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Pricing Your Illustration Work: Licenses, Rates, and Rights Explained
Why a cheap flat fee can cost an illustrator far more than it earns, and how to price the rights instead of the drawing.
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How to Build an Illustration Portfolio That Gets You Hired
What art directors actually look for, what to cut, and how to shape a portfolio around the work you want more of.
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Illustration Meaning: What the Word Actually Covers, and Where It Stops
A plain-English guide to what illustration is, how it differs from fine art and graphic design, and why the borders between them are blurrier than job titles suggest.
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Illustrations Autumn — Autumn Illustration: How to Capture Fall Light and Harvest Colour Palettes
Shorter days, a lower sun and leaves that turn for a reason — what the season actually does to light and colour, and how to build it into your illustrations.
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Illustration Jobs: A Field Guide to Who Pays Artists and How
From picture books to packaging labels, here is who commissions illustration, what each kind of job asks of the artist, and how the money arrives.