. My favourite bit was the “10 ways to handle bad clients”. At the very least, I can forward some of that advice/links to friends of mine who want to go freelance. Keen! :D

  • http://www.welcomeconsumer.com rc

    Wow! That was really informative. My favourite bit was the “10 ways to handle bad clients”. At the very least, I can forward some of that advice/links to friends of mine who want to go freelance. Keen! :D