Freelancing resources for artists
There are a variety of aspects to freelancing as an artist. Subcategories are listed below.
- Figure out what area you are interested in (see the section on different areas of the field).
- Check out all of the relevant societies and guilds to find out more about the field.
Looking through their web sites will help you to figure out what seems like an interesting career direction and what does not.
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Do you need more education? Visit the education section to find out what your educational choices are.
Do you have a client base? See the getting started with a business section.
Once you have answered the above questions and are ready to get into business, you will want to develop a style. Developing a style of your own is very important. It makes you look experienced, and it calms customers. (Customers don’t want to guess at what you will give them; they want to know that the illustration you make for them will look exactly like everything else you do.)
There are different ways to develop a signature style – you can work with similar colors, similar mediums, etc.
Some science illustrators work in traditional styles such as scratch-board or watercolor.
You can read about these techniques, from the experts in each technique, in The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration. This book is excellent, and is also fairly expensive. A much less expensive book that discusses illustration styles is The Encyclopedia of Illustration Techniques. This book is not specific to scientific illustration, but it is a great sampling and investigation of styles and techniques.
Other illustrators create their illustrations with computers by either pushing pixels with Adobe Photoshop or by working with the vector based program Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw , or a 3d program such as 3d Studio Max or Maya.
Read more about the available software in the illustrator's software section.
Fine art calendars
Linking information
Title: Medical Illustration
URL: http://biomedical-illustration.com
Description: Information for scientific illustrators, medical illustrators, graphic designers that specialize in medical content, and those who hire them.
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