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How Today’s Working Artists Outrun the Starving Artist Myth
Median practice earnings of £12,500, resale royalties and portfolio careers: what the figures say about working artists, and why the starving artist myth reads like opera, not fact.
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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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Harvard's Free Museum Night Puts Empanadas Beside an Exhibit About Conformity — and the Pairing Is Worth a Second Look
A festive open evening and a show about postwar photographic fantasy make odd companions. That tension may be the point — or it may be a problem.
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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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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.