All posts tagged: illustration work

How to get an illustration job aka marketing for artists

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*As always, this post is about my own experience – things which worked for me are not 100% key to anything, but it might be helpful – give those a try if you haven’t already and have fun!. I’m also planning follow up post in few months to show new results as I’m trying new things. I know! It’s been a while, but what can I say? Those last weeks were just crazy! Work, work ,work, giving myself a chance to be shown on Surtex, short trip to Belize (not a great moment, but it was planed way ahead and soooo worth it!) and lastly, flight from Mexico do Madrid which left me crazy jet lagged and all around disoriented. While being in a “go! go! go!” zone, with so many things and deadlines happening same time, I’ve been thinking about those times when there was zero work for me. Well, it’s not an ancient history – I had my longest break from getting decent assignment in 2013. 6 months – that was about that …

My list of 125 children’s books publishers + how to use it ;)

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As I mention in a post about Print on Demand, in order to gain money from your art, you can either create “what you want” and try to sell it somehow or you can present your portfolio to potential clients to get submission from them. In this post let’s concentrate on second way. How to get children’s book illustration job First step will be of course building kick ass portfolio (I mean strong one). I’ll be writing about what is needed there, (so as always stay tuned) but if you have one go to the next step. preparing outreach list – look for publishers that you feel could hire you – based on books that they already published, their profile, your gut feeling. This is a quite a job! Sure, there are some directories online, Google exists, but over the year I learn that there’s always some companies hidden from you 😉 Maybe one with awesome books, but very little SEO skills, or those from country you didn’t consider. My personal list no. 1 contains …

“50 images is still on the low side”

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Week – March 30 – April 5 aka story of failure and success. I mentioned once or twice that I’ve never been any good at math (maybe more, but as I just said…;)) so that shouldn’t be a big surprise that I did so many miscalculations this week. Seriously though, I got slightly too optimistic and ended this week frustrated over the outcome. Not that I did little – oh no! quite the opposite in fact. What I had done this week. Commissioned work wise I finished everything I could for project B (awaiting some direction for one remaining part) and I’ve just sent color preview to client A – yes, at Easter Sunday evening – that’s Monday morning for them, as it’s Seoul based company, I’m not sure if they care for this holiday (Internet says that not really). I do not, so I didn’t mind working today. That was a lot of work itself. *update – while I was writing this post, feedback for project A came -wow I love them so so …

Where I’m starting from and where I wanna go*

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*The answer to question “where I wanna go” is usually “everywhere, except for maybe Afghanistan or Space”, but that’s not about that. This time it’s all about my illustration career (I turned 30 last year, so I think that word: career, as serious as it sounds, should be in my vocabulary). I have two major love affairs in my life : first, uncomplicated with my husband Tytus and second, with my job, which is not that sweet and easy sometimes and makes me understand all those sad songs about broken heart etc. Yup, this really matters to me – that was my dream job and I put lots of afford in getting where I’m now (partly, because I didn’t know what I was doing at first and partly, because it’s very competitive industry). So, where am I now? If I finally make new business cards (I should), they will say “Monika Suska children’s illustrator” and that exactly what I do – I illustrate picture books for kids and educational materials. It’s safe to say, that …