Understanding Illustration
Author: Derek Brazell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-03-13
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1408171791
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History of Illustration
Author: Susan Doyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 1501342118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the prehistoric to the contemporary. With hundreds of color image, this book to contextualize the many types of illustrations within social, cultural, and technical parameters, presenting information in a flowing chronology. This essential guide is the first comprehensive history of illustration as its own discipline. Readers will gain an ability to critically analyze images from technical, cultural, and ideological standpoints in order to arrive at an appreciation of art form of both past and present illustration"--
The Power and Influence of Illustration
Author: Alan Male
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1350024112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelving into the rationale behind influential communication, The Power And Influence Of Illustration helps you understand how to work with a message to create convincing illustrations for your audience. Alan Male explains how illustrative imagery can lampoon, shock, insult, threaten, subvert, ridicule, express discontent and proclaim political and religious allegiance. He explores how its tools have been used in the past, and looks at how contemporary illustrators can use their own work to persuade – and discusses where the line between persuasion and propaganda lies. These issues are explored using hundreds of full colour images from international artists, both contemporary and historical.
The Illustrator's Guide to Law and Business Practice
Author: Simon Stern
Publisher: Association of Illustrators
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780955807602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated, expanded and redesigned with contemporary illustrations, this comprehensive guide covers all aspects of the law likely to affect illustrators. It contains recommended terms and conditions, advice on calculating fees, how to write a licence agreement and how to be protected against exploitative practices.
Becoming a Successful Illustrator
Author: Derek Brazell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1350030813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGet ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies's Becoming a Successful Illustrator. This edition features even more 'Spotlight on...' sections, with advice from practicing illustrators as well as the people that commission them. You can enjoy added coverage in fields such as moving image, character illustration and social media. There are also new exercises to get you started planning and building your business, and over 200 inspirational examples of artwork, most of which are new to this edition. You can expect practical tips on how to seek work, how to market yourself and how to run your illustration business in an enterprising way, with advice that will prove useful long after your first commission. Building on the resources of the first edition, this continues to be the must-have guide to practicing professionally as an illustrator. Featured illustrators include: Millie Marotta Mark Ulriksen Natsko Seki Ellen Weinstein Stephen Collins ... and many more Featured topics include: Finding clients Agency representation Fields of work Financial and legal requirements Skills in art and design Self-promotion Showing work Managing your business
Breaking Into Freelance Illustration
Author: Holly DeWolf
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-08-24
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1440319383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuild Your Own Thriving Illustration Business The boundaries between art, design and illustration are blurring, and with all the new opportunities for visual creatives, now is the perfect time to unleash your talent on the world! Breaking Into Freelance Illustration provides a step-by-step roadmap for promoting yourself and running your creative business. You'll find up-to-date advice about best business practices, ideas for new promotional tools, answers to common questions and words of wisdom and inspiration from top illustrators. This book shows you how to: Set up a home office and balance your professional and personal life Create a professional portfolio and promote your work online Search out and negotiate with potential clients Create your own brand and work with an agent Develop a fair and accurate system for pricing your work Network within the creative community Full of industry insight, this book is a down-to-earth guide that fills in the creative business blanks. If you've ever wanted to moonlight as an illustrator, start a full-time business, or simply see your work published, this book will give you the information you need to make it happen.
Show and Tell
Author: Dilys Evans
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2008-03-26
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780811849715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the work fo twelve contemporary illustators of children's books and discusses the techniques and features of effective illustration across a variety of styles and media.
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real
Author: Craig Robinson
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0553523511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
Natural History Illustration in Pen and Ink
Author: Sarah Morrish
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Published: 2021-08-23
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1785009230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautiful book combines the author's extensive ecological knowledge with art, and her passion for drawing with ink. It is packed with clear instruction and inspirational illustrations, and will be treasured by artists, illustrators, scientists and ecologists alike. Practical advice is given on using a range of materials and equipment for illustrating in pen and ink, as well as the collection and preservation of subject matter and reference material. Detailed instruction is given on how to create essential mark-making techniques that will enhance your illustrations through accurate depiction of shape, form, texture and pattern, and in the principles and elements of design. Subject-themed chapters include plants, strandline and marine specimens, fossils, invertebrates, and mammals. There are step-by-step exercises suitable for all skill levels, and case studies describing working practice as a professional illustrator.
