Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer

Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
Michael Fleishman
ISBN: 1-58115-199-3


Book (Paperback)


256 pages
80 black and white illustrations
October 2001

For anyone who wants to establish a new career as a freelance designer or illustrator, here's the definitive resource! This valuable guide is packed with expert tips and success techniques for getting started, selling your work, promoting yourself, and even what to do once you're working. Up-and-coming freelancers will also discover practical guidance for creating a portfolio, making initial contacts, developing a financial plan, acquiring supplies and equipment, pricing work, and even marketing on the Web. Plus, special chapters are devoted to selling work to magazines, ad agencies, book publishers, greeting card companies, small businesses, and more. Beginning professionals, working professionals who want to make a change, and entrepreneurs who want to go out on their own will find everything they need in this friendly, easy-to-use guide

Michael Fleishman is a freelance illustrator, graphic artist, and teacher of commercial arts with over twenty-five years of experience. A former president of the at-large chapter of the Graphic Artist's Guild, he is also a contributor to How Magazine and a former contributing editor of The Artist's Magazine. He lives in Dayton, Ohio.

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