Monthly Archives: April 2009

13 Super Useful Resources For Aspiring Illustrators

After scouring my list of favourites and trawling my feed reader, here's a list of 13 super useful resources to inspire, inform and advise the aspiring (and experienced) illustrator. I hope you find them as useful as I have and if you have any additions, please do comment and share your resources with everyone. Resources For Advice ...

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Week In Review: 6th – 12th April 2009

The first thing I should mention is that you'll probably notice that there are a number of items on my to-do list this week that appeared on last weeks list - this is for a couple of reasons: I had a really busy week with design work My consumption to output ratio is way off - meaning ...

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Weekly To Do: For 13th April 2009

This week I plan to: Re-formulate Objective, Goals and Strategies based on the new niche direction Edit and narrate Photoshop digital painting tutorial Quicktime movies using Camtasia Further style/medium experiments for animal themed ‘abc’ book Finish Polar Bear portfolio illustration using Corel Painter 11 trial download

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Why Finding A Niche Could Lead To Illustration Success

The prospect of working within a specific illustration niche can be a scary one to some people - the thought of getting stuck  doing only one type of work or work based on one subject for the rest of their career can feel restrictive and take the fun out of it. If you, like me, are ...

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Week In Review: 30th March to 5th April 2009

Here's a run down of how the week went... 1. Get the Zero 2 Illo site ready for launch As you can see, the site is now live and I have formulated my weekly posting schedule. 2. Formulate my action plan based on the Objective, Goals and Strategies exercise already completed Although I was making good progress with the ...

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Weekly To Do: For 6th April 2009

This week I plan to: Re-formulate Objective, Goals and Strategies based on the new niche direction Experiment with Corel Painter 11 free trial download to produce new portfolio piece Edit and narrate Photoshop digital painting tutorial Quicktime movies in Camtasia or Screen Flow Further style/medium experiments for animal themed 'abc' book Take part in Illustration Friday

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Marketing 101 For Illustrators

Marketing is probably one of the most unpopular tasks for many aspiring illustrators who'd rather just be creating - and yet it's probably one of the most vital skills to learn if you are going to build a successful career in illustration. I've been fortunate enough to have my wife handle most of the marketing for ...

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