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By now we should all know that to be successful in our industry you need to have an online presence. Freelance artists must promote their work in as many places as possible to gain exposure and attract as many clients as we can. This infographic made by the PrintRunner Blog shows statistics and sites that designers and illustrators can use to promote their portfolios.
It was originally intended for designers but it is definitely applicable to illustrators' work. They discuss using seven different sites to promote your work as well as statistics for each site. I have used most of these but a few I haven't tried yet. The sites are Carbonmade.com, behance.net, coroflot.com, dripbook.com, viewbook.com, deviantart.com, and krop.com.
The infographic discusses statistics for each site and the advantages of paying for each service. Most offer a free version but a few do not. It also talks about the pros and cons of each site, whether it offers mobile support and the site's community size. It also has a few best practices when showing your portfolio online. Here is the full infographic. Take a look at the graphic and decide which service you would like to use to promote your work.
No Coding Needed for That App, Adobe could Help
For all those illustrators and designers out there that want to do publishing for the iPad but not write a line of code, Adobe is here to help, kind of. Earlier this year Adobe announced that it's Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) is now part of the Creative Cloud software collection.
Using DPS, illustrators and designers can mock up their projects in Adobe InDesign CS6 and then build a .folio file that can then be taken into the DPS App Builder, where then the app will be compiled. For the PC user out there, sorry, this app is heavily Mac-oriented because iOS apps can only be created on Apple computers (I'm guessing). This diagram shows how Ad
Schoolism's Gesture Drawing class and My thoughts
Last weekend I finished up my Gesture drawing class at Schoolism.com with Alex Woo. This is the second class I've taken at this site and so far I've found both classes to be very helpful. The first class I took at Schoolism was character design (Read my review of that class here). When I took my first class I took it as the Video Feedback option where you take the course, watch the videos, do the homework and then the instructor gives you a 5 to 10 minute review of your work. I found the video feedback very helpful but it was double the price. This time trying to save a few bucks I took the class as a Self-Taught. Self-Taught classes let you
Free Audio Stream of The Perfect Bait by Bobby Chi
This month as a holiday gift Schoolism and Bobby Chiu are offering a free audio stream of Bobby's book The Perfect Bait. The Perfect Bait is an audiobook about finding your natural style and creating demand as a creative artist. This is how he describes his book:
"When I was a student in art school, I had an idea of making a book. It would be about how to become a successful artist, as seen from the viewpoint of somebody who wasn't successful yet.
Over the next ten years, I wrote down all the thoughts and methods that worked for my career, so that one day, if I ever DID become successful, I would have a "step by step" of how I did it. Durin
Alternatives to Using the Adobe Creative Suite
There has been a lot of fire out there about Adobe changing their upgrade policy and some users feeling like Adobe is taking advantage of their monopoly on the design application market. So I thought I would go through and find a few alternatives to Adobe applications. I'm not saying that any of these are better than Adobe's offerings I just wanted to put out a list of a few alternatives. I'm only going to focus on the major design (No web apps) applications like Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign. There are tons of alternatives out there but I decided to focus on a handful from each category. I did not have time to go through and write a de
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thank you, it's really helpful!