How to Be an Illustrator, Second Edition
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Darrel Rees
Product Specs:
- File Type: PDF
- File Size: 12.4 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 169
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How to Be an Illustrator, Second Edition
How to Be an Illustrator is a practical digital handbook by Darrel Rees for readers exploring a career in illustration. This PDF edition is available as an instant download.
The second edition is updated in full colour and considers social media, digital platforms, promotion, commissioning, and changes in the working landscape for illustrators.
It combines industry guidance with interviews featuring art directors and illustrators working across several fields.
Book Overview
How to Be an Illustrator, Second Edition explains how the illustration industry works from the bottom up. Darrel Rees covers the foundations of a one-person business and the practical steps involved in establishing and maintaining illustration work.
The book begins with getting started and preparing a portfolio. It then addresses job-hunting, interviews, producing a first job, billing, self-promotion, studios, and agents.
The updated edition also examines social media and digital platforms, alongside specialist areas such as gaming, interactive animation, children’s books, 3D illustration, animation, and natural history.
Category: Design.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Guidance on getting started as an illustrator.
- Advice on preparing a portfolio and approaching art directors.
- Discussion of job-hunting, interviews, and producing a first job.
- Financial tips covering billing.
- Approaches to promoting yourself and your work, including social media.
- Consideration of studios, agents, commissioning, and rights.
- Interviews with art directors and illustrators working in varied areas of illustration.
Why This Book Matters
How to Be an Illustrator presents illustration as both a creative practice and a professional activity. It focuses on the practical knowledge that supports client relationships, promotion, financial administration, and longer-term career development.
The second edition reflects the growing role of social media and digital platforms in communication and self-promotion. Its interviews broaden the discussion across editorial work, publishing, design, advertising, gaming, animation, children’s books, 3D illustration, and natural history.
Book Details
| Title | How to Be an Illustrator, Second Edition |
|---|---|
| Author | Darrel Rees |
| Edition | Second Edition |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 12.4 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 13019773 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 169 |
Device Compatibility
This is a digital download with no physical shipping. Access is available after purchase.
The PDF works with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and compatible reading apps.
FAQ
When can I access the book?
Access is available after purchase as an instant digital download.
Will I receive a physical copy?
No. This product is a digital PDF, so there is no physical shipping.
Which devices can open the file?
The PDF can be read with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop, mobile, and compatible reading apps.
Download How to Be an Illustrator, Second Edition for a focused reference on the professional practice of illustration.
Verified Bibliographic Details
| Foreword | Nicholas Blechman |
|---|---|
| Introduction | The broad and social church of illustration |
| Chapter 1 | Getting started |
| Chapter 2 | Preparing your portfolio |
| Chapter 3 | Job-hunting and interviews |
| Chapter 4 | Producing the first job |
| Chapter 5 | Billing it – financial tips |
| Chapter 6 | Promoting yourself |
| Chapter 7 | Studios |
| Chapter 8 | Agents |
| Appendix | Appendix |
| Acknowledgements | Acknowledgements |
| Picture credits | Picture credits |
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