100 Ways to Draw a Bird and Make a Living from Illustration
Illustration is applied imagination. This book is not only about illustration, though it does contain illustrations—lots of them. But there’s more. This book examines the profession of illustrator, from the vexing subject of money to the question of the right workplace. How do you get commissions? How do you negotiate successfully? What’s a fair price? How do you handle the everyday routines involved in illustration work? It explains concepts such as usage rights, collecting societies and social security insurance for artists. And, of course, it presents a wide variety of illustration techniques. In short, it makes an effort to enlighten, be useful and answer as many questions as possible. Its author does so, on the one hand, by offering more than twenty really useful tips for budding illustrators—for example, how to stop the fear that a blank page often inspires—and, on the other, by presenting the twenty-five most important illustration techniques in a practical way that awakens the reader’s desire to learn more. As a parallel narrative accompanying the humorous texts, there are images by very different illustrators who work with a wide variety of techniques and styles. These pictures are diverse yet easy to compare, because they all show the same thing: a bird.

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100 Ways to Draw a Bird and Make a Living from Illustration
Illustration is applied imagination. This book is not only about illustration, though it does contain illustrations—lots of them. But there’s more. This book examines the profession of illustrator, from the vexing subject of money to the question of the right workplace. How do you get commissions? How do you negotiate successfully? What’s a fair price? How do you handle the everyday routines involved in illustration work? It explains concepts such as usage rights, collecting societies and social security insurance for artists. And, of course, it presents a wide variety of illustration techniques. In short, it makes an effort to enlighten, be useful and answer as many questions as possible. Its author does so, on the one hand, by offering more than twenty really useful tips for budding illustrators—for example, how to stop the fear that a blank page often inspires—and, on the other, by presenting the twenty-five most important illustration techniques in a practical way that awakens the reader’s desire to learn more. As a parallel narrative accompanying the humorous texts, there are images by very different illustrators who work with a wide variety of techniques and styles. These pictures are diverse yet easy to compare, because they all show the same thing: a bird.

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100 Ways to Draw a Bird and Make a Living from Illustration

100 Ways to Draw a Bird and Make a Living from Illustration

by Felix Scheinberger
100 Ways to Draw a Bird and Make a Living from Illustration

100 Ways to Draw a Bird and Make a Living from Illustration

by Felix Scheinberger

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Overview

Illustration is applied imagination. This book is not only about illustration, though it does contain illustrations—lots of them. But there’s more. This book examines the profession of illustrator, from the vexing subject of money to the question of the right workplace. How do you get commissions? How do you negotiate successfully? What’s a fair price? How do you handle the everyday routines involved in illustration work? It explains concepts such as usage rights, collecting societies and social security insurance for artists. And, of course, it presents a wide variety of illustration techniques. In short, it makes an effort to enlighten, be useful and answer as many questions as possible. Its author does so, on the one hand, by offering more than twenty really useful tips for budding illustrators—for example, how to stop the fear that a blank page often inspires—and, on the other, by presenting the twenty-five most important illustration techniques in a practical way that awakens the reader’s desire to learn more. As a parallel narrative accompanying the humorous texts, there are images by very different illustrators who work with a wide variety of techniques and styles. These pictures are diverse yet easy to compare, because they all show the same thing: a bird.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788417656188
Publisher: Hoaki Books
Publication date: 08/04/2020
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.44(h) x (d)

About the Author

Felix Scheinberger was born on 14 October 1969 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). The entrance exam for the FH für Gestaltung, Hamburg (University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany) would be his ticket to an education. There he studied illustration, which then seamlessly resulted in self-employment. In the past ten years, he has illustrated more than fifty books, worked for prestigious newspapers and collected various prizes and awards. He has also taught in Mainz, Hamburg, Münster (Germany) and Jerusalem (Israel). His previous publications have influenced design agencies to rediscover hand-rendered drawing as well as pencil and watercolours. Felix Scheinberger now lives in Berlin and is a professor of illustration at the FH Münster (University of Applied Arts, Münster, Germany).

Table of Contents

Introduction

... a Bird?

So You Want To Be an Illustrator.

Fear of the Blank Page | Talent | Illustrating is Decision-Making | How We See What We See | Concrete and Abstract | Everyone’s an Artist | Ideas | The Magic of Making | The Search for Your Own Style | No Accounting for Taste? | Bad is the New Good | No Pain, No Gain, or the Early Bird Gets the Worm | Searching the Internet | Truth Telling | Variety | The Soul of a Sketch | Is Illustration Art? | Guiding Colours | Details and Perspective | Preparing the Paper.

Illustration Techniques

Pencil | Colored Pencils | Red Chalk, White Chalk and Charcoal | Pastels | Ink | Ballpoints, Fineliners and Friends | Markers and Felt Pens | Watercolors | Gouache and Tempera | Oil | Acrylic | Woodcut | Collage | Computers and Generative Design | Photoshop | Illustrator.

The Life of an Illustrator

Material Fetishism | Workplace and Studio | Presentations | Business Sense | Contests, Sales Pitches and Trial Illustrations | Competition | Teamwork | Communication Problems | Negotiating Strategies| Time Is Money | Your Own Price | What Does An Illustration Cost? | Productivity and Time Management | Out of Breath | Sideline Settings | Correct Acquisition Placement | Portfolio Advice | Portfolios | Agents and Representation | Illustration Archives | Your Own Projects | Bread-and-Butter Jobs and Ersatz Identities | Ready or Not, Here I Come! | Ever Wish You’d Gone into Banking?

Grand Merci! | Participating Illustrators | Copyright-Credits | About the Author | Book Credits.

Illustrators included.

Claus Ast, Atak, John James Audubon, Kono Bairei, Hans Baltzer, Gary Baseman, David von Bassewitz, Lou Beach, Orit Bergman, F. W. Bernstein, Larissa Bertonasco, Aljoscha Blau, Jörg Block, Claudia Boldt, Jutta Bücker, Nadja Budde, Timothy Bush, Noah Carev, Jim Cohen, Els Cools & Oliver Streich, Sonja Danowski, Henrik Drescher, Jean Manuel Duvivier, Elke Ehninger, Tom Eigenhufe, Wolf Erlbruch, Anke Feuchtenberger, Max Fiedler, Hannes Gaab, Katja Gehrmann, Conrad Gesner, Erhard Göttlicher, Katharina Grossmann-Hensel, Astrid Haas, Claudia Hahn, Katharina J. Haines, Olaf Hajek, Stefanie Harjes, Kristina Heldmann, Ute Helmbold, Lars Henkel, Marcus Herrenberger, Herbert Holzing, Daniel Horowitz, Dorothea Huber, David Hughes, Bernhard Jäger, Omar Jaramillo, Hendrik Jonas, Dieter Jüdt, Alexandra Junge, Frederik Jurk, Katja Kamm, Keren Katz, Saskia Keultjes, Constanze von Kitzing, Martin Kleingräber, Julius Klinger, Roman Klonek, Sebastian Koch, Steffen Kreft, Tobias Krejtschi, Gregor Krisztian, Nora Krug, Silke Luise Langner, Till Laßmann, Jonas Lauströer, Max Ley, Carolin Löbbert, Stephan Lomp, Marie Charlot Manzewski, Nora Marleen, Ann Marshall, Lorenzo Mattotti, Sylvain Mazas, Marco Mazzoni, Möbius, Bernd Mölck-Tassel, Anne Möller, Jörg Mühle, Daniel Napp, Pia Neumann, Jens R. Nielsen, Robert Nippoldt, Falk Nordmann, Bernhard Oberdieck, Andrea Offermann, Sarah Palisi, Nele Palmtag, David Polonsky, Claudia Pomowski, Arthur Rackham, Geffen Refaeli, Wiebke Rauers, Boris Röhrl, Christine Rösch, André Rösler, Franziska Sacher, Merav Salomon, Felix Scheinberger, Nesrin Schlempp-Ülker, Christian Schlierkamp, Alexander Schmalz, Jörg Schultz, Reinhard Schulz-Schaeffer, Takeuchi Seiho, Annika Siems, Nina Spranger, Meike Staats, Ralph Steadman, Anja Stiehler, Detlef Surrey, Einar Turkowski, Tomi Ungerer, Sarah Varon, Franziska Walther, Tim Weiffenbach, Juliane Wenzl, Sascha Westphal, Sabine Wilharm, Saskia Wragge, Stephanie Wunderlich, Lisbeth Zwerger.

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