Inside the Business of Illustration

This book is wonderful. It interviews several different working illustrators and shows how different everyones' path is as a freelance illustrator. I recommend for those looking into illustration as a business.

very good inside information on dealing with clients and getting jobs...it was a required book for one of my illustration classes

I purchased this book because it was required for this ART class I am taking. It is rather boring but it's OKAY.

This cover of this book is quite a contradiction: interesting designs, almost like a sketchbook, but with the dullest, driest title ever. The book actually makes its way through the potential desert of business information through conversations between an art director and illustrator, so it's actually a very entertaining read. The material covered is very helpful. The 4 star review is because of a number of typographical errors (typos) and misspellings that I found while reading it. Not just one, but multiples, including one or two of the artist's names that they were discussing!! I'm not an editor but apparently I could have edited this book better. I expect higher quality. Five stars for making business interesting, 3 stars for their editing skills so that makes an average of 4 for the book.

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What more can I say...I found it informative and helpful, and I have now read it more than once and refer back to it as needed. I highly recommend it to any one considering a career in illustration.

I purchased this book for an online class I am taking for my Master degree. I started reading the book and it gave me a very bad light on the program of study that I have chosen, and after the class began I found out that I didn't need the book! I have read most of it now, and after the first chapter the book mellows out and it has helped with my evaluation of other projects for this class.

-the history of illustration, the illustrator and the business of illustration; -I was trawling through this book but put it down, quick, as soon as the author's political views came into clear focus;black and white. -disappointed, truly.

Got through a fair bit of the book and it's really interesting and learnt some new things. And I know how you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but if you are okay about reading then this is a good book for you and if you are interested in Illustration. And I'm doing Illustration at university so it's a handy book.

Mi aspettavo un libro un po' più schematico. L'intervista che domina il libro è interessante ma alla lunga un po' noiosa.

Not a real analysis of how one -as an illustrator- should construct a career, but more a bunch of dispersed topics displaced through Q&A sessions with different insiders.