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How to Grow as an Illustrator
by Michael Fleishman
This inspiring resource will help artists find professional and personal support in the struggle to stay creative and profitable in the field of illustration. Behind-the-scenes interviews with more than sixty of today’s most fascinating illustrators reveal how others have kept growing as artists and as individuals. Written by an accomplished illustrator and educator, this book asks timely questions and provides pertinent answers to topics including:
• How to define yourself as an illustrator
• The significance of an art education
• Mechanical skills versus conceptual skills
• Balancing your personal and professional life
• The illustrator’s place in local, global, and professional communities
• Dealing with failure, tragedy, and dysfunction
• Marketing, promoting, and maintaining your business
• What sustains illustrators mentally and spiritually
• How to embrace change
• How to stay motivated
This real-world guide provides practical inspiration for illustrators at every stage of their careers. |
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Reviews
“Making a living as an illustrator is not always the easiest path to follow. This book serves as a kind of atlas that will help you navigate the detours and rough back roads of this career. I recommend reading it with a highlighter in hand.”—Penelope Dullaghan, Illustrator
“I'm recommending this book to all of my illustration students. Come to think of it, I’ll recommend this to my ex-students too... and the students I’ve yet to have.”—Fred Lynch, Associate Professor, Chair, Illustration Department, Montserrat College of Art and Senior Critic, Illustration Dept., Rhode Island School of Design
“This book is the written equivalent to lunch at the Society of Illustrators. Lot’s of old friends, new ones, great advice, shared secrets, war stories, and the common love of a great art.”—Steven Brower, designer and author
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