Professional Illustration: Turn Your Passion into a Career
Learn to say yes
A course by Laura Varsky , Designer and illustrator
About the video: Learn to say yes
Overview
“I will explain exactly what you pay when you pay for an illustration. We will learn to prepare a budget and properly understand a contract. ”
In this video lesson Laura Varsky addresses the topic: Learn to say yes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Illustration: Turn Your Passion into a Career. Learn the techniques and tools to turn your illustrations into something more than a hobby.
Partial transcription of the video
“LEARN TO SAY YES What happens when we agree to a project? The first thing to happen is that we'll have to put a price on it. We first have to ask ourselves a question. Do we know how people pay for an illustration? In most cases, they pay based on two factors. First, the amount of time it will take us to sit down and make it along with all aspect of illustration. The materials, the setup, whatever we need for it. Second, there's the question of the rights to use the illustration. So they pay us to sit down and make something and also to then use that something. Sometimes it may be that they...”
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Course summary for: Professional Illustration: Turn Your Passion into a Career
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Category
Illustration, Marketing & Business -
Areas
Creative Consulting, Editorial Illustration, Marketing, Portfolio Development, Traditional illustration
Laura Varsky
A course by Laura Varsky
Although Laura Varsky graduated as a graphic designer at the University of Buenos Aires, her interest in the development of different graphic languages and the search for her own one have brought her closer to the world of illustration, a field in which she has achieved several distinctions.
She has participated in several artistic and commercial projects, specializing in the design of albums and books. In 2006 she was awarded the Latin Grammy Award as Art Director, an award for which she was also nominated in 2014 and 2015. She has also worked in the licensing field for both local and international brands.
For more than 10 years she has been a teacher in the subject of Typography at the University of Buenos Aires and has published two typographic families based on her lettering work: Lady René and Lady Dodó, together with the Sudtipos foundry.
She is the author and co-author of several illustrated books and her work is part of the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. Currently, she gives lectures and workshops in various countries.
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- Updated on 02/25/2020
