Don’t Forget to Promote Yourself
It’s very easy as a creative individual who loves what they do to forget that they’re running a business, and that for a business to survive, it needs to make money. Producing beautiful illustrations...
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ProjectCast with Kyle T. Webster
Following on from Drawn + Drafted‘s stonkin’ live podcast with Thomas James, they’ve got a new ProjectCast coming up with Kyle T. Webster (Kyle’s Brushes). It’ll be broadcast live on Monday 15th May 10:00...
Call for Papers: ICON10 Education Symposium
The ICON10 Education Symposium seeks to explore ways in which educators can effectively address the myriad changes in the methods of teaching, creating and delivering illustration now and in the coming decades. The digital...
So you want to be an illustrator?!
The LCS isn’t the bustling creative web portal it once was due to the sudden and all engulfing rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter. However, we still keep an eye on things...
Become an ArtPACT patreon
ArtPACT has been free for a while now and was running on general donations, but there weren’t enough to maintain the service. Sadly, it was announced a couple of weeks ago that they were...
Budgeting for Illustration, Know thy Client
Part of what I do at Hire an Illustrator is have clients send me their job briefs and then make appropriated recommendations about who they should hire for their projects in the form of a...
Get your professional conduct on!
There’s a new post up on the Hire an Illustrator blog and it goes into the ins and outs of how to conduct yourself when it comes to talking about clients after the fact...
Finding your niche!
It’s all well and good telling people you’re a Jack of all trades… if you’re a handyman. But even if a client doesn’t have a specific style in mind, you’re not going to stand...
First things first.
It’s a little bit late, but happy New Year guys! Mail Me Art: Open All Hours (MMA4) is still going strong, although we’ve been a bit lately quiet on that front. We’ve decided to...
Why as a freelancer you shouldn’t work-for-hire!
It’s actually really simple: every time you create a new, original piece of work you own the copyright to it. Instantly. Automatically. You don’t need to apply for it, it’s yours… even if you...
Lizzie Mary Cullen: Late Paying Clients Can Ruin Illustration Businesses
Lizzie Mary Cullen has just had a well said rant about clients paying their invoices late or not at all, and how it is much more than just an inconvenience. If you commission illustrators,...
How to Approach US Art Directors
Words of wisdom from 3×3‘s Charles Hively, the Jedi Master of working with art directors and quality illustration. Charles is going to be running a 3-hour webinar which will be a bitesized version of...
How to Hire a Children’s Illustrator
If you’ve written a manuscript or are planning on writing a children’s book, there’s a very handy FAQ over on the Hire an Illustrator staff blog. It covers everything from whether you should actually...
IH8WAR: Artists & Designers Against War
Friend of the LCS, Charles Hively, recently had a chat with us about a very intriguing project he’s running via his Artisanal Media LLC company with colleague Sarah Munt. Charles is hoping the project...
