Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series
How to Make a Living
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: How to Make a Living
Overview
“It’s not easy: even a genius like Maria Sibylla Merian had to reinvent herself every few years to be able to live off her art. But that was in the early 18th century and women then were treated as second class citizens anyway. Nowadays it’s still difficult, I won’t lie to you, but they're also are a lot of opportunities for a talented and professional creator of images. From producing your own products to painting murals there are a lot of niches you can occupy, as long as you have some business sense and know how to make your art visible to the world! ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: How to Make a Living, which is part of the Domestika online course: Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series. Use ancient horoscope symbols to illustrate a series that captures your style.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to Make a Living So, the million dollar question, how to make a living out of illustration as a freelancer. We nowadays think we have it hard, and still there are people like Maria Sibylla Merian who in the 17th century had it much harder, I can assure you. She was born in 1647 in Frankfurt, and although she had a lot of talent, that was not a time where women were allowed to make a living easily by a trade that men could do, so she had to find new niches, she had to find new resources. For example, in the beginning she gave classes to other women, classes of embroidery. She edited her ...”
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Course summary for: Zodiac Illustration: Creating A Unique Series
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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