Product Description

At last! Here is real 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 setting up a studio, maintaining a steady flow of work and managing time and money, and also provides information on successful self-promotion, self-publishing, and the pros and cons of agents. Packed with useful tips gleaned from the authorâs own career and his work as an agent handling major artists in the US and UK, the book includes interviews with 9 big-name illustrators. The reader benefits from their experience of starting out; what they learnt or noticed during the metamorphosis from student to professional; what their expectations and experiences have been. In addition, art directors and commissioners describe how they like being approached â and what they really dislike.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110321 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"...whether you want to get an agent and aim for those elusive big-bucks advertising jobs or set out to pester the worlds art directors, 'How to be an Illustrator' is a sensible place to start." --Macuser

Review
"...packed with tons of useful information..."

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 the D&AD in the UK, acting as a jury foreman on its awards scheme.

Customer Reviews

Excellent book, would recommend!
I'm an illustration student, I bought this book recently and am really pleased with it. It goes through everything you need to become an illustrator ie how to create an invoice, who to contact at companies etc- things that aren't necessarily covered at uni. The interviews with practising illustrators are refreshingly honest and insightful- not just 'PC vs Mac?' nonsense- and I've found the book pretty inspiring!

Worth purchasing...

Does what it says on the tin which is rarely the case with these sort of books. I have already recommended it to several people.

worth the purchase
packed with useful tips, interviews and advice on being an illustrator. A must for anyone studying illustration!