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omipotent's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent in depth guide from the perspective of an editorial illustrator, nicely designed pages, informative catalogue of advice. Biased and pushy though! I felt very nervous after putting it down with the piece of advice “you need to make it within the first 2 year of graduating otherwise you will be lost in a sea of graduates”, I’m one for realism but I find this take anxiety inducing and may make people lose sleep. A must read for budding illustrators though !
iseefeelings's review against another edition
5.0
I guess I would never be taught such specific things of an illustrator's life without reading this book. Even though this book is mainly covered the US and the UK's markets but it is still essential for any emerging as well as aspiring illustrator to have a sense of the career's prospect inside out. The author - Darrel Rees - is an illustrator, a collage artist and a founder of Heart agency so there is no doubt that he has a multitude of experiences to talk about in this book. Each chapter includes one page interview of many renowned illustrators, which gives us more insight and inspiration to move forward in this path. My favorite piece of advice to new illustrators is Victor Ngai's: "The ones who eventually make it are not necessarily the most talented ones but the most persistent ones.". Last but not least, I posted here the content of the book so you can have an overview of what this book is all about (the funny thing is that it has the page numbers in the content page but no page is marked with numbers....):
Introduction: The broad and social church of illustration
Chapter 1: Getting started
Chapter 2: Preparing you 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
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Introduction: The broad and social church of illustration
Chapter 1: Getting started
Chapter 2: Preparing you 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
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chyneyee's review against another edition
3.0
I knew this is a great book for any illustrators but it's just me that picked up the wrong book. It's just the book is not suitable for me and my background is not up to that level yet.
mandyla's review
4.0
Difficult book to review in terms of the emotive language goodreads suggests, but over all this book was really useful in setting out some key considerations and advice for becoming an illustrator in a commercial world.
An author more geared towards navigating the increasingly digital nature of promotion might have been useful in addition - but generally sound advice as an excellent start point... which I think is perfect given the title.
An author more geared towards navigating the increasingly digital nature of promotion might have been useful in addition - but generally sound advice as an excellent start point... which I think is perfect given the title.
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