Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
Promotion or How to Lure Jobs
A course by Nicholas Blechman , Art Director, Illustrator, and Designer
Joined January 2020
Joined January 2020
About the video: Promotion or How to Lure Jobs
Overview
“As an Art Director, I will share with you some extra tips to help you further your career as a professional illustrator and encourage you to interact with the art community.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Blechman addresses the topic: Promotion or How to Lure Jobs, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills. Turn ideas into images and deliver professional illustrations for articles from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Promotion or How to Lure Jobs In the previous lesson, you learned pro tips from an illustrator. Now I'll give you some advice as an art director. The most important thing for an illustrator is knowing how to promote themselves, and the most important tool is social media, so constantly, if you can't be published in a magazine, then publish yourself online. It's not enough to have a website that you update frequently. Art directors are always scouring through social media accounts looking for fresh talent. PROMOTE YOURSELF Publish on Social Media As an art director, I'm not looking at the nu...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration: Sharpen Your Conceptual Skills
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
Nicholas Blechman
A course by Nicholas Blechman
Nicholas Blechman is an award-winning illustrator, art director and the current creative director of The New Yorker. He was first introduced to illustration and design at a young age by his father, a cartoonist, author, and filmmaker; and later went on to study studio art and art history at Oberlin College.
During his 20-year career, he has illustrated for the biggest publications in the U.S., including GQ Travel + Leisure, Wired, and The Atlantic. His passion for telling stories through images has seen him co-author books, run his own design studio, and work as the art director for The New York Times. In 2012, Nicholas was also awarded the Rome Prize in Design at The American Academy in Rome.
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