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In Illustration, a Picture is Worth a New Career |  |
by Angelique Gervais
angelique.gervais@hqpublications.com
Design Programs Columnist
Illustration is most definitely a form of art. Complexity is not the key to great or meaningful art. There are many venues that offer illustration jobs to those whose ability ranges more to sketching than full blown works of art.
But I'm not an Artist... Or Am I?
An illustration career can lead you places that you had never dreamed. Here are some illustration jobs that you may not have considered:
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- Those with illustration school training can sometimes find themselves working with painters or sculptors. Doing illustration jobs for other artists can help them by supplying supporting illustrations of forms or themes they are reaching for.
- One illustration career that is seldom remembered is that of the medical illustrator. Providing illustrations for texts, journals and medical publications of all sorts.
- Illustrating children's books is a very interesting and fulfilling illustration career.
- Illustrating for text bookscan be an illustration career that provides a stable work environment for specific corporations.
- Another exciting venue that has really opened up for individuals with illustration school training is that of illustrating for multimedia. Web, software production, and video gaming illustrators... these fields are worth watching.
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Can I Work for Myself?
The majority of illustrators, upwards of 60% of those who have successfully completed some form of illustration school training do freelance illustrating. The benefit to this sort of illustration career is that it offers all sorts of flexibility and variety.
One week you can be working on a children's book and the next you could have an illustration job sketching from blueprints for a building expansion. This same shifting scene can be something of a concern to the illustrator but stability is little cause for worry in today's marketplace. To make your illustration career a success, and keep busy with more illustration jobs than you can handle, it just takes the use of your highly creative nature.
About the Author
Angelique Gervais, discovering that her otherwise wonderful husband lacked home improvement skills, found it in her best interest to become knowledgeable on the topic herself. Necessity can spark unlikely passions at times and such was the case with Angelique. She began her independent education with the purchase of her first self-help home improvement book in 1982. Her library and her knowledge have grown exponentially ever since. Now with more than 20 years of self-taught experience in home improvement, she has learned to repair her home competently and professionally.
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