WHAT IS THE INDUSTRY
The Illustration Industry is one of the biggest and most profitable art based industries, with freelance illustration and book illustration, it's a growing 1.4 billion profit in the UK.
Freelance illustration is basically where an illustrator works for themselves, finding their own briefs and doing their own marketing and networking or a lot of freelance illustrators use agencies and the agencies can help them with either finding bigger clients, pricing their work or simply help with the business side of things.
Breaking Into Freelance Illustration by Holly DeWolf, Page
- If you don't have an agent you don't have to pay commission fees
- Some briefs can be in different locations where the client pays for your travel expenses etc.
- You can get payment in advance which helps with material costs etc.
- You have to work harder because you're looking for your own work
- If you don't have an agent you have to network more which takes up more of your time
- You have to work hard and constantly to make a living
https://fineillustrator.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/pros-and-cons-of-being-a-freelance-illustrator/
WHAT IS FREELANCE ILLUSTRATION
Freelance illustration is basically where an illustrator works for themselves, finding their own briefs and doing their own marketing and networking or a lot of freelance illustrators use agencies and the agencies can help them with either finding bigger clients, pricing their work or simply help with the business side of things.
Breaking Into Freelance Illustration by Holly DeWolf, Page
PROS OF GOING FREELANCE
- You have the freedom to choose which briefs you take on- If you don't have an agent you don't have to pay commission fees
- Some briefs can be in different locations where the client pays for your travel expenses etc.
- You can get payment in advance which helps with material costs etc.
CONS OF GOING FREELANCE
- You can go months without getting a brief therefore making no profit- You have to work harder because you're looking for your own work
- If you don't have an agent you have to network more which takes up more of your time
- You have to work hard and constantly to make a living
https://fineillustrator.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/pros-and-cons-of-being-a-freelance-illustrator/
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| Frances Moffatt, The First Days of Spring |
FREELANCE ILLUSTRATORS
Frances Moffatt
Frances Moffatt is a freelance illustrator, she did first work for an agency but when finding her own client and being paid for it, the agency still took a cut of the profit so she decided to become freelance.
From the talk from Frances Moffatt
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| Frances Moffatt, The First Days of Spring |
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