How is working for your livelihood different from working for your humanhood? And, will anyone pay for the latter?
Livelihood and humanhood
Category: Marketing
Illustration doesn’t have to put food on the table
What if you didn’t have to rely on drawing to put food on the table?
Sing for your supper
Do I really need to dance in front of my canvas to get eyeballs on my work?
The value of originals
When I hold an original, an inner voice, “This is the only one of these in the world.” I don’t get that from a book. Is that OK?
A book illustrator’s portfolio: Images without words
One of the number one pieces of advice I give to emerging illustrators is to amplify your voice by using words and images in your portfolio.
Publishing is Marketing
Publishing used to be more about making the book. Now it’s more about selling it.
Celebrity in picture books
Is there a real qualitative difference between ‘celebrity’ and ‘real’ authors? Or, are celebrities just another way to extend the reach of books?
Small is beautiful
Our culture values big – big money, big house, big life. So does staying small correlate to failure?
Good work cuts through
Which metrics should we be relying to understand whether the quality of our work is ‘good enough’?
How much is art?
What’s art worth? How much and to whom? Do the models for consumer goods map to a painting or sculpture? Or is art worth something different?