Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color
The Illustration Business
A course by Deb JJ Lee , Illustrator
About the video: The Illustration Business
Overview
“If you're interested in pursuing Illustration professionally, you will need to be familiar with how the industry works. In this lesson, I will cover the business of working with art directors, basic contract knowledge, and advocating for yourself as a freelancer. ”
In this video lesson Deb JJ Lee addresses the topic: The Illustration Business, which is part of the Domestika online course: Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color. Learn to follow your artistic intuition to create atmospheric illustrations by experimenting with concepts, color, and composition.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Illustration Business Now you have a banger portfolio. In this lesson, we'll talk about the business of illustration. Art Directors (They're busy) Let's talk about art directors. They're the ones who hire illustrators and they're also really busy. They're most likely dealing with maybe a dozen illustrators at a time. The fewer emails you have to send and fewer emails you have to reply to, it's probably for the best. Try to be clear and concise with everything with them. Art directors will give you deadlines. They'll ask you for check-ins for sketches, a check-in for a draft maybe depe...”
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Course summary for: Atmospheric Painting in Procreate: From Concept to Color
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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration
Deb JJ Lee
A course by Deb JJ Lee
Deborah Lee is a Korean illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. During the last year of their design degree at Carnegie Mellon University, they realized that drawing was their true passion and spent the years after graduating developing their portfolio while working as a UX designer in Silicon Valley. In 2020, Deb made the leap to a full-time freelancing career. As a self-taught illustrator, they rely on both technique and intuition to create art with a strong emotional charge.
Deb has collaborated with brands such as Google, Facebook, Lyft, LinkedIn, and Procreate, as well as media outlets like New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. In the editorial field, they have illustrated for publishers including HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon and Schuster. They also wrote their own graphic memoir, IN LIMBO, and has been awarded for their work by the Society of Illustrators and Adobe.
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