UPDATE: I've set up an Illustration Jobs Board: https://katiedraws.substack.com/p/illustration-jobs-board Tadaaaa! ✨ Trying to figure out how to start your illustration career and get clients? I know how you feel!
Back in 2012 I had NO IDEA how to do get my illustration career started, I didn't know where to find illustration clients, and I spent the next decade figuring it out the hard, slow, painful way.
In this video I share a bit about my career so far + the things I've found really helpful for getting clients, boosting my illustration career, and making a decent living as an illustrator in the UK.
Hopefully it saves you a bit of time and struggle!
If you liked this you'll LOVE what me and my pals Helen and Tania are doing inside The Good Ship Illustration.
Come see what all the fuss is about:
The Business Course (for illustrators!)
https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/business
✨Really Useful Freebies for Illustrators ✨
https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/freebies
LET’S BE INTERNET FRIENDS
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YouTube Video URL: https://youtu.be/ZKqzaNBaVoU
p.s. Apologies for the sound on this video - I somehow got the music-to-voice levels ALL wrong, did a terrible job of the lighting, *and* started the video with the enthusiasm levels of a sloth (but I do perk up once we start talking about travel 😅). I'm learniiiing!
00:00 Introduction
00:14 The Good Ship Illustration (business course coming soon!)
00:30 What I do now 🤓 ✏️
00:41 Education + early career fails
02:11 I got fired (yay!) Nannying + travel
04:06 Trying again (Edinburgh College of Art)
06:04 TIP #1: Photos or it didn't happen
06:32 TIP #2: Share your work online
07:16 TIP #3: Include WORDS
08:06 How to get illustration clients
09:28 Building a career you enjoy
10:43 I can help - let's work together! (The Good Ship Illustration)